`God knows! Prince Ivan has a horse now which is better
than I.'

`Well, I can't stand it,' says Koshchei the Deathless. `I will
pursue.'

After a time he came up with Prince Ivan, lighted on the
ground, and was going to chop him up with his sharp sword.
But at that moment Prince Ivan's horse smote Koshchei the Deathless
full swing with its hoof, and cracked his skull, and the Prince
made an end of him with a club. Afterwards the Prince heaped up
a pile of wood, set fire to it, burnt Koshchei the Deathless on the
pyre, and scattered his ashes to the wind. Then Marya Morevna
mounted Koshchei's horse and Prince Ivan got on his own, and they
rode away to visit first the Raven, and then the Eagle, and then
the Falcon. Wherever they went they met with a joyful greeting.

`Ah, Prince Ivan! why, we never expected to see you again.
Well, it wasn't for nothing that you gave yourself so much trouble.
Such a beauty as Marya Morevna one might search for all the
world over--and never find one like her!'

And so they visited, and they feasted; and afterwards they went
off to their own realm.[3]


[3] Ralston.