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he did so he forgot all about the girl who had saved
him.

So he remained there half-a-year, and then be-
thought him of taking to himself a wife. So they
betrothed him to a very pretty girl, and he accepted
her and forgot all about the other girl who had saved
him from the dragon, though she herself was the
she-dragon’s daughter. Now the evening before the
wedding they heard a young damsel cryin g@ Shishki?
in the streets. They called to the young damsel to
go away, or say who she was, for nobody knew her.
But the damsel answered never a word, but began to
knead more cakes, and made a cock-dove and a hen-
dove out of the dough and put them down on the
ground, and they became alive. And the hen-dove
said to the cock-dove: “ Hast thou forgotten how I
cleared the field for thee, and sowed it with wheat,
and thou mad’st a roll from the corn which thou
gavest to the she-dragon?”—But the cock-dove
answered : “ Forgotten! forgotten!”—Then she said
to him again: “And hast thou forgotten how I dug
away the mountain for thee, and let the Dnieper flow
by it that the merchant barques might come to thy
store-houses, and that thou might’st sell thy wheat to
the merchant barques?” But the cock-dove replied :
“Forgotten ! forgotten !”—Then the hen-dove said to

1 ‘Wedding-cakes of the shape of pine-cones.