and she said to her husband, " I cannot sup together with a stinking peasant."
And Simon the Warrior said, "My lady says you do not smell sweet; you had better eat in the passage."
"Very well," Ivan said. " It is time for bed anyway, and I must feed the mare."
Ivan took some bread and his coat and went out for the night.
IV
That night, having freed himself of Simon the Warrior, the first little Devilkin set out to seek Ivan's Devilkin, to help him plague the Fool as they had agreed. He came to the fields, looked all round for his mate, but he was nowhere to be seen; he only found a hole. "I see some misfortune has happened to my mate; I must take his place. The ploughing is all finished; I must upset the Fool at the mowing."
And the Devilkin went to the meadow and flooded it and trampled the hay in the mud.
Ivan awoke at daybreak, put his scythe in order and set out to the meadow to
