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worry that in like manner till he had torn it also.
to shreds; and thus he ran after T'remsin’s steed for
seventy miles, till he had torn off all the hides, and
worried them to bits. But Tremsin sat upon the gea-
shore till he saw the large white billow bounding in,
and behind the billow came his own horse, and behind

  
 
  

   
  

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his own horse came the thrice-terrible charger of the
thrice-lovely Nastasia, with the whole herd at his
heels. Tremsin struck him full on the forehead with
the twenty poods of hair, and immediately he stood
stock still. Then Tremsin threw a halter over him,
mounted, and drove the whole herd to the thrice-
lovely Nastasia. Nastasia praised Tremsin for his