70 COSSACK FAIRY TALES.

Then the little Tsar collected the pieces and burnt
them to ashes, and the little fox. rolled his brush in
the ashes till it was covered with them, and then
went out into the open field and scattered them to
the four winds. But while they were tearing the
serpent to pieces the wicked sister knocked out his
tooth and hid it. After it was all over the little
Tsar said to her: ‘As thou hast been such a false
friend to me, sister, thou must remain here while I
go into another kingdom.” Then he made two
buckets and hung them up on the white-thorn tree,
and said to his sister: “Look now, sister! if thou
weepest for me, these buckets will fill with tears, but
if thou weepest for the serpent they will fill with
blood!” ‘Then she fell a-weeping and praying, and
said to him: “ Don’t leave me, brother, but take me
with thee.”—*“I won't,” said he, ‘‘such a false friend
as thou art Pll not have with me. Stay where thou

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art.” So he mounted his horse, called to him his
dogs and his beasts, and went his way into another
kingdom and into another empire.

He went on and on till he came to a certain city,
and in this city there was only one spring, and in
this spring sat a dragon with twelve heads. And it
was so that when any went to draw water from this
well the dragon rose up and ate them, and there

was no other place from whence that city could draw