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Cock-a-doodle-doo! Rich gentleman, you Give me the purse with coppers two! As soon as they reached a water well, the spiteful rich man told the coachman: “ Hey, man! Grab that cheeky rooster and throw it into that well!” The coachman hastily leapt off the carriage again, caught the rooster and threw it into the well. What could the rooster do at the sight of this great danger? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIpynXu0eiU He started swallowing water and swallowed and swallowed until he drank up all the water in the well…Then he flew out and started running behind the carriage, saying: Cock-a-doodle-doo! Rich gentleman, you Give me the purse with coppers two! Seeing this, the rich boyar was greatly surprised and said: “ My, oh, my! That is one hell of a rooster! Well, just wait and you’ll find your devil with me, you crested and spurred rascal!” Reaching his house, the boyar ordered an old woman from the kitchen to take the rooster and throw it into a hot oven full of embers and to put a heavy stone slab against the oven door. The heartless old woman did exactly as her master had told her.