fastened her to an iron stake, they staked her, and poured tar around her, and set her afire, and burnt her up, She had studied witchcraft, and she wanted that wool, and could get places like the wind, ike a hant. She would slip out liter her husband was in bed, go through keyholes, if neces- Sary be a rat ~ they can change ~ and steal things, and bring them back ‘My grandma told that for the truth. 150 The Baba Yaga ussian) NCE upon a time there was an old couple. The Ihusband lost his wife and married again. But he hha a daughter by the frst marrage, young gi nnd she found no for inthe eyes of hee vd Sepmather, who used to beat het, and consider how she could gether hiled outright. One day the father went day somewhete or other, so the stepmother said tothe i ta your aunt, my sien, and sak her for @ needle and thread éomake youa shift ‘Now that aut was a Baba Yaga. Wel, this gil was no fool soshe went toa real aunt ofhers first, and saysshe ‘Good morning, Auntie” ‘Gov morning: my deat! What have you come for? Mother has sent tne to her sister 0 ask for a needle and thread to make me a shift Then her aunt instructed her what to do. “There is birch tree there, nie, which would bit you in the eye~ you must te {Trbbon round iy there are doors which would creak and ban “your mst pour ol on their hinges; there are dogs Whick ‘ld tear you in pieces = you mus throw them these rolls there iva cat which would srstch your eyes out ~ you must gireita piece of bacon’ So th gl went sway, and walked and walked, il she came wo the pce, There sood a hut, and in isa weaving the Baba ‘Yaga the Bony Shans "Brood morning, Auntie say the gi ‘Good morning my des replies the Baba Vaga Mother has seit mse to ask you Tor a needle and thread to mmakemes shite “Very well sit down and weave litle in the meantime” So the git sat down behind the loom, and the Baba Yaga went ouside, and si ter servantsmaid “Go and heat the bath, and get my iece washed; and mind you ook sharp after her; 1 watt to breakfast off her” ‘Well the gu sat therein such a fright that she was as much dead a alive. Presently she spoke imploringly tothe servant ramaid, saying "Kinswoman dear, do please wet the firewood instead of making it burn; and fetch the water for the bath in a sieve.” [And she made her a present ofa handkerchief “The Baba Yaga waited awhies then she came co the window and asked: “ate you weaving. niece? Are you weaving, my dear? “Oh Jes, dear Avi, fm wesving® So Une Boba Yaga went away again, and the gir gave the Cat piece of bacon, and aed sthere no way of escaping from here?” “Here's 3 comb for you and a towel sid the Cat; "take them, and be off. Phe Babs Yaga wil pursue you, but you must ly jour earon the ground, and when you Bear that she is close hand first ofall row down the towel. wil become a wide, wie iver. And the Bab Yaga gt sro thee id es tnd when you hes that she i lose at hand thtow dows the Comb, It wil become a dense, dense forest; through that she won't be able to force her way anyon" The gir tok the towel and the comb and fed. The dogs would have rent her, ut she threw chem the rol, and they et ter gy the dou woul hate begun to bang ut he yured ofl on their hinges, and they le her pass throughs the Birch tree would have poked her eyes out but she ted the ribbon round i, andi le her pass on. And the Cat sat down the loom, and worked away; mudled everything about ft didn't do auch ‘weaving. Up came the Baba Yaga to the widow, and asked: re Yuneaving nes? Areyou weaving, my dest 1m weaving, dear Aunt, In weaving” RYU replied the ca “The Baba Yaga rushed into the hut, saw thatthe gol was gone, and took to beating the Cat, and abusing for not fg scratched the gis eyes out ‘Lang as I've served you, side Cat, Youve never gente so mucha: Bu she Sn'the doors on the birch tre, and on the servant-mad, and Seay wor abuse den lio knock them abou, Fen ich as pitched usa burt cost but dhe gave Us rol fo eat” 82 Wrrents And the doors suid, ‘Long as we've served you, you've never poured even a drop of water on out hinges; butste poured ot fn us" The birch tre std, ‘Long as lve served you, you've fever tied a single thread round me; but she fastened ribbon round me’ And the servant maid sad, “Long as Tve served fou, you've never given me so much asa rag bt he gave mea handkerchiet? a “The Baba Yags, bony of limb, quickly jamped into the mortar, sent it lying along with the pestle, sweeping away the tile al races fi ight with x broom, snd st off pursuit Of the gir. Then the girl put her ear to the ground, and when she heard thatthe Baba Yaga was chasing her, and wat now close at hand, she ung down the towel. And t Became a wie, Sich a wide river! Up came the Baba Vage to the river, and goat her teeth with spite; then she went home for her xen, and drove them to the river. The oxen drank up every drop ofthe iver and then the Baba Yaga began the pursuit, fnew. But the gir pat her ea to the ground again, and wien ‘he heard that the Baba Vaga was near, she fang down the 3 i i‘comb, and instantly a forest sprang up, such an awfully thick One! ‘The Baba Yaga began gnawing away at it, but however hard she worked, she couldn't gnaw her way though it, so she had to go back again. ‘But by this time the gir!'s father bad returned home, and he asked: Vhere’s my daughter?” he's gone to her aunt's; replied her stepmother Soon afterwards the git} herself came running home, "Where have you been?’ asked her father: Ah, Father!" she said, “Mother sent me to Aunt’s to ask for 2 needle and thread to make mea shift. But Aunt’sa Baba Yaga, and she wanted to eat me!’ snd how did you getaway, daughter?” ‘Why, like this) said the girl, and explained the whole matter, As soon a3 her father had heard all about t, he became wwroth with his wife, and shot her. But he and his daughter ved on and flourished, and everything went well with ther. 1st Mrs Number Three (Chinese) Be URING the T'ang Period there stood, to the west Ot the ety of Kia Feng Fu, an inn called the SFoutrge Tavern kept bya worman about thirty Jeans ofage, No one knew who she was oF whence Thevcamel and. she was known Toeally as "Mis Reimer Thee: Sve was childless, ad no relation, and was jane to be a widow. It was a comfortable, roomy inn; the Pee in easy drcumstances, and had alerd of very fine sides hs, she had a generous nature, If traveler were snescofimoney, she would reduce her prices, or board him for ogi bo erin waa never emp ‘Shindime between ab 806 and 820, a man cilled Chao Chi Horan his way to Lo Yang (bch was then the capital cy of Eee) Mapped at the oot-Bridge Tavern’ for the night Fee ae pPerseven guest there sendy, each of whors had TREE targe seeping apartment. Chao, the lst arrival, had cree cl to Mimtin'a corner, against the wall of the iostass bedroom: Ms Number ‘Three treated im wel 38 TOSSES at her guests At bedtime she offered wine to each, sag tox las bith tem, Chao alone had none she didnot sett dink wine. ute late, when al the guess had gone Spal the hoses retired to her room, shut the door and lew outthe light "rhe chet guests were soon snoring peacefully, but Chao feltrealess {Bout midnight he heard the hostess moving things about in het Mon and peepel through a crack in the wall, She it « et ead took ont of a box an ox, a drover anda plough, fue Sooden models about six or seven inches high. She wie fem near the hearth, om the beaten-clay floor ofthe aoe ok some water in het mouth, and sprayed it over the poe toneately they came wo life. The drover goaded the Sawer ai dsew the plough, back and forth, furrowing the for over a space about equal to that of an ordinary mat Ween the plcughing was done, she handed the drover a 158 Me