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too big for his little bed. ‘“ And now,” said he, “I
want to be married!” So they brought to him all
the fair young damsels of the land that he might
choose one to be his own true bride. Exceeding fair
were all the damsels they brought him, and yet he

 

 

 

 

would choose none of them. Now there was an old
woman there, who had twelve danghters, and eleven
of these daughters they brought to the Serpent-
Tsarevich, but not the twelfth. ‘She is too young!”
sud they.—Then the youngest daughter said: “Ye
fools, not to take me too! Why, if I were brought to