THE STORY OF TREMSIN, THE BIRD ZHAR,
AND NASTASIA, THE LOVELY MAID OF
THE SEA.

Mae HERE was once upon a time a man

  

: and a woman, and they had one

ss little boy. In the summer-time
rates they used to go out and mow corn
in the fields, and one summer when
they had laid their little lad by
the side of a sheaf, an eagle swooped down, caught
up the child, carried him into a forest, and laid him
in its nest. Now in this forest three bandits chanced
to be wandering at the same time. They heard the
child crying in the eagle’s nest: “Oo-00! 00-00!

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00-00!" so they went up to the oak on which was
the nest and-said one to another: “Let us hew down
the tree and kill the child !”—* No,” replied one of
them : “it were better to climb up the tree and bring

him down alive.” So he climbed up the tree and