where are you going ? ' Vassili looked about him , and , seeing no one , called out : ` Who spoke to me ? ' ' I did ; this old wide-spreading oak . Tell me where you are going . ' ' I am going to the Serpent King to receive twelve years ' rent from him . ' ` When the time comes , remember me and ask the king : `` Rotten to the roots , half dead but still green , stands the old oak . Is it to stand much longer on the earth ? '' ' Vassili went on further . He came to a river and got into the ferryboat . The old ferryman asked : ` Are you going far , my friend ? ' ' I am going to the Serpent King . ' ` Then think of me and say to the king : `` For thirty years the ferryman has rowed to and fro . Will the tired old man have to row much longer ? '' ' ` Very well , ' said Vassili ; ` I 'll ask him . ' And he walked on . In time he came to a narrow strait of the sea and across it lay a great whale over whose back people walked and drove as if it had been a bridge or a road . As he stepped on it the whale said , ` Do tell me where you are going . ' ' I am going to the Serpent King . ' And the whale begged : ` Think of me and say to the king : `` The poor whale has been lying three years across the strait , and men and horses have nearly trampled his back into his ribs . Is he to lie there much longer ? '' ' '
I will remember , ' said Vassili , and he went XXXXX .
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