. Cossack fairy tales and folk-tales. Selected . ch. I shall then come outof the sea, and after me the whole herd; thenthou must etrike with the horse-hair the horsewhich gallops immediately after me, and he willnot be too strong for thee ! So the faithful steed plunged into the sea,and Tremsin sat down on the shore and horse swam to a bosquet that rose out ofthe sea, and there the herd of sea-horses wasgrazing. When the strong charger of Nastasiasaw him and the hides he carried on his backit set off after him at full tilt, and the wholeherd followed the strong charger of Nastasia.
. Cossack fairy tales and folk-tales. Selected . ch. I shall then come outof the sea, and after me the whole herd; thenthou must etrike with the horse-hair the horsewhich gallops immediately after me, and he willnot be too strong for thee ! So the faithful steed plunged into the sea,and Tremsin sat down on the shore and horse swam to a bosquet that rose out ofthe sea, and there the herd of sea-horses wasgrazing. When the strong charger of Nastasiasaw him and the hides he carried on his backit set off after him at full tilt, and the wholeherd followed the strong charger of drove the horse with the hides into the sea,and pursued him. Then the strong charger ofNastasia caught wp the steed of Tremsin and toreoff one of his hides, and began to worry it withhis teeth and tear it to fraajments as he rano I COSSACK FAIRY TALES. 129 Then he caught him up a second time, and toreoff another hide, and began to worry that inlike manner, till lie had torn it also to shreds:and thus he ran after Tremsins steed for seventy. miles, till he had torn off all the hides, andworried them to bits. But Tremsin sat uponthe seashore till he saw the large white billowbounding in, and behind the billow came hisown horse, and behind his own horse came thethrice-terrible charger of the thrice-lovely Nas-tasia, with the whole herd at his heels. Trem-sin struck him full on the forehead with thetwenty poods of hair, and immediately he stood 130 COSSACK FAIRY TALES. stock still. Then Tremsin threw a halter overhim, mounted, and drove the whole herd to thethrice-lovely Nastasia. Nastasia praised Trem-sin for his prowess, and said to him: Well, thou hast got the feather of the BirdZhar, thou hast got the Bird Zhar itself, thouhast got me my coral and my herd of horses,now milk my mare and put the milk into threevats, so that there may be milk hot as boilingwater in the first vat, lukewarm milk in thesecond vat, and icy cold milk in the third vat. Then Tremsin w^ent to his fai
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