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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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toity ! said the fool; give me a gun, and Ill go all the same. His fatherwouldnt give him a gun, so he took it, and went towatch. He placed his gun across his knees and satdown. He sat and sat, but nothing came, nothingcame; he got drowsy, was nodding off, when his gunfell off his knees, and he awoke with a start andwatched more warily. At last he heard something—and there stood the hog. It began to dig upanother tree, when he pulled the trigger and—bang !His brothers heard the sound, came running up, werequite amazed to see a dead boar lying there, andsaid : What will become of us now ?— Let uskill him, said the eldest brother, and bury himin that ditch, and say that we killed the hog. Sothey took and slew him, and buried him in the ditch,and took the hog to their father, and said : Whilewe were watching, this hog came up and begandigging, so we killed him and have brought himto you. One day a nobleman came by that way, and wassurprised to see a beautiful elder-bush growing out
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164 COSSACK FAIRY TALES. of the ditch.; so he went up to it, cut off a branch, made him a flute out of it, and began playing upon it. But the flute played of its own accord, and made this moan : 11 Play, good master, play,But steal not my heart away 1Me my brothers took and slew,In the ditch my body threw,For that hog shot down by me,That rooted up the tree. The nobleman then went on to the inn, and there he found the fools father. Such a funny thing has happened to me, said the nobleman. I went and cut me out a flute from an elder-bush, and lo ! it plays of its own accord! Then the father took and tried his hand at it, and it sang : Play, good daddy, play,But dont steal my heart away !Me my brothers took and slew,In the ditch my body threw,For that hog shot down by me,That rooted up the tree I The father was so astonished that he bought it, and took it home, and gave it to the mother for her to play upon it, and it sang : Play, good mammy, play,But dont steal my heart away !Me my bro

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