at COSSACK FAIRY TALES.

The simple fellow did not perceive their malice and
cunning, and he got so drunk that he could not move
from the place, but went to sleep where he was.
Then the Jews changed his sack for another, which
they hung up on a peg, and then they woke him.
“ Dost hear, fellow!” cried they; “get up, it is time
to go home. Dost thou not see the morning light ?”
The man sat up and scratched the back of his head,
for he was loth to go. But what was he to do? So
he shouldered the sack that was hanging on the peg,
and went off home.

When he got to his house, he cried: “Open the
door, wife!” Then his wife opened the door, and he
went in and hung his sack on the peg and said: “ Sit
down at the table, dear wife, and you children sit
down there too. Now, thank God! we shall have
enough to eat and drink, and to spare.” The wife
looked at her husband and smiled. She thought he
was mad, but down she sat, and her children sat down
all round her, and she waited to see what her husband
would do next. Then the man said: “Sack, sack,
‘give tous meat and drink!” But the suck was silent.
Then he said again: “Sack, sack, give my children
something to eat!” And still the sack was silent.
Then the man fell into a violent rage: ‘Thou didst
give me something at the tavern,” cried he; “and
now I may call in vain, Thou givest nothing, and