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Cossack fairy tales and folk tales (1916)

Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet), 1854-1909, Nisbet, Noel L., ill · London : G.G. Harrap & Co. · leaf 172

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aw flax ; unravel it, heckle it, wind it on to thyspindles, bleach it, weave with it, and make it intofine cloth for me by the evening ! —Then the girldrove out the heifer to graze. The heifer began graz-ing, but she sat down beneath a willow-tree, and threwher flax down beside her, and began… … THE GIRL DROVE THE HEIFER OUT TO GRAZE 148 THE GOLDEN SLIPPER the heifer, it will all come right, but lie down tosleep.—So she lay down and immediately fell asleep.And by evening the bundle of raw flax was heckledand spun and reeled, and the cloth was woven andbleached, so that one could have made…

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