ABSTRACT
A certain tsar kept a servant and they rode everywhere together. Then the tsar grew ass's ears and he gave strict orders to his servant: "Don't tell anyone, don't let on anything is wrong." The servant endured this and then he could no longer stand it and he left because he couldn't endure it any more. He set off down the lane leading to the main road, where people were partying, and along the roadside he dug up the earth and fell into it. ''The tsar has ass's ears; they just grew out but we don't know how!" So then a tree grew up over that place. And later the tsar went with his servant to take a ride. And the tree bowed to the tsar and said, "The tsar has ass's ears."
