sister:

`Let us go out and stroll in the garden green!'

They strolled about for a time. Again there arose a storm-cloud,
with whirlwind and lightning.

`Let us return home, sister!' said he.

They returned home, but they hadn't had time to sit down
when the thunder crashed, the ceiling split open, and in flew a
raven. The Raven smote upon the floor and became a brave
youth. The former youths had been handsome, but this one was
handsomer still.

`Well, Prince Ivan! Before I came as a guest, but now I have
come as a wooer! Give me the Princess Anna to wife.'

`I won't interfere with my sister's freedom. If you gain her
affections, let her marry you.'

So the Princess Anna married the Raven, and he bore her away
into his own realm. Prince Ivan was left alone. A whole year he
lived without his sisters; then he grew weary, and said:

`I will set out in search of my sisters.'

He got ready for the journey, he rode and rode, and one day
he saw a whole army lying dead on the plain. He cried aloud,
`If there be a living man there, let him make answer! Who has