The Soldier and Death: A Russian Folk Tale Told in English by Arthur Ransome
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"The devils looked at all the money they had lost. It seemed a pity to lose all that good silver and gold.
"Tear him to pieces, brothers," they cried, "tear him to pieces, eat him and have done!"
The soldier tapped his little pipe on the table.
"First make sure," says he, "who eats whom." And with that he whips out his sack, and, says he, to the devils, who were all gnashing their teeth and making ready to fall on him, "what do you call this?"
"It's a sack," said the devils.
"Is it?" says the soldier. "Then, by the word of God, get into it!"
And the next minute all those devils were tumbling over each other and getting into the sack, squeezing in one on the top of another until the last one had got inside. Then the soldier tied up the sack with a good double knot, hung it on a nail, and lay down to sleep."
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The Soldier and Death - Arthur Ransome
Arthur Ransome
The Soldier and Death
A Russian Folk Tale Told in English by Arthur Ransome
Published by Good Press, 2021
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A soldier served God and the Great Tzar for twenty-five years, earned three dry biscuits, and set off to walk his way home. He kissed his companions with whom he had served so long, and boasted of the feasting there would be in the village when he should come marching home with all his wars behind him. Singing at the top of his voice he was as he set off. But as soon as he was alone on the high road, walking through the forest he began to think things over. And he thought to himself: All these years I have served the Tzar and had good clothes to my back and my belly full of victuals. And now I am like to be both hungry and cold. Already I've nothing but three dry biscuits.
Just then he met an old beggar, who stood in the road and crossed himself and asked alms for the love of God.
The soldier had not a copper piece in the world, so he gave the beggar one of his three dry biscuits.
He had not gone very far along the road when he met a second beggar, who leant on a stick