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budge an inch. The princess and the serpents grinned
and looked on, but Ivan Golik flicked his heroic
whip, and struck the pig one blow that made it
fly to pieces. Then all the serpents wriggled off
as fast as they could. But she, the accursed one,
was in no way frightened, but caught Ivan by the
hair of his head. He, however, caught her also
by her long locks, and flicked her with his whip
till he had flicked all the serpent-blood out of
her, and she walked the earth in human guise. So
she cast off her serpent nature, and lived happily
with her husband. And that’s the end of the
kazka.

THE END.

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