208 COSSACK FAIRY TALES.

fast nor dinner for him, he popped two of his heads
out and cried: “Jt is high time I had my dinner,
and still there is neither breakfast nor dinner for
me !”—‘ Come forth, and I'll give thee both at once !”
cried the Prince. Then the Dragon wouldn’t wait any
longer, but stuck out all his six heads and began to
wriggle out of the cavern; but the Prince attacked
him with his huge broadsword, a full fathom long,
which the Lord had given him, and chopped off all.
the Dragon’s six heads, and the rock fell upon the
Dragon’s body and crushed it to pieces. Then the
Prince gathered up the six dragon-heads and laid
them on one side, and cut out the six lolling tongues
and tied them in his handkerchief, and told the
Princess to go back to her palace, for they could not
be married for a year and twelve weeks, and if, by
that time, he did not appear, she was to marry
another, and with that he departed. Then the ecoach-
man of the Princess came up to the place and saw the
six heads of the Dragon, and took them up and said
to the Princess : “I will slay thee on the spot if thou
dost not swear to me twelve times that thou wilt say
I slew the Dragon, and wilt take me for thy hus-
band!” Then she swore to it twelve times, for else
he would have slain her. So they returned together
to the town, and immediately all the black cloth was
taken off the houses and the bells fell a-ringing, and