COSSACK FAIRY TALES.

 

OH.

HE olden times were not like the
times we live in. In the olden
times all manner of Evil Powers!
walked abroad. The world itself
was not then as it is now: now

 

there are no such Evil Powers
amongst us. I'll tell you a kazka? of Oh, the Tsar
of the Forest, that you may know what manner of
being he was.

Once upon a time, long long ago, beyond the times
that we can call to mind, ere yet our great-grand-
fathers or their grandfathers had been born into, the
world, there lived a poor man and his wife, and they
had one only son, who was not as an only son ought

* Div. This ancient, untranslatable word (comp. Latin Deus)
is probably of Lithuanian origin, and means any maletic power.
? A folk-tale. Russ., Skazka. Ger., Mirchen,
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