Presently the midnight hour sounded . The earth began to shake , and the Norka came rushing up , and burst right through the fence into the park , so huge was it . The Prince pulled himself together , leapt to his feet , crossed himself , and went straight at the beast . It fled back , and the Prince ran after it . But he soon saw that he could n't catch it on foot , so he hastened to the stable , laid his hands on the best horse there , and set off in pursuit . Presently he came up with the beast , and they began a fight . They fought and fought ; the Prince gave the beast three wounds . At last they were both utterly exhausted , so they lay down to take a short rest . But the moment the Prince closed his eyes , up jumped the beast and took to flight . The Prince 's horse awoke him ; up he jumped in a moment , and set off again in pursuit , caught up the beast , and again began fighting with it . Again the Prince gave the beast three wounds , and then he and the beast lay down again to rest . Thereupon away fled the beast as before . The Prince caught it up , and again gave it three wounds . But all of a sudden , just as the Prince began chasing it for the fourth time , the beast fled to a great white stone , tilted it up , and escaped into the other world , crying out to the Prince : ` Then only will you overcome me , when you enter here . ' The Prince went home , told his father all that had happened , and asked him to have a leather rope plaited , long enough to reach to the other world . His father ordered this to be done . When the rope was made , the Prince called for his brothers , and he and they , having taken servants with them , and everything that was needed for a whole year , set out for the place where the beast had disappeared under the stone . When they got there , they built a palace on the spot , and lived in it for some time . But when everything was ready , the youngest brother said to the others : ` Now , brothers , who is going to lift this stone ? ' Neither of them could so much as stir it , but as soon as he touched it , away it flew to a distance , though it was ever so big -- big as a hill .
And when he had flung the stone aside , he spoke a second time to his brothers , saying : ` Who is going XXXXX the other world , to overcome the Norka ? '
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