Once there was a king and his three beautiful daughters. Once, when this king went to the fair, he asked his daughters:
- So, girls, what should I bring you from the fair?
The eldest said:
- Bring me, father, a golden dress.
The middle one said:
- And for me, a silver dress.
- What can I get you? - she asked the youngest.
- 'For me, my father,' said the youngest princess, 'solo grapes, smiling apples and ringing peaches.
- "Hm," the king shook his head, "I have never heard that, but if there is such a thing in the world, I will get it for you, my daughter.
The king went to the fair and bought a gold dress for his eldest daughter and silver for his middle daughter, but he could not find a single grape, a smiling apple or a peach that rang a bell, though he had been through every shop. The king was sorry that he could not grant his dearest daughter her wish.
"Well," he thought to himself, "I'll just get home, I'll have the country proclaim that whoever has a solo vine, a smiling apple, a ringing peach, just bring it to my court, I'll give you enough gold for it to be lord till you die."
Just as he was thinking about it, his swing gave a great jerk, and he got so stuck in the mud (for it was a lot of mud) that the horses could not move. The coachman gave enough jostling, bouncing, and swearing, but the steeds stood still as if they had been pegged.
The king was angry, but very angry. Of course he was angry, when his steeds had been so close to kicking the star out of the sky, and now they could not even move this light carriage.
Well, he sent for people in the village. And the people of the village ran with horses, oxen, dogs and cats at the news that the king's swing had got stuck. But in vain the village crowded together, and they could not move the carriage.
Suddenly, just as they were about to be tortured, a pig wanders up and says to the king:
- Ruff-ruff-ruff, my sovereign king, give me your youngest daughter, and I will free you at once, horse, chariot, and all.
The King's eyes were stopped from dreaming: what a miracle of God! But what he thought, he said to the pig:
- All right, let's see what you got. Here's my hand, not a pig's foot, if you free me, I'll give you my youngest daughter.
The pig needed no more than that, he stuck his nose between the wheel arches, gave the wheel a little squeeze, and with that - whoop! - the carriage flew out of the mud, the horses rushed at it, and in a moment the king was swept home.
As soon as the king returned home, he took out his gold dress and silver robes and passed them to his two eldest daughters. To the youngest daughter he said with great sadness:
- You see, you see, my daughter, why you wished for no clothes, for I could find no single grapes, no smiling apples, no peaches that bell in the whole fair.
But he couldn't even say it for a long time, he hears the pig coming with a big grunt. He looks out of the window in great fright, and sees that it is indeed the pig to whom he promised his youngest daughter. And his best animal has brought a cart with him, surely he wants to take his dearest daughter on it. Yes, he did, and he grunted up at the window:
- Ruff-ruff-ruff, my king, I have come for your daughter. Ruff-ruff-ruff, send her down, let me carry her on my tallow.
"Stop," thought the king to himself, "I will send you a girl!"
Suddenly they dressed a peasant girl in a pretty dress and sent her down to the pig. But it was not a pig that had fallen on its head! She grunted to the king:
- Ruff, ruff, ruff, my king, this is not your daughter!
Hey, the king has only just regretted making such a fool of himself, and even shaking hands with a dirty pig! And the little princess! She wept and wailed so that the palace shook, and said she would rather die here than be married to a pig.
But he wept in vain, he wailed in vain, he threw himself to the ground in vain, the king said with bitter tears:
- It's no use, my sweet daughter, I promised you to him, you must go.
But in the meantime, the king had another idea: he dressed his daughter in dirty, ragged clothes and sent her down. So that the pig might not like her.
Well, you thought wrong! The pig, when he saw the princess, jumped out of his skin with great joy. He picked her up, put her on the cart, and carried her off with a great grunt:
- Ruff, ruff, ruff, don't cry, royal lady, you'll have a good time at my place.
The princess cried bitterly, but the pig only grunted:
- Ruff, ruff, ruff, don't cry, Princess, we'll be home soon.
But it was not until the pig stopped in front of a sty that the royal lady really started to cry, and led her into it, and sat her down on the dirty straw.
- Ruff, ruff, ruff, this is my house, Princess!
Then he offered her some corn:
- Eat up, royal lady!
The princess cried and cried until the sleep overwhelmed her.
- "Ruff, ruff, ruff," said the pig, "go to sleep, Princess, tomorrow your sorrow will turn to joy.
The princess slept, slept, and did not wake up until noon the next day. At the sound of the south bell she opened her eyes, and - behold! - and then blinded by the untamed glow!
He went to bed in a pigsty and woke up in a palace. He lay on straw and drank, now he lies on silken waist. And as soon as he opened his eyes, a host of girls ran to the bedside, and asked him with great kindness:
- What can I do for you, Your Majesty?
All at once they brought her more and more beautiful clothes, glittering with silver, gold and diamonds, and dressed her up in the most beautiful clothes. Then they led her into the next room. And there at the laid table sat a handsome young man, and ran to her, and took her hand, and led her to the table. And the handsome young man says to her:
- Sit down here, pretty princess. Here you have all that your eyes can see. I'm yours, too, if you don't despise me.
- Who are you and what are you? - the girl asked.
The young man said:
- I'll tell you, my beauty. Come into the garden now.
He took the princess in his arms and they went down to the garden. And as they went down, a little vine bent down in front of her, and its bunches spoke:
- Tear me down, tear me down, fair princess!
- This is the solo vine! - said the young man.
They walked on, and from an apple tree the tiny red apples smiled down at them so beautifully.
- See, there's the smiling apple," said the young man.
They go on, and all at once the whole garden is ringing! The princess looks this way and that, and asks:
- What sounds so nice?
- "Look," says the young man, "there's the peach tree. There are peaches growing on it!
Oh, dear God, rejoiced the princess, not knowing whether to weep or laugh for joy.
- 'You see,' said the young man, 'in my garden there are vines, smiling apples, peaches that bell, just as you wished. Will you stay here now, will you be my wife?
The princess did not ask for anything, she threw herself on the neck of the handsome young man and said:
- Here I'll stay, spade, hoe, and the great bell shall separate me from thee.
The young man told him that he was a prince, but an evil fairy had turned him into a pig, and cursed him to stay a pig until a girl came along who wanted a single grape, a smiling apple and a ringing peach.
The same day, the princess's father was told to come to the wedding with his whole court. But they had a feast for seven countries. They're still alive today, if they're not dead.
