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INTRODUCTORY, part 5 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/101/) — "Whom have you chosen?" - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/102/) — "No one as yet." - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/103/) — "Choose me," says the woman. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/104/) — So as soon as her husband went back to the council (she was a bad sort; he wanted to give her a lesson) he told the elders what she had said. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/105/) — They immediately chose her as Golova. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/106/) — Well the woman got along, settled all questions, took bribes, and drank spirits at the peasant's expense. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/107/) — But the time came to collect the poll-tax. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/108/) — The Golova couldn't do it, wasn't able to collect it in time. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/109/) — There came a Cossack, and asked for the Golova; but the woman had hidden herself. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/110/) — As soon as she learnt that the Cossack had come, off she ran home. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/111/) — "Where, oh where can I hide myself?" she cries to her husband. " - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/112/) — Husband dear! tie me up in a bag, and put me out there where the corn-sacks are." - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/113/) — Now there were five sacks of seed-corn outside, so her husband tied up the Golova, and set her in the midst of them. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/114/) — Up came the Cossack and said: - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/115/) — "Ho! so the Golova's in hiding." - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/116/) — Then he took to slashing at the sacks one after another with his whip, and the woman to howling at the pitch of her voice: - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/117/) — "Oh, my father! - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/118/) — I won't be a Golova, I won't be a Golova." - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/119/) — At last the Cossack left off beating the sacks, and rode away. - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/120/) — But the woman had had enough of Golova-ing; from that time forward she took to obeying her husband. - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/121/) — Before passing on to another subject, it may be advisable to quote one of the stories in which the value of a good and wise wife is fully acknowledged. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/122/) — I have chosen for that purpose one of the variants of a tale from which, in all probability, our own story of "Whittington and his Cat" has been derived. - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/123/) — With respect to its origin, there can be very little doubt, such a feature as that of the incense-burning pointing directly to a Buddhist source. - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/124/) — It is called-- - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/125/) — THE THREE COPECKS. - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/126/) — \[56\] - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/127/) — There once was a poor little orphan-lad who had nothing at all to live on; so he went to a rich moujik and hired himself out to him, agreeing to work for one copeck a year. - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/128/) — And when he had worked for a whole year, and had received his copeck, he went to a well and threw it into the water, saying, "If it don't sink, I'll keep it. - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/129/) — It will be plain enough I've served my master faithfully." - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/130/) — But the copeck sank. - [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/131/) — Well, he remained in service a second year, and received a second copeck. - [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/132/) — Again he flung it into the well, and again it sank to the bottom. - [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/133/) — He remained a third year; worked and worked, till the time came for payment. - [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/134/) — Then his master gave him a rouble. " - [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/135/) — No," says the orphan, "I don't want your money; give me my copeck." - [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/136/) — He got his copeck and flung it into the well. - [137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/137/) — Lo and behold! there were all three copecks floating on the surface of the water. - [138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/138/) — So he took them and went into the town. [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/) **2** - ← previous: [Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/14/) - next →: [Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/) - ↑ back to [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/)