A Tsar had taken prisoner a rebel leader. The rebel
leader's daughter went to the Tsar to beg him to spare her beloved father. She
was a beautiful girl, but the Tsar looked at her with mixed feelings.
“I will free your father, and what’s more I will marry
you,” he said to her, “If you are able to solve my riddle. If you fail, your
father will die and you be forced to marry my stable boy.”
“Agreed,” said the girl, “what is the riddle?”
“You have to
come back to me neither dressed nor naked,” said the Tsar “neither on foot nor
on horseback, neither with gifts nor without gifts.”
The girl went away and thought hard. The next day she
came before the Tsar wearing only a thick fishing net, so that she was neither
dressed nor naked. She was riding on the back of a large dog, so that she was
neither on foot nor on horseback. In her hands she had a quail, which she
released in the Tsar's presence, so that she had come neither with a gift nor
without a gift.
Tsar, who admired clever people as much as he admired
brave ones, kept his word. He freed the rebel leader and married his beautiful
young daughter.
-FIN-
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Author: Unknown
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