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by fire. Then the pair of them, in their rage, fell
upon that false serpent and almost killed him.
They beat him and beat him till he cried for mercy.
“Beat me no more!” cried he; “the spring of
healing-water is not very far off!” Then he took
them to another spring. Into this they also dipped
a dry stick, and immediately it burst into flower.
Then Armless leaped into the spring and leaped
out again with arms, whereupon he pitched in
Legless, who immediately leaped out again with
legs of his own. So they let the serpent go, first
making him promise never to fly to the Tsarivna
again, and then each thanked the other for his
friendship, and so they parted.

But Ivan Golik went again to his brother, the
prince, to see what had become of him. “I wonder
what the princess has done to him?” thought he.
So he went towards that tsardom, and presently he
saw, not very far from the roadside, a swineherd
tending swine; he was tending swine, but he him-
self sat upon a tomb. ‘“Tll go and ask that
swineherd what he’s doing there,” thought Ivan
Golik.

So he went up to the swineherd, and, looking
straight into his eyes, recognized his own brother.
And the swineherd looked at him, and recognized
Ivan Golik. There they stood for a long time look-