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RUSSIAN FOLK-TALES
animals at once set-to tearing up the Squirrel and Hare, and ate them down to their bones.
Next day the Vixen said: "We will eat the person with the fattest voice." That was the Wolf with his great gruff Aw, aw, aw! So they ate him up. The Vixen ate up the flesh and kept the heart and the bowels, And for three days she sat and ate them.
And the Pig then asked her: "What are you eating?—give me some!"
"Oh, Pig, I am eating my own flesh. You tear your belly up and munch it yourself."
So the Pig did, and the Vixen feasted on him.
The Vixen then was left as the last person in the pit.
Did she climb up, or is she there still? I don't know, really!
