Identifier: cossackfairytal00bain (find matches)
Title: Cossack fairy tales and folk-tales. Selected
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet), 1854-1909
Subjects: Tales, Ukrainian
Publisher: New York A.L. Burt Co
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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r kingdom. There, perchance,they will be able to teach thee better than they 4 COSSACK FAIRY TALES. can here, aud it will be too far to run awayfrom. So he took him and set out on his journey. They went on and on, they went a short wayand they went a long way, and at last they cameto a forest so dark that they could see neitherearth nor sky. They went through this forest,but in a short time they grew very tired, andwhen they came to a path leading to a clearingfull of large tree-stumps, the father said : I am so tired out that I will rest here alittle, and with that he sat down on a treestump and cried : Oh, how tired I am ! He had no sooner said these words than outof the tree-stump, nobody could say how, sprangsuch a little little old man, all so wrinkled andpuckered, and his beard was quite green andreached right down to his knee. * What dost thou want of me, O man ? heasked. The man was amazed at the strangeness ofhis coming to light, and said to him: I did not call thee; begone !
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