The Russian Grandmother's Wonder Tales

sheep-dog, with them. The starosta sat in the house, making a plough-handle out of a tree-branch which he had cut down one day long ago because he saw it was th

nd then he gathered them all in the skirt of his

shavings to make you wa

fuel is dear. The little boy put his shavings in, one by one, and watched them as they slowly cau

u warm, little gr

he grandmother. "Now, what

, climbing upon the stove to be comforta

THE BOAR,

me wheat, that they might earn their bread honestly. Said the Boar, "I will break

and Reinecke added, "I will spread t

s took counsel together as to the reaping. Said the Boar, "I will cut the grain." Said t

-floor." "I will carry the sheaves," said the Bear, "and will do the threshing into the bargain." "I'll shake out the sh

separate the straw from the wheat;" and Gossip

grain was

kept all the grain for himself, not leaving the least thing for the Fox. At this Reinecke flew into a rage and t

to the Boar, "Just bury yourself in the straw, my child, while I clamber up into yonder pear-t

met a Cat, whom he invited to come and hunt

n a threshing-floor; but on the way she kept hunting birds in the bushes along the roadside. T

inecke and a fearful monster with him. He wears the fur coat of

little way to see what was going on; when the Cat, mistaking his snout for a mouse, sprang forward and buried her claws in it. At this the Boar gave a fearful grunt, and rushed frantically into a neighboring str

all the grain and the

ittle boy. "It wasn't fair of Petz an

ly able to look out for him