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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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rever I fall into the marshy ground,there set to work and dig with me ! The Devil did so, and began digging at the spotwhere the chisel fell out on the marshy ground tillhe had dug out the children. Now, as they had beengrowing all along, they were children no more, buta stately youth and a fair damsel; and the serpenttook them up and carried them off. But they werebig and heavy, so he soon got tired and lay downto rest, and presently fell asleep. Then the Tsariynasat down on his head, and the Tsarevko sat downbeside her till a horse came running up. The horseran right up to them and said : Hail! little TsarNovishny ; art thou here by thy leave or againstthy leave ? —And the little Tsar Novishny replied : Nay, little nag! we are here against our leave,not by our leave.— Then sit on my back ! saidthe horse, and Ill carry you off! So they goton his back, for the serpent was asleep all thetime. Then the horse galloped off with them;and he galloped far, far away. Presently the serpent
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64 COSSACK FAIRY TALES. awoke, looked all round him, and could see nothingtill he had got up out of the reeds in whichhe lay, when he saw them in the far distance, andgave chase. He soon caught them up ; and littleTsar Novishny said to the horse: Oh ! little nag,how hot it is. It is all up with thee and us!And, in truth, the horses tail was already singedto a coal, for the serpent was hard behind them,blazing like fire. The horse perceived that he coulddo no more, so he gave one last wriggle and died;but they, poor things, were left alive. Whomhave you been listening to ? said the serpent ashe flew up to them. Dont you know that I onlyam your father and tsar, and have the right to carryyou away ? — Oh, dear daddy ! well never listento anybody else again !— Well, Ill forgive youthis time, said the serpent; but mind you neverdo it again. Again the serpent took them up and carried themoff. Presently he grew tired and again lay downto rest, and nodded off. Then the Tsarivna satdown on

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