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Perchance thou shalt have the good luck to hit it. Then I will honor thee." Simeon shook his locks, smiled, put into his gun a silver bullet, aimed, shot, and the eagle fell swiftly to the earth. The sixth Simeon did not even allow the eagle to fall to the ground, but, quick as a flash, he ran under it with a plate, caught it on that big plate and presented his prey to the Tsar Archidei.
Here the Tsar Archidei looked at the youngest Simeon and remembered that he had not asked him about his trade. So he said: "And thou, seventh Simeon, what is thy trade?" "I have none, Tsar Archidei Aggeivitch. I learned many, but not a single one did me any good, and though I know something very well, I am not sure your majesty would like it." "Let us know thy secret," ordered the Tsar Archidei.
Simeon the seventh shouted aloud from the deck. "We bring a missive from the korolevna Helena. Holla!" Very glad indeed was the king of the island of Buzan, and glad were all his subjects. The missive was read and the condemned were pardoned. "Evidently," the king said, "it is fated that the handsome and witty Tsar Archidei and my beautiful daughter are to become husband and wife."
Simeon did not let it reach a hole, but swifter than a cat caught the mouse, and the princess Helena, as beautiful and natural as before, appeared before them, fair-faced, bright-eyed. On a lovely morning a week later the Tsar Archidei was sitting by the window of his palace lost in thought. His eyes were turned toward the sea, the wide, blue sea.
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