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hear a wolf nine miles off.” So he laid him down
and slept. Just before dawn Vazhko began to bark.
Immediately they awoke him. “Run!” cried they,
“the Jron Wolf is coming!” And they gave him
the dog, and a barley hearth-cake as provision by the
way. So he took the hearth-cake, sat him on his
horse, and off he went, and his two dogs followed
after him.

He went on and on. On and on he went till
evening, when again he stopped and looked about
him, and he saw that he was in another forest, and
another little hut stood before him. He went into
the hut, and there were sitting an old man and an
old woman. ‘ Will you let me pass the night here,
good people?” said he; “only take care that the
Tron Wolf does not get hold of me!”—‘ Have no
fear!” said they,.““we have a dog called Bary, who
can hear a wolf coming twelve miles off. He'll let
us know.” So he lay down to sleep, and early in the
morning Bary let them know that the Iron Wolf
was drawing nigh. Immediately they awoke him.
“Tis high time for you to be off!” said they. Then
they gave him the dog, and a buckwheat hearth-cake
as provision by the way. He took the hearth-cake,
sat lim on his horse, and off he went. So now he had
three dogs, and they all three followed him.

He went on and on, and towards evening he found