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| | SurLaLune Fairy Tales: Russian Wonder Tales by Post Wheeler |
 | | One day the Tsaritsa, who had gone to walk on the open steppe, failed to return to the Palace, and though wide search was made, no trace could be found of her. |
 | | He laid his head on the Tsaritsa's knees and slept, while the Tsarevitch lay hidden, and when he woke he bade her farewell till the morrow and departed in a whirlwind from the Palace. |
 | | The egg is in a duck, and the duck is in a hare, and the hare nests in a great hollow log that floats in a pond in a forest of the island Bouyan." Having thus spoken, Koshchei put his head on the Tsaritsa's knees and slept, and soon, awaking, bade her farewell and departed. |
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