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Updated: September 7, 2025
'Stop! he suddenly cried, as the air was filled with a rushing noise, and the dragon came dashing past. 'Dear me! exclaimed the dragon, looking round. 'Who are you, and where do you come from? 'I am Stan Bolovan, who eats rocks all night, and in the day feeds on the flowers of the mountain; and if you meddle with those sheep I will carve a cross on your back.
I'm afraid people will say, 'Look at Stan Bolovan, who in one year has grown as weak as a dragon." Now, it was the two dragons' turn to be frightened. They vainly told him that they would give him seven nay, three times seven or even seven times seven sacks of ducats, if he would only go away. "I'll tell you what," said Stan, at last.
'Oh, I was standing here because it has just occurred to me that I should like to stay in your service for another year. I am ashamed that when I get home they should see I have brought back so little. I know that they will cry out, "Just look at Stan Bolovan, who in one year has grown as weak as a dragon."
"Stop!" he cried, when he saw the dragon near the fold; and he shouted as though he was a person of importance. "H'm," said the dragon: "where did you come from, that you screech at me so?" "I am Stan Bolovan, who at night devours rocks and by day grazes on the trees of the primeval forests; and if you touch the flock, I'll cut a cross on your back, and bathe you in holy water."
He's a terrible fellow, who eats pieces of rock and squeezes buttermilk out of stones." Then he told her what had happened. "Just leave him to me," she said, after hearing the whole story. "No man ever slipped through my fingers." So the matter remained as it had first been settled. Stan Bolovan became the servant of this monster and his mother. A terrible fix!
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