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Title: Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales

Author: Anonymous

Illustrator: Noel L. Nisbet

Translator: R. Nisbet Bain

Release Date: August 12, 2009 [EBook #29672]

Language: English

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COSSACK
FAIRY TALES

_Uniform with this Volume_

RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES

From the Skazki of Polevoi. By
R. NISBET BAIN. Illustrated in
Colour and Black and White by
NOEL L. NISBET

[Illustration: THEY CAME TO THE PLACE WHERE HE HAD LEFT HER
PAGE 79]

COSSACK
FAIRY TALES
AND FOLK TALES SELECTED
EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY
R. NISBET BAIN ILLUSTRATED BY
NOEL L. NISBET

LONDON: GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO.
2 & 3 PORTSMOUTH STREET KINGSWAY W.C.
MCMXVI

PRINTED AT THE COMPLETE PRESS
WEST NORWOOD ENGLAND

CONTENTS

PAGE
Introduction 9
Oh: The Tsar of the Forest 15
The Story of the Wind 29
The Voices at the Window 49
The Story of Little Tsar Novishny, the False Sister, and
the Faithful Beasts 57
The Vampire and St Michael 83
The Story of Tremsin, the Bird Zhar, and Nastasia, the
Lovely Maid of the Sea 95
The Serpent-Wife 105
The Story of Unlucky Daniel 111
The Sparrow and the Bush 123
The Old Dog 129
The Fox and the Cat 133
The Straw Ox 139
The Golden Slipper