72 SLAV TALES

the spell and released me from the enchantment. These two
branches will make two palaces for our future dwelling.”

Thereupon he took the branches and threw them out of
the window. Immediately there were seen two magnificent
palaces, one of gold, the other of silver. And there they lived
happily as man and wife, the nobleman’s son and the miller’s
daughter. And if not dead they live there still.