Then the darkness cleared away from the king 's eyes , and the more the bird sang the more clearly did he see , till at last in the strange horse-shoer he recognised his youngest son . Then the princess told the king how treacherously his eldest sons had acted , and he had them banished from his kingdom ; but the youngest prince married the princess , and got the horse with the golden shoes and half the kingdom from his father , who kept for himself so long as he lived the bird Grip , which now sang with all its heart to the king and all his court . Snowflake Slavonic story . Contes Populaires Slaves , traduits par Louis Leger . Paris : Leroux , Editeur . Once upon a time there lived a peasant called Ivan , and he had a wife whose name was Marie . They would have been quite happy except for one thing : they had no children to play with , and as they were now old people they did not find that watching the children of their neighbours at all made up to them for having one of their own . One winter , which nobody living will ever forget , the snow lay so deep that it came up to the knees of even the tallest man . When it had all fallen , and the sun was shining again , the children ran out into the street to play , and the old man and his wife sat at their window and gazed at them . The children first made a sort of little terrace , and stamped it hard and firm , and then they began to make a snow woman . Ivan and Marie watched them , the while thinking about many things . Suddenly Ivan 's face brightened , and , looking at his wife , he said , ` Wife , why should n't we make a snow woman too ? ' ` Why not ? ' replied Marie , who happened to be in a very good temper ; ` it might amuse us a little . But there is no use making a woman . Let us make a little snow child , and pretend it is a living one . ' ` Yes , let us do that , ' said Ivan , and he took down his cap and went into the garden with his old wife . Then the two set to work with all their might to make a doll out of the snow . They shaped a little body and two little hands and two little feet . On top of all they placed a ball of snow , out of which the head was to be .
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