en.

The little witch-maiden then dressed Tuhka Triinu as magnificently as a
Saxon lady. She then sent her to the ball, warning her to leave before
the cock crows for the third time, as everything will then resume its
original shape. On the second night Tuhka Triinu took to flight, and
lost one of her little gold shoes, which the prince found next morning.
When it came to be tried on, Tuhka Triinu's sisters, who thought they
had small feet, tugged and squeezed without success. But the shoe fitted
Tuhka Triinu. Her guardian again robed her magnificently, and she
married the prince.[4]

[Footnote 1: Here Cinderella's real name is Katrina; in Finnish she is
sometimes called Kristina (see Miss Cox, _Cinderella_, p. 552), while in
Slavonic tales she is called Marya, and in some German adaptations
Aennchen.]

[Footnote 2: When Vaeinaemoeinen cleared the forest, he left a birch-tree
standing for the same purpose (_Kalevala_, Runo ii.).]

[Footnote 3: A black dung-beetle (_Geotrupes_) is meant, not a
cockroach.]

[Footnote 4: This story is one of those which Loewe has passed over, and
it is also omitted by Miss Cox.]

THE DRAGON-SLAYER.

We find this story in a familiar form in that of "The Lucky Rouble"
(Kreutzwald). The father of three sons, before his death, gives
Peter,[5] the youngest, a magic silver rouble, which always returns to
the pocket of its possessor. Peter afterwards meets a one-eyed old man,
who sells him three black dogs, named Run-for-Food, Tear-Down, and
Break-Iron. Afterwards, when passing through a forest, he meets a grand
coach, in which a princess, who has been chosen by lot to be delivered
over to a monster, is being conveyed to her doom. Peter abides the
issue, and encounters the monster, which is described as like a bear,
but much bigger than a horse, covered with scales instead of hair, with
two crooked horns on the head, two long wings, long boars' tusks, and
long legs and claws.[6] With the assistance of the dog Tear-Down, Peter
kills the monster, cuts off his horns and tusks, and leaves the princess
with the coachman, promising to return in three years. The coachman
compels the princess by threats to say that he killed the dragon; but
the princess contrives to delay her marriage with the coachman, and on
the wedding-day Peter returns, is imprisoned by order of the king, but
released by Break-Iron. Then he sends Run-for-Food to the princess, who
recognises him, and reveals the secre