St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-04

kraSs mead. beer and wine. The bag ate
and drank everything, leaving for Vasilissa
only few scraps. Then Bahia Yaga lay
down TO sleep, saying:
when go out tomorrow morning you
cleanse the courtyard sweep the room,
cook the dinner, and get the dinner ready.
Then 90 to the bin, take out four quarters
OF wheat, and clear it of the seed. And
unless you have it all done I'll eat YOU"
Then the Bahia Yaga began to snore.
But Vasilissa set the remnants of the hag's
supper before her doll, burst into tears, and
said:
Now, dolly, feed; listen to my need.
The Bahia Yaga has set to me heavy task,
and will eat me unless L do it all. Do help
mew
The doll replied:
Never fear! Sup, say your prayers and
go to bed. The morning is wiser than the
evening""
Vasilissa awoke very early, but the Bahia
Yaga was already up. The light in the
skulls eyes was going out. Suddenly the
white horSeman appeared, and all was
light. The Bahia Yaga went into the court
yard and whistled. Before her appeared a
mortar with pestle and broom. The red
horseman appeared-the sun rose. The
Bahia Yaga seated herself in the mortar and
drove out of the courtyard, propelling her
self with the pcStle and sweeping away her
traces with the broom.
Vasilissa left alone, examined the Bahia
Yaga's house, wondered at the abundance
of everything, and pondered which work to
do first. But she found it all done. The
doll had cleared the wheat to the last grain.
IAN you have to do now is to cook the
dinner" said the doll, slipping into her
pocket. Cook away, and then rest for
your health's sallew
Toward evening VasilisSa prepared the
table and awaited the Baba Yaga. The
black rider appeared a moment at the gate
and all grew dark. Only the eyes of the
skulls sent forth their light. The trees
cracked. the leaves rustled and up drove the
Bahia Yaga. VasiliSSa went out to meet
her.
rs everything done?" asked the Yaga.
''Please to look for yourself, granny"
said Vasilissa.
The Baba Vaga examined everything,
was veXed that there was nothing to be
angry about, and said:
well, well! very gOod1'
Then she cried: MY trusty servants,
grind my wheat"
Then came three pairs of hands, which
gathered up the wheat and carried it out of
sight. The Bahia Yaga again gave orders
to Vasilissa:
''Do the same tomorrow as to-day; but
take the poppy-seed from the bin, and clean
the earth of it grain by grain"
Then Vasilissa went and fed her doll,
which said:
pray to God and go to sleep. All shall
be done. The morning is wiser than the
evening""
In the morning the Bahia Yaga again
drove away in her mortar, and Vasilissa and
her doll Immediately did all the work. The
bag returned, examined all. and cried,
my trusty servants, press the oil from the
pOppy-seed."
Three pairs of hands appeared and bore
the poppy- seed from sight. Then the Bahia
Yaga ate while Vasilissa stood silently by.
''Why don't you speak?" said the Bahia
Yaga; There you stand like dumb crea-
ture."
81 didn't dare" replied VasilisSa; ''but
if may, L should like to ask about some
thing"
ASK away, then; only not too much.
Get much to know, soon old you'll grow"
Il only want to ask about what L saw.
On my way hither was passed by white
rider on a white horse and he was all dressed
in white. Who is hep"
THAT is my red sun, answered the Bahia
Yaga.
''And who may be the black rider,
granny, who passed me at your gate?"
That was my dark night. They are all
trusty servants of mine"
VasiliSsa thought of the three pairs of
hands, but held her peace!
ut is just as WE'LL" continued the Bahia
Yaga, that you ask only about what you
saw out of doors, not indoors! 1 like to
wash my dirty linen at home. AS TO i'll
quisitive peOple-well, eat them. Now,
FL ask you something. How do you man
age to do the work / set you?"
My mothers blessing assists me-" re-
piled Vasiissa.
''Ha! What's that? Get out of my
house you blessed daughter! don't want
blessed people,"
She dragged Vasilissa to the gates,
pushed her out, took one of the skulls with
blazing eyes, stuck it on stick and said:
Take that. It's light for your step
sisters"
Homeward ran VasiliSsa, lighted by the
skull, which went out at the approach of
dawn. On the evening of the second day
she reached home. She was about to throw
away the skull, thinking they could not still
be needing light. But hollow voice is
sued from it, saying:
Throw me not away. Take me to your
Step-mother."
She looked at the windows, and seeing
no light, carried the skull in. For the first
time in her lie she was cordially received
by her step-mother and step-sisters, who,
from the moment she went away, had not
had a spark Of fire in the house. They
could not strike light for themselves, and
those they brought from the neighbOrs went
out as soon as they came into the room.
They carried the skull into the sitting-room,
but its eyes shot forth such flames at the
step-mOther and her daughters that they
would fain have hidden themselves; but run
where they would, the glare of the eyes
followed them. By morning they were
burnt to cinders, but Vasiiissa was unin-
jured.
Now, not long after these things, Vas
ilisSa appeared before the royal eyes, and
the king fell deeply in love with her. So
he married her, and her father took up his
abode at court. As for the doll-she car
ried it in her pocket as long as she lived.
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