Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet), 1854-1909, Nisbet, Noel L., ill · London : G.G. Harrap & Co. · leaf 312
ebow and looked at it. Why, said he, I would notdeign to touch a bow like that. Ill call one of myservants, for any one of them can bend such a bow asthat! Then the serpent looked at the princes servants oneafter the other, and said, Well, let them try ! Come forward thou, Ivan Golik ! cried the… … IVAN GOLIK DREW THE BOW 276 IVAN GOLIK AND THE SERPENTS pieces and the bow burst. Then the prince said, Did I not tell you ? and was I to put myself toshame by touching a bow that one of my servantscan draw ? After that Ivan Golik returned to his fellow-servants,and put the pieces of the broken bow…
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