Identifier: cossackfairytal00bain (find matches)
Title: Cossack fairy tales and folk-tales. Selected
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet), 1854-1909
Subjects: Tales, Ukrainian
Publisher: New York A.L. Burt Co
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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and watclied till he also fell 202 COSSACK FAIRY TALES. asleep, and the hog came again and dug up andate another golden apple tree and made off.The next morning the father got up again andcounted his trees, and another was gone. Thenthe fool said: Dad, let me go too! But the father said: Oh, fool, fool, wherefore shouldst thou go ?Thy wise biethren have watched to no purpose,what canst thou do? Hoity-toity! said the fool; give me agun, and Ill go all the same. His fatherwouldnt give him a gun, so he took it and wentto watch. He placed his gun across his kneesand sat down. He sat and sat, but nothingcame, nothing came; he got drowsy, was nod-ding off, when his gun fell off his knees, andhe awoke with a start and watched more warily.At last he heard something—and there stoodthe hog. It began to dig up another tree, whenhe pulled the trigger and—bang ! His brothersheard the sound, came running up, were quiteamazed to see a ddftd boar lying there, andsaid: What will become of us now ?
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He cut off one of the Elder-bush bi-anchea and made a flute of it,—Page ihH I I COSSACK FAIRY TALES. 203 * Let US kill him, said the eldest brother, and bury him in that ditch, and say that wekilled the hog. So they took and slew him,and buried him in the ditch, and took the hogto their father, and said : While we were watching this hog came upand began digging, so we killed him and havebrought him to you. One day a nobleman came by that way, andwas surprised to see a beautiful alder bushgrowing out of the ditch; so he went up to it,cut off a branch, made him a flute out of it,and began playing upon it. But the fluteplayed of its own accord, and made this moan: * Play, good master, play.But steal not my heart away!Me my brothers took and slew.In the ditch my body threw.For that hog shot down by me.That rooted up the tree! The nobleman then went on to the inn, andthere he found the fools father. Such afunny thing has happened to me, said thenobleman. I went and cut me out a flute 204

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