The Tale of the Silver saucer and the Transparent apple (20)

The Tale of the Silver saucer and the Transparent apple (20)

The old man kissed the ground before the Tsar, and took the glass of water and drove home with it.

I can tell you he was careful not to spill a drop.
He carried it all the way in one hand as he drove.

He came to the forest and to the flowering mound under the little birch tree,and there was the shepherd watching with his dogs.

the old merchant and the shepherd took away the blanket of black earth.

Tenderly, the shepherd used his fingers, until the little girl, the pritty one, the good one, lay there as sweet as if she were not dead.

Then the merchant scattered the holy water from the glass over the little girl.

And his daughterkin blushed as she lay there, and opened her eyes, and passed a hand across them, as if she were waking from a dream.

And then she leaped up, crying and laughing, and clung around her old father's neck.



There they stood, the two of them, laughing and crying with joy.

the shepherd could not take his eys from her, and in his eyes there were tears.

The old father did not forget what he had promised the Tsar.
He set the little pritty one to sit beside him on the cart.

And he brought something from the house in a coffer of wood, and kept it under his coat.
And they brought out the two sisters from their dark prison and set them in the cart.

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