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" What! you are lazy!" said the sisters-in-law. " If you do not get up and cleave wood, we will tell our husbands not to give you the red coat, or the red cap, or the fine red boots. "
Russian Popular Tales: Tr. from the German Version of Anton Dietrich - Page 156
edited by - 1857 - 225 pages
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Tales and Popular Fictions: Their Resemblance, and Transmission from Country ...

Thomas Keightley - Folk literature - 1834 - 400 pages
...lazy," said the fool. " What ! you are lazy ? " said the sisters-inlaw. " If you do not go and cleave wood, we will tell our husbands not to give you the...for the red cap, coat, and boots, saw that he must cleave the wood ; but as it was bitter cold, and he did not like to come down from off the stove, he...
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Folk-lore and Legends: Russian and Polish

C. J. T. - Folklore - 1890 - 210 pages
...lazy," said the fool. "What! you are lazy!" said the sisters-in-law. " If you do not get up and cleave wood, we will tell our husbands not to give you the...for the red cap, coat, and boots, saw that he must cleave the wood ; but as it was bitter cold, and he did not like to leave the stove, he repeated, under...
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The Works of George Borrow, Volume 16

George Borrow - Computers and civilization - 1924 - 608 pages
...said his sisters-in-law to him, ' then you will be frozen.' Thereupon they added : ' If you don't go and cut wood we will tell our husbands not to give you the red caftan, nor the red cap, nor the boots.' The fool, from the desire which he felt to obtain the red...
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