The Pilots of Pomona: A Story of the Orkney Islands
llage must choose one of their number to go away to the large city which was the capital of the district to help make laws
bench of masonry that ran around the four walls of the room, and was covered in the most honorable places with bright calico. It was a very cold day, and the bench was as far as possible from the stove, but they were n
r, making tea and handing it round. They had to be very careful to keep the water in the samovar boiling
little Russian boy still as a little American boy, for both are very fond of play. The
u going?" ask
mma," answered
isturb her; she is b
ran quickly o
ck, a short-handled broom of twigs in her hand, a great earthen ja
" she said, "and don't brin
made little pools in the hollows, worn by many years of walking over the clay floor, and she had to flirt it out with little whisks of the broom. He watched he
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tle grandma!" exclaimed
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in a field, and said to him,
afing around!" a
ter a while to the Hedgehog, "ho
" answered
s that?" as
and the third everywhere," replied the Hedgehog; a
enty-sevenfold,"
l!" said t
ng that they gave no heed to the way, and presently stumbled into a Wolf's den
w, search around in your head-piece for
d by you would curse me. How shall I, a little Hedgehog, with only a threefold unders
og made this suggestion, "Say, Reinecke, just seize me by the
how shall
your tail and I w
d him up out of the den. Then he called upon him to
ave only a threefold understanding, and yet I found a way of helping mys
him. But the Hedgehog crept away through the thicket with his threefold understanding, wh
roud of himself," s
observed the grandmother. "The
Then the little b
d yet, little
ing the little boy on the shoulder, "and grandmother
CKE AND GOCKE
et Gockeling, the Cock, and said to hi
k and began to crow, when in a trice Reinecke
"first give thanks to God, who
is hind legs and began to give thanks. Quick as thought the
how does my fre
dmother, I don't think that Fox belonged to our mir, for he was not
r. "That is a story from her mir. And as it is a
mother told
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up into a wild-cherry tree to gather cherries. Now a Bear espied her, and
gnaw upon my shoe till I come down, and I will take you to my house; I have two little children ther
ter Petz gnawed and gnawed upon it, but the more he gnawed the hu
old wench, and
," she answered. "Here, gnaw this other shoe awhile; she'll soon come down
ut contented himself with thinking of the fat little children at the old woman's house. When sh
t let me give the children a good supper, that they may be all the fatter
he woods all the rest of the day, an
ow bring out Janko and Mirko, and see me
bolts, and I have just put Mirko to sleep. I couldn't think of waking him. And little
en fooled, and he walked reluctantly away
get Janko and Mirko,