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got up and drove away. When she got home, she
took off all her fine things, and put on all her rags
again, and sat in the window-corner and watched the
folks coming from church.

Then her step-mother came back too. “Is the
dinner ready?” said she.—“ Yes, it is ready.”—
“ Hast thou sewn the shirts ?”—* Yes, the shirts are
sewn too.—Then they sat down to meat, and began
to tell how they had seen such a beautiful young lady
at church.—* The Tsarevich,” said the old woman,
“instead of saying his prayers, was looking at her
al the while, so goodly was she.” ‘Then she said to
the oid man’s daughter: “As for thee, thou slut!
though thou hast sewn the shirts and bleached them,
thou art but a dirty under-wench !”

On the following Sunday the step-mother again
dressed up her daughter, and took her to church.
But, before she went, she said to the old man’s
daughter: “See that thou keep the fire in, thou
slut!” and she gave her a lot of work to do. The
old man’s daughter very soon did it all, and then she
went to the willow-tree and said: “Bright spring
willow, bright spring willow, change thee, transform
thee:” Then still statelier dames stepped forth from
the willow-tree: “Dear little lady, sweet little lady,
what commands hast thou to give?” She told them
what she wanted, and they gave her a gorgeous dress,