146 COSSACK FAIRY TALES.

alittle. And the next morning, when she awoke, she
saw that a willow-tree had sprang out of this grain
of corn, aud beneath the willow-tree was a spring of
water, and no better water was to be found anywhere
in the whole village. It was as cold and ag clear
as ice.

When Sunday came round, the old woman tricked
her pet Gaughter out finely, and took her to church,
but to the old man’s daughter she said: “Look to
the fire, thou slut! Keep a good fire burning and get
ready the dinner, and make everything in the house
neat and tidy, and have thy best frock on, and all the
shirts washed against I come back from church. And
if thou hast not all these things done, thou shalt say
good-bye to dear life.”

So the old woman and her daughter went to church,
and the smart little step-daughter made the fire burn
up, and got the dinner ready, and then went to the
willow-tree and said: ‘ Willow-tree, willow-tree, come
out of thy bark! Lady Anna, come when I call
thee!” Then the willow-tree did its duty, and shook
all its leaves, and a noble lady came forth from it.
“Dear little lady, sweet little lady, what are thy
commands?” said she.— ‘Give me,” said she, “a
grand dress and let me have a carriage and horses,
for I would go to God’s House!”-—And immediately
she was dressed in silk and satin, with golden slippers