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said Ivan Golik, “itis mine!” So they quarrelled
over it, but as one had no legs and the other had no
arms, they couldn’t hurt one another. At Jast the
armless one said : “ What is the use of our quarrelling ?
Let us pull up that oak, and whichever of us pitches it
farthest shall have the hare.”

“Good!” said Legless.

Then Armless kicked Legless up to the oak, and
Legless pulled it up and gave it to Armless. Then
Armless lay down on the ground and kicked the oak
with his feet three miles off. But Legless threw it
seven miles. Then Armless said: “Take the hare
and be my elder brother! ”

So they became brothers, and niade a wagon
between them, and fastened ropes to it, and while
Armless dragged it along Legless drove it. On
they went till they came to a town where a Tsar
lived. There they went up to the church, and
planted themselves with their wagon in the place
of beggars, and waited till the Tsarivna came up.
And the Tsarivna said to her court lady: “ Take
this money, and give it to those poor cripples.”

The lady was about to go with it when Legless
said: “Nay, but let the Tsarivna give it to us with
her own hands.”

Then the Tsarivna took the money from her court
lady and gave it to Legless. But he said to her: