ant described the Tsaritsa's ring exactly.

The Tsar sent for his daughter, and she came with the ring on her
finger, for she would not take it off, either night or day.

"Let me see thy ring," said the Tsar.

He took her hand in his and examined the ring carefully, and it was in
every respect exactly as the Green One had described it.

"Is this thy ring?" the Tsar asked of the merchant.

"Yes, your majesty, it is."

"Then," said the Tsar to his daughter, "it is right that thou shouldst
return it to him."

The Tsaritsa wept and implored. She offered the merchant her pearls
and every other gem she had if he would but let her keep the ring, but
he refused.

"Very well, then, it shall be neither thine nor mine," cried the
Tsaritsa, and she drew the ring from her finger and dashed it against
the wall.

At once the ring changed into a hundred millet seeds and was scattered
all over the floor.

But the Green One as quickly changed himself into a cock and ran about
this way and that, pecking up the millet seeds and swallowing them.
Ninety-nine millet seeds he found and ate, but the hundredth he did
not find, because it had fallen beside the Tsaritsa's foot, and the
hem of her robe covered it.

As soon as the cock had swallowed the ninety-ninth seed he sprang upon
the window sill, and stretched his neck and crowed with triumph.

But the hundredth seed was really the lad, and in that moment he
changed himself back into his human form, and before the cock knew
what had happened, he caught hold of it and wrung its neck and that
was the end of Oh and his magic.

As for the Tsaritsa, no sooner had she seen the lad than her heart
went out to him, and she loved him even better than she had her ring,
and she declared that he and he only should be her husband.

The Tsar did not know what to say to that, for it did not seem fitting
that his daughter should marry a common man. But the Tsaritsa begged
and plead with him till he could no longer withstand her.

So she and the lad were married with great pomp and magnificence.

His old father and mother were bidden to the wedding, and they could
hardly believe their eyes when they saw their son stand there in those
costly robes with a crown upon his head and the Tsaritsa beside him as
his bride.

The old people were given a house to live in and plenty of money to
spend, and they all lived in peace and happiness forever after.

THE TALKIN