She had hardly left him when the two black wolves appeared : but the Sun-Hero beat them off with his sword , and they retired , only , however , to reappear in a very short time . The Sun-Hero chased them away once more , but he had hardly sat down to rest when the two black wolves were on the scene again . This went on for seven days and nights , when the white horse , who had never done such a thing before , turned to the Sun-Hero and said in a human voice : ` Listen to what I am going to say . A Fairy gave me to your mother in order that I might be of service to you ; so let me tell you , that if you go to sleep and let the wolves harm the tree , the Sun will surely kill you . The Fairy , foreseeing this , put everyone in the world under a spell , which prevents their obeying the Sun 's command to take your life . But all the same , she has forgotten one person , who will certainly kill you if you fall asleep and let the wolves damage the tree . So watch and keep the wolves away . ' Then the Sun-Hero strove with all his might and kept the black wolves at bay , and conquered his desire to sleep ; but on the eighth night his strength failed him , and he fell fast asleep . When he awoke a woman in black stood beside him , who said : ` You have fulfilled your task very badly , for you have let the two black wolves damage the Tree of the Sun . I am the mother of the Sun , and I command you to ride away from here at once , and I pronounce sentence of death upon you , for you proudly let yourself be called the Sun-Hero without having done anything to deserve the name . ' The youth mounted his horse sadly , and rode home . The people all thronged round him on his return , anxious to hear his adventures , but he told them nothing , and only to his mother did he confide what had befallen him . But the old Queen laughed , and said to her son : ` Do n't worry , my child ; you see , the Fairy has protected you so far , and the Sun has found no one to kill you . So cheer up and be happy . ' After a time the Prince forgot all about his adventure , and married a beautiful Princess , with whom he lived very happily for some time . But one day when he was out hunting he felt very thirsty , and coming to a stream he stooped down to drink from it , and this caused his death , for a crab came swimming up , and with its claws tore out his tongue . He was carried home in a dying condition , and as he lay on his death-bed the black woman appeared and said : ` So the Sun has , after all , found someone , who was not under the Fairy 's spell , who has caused your death . And a similar fate will overtake everyone under the Sun who wrongfully assumes a title to which he has no right . ' THE WITCH -LRB- 28 -RRB- -LRB- 28 -RRB- From the Russian . Once upon a time there was a peasant whose wife died , leaving him with two children -- twins -- a boy and a girl .
For some years the poor man lived on alone XXXXX the children , caring for them as best he could ; but everything in the house seemed to go wrong without a woman to look after it , and at last he made up his mind to marry again , feeling that a wife would bring peace and order to his household and take care of his motherless children .
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