The Russian Grandmother's Wonder Tales

ad two rooms opening into the court, and all the other houses, even that of the pop, who said Mass in the church on Sunday, had only one. And this grand house was not crowded like the other houses

the village did. He even approved of young people setting up housekeeping by themselves. Therefore, though some of the older bolshaks shook their heads an

ee, for they had two rooms. The cowherd woman and the two moujiks who helped the starosta on the land, slept, of course, in the stalls with the cattle under the shed that went around t

never went entirely out. The grandmother did not sleep on this stove, however. The starosta greatly honored his old mother, and to her he gave the second room in the house for her

red after a long day in the fields. But on rainy days, when the starosta would not permit his

as sitting by the stove, with her distaff and spindle and a basket of wool by her side. In ca

tory, little

the song she had been

out the Wolf that wa

med the little boy. "T

randmoth

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ld I be a wolf and go around devouring the other beasts? It would be much better for me

bristled up in terror, but Isegrim cried out, "Don't be frightened, Gr

n he saw Isegrim, but the Wolf cried out, "Don't be frightened, Longbea

ieted her, saying, "Don't be frightened, Skinny-bones! I don't

d presently he came to the pasture where he had met the old Mare. Now was the Mare terrified. She

xclaimed the Mare. "You

," snarled Isegrim, "I am

ere is no help for it, come again by a

tly he met the He-goat. "Ho, Longbe

plied the He-goat. "You are

e," retorted the Wolf, "I

"but since you are bound to eat me, just gr

et the Sow. "Listen to me, Gruntelind," said he

ed the Sow. "You are no Wo

here," said the Wolf,

; "since you insist, come an

nd away he went to lo

nes," said he; "you ar

left hind hoof, for my master had me shod the other day, and the smith marked my age upon the h

aised her hoof and dealt Isegrim so smart a blow on the head that he

here, Gruntelind," he said to he

no help for it, just lead me around by the e

rushed to the spot from far and near, and falling upon Cousin Isegrim they almost tore him in piec

ield, with your mouth wide open, and my brothers and I will jump down your thr

s mouth wide open. Then all the He-goats ran against him, butting at him, before and behind,

im, "Now, see here, Gockeling, I am

hers I have. Why should you bother to pluck me? It would save you a worl

tree. He hopped from branch to branch until he was in perfect

ce and happiness; neither should I have been one-it has served me right. My father was no Swine musician, but he lived well for all that; neither should I have been one-it has served me right. My father never measured a field with

middle of the field, w

blow on the head with his axe. Then Isegrim cried out with his last breath, "Well, I v

few minutes. "Did you know that Wolf

dmother; "it was my great-gre