slain this mighty host?'

There replied unto him a living man:

`All this mighty host has been slain by the fair Princess Marya
Morevna.'

Prince Ivan rode further on, and came to a white tent, and forth
came to meet him the fair Princess Marya Morevna.

`Hail, Prince!' says she; `whither does God send you? and is
it of your free will or against your will?'

Prince Ivan replied, `Not against their will do brave youths
ride!'

`Well, if your business be not pressing, tarry awhile in my
tent.'

Thereat was Prince Ivan glad. He spent two nights in the
tent, and he found favour in the eyes of Marya Morevna, and she
married him. The fair Princess, Marya Morevna, carried him off
into her own realm.

They spent some time together, and then the Princess took it
into her head to go a warring. So she handed over all the house-
keeping affairs to Prince Ivan, and gave him these instructions:

`Go about everywhere, keep watch over everything; only do
not venture to look into that closet there.'