Ivan went home in despair, his eyes brimming with tears. But when he had told his daughter what had happened, she calmly said: "Tomorrow, go and catch a hare and a partridge（鹧鸪）. Both must be alive! You'll have the foal and the hundred silver ducats! Leave it to me!" Ivan  did as his daughter said. He had no idea what the two creatures were for, but he trusted in his daughter's wisdom.

On the day of the audience with the Emperor, the palace was thronged with bystanders（旁观者，局外人）,waiting for Ivan and his small daughter to arrive. At last, the little girl appeared, draped in a fishing net, riding the hare and holdig the partridge in her hand. She was neither naked nor dressed, on foot or on horseback. Scowling, the Emperor told her: "I said neither bearing gifts nor empty-handed!" At these words, the little girl held out the partridge. The Emperor stretched out his hand to grasp it, but the bird fluttered into the air. The third condition had been fulfilled. In spite of himself, the Emperor could not help admirlng the little girl who had so cleverly passed such a test, and in a gentler volce, he sald: "Is your father terribly poor, and does he desperately need the foal. "Oh, yes!" replied the little girl. "We live on the hares he catches in the rivers and the fish he picks from the trees!" "Aha!" cried the Emperor triumphantly. "So you're not as clever as you seem to be! Whoever heard of hares in the river and fish in the trees! To which the little girl swiftly replied: "And whoever heard of a stallion having a foal?" At that, both Emperor and Court burst into peals of laughter. Ivan was immediately glven his hundred silver ducats and the foal, and the Emperor proclalmed: "Only in my kingdom could such a wise little girl be born!"

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