VI
The brothers built themselves houses and began to live apart. Ivan finished his work in the fields, brewed some beer and invited his brothers to a feast. The brothers did not accept his invitation.
"We do not go to feast with peasants," they said.
Ivan treated the peasants and the peasant-women and drank himself until he got tipsy, and he went into the street and joined the dancers and singers. He approached the women, and bade them sing his praises.
"I will give you something you have never seen in your lives," he said.
The women laughed and began to sing his praises, and when they had finished, they said, " Well, give us what you promised."
"I will bring it in a moment, " Ivan said, and he took his seed-basket and ran into the wood.
The women laughed. "What a fool!" they said, and forgot all about him, when
