llage must choose one of their number to go away to the large city which was the capital of the district to help make laws

bench of masonry that ran around the four walls of the room, and was covered in the most honorable places with bright calico. It was a very cold day, and the bench was as far as possible from the stove, but they were n

r, making tea and handing it round. They had to be very careful to keep the water in the samovar boiling

little Russian boy still as a little American boy, for both are very fond of play. The

u going?" ask

mma," answered

isturb her; she is b

ran quickly o

ck, a short-handled broom of twigs in her hand, a great earthen ja

" she said, "and don't brin

made little pools in the hollows, worn by many years of walking over the clay floor, and she had to flirt it out with little whisks of the broom. He watched he

e grandmoth

tle grandma!" exclaimed

ot too tired for a story-is th

're not!" cried the

and I will t

AND THE

in a field, and said to him,

afing around!" a

ter a while to the Hedgehog, "ho

" answered

s that?" as

and the third everywhere," replied the Hedgehog; a

enty-sevenfold,"

l!" said t

ng that they gave no heed to the way, and presently stumbled into a Wolf's den

w, search around in your head-piece for

d by you would curse me. How shall I, a little Hedgehog, with only a threefold unders

og made this suggestion, "Say, Reinecke, just seize me by the

how shall

your tail and I w

d him up out of the den. Then he called upon him to

ave only a threefold understanding, and yet I found a way of helping mys

him. But the Hedgehog crept away through the thicket with his threefold understanding, wh

roud of himself," s

observed the grandmother. "The

Then the little b

d yet, little

ing the little boy on the shoulder, "and grandmother

CKE AND GOCKE

et Gockeling, the Cock, and said to hi

k and began to crow, when in a trice Reinecke

"first give thanks to God, who

is hind legs and began to give thanks. Quick as thought the

how does my fre

dmother, I don't think that Fox belonged to our mir, for he was not

r. "That is a story from her mir. And as it is a

mother told

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up into a wild-cherry tree to gather cherries. Now a Bear espied her, and

gnaw upon my shoe till I come down, and I will take you to my house; I have two little children ther

ter Petz gnawed and gnawed upon it, but the more he gnawed the hu

old wench, and

," she answered. "Here, gnaw this other shoe awhile; she'll soon come down

ut contented himself with thinking of the fat little children at the old woman's house. When sh

t let me give the children a good supper, that they may be all the fatter

he woods all the rest of the day, an

ow bring out Janko and Mirko, and see me

bolts, and I have just put Mirko to sleep. I couldn't think of waking him. And little

en fooled, and he walked reluctantly away

get Janko and Mirko,