--- title: The Voices At the Window, part 2 — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · full text with trees description: The Voices At the Window, part 2, «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales»: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Again the serpent took them up and carried them off. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / The Voices At the Window, part 2 # The Voices At the Window, part 2 The Voices At the Window, part 2 of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales»: the whole text, 134 sentences and 2849 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/page/2/) - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/1/) — Again the serpent took them up and carried them off. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/2/) — Presently he grew tired and again lay down to rest, and nodded off. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/3/) — Then the Tsarivna sat down on his head, and the Tsarevko sat down beside her, till a humble-bee came flying up. " - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/4/) — Hail, little Tsar Novishny!" cried the humble-bee.--"Hail, little humble-bee!" said the little Tsar.--"Say, friends, are you here by your leave or against your leave?"--"Alas! little humble-bumble-bee, 'tis not with my leave I have been brought hither, but against my leave, as thou mayst see for thyself."--"Then sit on my back," said the bee, "and I'll carry you away."--"But, dear little humble-bumble-bee, if a horse couldn't save us, how will you?"--"I cannot tell till I try," said the humble-bee. " - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/5/) — But if I cannot save you, I'll let you fall."--"Well, then," said the little Tsar, "we'll try. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/6/) — For we two must perish in any case, but thou perhaps mayst get off scot-free." - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/7/) — So they embraced each other, sat on the humble-bee, and off they went. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/8/) — When the serpent awoke he missed them, and raising his head above the reeds and rushes, saw them flying far away, and set off after them at full speed. " - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/9/) — Alas! little humble-bumble-bee," cried little Tsar Novishny, "how burning hot 'tis getting. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/10/) — We shall all three perish!" - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/11/) — Then the humble-bee turned his wing and shook them off. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/12/) — They fell to the earth, and he flew away. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/13/) — Then the serpent came flying up and fell upon them with open jaws. " - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/14/) — Ah-ha!" cried he, with a snort, "you've come to grief again, eh? - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/15/) — Didn't I tell you to listen to nobody but me!" - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/16/) — Then they fell to weeping and entreating, "We'll listen to you alone and to nobody else!" and they wept and entreated so much that at last he forgave them. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/17/) — So he took them up and carried them off once more. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/18/) — Again he sat down to rest and fell asleep, and again the Tsarivna sat upon his head and the Tsarevko sat down by her side, till a bullock came up, full tilt, and said to them, "Hail, little Tsar Novishny! art thou here with thy leave or art thou here against thy leave?"--"Alas! dear little bullock, I came not hither by my leave; but maybe I was brought here against my leave!"--"Sit on my back, then," said the bullock, "and I'll carry you away."--But they said, "Nay, if a horse and a bee could not manage it, how wilt thou?"--"Nonsense!" said the bullock. " - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/19/) — Sit down, and I'll carry you off!" - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/20/) — So he persuaded them.--"Well, we can only perish once!" they cried; and the bullock carried them off. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/21/) — And every little while they went a little mile, and jolted so that they very nearly tumbled off. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/22/) — Presently the serpent awoke and was very very wrath. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/23/) — He rose high above the woods and flew after them--oh! how fast he did fly! - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/24/) — Then cried the little Tsar, "Alas! bullock, how hot it turns. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/25/) — Thou wilt perish, and we shall perish also!"--Then said the bullock, "Little Tsar! look into my left ear and thou wilt see a horse-comb. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/26/) — Pull it out and throw it behind thee!"--The little Tsar took out the comb and threw it behind him, and it became a huge wood, as thick and jagged as the teeth of a horse-comb. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/27/) — But the bullock went on at his old pace: every little while they went a little mile, and jolted so that they nearly tumbled off. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/28/) — The serpent, however, managed to gnaw his way through the wood, and then flew after them again. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/29/) — Then cried the little Tsar, "Alas! bullock, it begins to burn again. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/30/) — Thou wilt perish, and we shall perish also!"--Then said the bullock, "Look into my right ear, and pull out the brush thou dost find there, and fling it behind thee!"--So he threw it behind him, and it became a forest as thick as a brush. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/31/) — Then the serpent came up to the forest and began to gnaw at it; and at last he gnawed his way right through it. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/32/) — But the bullock went on at his old pace: every little while they went a little mile, and they jolted so that they nearly tumbled off. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/33/) — But when the serpent had gnawed his way through the forest, he again pursued them; and again they felt a burning. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/34/) — And the little Tsar said, "Alas! bullock, look! look! how it burns. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/35/) — Look! look! how we perish." - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/36/) — Now the bullock was already nearing the sea. " - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/37/) — Look into my right ear," said the bullock, "draw out the little handkerchief thou findest there, and throw it in front of me." - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/38/) — He drew it out and flung it, and before them stood a bridge. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/39/) — Over this bridge they galloped, and by the time they had done so, the serpent reached the sea. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/40/) — Then said the bullock to the little Tsar, "Take up the handkerchief again and wave it behind me." - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/41/) — Then he took and waved it till the bridge doubled up behind them, and went and spread out again right in front of them. - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/42/) — The serpent came up to the edge of the sea; but there he had to stop, for he had nothing to run upon. - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/43/) — So they crossed over that sea right to the other side, and the serpent remained on his own side. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/44/) — Then the bullock said to them, "I'll lead you to a hut close to the sea, and in that hut you must live, and you must take and slay me." - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/45/) — But they fell a-weeping sore. " - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/46/) — How shall we slay thee!" they cried; "thou art our own little dad, and hast saved us from death!"--"Nay!" said the bullock; "but you must slay me, and one quarter of me you must hang up on the stove, and the second quarter you must place on the ground in a corner, and the third quarter you must put in the corner at the entrance of the hut, and the fourth quarter you must put round the threshold, so that there will be a quarter in all four corners." - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/47/) — So they took and slew him in front of the threshold, and they hung his four quarters in the four corners as he had bidden them, and then they laid them down to sleep. - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/48/) — Now the Tsarevko awoke at midnight, and saw in the right-hand corner a horse so gorgeously caparisoned that he could not resist rising at once and mounting it; and in the threshold corner there was a self-slicing sword, and in the third corner stood the dog \_Protius\_\[9\], and in the stove corner stood the dog \_Nedviga\_\[9\]. - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/49/) — The little Tsar longed to be off. " - [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/50/) — Rise, little sister!" cried he. " - [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/51/) — God has been good to us! - [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/52/) — Rise, dear little sister, and let us pray to God!" - [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/53/) — So they arose and prayed to God, and while they prayed the day dawned. - [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/54/) — Then he mounted his horse and took the dogs with him, that he might live by what they caught. - [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/55/) — \[9\] The two fabulous hounds of Ruthenian legend. - [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/56/) — So they lived in their hut by the sea, and one day the sister went down to the sea to wash her bed-linen and her body-linen in the blue waters. - [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/57/) — And the serpent came and said to her, "How didst thou manage to jump over the sea?"--"Look, now!" said she, "we crossed over in this way. - [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/58/) — My brother has a handkerchief which becomes a bridge when he waves it behind him."--And the serpent said to her, "I tell thee what, ask him for this handkerchief; say thou dost want to wash it, and take and wave it, and I'll then be able to cross over to thee and live with thee, and we'll poison thy brother."--Then she went home and said to her brother, "Give me that handkerchief, dear little brother; it is dirty, so I'll wash and give it back to thee." - [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/59/) — And he believed her and gave it to her, for she was dear to him, and he thought her good and true. - [60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/60/) — Then she took the handkerchief, went down to the sea, and waved it--and behold there was a bridge. - [61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/61/) — Then the serpent crossed over to her side, and they walked to the hut together and consulted as to the best way of destroying her brother and removing him from God's fair world. - [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/62/) — Now it was his custom to rise at dawn, mount his horse, and go a-hunting, for hunting he dearly loved. - [63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/63/) — So the serpent said to her, "Take to thy bed and pretend to be ill, and say to him, 'I dreamed a dream, dear brother, and lo, I saw thee go and fetch me wolf's milk to make me well.' - [64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/64/) — Then he'll go and fetch it, and the wolves will tear his dogs to pieces, and then we can take and do to him as we list, for his strength is in his dogs." - [65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/65/) — So when the brother came home from hunting the serpent hid himself, but the sister said, "I have dreamed a dream, dear brother. - [66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/66/) — Methought thou didst go and fetch me wolf's milk, and I drank of it, and my health came back to me, for I am so weak that God grant I die not."--"I'll fetch it," said her brother. - [67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/67/) — So he mounted his horse and set off. - [68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/68/) — Presently he came to a little thicket, and immediately a she-wolf came out. - [69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/69/) — Then Protius ran her down and Nedviga held her fast, and the little Tsar milked her and let her go. - [70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/70/) — And the she-wolf looked round and said, "Well for thee, little Tsar Novishny, that thou hast let me go. - [71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/71/) — Methought thou wouldst not let me go alive. - [72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/72/) — For that thou hast let me go, I'll give thee, little Tsar Novishny, a wolf-whelp."--Then she said to the little wolf, "Thou shalt serve this dear little Tsar as though he were thine own dear father." - [73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/73/) — Then the little Tsar went back, and now there were with him two dogs and a little wolf-whelp that trotted behind them. - [74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/74/) — Now the serpent and the false sister saw him coming from afar, and three dogs trotting behind him. - [75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/75/) — And the serpent said to her, "What a sly, wily one it is! - [76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/76/) — He has added another watch-dog to his train! - [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/77/) — Lie down, and make thyself out worse than ever, and ask bear's milk of him, for the bears will tear him to pieces without doubt." - [78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/78/) — Then the serpent turned himself into a needle, and she took him up and stuck him in the wall. - [79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/79/) — Meanwhile the brother dismounted from his horse and came with his dogs and the wolf to the hut, and the dogs began snuffing at the needle in the wall. - [80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/80/) — And his sister said to him, "Tell me, why dost thou keep these big dogs? - [81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/81/) — They let me have no rest." - [82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/82/) — Then he called to the dogs, and they sat down. - [83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/83/) — And his sister said to him, "I dreamed a dream, my brother. - [84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/84/) — I saw thee go and search and fetch me from somewhere bear's milk, and I drank of it, and my health came back to me."--"I will fetch it," said her brother. - [85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/85/) — But first of all he laid him down to sleep. - [86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/86/) — Nedviga lay at his head, and Protius at his feet, and \_Vovchok\_\[10\] by his side. - [87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/87/) — So he slept through the night, and at dawn he arose and mounted his good steed and hied him thence. - [88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/88/) — Again they came to a little thicket, and this time a she-bear came out. - [89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/89/) — Protius ran her down, Nedviga held her fast, and the little Tsar milked her and let her go. - [90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/90/) — Then the she-bear said, "Hail to thee, little Tsar Novishny; because thou hast let me go, I'll give thee a bear-cub." - [91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/91/) — But to the little bear she said, "Obey him as though he were thine own father." - [92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/92/) — So he set off home, and the serpent and his sister saw that four were now trotting behind him. " - [93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/93/) — Look!" said the serpent, "if there are not four running behind him! - [94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/94/) — Shall we never be able to destroy him? - [95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/95/) — I tell thee what. - [96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/96/) — Ask him to get thee hare's milk; perhaps his beasts will gobble up the hare before he can milk it." - [97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/97/) — So he turned himself into a needle again, and she fastened him in the wall, only a little higher up, so that the dogs should not get at him. - [98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/98/) — Then, when the little Tsar dismounted from his horse, he and his dogs came into the hut, and the dogs began snuffing at the needle in the wall and barked at it, but the brother knew not the cause thereof. - [99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/99/) — But his sister burst into tears and said, "Why dost thou keep such monstrous dogs? - [100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/100/) — Such a kennel of them makes me ill with anguish!" **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/5/page/2/) - ← previous: [The Voices At the Window, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/4/) - next →: [The Voices At the Window, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/6/) - ↑ back to [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/)