Reading Notes: The Two Friends

Graveyard: Source 

• Two great friends made a pact that whoever should marry first must invite the other to his wedding; dead or alive
• After a year one of the men fell ill and died
• The other man lived on, and when he was about to get married he drove past the graveyard and remembered his promise
• He went to the grave and invited his deceased friend to the wedding
• His dead friend popped out and offered him a drink
• The man wanted to leave, but came into his home in the grave and drank some liqour and a hundred years passed
• He drank another cup and two hundred years passed
• He drank a third and three hundred years passed
• The man left for the wedding but the grave was gone and everything was different
• He went into town and everything was also changed
• He went to the chruch and the priest found a story about a similar occurance that had occurred
• His dead friend actually married his own wife while he was in the grave

Story source: Russian Fairy Tales The Two Friends by W. R. S. Ralston (1887).