Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet), 1854-1909 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 178
ning up, werequite amazed to see a dead boar lying there, andsaid : What will become of us now ? — Let uskill him, said the eldest brother, and bury himin that ditch, and say that we killed the hog. Sothey took and slew him, and buried him in the ditch,and took the hog to their father, and said:… … 164 COSSACK FAIRY TALES. of the ditcli; so lie went up to it, cut off a branch,made him a flute out of it, and began playing uponit. But the flute played of its own accord, and madethis moan : Play, good master, play,But steal not my heart away !Me my brothers took and slew,In the ditch my body…
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