the youth went down to the spring, where the bull snorted and bellowed at him. after a long struggle he plunged his sword in the animal’s body, and it fell down. instantly a fiery bird arose from it, and was about to fly away, but the young man’s brother, the eagle, who was passing between the clouds, swooped down, hunted it away to the sea, and struck it with his beak until, in its extremity, it let the egg fall. the egg did not, however, fall into the sea, but on a fisherman’s hut which stood on the shore and the hut began at once to smoke and was about to break out in flames. then arose in the sea waves as high as a house, they streamed over the hut, and subdued the fire. the other brother, the whale, had come swimming to them, and had driven the water up on high. when the fire was extinguished, the youth sought for the egg and happily found it; it was not yet melted, but the shell was broken by being so suddenly cooled with the water, and he could take out the crystal ball unhurt.