what a time I 've been sleeping ! ' ` You 'd have gone on sleeping a good deal longer if it had n't been for us , ' replied his brothers-in-law . ` Now come and pay us a visit . ' ` Not so , brothers ; I shall go and look for Marya Morevna . ' And when he had found her , he said to her : ` Find out from Koshchei the Deathless whence he got so good a steed . ' So Marya Morevna chose a favourable moment , and began asking Koshchei about it . Koshchei replied : ` Beyond thrice nine lands , in the thirtieth kingdom , on the other side of the fiery river , there lives a Baba Yaga . She has so good a mare that she flies right round the world on it every day . And she has many other splendid mares . I watched her herds for three days without losing a single mare , and in return for that the Baba Yaga gave me a foal . ' ` But how did you get across the fiery river ? ' ` Why , I 've a handkerchief of this kind -- when I wave it thrice on the right hand , there springs up a very lofty bridge , and the fire can not reach it . ' Marya Morevna listened to all this , and repeated it to Prince Ivan , and she carried off the handkerchief and gave it to him . So he managed to get across the fiery river , and then went on to the Baba Yaga 's . Long went he on without getting anything either to eat or to drink . At last he came across an outlandish bird and its young ones . Says Prince Ivan : ` I 'll eat one of these chickens . ' ` Do n't eat it , Prince Ivan ! ' begs the outlandish bird ; ` some time or other I 'll do you a good turn . ' He went on farther and saw a hive of bees in the forest .
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