12 COSSACK FAIRY TALES.

sell me for three hundred rubles, and without a
hood.”

They went into the plain, and there were some
young noblemen casting their falcon at a quail. The
falcon pursued but always fell short of the quail, and
the quail always eluded the falcon. The son then
changed himself into a falcon and immediately struck
down its prey. The young noblemen saw it and
were astonished. “Is. that thy faleon?’”—“ Tis
mine.”—“ Sell it to us, then!”—‘‘ Bid for it!”’—
‘What dost thou want for it?”—‘If ye give three
hundred rubles, ye may take it, but it must be
without the hood.”—“As if we want thy hood!
We'll make for-it a hood worthy of a Tsar.” So they
higeled and hageled, but at last they gave him the
three hundred rubles. Then the young nobles sent
the falcon after another quail, and it flew and flew
till it beat down its prey; but then he became a
youth again, and went on with his father.

“ How shall we manage to live with so little?” said
the father. “Wait a while, dad, and we shall have
still more,” said the son. ‘ When we pass through the
fair I'll change myself into a horse, and thou must
sell me. They will give’ thee'a thousand rubles for
me, only sell me without a halter.” So when they
got to the next. little town where they were holding
a fair, the son changed himself into a horse, a horse