. Cossack fairy tales and folk-tales. Selected . HERE was once a man who had adog. While the dog was younghe was made much of, but whenhe grew old he was driven outof doors. So he went and layoutside the fence, and a wolfcame up to him and said : Doggy, why so down in the mouth ? While I was young, said the dog, theymade much of me; but now that I tn old theybeat me. The wolf said: I see thy master in the field; go after hipi,and perchance hell give thee something. Nay, said the dog, they wont even letme walk about the fields now, they only beat me. * Look now, said the wolf, Im sorry, and. A
. Cossack fairy tales and folk-tales. Selected . HERE was once a man who had adog. While the dog was younghe was made much of, but whenhe grew old he was driven outof doors. So he went and layoutside the fence, and a wolfcame up to him and said : Doggy, why so down in the mouth ? While I was young, said the dog, theymade much of me; but now that I tn old theybeat me. The wolf said: I see thy master in the field; go after hipi,and perchance hell give thee something. Nay, said the dog, they wont even letme walk about the fields now, they only beat me. * Look now, said the wolf, Im sorry, and. A wolf came up and said: Doggy, why so down in the mouth?—Page 168. COSSACK FAIRY TALES. 163 will make things better for thee. Thy mistress,I see, has put her child down beneath thatwagon. Ill seize it, and make off with thou after me and bark, and though thouhast no teeth left, touzle me as much as thoucanst, 80 that thy mistress may see it. So the wolf seized the child, and ran awavwith it, and the dog ran after him, and beganto touzle him. His mistress saw it, and madeafter them with a harrow, crying at the sametime: Husband, husband ! the wolf has got thechild! Gabriel, Gabriel! dont you see ? Thewolf has got the child ! Then the man chasedthe wolf, and got back the child. Brave old dog ! said he; you are old andtoothless, and yet you can give help in time ofneed, and will not let your masters child bestolen. And henceforth the woman and herhusband gave the old dog a large lump of breadevery day. 164 COSSACK FAIRY TALES: THE FOX AND THE CAT.
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