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the stye, and there he stands fast as if rooted to
the ground, and until I kiss his bristles he will not
move from the spot. And all the time the princess
and the serpents are sitting in the gallery at tea, and
they look on and laugh !”

But Ivan Golik said: ‘It needs must be so!
Kiss it again to-day, and to-morrow thou shalt
kiss it no more!”

Then they drove the swine up to the gates, and
Ivan Golik looked to see what would happen. He
saw the princess sitting in the gallery with six
serpents drinking tea, and the accursed pig stuck
fast in the gate, and stretched out its legs and
wouldn’t go in. The princess looked on and said :
“Look at my fool driving the swine, and now he
is going to kiss the big boar!” ,

So the poor fellow stooped down and kissed its
bristles, and the pig ran grunting into the court-
yard. Then the princess -said: ‘Look! he has
picked up from somewhere an under-herdsman to
help him !”

The prince and Ivan Golik drove the pigs into
thei stye, and then Ivan Golik said: “ Brother,
get me twenty poods of hemp and twenty poods of
pitch, and bring them to me in the garden.” And
he did so. Then Ivan Golik made him a huge whip
of the twenty poods of hemp and the twenty poods