| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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