Said and done. He snatched the rooster by the wing and threw it
down the money vault, for he had so many gold coins that he
couldn’t even count them!
Then the rooster
greedily swallowed
all the money and
left all the trunks
empty. Then he got
out of that place,
God knows how and
where, went to the
boyar’s window and
started once more:
Cock-a-doodle-doo!
Rich gentleman, you
Give me the purse
with coppers two!
Now, after all these
events, the boyar saw there was nothing more he could do, so he
took the purse and threw it to the rooster.
The rooster picked it up gladly, went to his business and left the
boyar alone. And then something incredible happened: all the
poultry in the boyar’s yard, seeing the rooster’s bravery, followed
him as if they were going to a wedding, while the boyar, sad and
disappointed, looked wistfully at his birds walking merrily away,
and he said sighing:
“Let them all leave and be gone, thank God I got rid of that nagging
rooster, for that was not an ordinary thing that happened here!”
As for the rooster, he marched proudly down the village road, all
the army of birds following him. And he walked and walked until
he reached the old man’s place and started singing in front of the
gate:
Cock-a-doodle-doo! Cock-a-doodle-doo!