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More Russian Picture Tales

9781465545145
26 pages
Library of Alexandria
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THE COCK AND THE BEAN. He tried to swallow it, and choked himself. He choked himself and stretched himself out, and there he lay, and couldn't even breathe. A cock was scratching one day in the earth under the wall of a cottage when he found a bean. And his mistress saw him, ran up to him, and asked: “Mr. Cock, what makes you lie there like that, so that you can't breathe?” “I've choked myself with a bean,” he answered. “Go and ask the cow for some butter