Cossack fairy tales and folk-tales (1902) (14596694728)

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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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uckets will fill with tears, butif thou weepest for the serpent they will fill withblood ! Then she fell a-weeping and praying, andsaid to him : Dont leave me, brother, but take mewith thee.— I wont, said he, such a false friendas thou art Ill not have with me. Stay where thouart. So he mounted his horse, called to him hisdogs and his beasts, and went his way into anotherkingdom and into another empire. He went on and on till he came to a certain city,and in this city there was only one spring, and inthis spring sat a dragon with twelve heads. And itwas so that when any went to draw water from thiswell the dragon rose up and ate them, and therewas no other place from whence that city could draw THE STORY OF LITTLE TSAR NOVISHNY. 71 its water. So the little Tsar came to that town andput up at the strangers inn, and he asked his host:What is the meaning of all this running and cryingof the people in the streets ? — Why, dost thou notknow ? said he; it is the turn of the Tsar to send
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his daughter to the dragon ! —Then he went out andlistened, and heard the people say: The Tsar pro-claims that whoever is able to slay the dragon, to himwill he give his daughter and one half of his tsar-dom I Then little Tsar Novishny stepped forth andsaid: I am able to slay this evil dragon! So 72 COSSACK FAIRY TALES. all the people immediately sent and told the Tsar: A stranger has come hither who says he is readyto meet and slay the dragon. Then the Tsar badethem take him to the watch-house and put him amongthe guards. Then they led out the Tsarivna, and behind herthey led him, and behind him came his beasts and hishorse. And the Tsarivna was so lovely and so richlyattired that all who beheld her burst into tears. Butthe moment the dragon appeared and opened hismouth to devour the Tsarivna, the little Tsar criedto his self-slicing sword: Fall upon him I and tohis beasts he cried : Protius ! Medvedik ! Vov-chok ! Nedviga ! Seize him ! Then the self-slicingsword and the beasts fel