saw an uneven place and began to level it.
The King awoke and looking out of his palace window he saw a river where there was not one before and ships were sailing on it and Emelian was levelling a little mound with his spade. And the King was alarmed. He took no pleasure in the river or the ships, he was only annoyed that he could not cut off Emelian's head.
"There is no task he cannot do," he thought.
"What shall we do now?
And the King summoned his servants and conferred with them.
"Think of a task," he said, "that will be beyond Emelian's strength, for so far he has done everything we have thought of and I cannot take away his wife."
And the courtiers thought for a long time, then came to the King and said, " You must summon Emelian and say to him, 'Go to—I don't know where, and bring me—I don't know what.' He won't be able to escape you then, for wherever he goes you can say it was not the right place and whatever he brings was not the
