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My slave bids you be a sheaf no more. Every straw contained in you
Must turn into a soldier true.
And the sheaf burst asunder and turned into soldiers, and the drummers and buglers played at their head. Ivan asked the soldiers to play some songs, and led them into the street. The people were amazed. When the soldiers had played their songs Ivan took them back into the barn, forbidding any one to follow. He turned the soldiers into a sheaf again and threw it on a pile of straw, then he went home and lay down to sleep in the stables.
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Simon the Warrior heard of these things next morning, and went to his brother.
"Tell me" he said, " where did you get the soldiers from, and where did you take them to?"
