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The Cossacks

CHAPTER XVI
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Shall I tell you ?' 'Tell me, Daddy.' 'You know a tortoise?
She's a devil, the tortoise is!' 'Of course I know!' 'Find her nest and fence it round so that she can't get in.

Well, she'll come, go round it, and then will go off to find the stone-break grass and will bring some along and destroy the fence.

Anyhow next morning come in good time, and where the fence is broken there you'll find the stone-break grass lying.

Take it wherever you like.

No lock and no bar will be able to stop you.' 'Have you tried it yourself.


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