Excerpt from The Russian Garland, Being Russian Folk TalesIt is hardly necessary to dilate on the peculiar expressions here to be found, how that a child grows not day by day, but hour by hour, how that when the Tsar wants to drink beer is not brewed nor brandy distilled, seeing he is served at once, how the hero passes through thrice nine lands to the thirtieth country, how brothers are always in threes, and how the youngest always succeeds w...
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