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Identifier: cossackfairytale00bain3 (find matches)
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
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ith his huge broadsword, a full fathom long,which the Lord had given him, and chopped off allthe Dragons six heads, and the rock fell upon theDragons body and crushed it to pieces. Then thePrince gathered up the six dragon-heads and laidthem on one side, and cut out the six lolling tonguesand tied them in his handkerchief, and told thePrincess to go back to her palace, for they could notbe married for a year and twelve weeks, and if, bythat time, he did not appear, she was to marryanother, and with that he departed. Then the coach-man of the Princess came up to the place and saw thesix heads of the Dragon, and took them up and saidto the Princess : I will slay thee on the spot if thoudost not swear to me twelve times that thou wilt sayI slew the Dragon, and wilt take me for thy hus-band ! Then she swore to it twelve times, for elsehe would have slain her. So they returned togetherto the town, and immediately all the black cloth wastaken off the houses and the bells fell a-ringing, and
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210 COSSACK FAIRY TALES. all the people rejoiced because the coachman hadkilled the Dragon. Let them be married at once !cried they. Meanwhile the Kings son went on and on till hecame to that town where he had left his brother, andthere he found that the Tsar and the Tsaritsa hadgiven his brother the whole tsardom and the Tsarivnato wife as well, and there he tarried for a time ; buttowards the end of a year and twelve weeks he wentback to the other city where he had left the Princess,and there he found them making ready for a grandwedding. What is the meaning of all this ? askedhe. And they answered: The Tsars coachmanhas slain the Dragon with six heads and saved thePrincess, and now he is to be married to her.— GoodLord! cried he, and I never saw this Dragon !What manner of beast was it ? —Then they took himand showed him the heads of the Dragon, and hecried: Good Lord! every other beast hath a tongue,but this Dragon hath none ! Then they told this tothe coachman who had been ma

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