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Title: Cossack fairy tales and folk-tales
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet), 1854-1909 Mitchell, E. W. illustrator
Subjects: Fairy tales Tales -- Ukraine
Publisher: London : A. H. Bullen
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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voice cryingpiteously : Save me, save me ! I am burning !— How can I save thee, he cried, when I myselfcannot draw near \— Oh ! give me thy weapon !cried the voice, and Ill seize hold of it, and thenthou canst pull me out. So he stretched forth hisweapon, and drew forth a goodly serpent, such as isonly known of in old folk songs. And she said tohim : Since thou hast drawn me out, thou must alsotake me home.— How shall I carry thee % askedhe.— Carry me on thy horse, and in whatsoeverdirection I turn my head and his, thither go.—Sohe took her upon his horse, and they went on and ontill they came to a court so splendid that it was adelight to look at it. Then she glided down from hischarger and said: Wait here, and Ill soon be withthee again, and with that she wriggled under thegate. He stood there and stood and waited andwaited till he wept from sheer weariness; but, atlast, she came out again in the shape of a lovely ^•=^^§y^E=y4£&4gi3j )=;;ii ti^-i v/i I-.. --=>~
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114 COSSACK FAIRY TALES. damsel in gorgeous raiment, and opened the gate forhim. Lead in thy horse, said she, and eat andrest awhile. So they went into the courtyard, andin the midst of it stood two springs. The lady drewout of one of these springs a little glass of water,and strewing a handful of oats beside it, said: Fasten up thy horse here !— What! thoughthe, for these three days we have had nought to eator drink, and now she mocks us with a handful ofoats!—Then they went together to the guest-chamber, and she gave him there a little glass ofwater and a small piece of wheaten bread.— Why,what is this for a hungry man like me ? thought he.But when he chanced to glance through the window,he saw that the whole courtyard was full of oatsand water, and that his horse had already eaten itsfill. Then he nibbled his little piece of wheaten cakeand sipped his water, and his hunger was immediatelysatisfied. Well, said the lady, hast thou eatenthy fiin—That I have, he replied.—Then

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