He afterward became so covetous that he wanted to possess everything he saw, and he spent all the money he had in the purchase of immense quantities of goods.

When his capital was gone he still continued to buy with borrowed money, and has become involved in such difficulties that he cannot free himself.

At the end of one week the date for the payment of his notes will have expired, and, his goods being seized upon, he will become a bankrupt; and he also will return to his father." At the conclusion of this narrative they inquired of the third devil how things had fared between him and Ivan.
"Well," said he, "my report is not so encouraging.

The first thing I did was to spit into his jug of quass [a sour drink made from rye], which made him sick at his stomach.

He afterward went to plow his summer-fallow, but I made the soil so hard that the plow could scarcely penetrate it.