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it back to the Tsar. Now when the Tsar saw that
the man had come out of the vat younger and hand-
somer than ever, he said: “Tl try and fish up the
ving in like manner.” So he flung his ring into the
vat of boiling milk and plunged after it to get it.
The people waited and waited and wondered and
wondered that he was so long about it, and at last
they drained off the milk and found the Tsar at the
bottom of the vat boiled quite red. Then the man
said: “ Now, Tsaritsa, thou art mine and I am thine.”
And they lived together happily ever afterwards.