Cossack fairy tales and folk-tales . ry princeand every noble in the wide world. Then the prince shook his head and was silent. Presently they came to the sea, and all three stoodstill and looked at it, and watched the fishes , suddenly, the prince caught hold of his youngerson, and pitched him right into the sea. Perish ! cried he, for tis but just that such a wretch as thoushouldst perish ! Now, just as the father pitched his younger soninto the sea, a great whale-fish was coming along andswallowed him, and into its maw he went. Therehe found wagons with horses and oxen harnessed to
Cossack fairy tales and folk-tales . ry princeand every noble in the wide world. Then the prince shook his head and was silent. Presently they came to the sea, and all three stoodstill and looked at it, and watched the fishes , suddenly, the prince caught hold of his youngerson, and pitched him right into the sea. Perish ! cried he, for tis but just that such a wretch as thoushouldst perish ! Now, just as the father pitched his younger soninto the sea, a great whale-fish was coming along andswallowed him, and into its maw he went. Therehe found wagons with horses and oxen harnessed tothem, all of which the fish had also gobbled. So hewent rummaging about these wagons to see what wasin them, and he found that one of the wagons was 264 COSSACK FAIRY TALES. full of tobacco-pipes and tobacco, and flints and he took up a pipe, filled it with tobacco, lit it, andbegan to smoke. He smoked out one pipe, filledanother, and smoked that too ; then he filled a third,and began smoking that. At last the smoke inside. the whale made it feel so uncomfortable that it openedits mouth, swam ashore, and went asleep on the some huntsmen happened to be going along thebeach at that time, and one of them saw the whale,and said : Look, my brethren ! we have been huntingjays and crows and shot nothing, and lo ! what a IVAN OOLIK AND THE SERPENTS. 265 monstrous fish lies all about the shore 1 Let us shootit! So they shot at it and shot at it, and then they fellupon it with their axes and began to cut it to cut and hacked at it till suddenly they heardsomething calling to them from the middle of thefish: Ho! my brothers! hack fish if you like, buthack not that flesh which is full of Christian blood ! They fell down to the ground for fright, and werelike dead men, but the princes younger son crept outof the hole in the fish that the huntsmen had made,went out upon the shore, and sat down. He sat downthere quite naked, for all his clothes had rotted anddr
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