Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908 · Boston : Hall and Locks · leaf 428
or drink, orsleep; everything was a griefand a burden to him; ban-quets at his courts therewere none, and the sound ofthe fiddle and the shawmwas heard there no more.Only sad Grief sat besidehim and sang her mournfuldirge hke the croaking of acrow of evil omen. But time passes and sor-row with it.… … Tsar Wise Head re- 390 The Story Teller joiced greatly; he named his son Ivan, and placed besidehim old-men nurses, foster-fathers, wise teachers, andvaliant generals. And the Tsarevich Ivan began togrow and grow just as wheaten meal swells and swellswhen good ^^east is put to it. He grew not…
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