Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-08-20

wood you will soon be cold.'
II am lazy" said the fool.
Lazy" said his sisters-in-law to him,
"then you will be frozen"
Thereupon they added:
"If you don't 60 and cut wood We will tell
our husbands not to give yon the red caftan,
nor the red cap, nor the boots"
The fool, from the desire which he felt to
obtain the red caftan, cap and boots, was
obliged to comply with their request. But as
he was thoroughly lazy, and did not wish to
get down from the petsch, he said these words
softly as he lay: ri -...
"At the pixies behest, and at my request,
20, hatchet, now, and cut down wood; and do
you wood, come of yourself, to the room, and
stow yourself within the stove."1
Forthwith, the hatchet, without any ono
taking it, hoped forth, and began to cut
away, and the wood of itself came into the
room, and slowed itself in the stove, at the
sight of which the sisters-in law wondered
much at the craft of Emelian; and every day,
when the fool only ordered the hatehet to 20
out and cut wood, the hatchet went out and
cut some. And in this manner he lived with
his sisters-in-law for some time. At length
bis sisters-in-law said to him:
"Emilian. we have no wood, 90 pray 20 out
into the forest and cut some"
The fool said
"Why don't you 20 yourselves ?"
GLOW should We 60 ?" replied his sisters-i in
law ''the forest is great way off, and as it is
now winter, it is too cold for US to 20 to the
forest for vood.''
But the fool said to them:
81 am lazy
"Lazy!" cried his sisters-in-law; "if you
don't 60 you will soon be cold. But If you re-
fuse to 60, when your brothers, our husbands,
come home we will order them to give you
neither red caftan, red cap, nor red boots.h
The fool, wishing to obtain the red caftan,
cap, and boots, felt obliged to 20 to the forest
for wood, and getting up from the petsch, he
began to put on his stockings and boots, and
TO dress himself; and when he was quite dress
ed he went out into the court, and drawing
the sledge out of the shed, and taking with
him a rope and hatchet, he mounted the
sledge, and bade his sisters-in-lsw open the
gate. The sisters-in-law, seeing that he got
into the sledge without putting the horses to
it, flor the fool did not lead out the horses, }
said to him: :.
Chow is this, Emelian? you have got into
the sledge without putting the horses to it."
But he said to them that he had no need of
horses, and only wanted them to open the gate.
The sisters-in-law did so, and the fool, as he
sat in the sledge, said:
"At the pixies behest, and at my request,
set forward, sledge, to tho forest"
At these words the sledge forthwith went
forth. The country people living around were
sledge without horses, and going with such
speed that, even if the best pair of horses in
the world had been fastened to tho sledge, it
would have been impossible to 20 quicker
Now as 1t was necessary for the fool, in order
to reach the forest, to 20 through the town, he
drove through it at full speed; but as he did
not know that it was necessary for him to CRY
out, in order that the people might not be run
over, he drove through the city without cry
ing to the people to get out of the way, and
ran over a great number of them, and al
possible to overtake him. Emelian, having
passed through the city and reached the
woods, stopped the sledge. The fool then
getting out Of the sledge, said:
cat the pixies behest, and at my request,
fall, hatchet, now to cutting wood and do
you, wood, gather yourself into the sledge and
Scarcely had the fool said these words when
the hatchet began to cut wood, and the wood
gathering itself up, placed itself in the sIedge'
and tied itself with the cerd. After he had
cut as much wood as he wanted, he ordered
thu hatchet to cat down a small oak; and
wi en- the hatchet had done so, he placed him.
Sc upon the load, and said:
AT the pixies behest, and my request, o
sledge, now travel home"
The sledge instantly set of briskly. But
when Emelian arrived in the city in which he
had run over so many people, the folks were
waiting for him in order to seize him, and as
soon as he drove into the city they set about
dragging him of the load, and began to bella
Dor him. The fool, seeing that they were
beating him, said these words, in an under
tone
cat the pixies behest, and at my request,
now, sspling, break their legs and armsh
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