Cossack fairy tales and folk-tales . and said to him: Acertain man has come to me and laid a certain featheron the window-sill, and it shines like fire! Thenthe Tsar guessed that it was a feather of the birdZhar, and said to his soldiers : Go and fetch thatman hither ! And the Tsar said to him: Wiltthou enter my service ?— Yes, he replied, butyou must give me all your keys. So the Tsar gavehim all the keys and a hut of his own to live inbesides. But one day the Tsar said to his servants : Boil me now a vat of milk ! So they boiled he took off his gold ring, and said to the man : Thou d
Cossack fairy tales and folk-tales . and said to him: Acertain man has come to me and laid a certain featheron the window-sill, and it shines like fire! Thenthe Tsar guessed that it was a feather of the birdZhar, and said to his soldiers : Go and fetch thatman hither ! And the Tsar said to him: Wiltthou enter my service ?— Yes, he replied, butyou must give me all your keys. So the Tsar gavehim all the keys and a hut of his own to live inbesides. But one day the Tsar said to his servants : Boil me now a vat of milk ! So they boiled he took off his gold ring, and said to the man : Thou didst get the feather of the bird Zhar, getme also this golden ring of mine out of the vat ofboiling milk!—Bring hither, then, my faithfulhorse, said he, that he may see his master plungeinto the vat of boiling milk and die! So theybrought his horse, and, taking off his clothes, heplunged into the vat, but as he did so the horsesnorted so violently that all the boiling milk leapedup in the air and the man seized the ring and gave. 256 COSSACK FAIRY TALES. it back to the Tsar. Now when the Tsar saw thatthe man had come out of the vat younger and hand-somer than ever, he said: Ill try and fish up thering in like manner. So he Hung his ring into thevat of boiling milk and plunged after it to get people waited and waited and wondered andwondered that he was so long about it, and at lastthey drained off the milk and found the Tsar at thebottom of the vat boiled quite red. Then the mansaid : Now, Tsaritsa, thou art mine and I am they lived together happily ever afterwards. THE STORY OF THE UNLUCKY DAYS.
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