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Updated: October 8, 2026
"I am so very thirsty," says Vanoushka; but he did as his sister told him, and they walked on together under the burning sun. A little farther on Vanoushka saw the hoofmark of a cow, and there was water in it glittering in the sun. "Sister, sister," says Vanoushka, "the cow has made a little well for me, and now I can have a drink." "Not yet, brother," says Alenoushka.
We tramped up and down the garden paths, up and down, and back again, his wooden peg making a round hole, like a hoofmark, in the earth. He stared down at it, spat savagely upon it, and swore horribly, but not too loudly. "I want to feel like a live man!" he gritted.
Nothing resembling the hoofmark of a horse rewarded her searching. And before long, what with turning this way and that, she found herself on a plateau where the pine and spruce stood like bristles in a brush, and from whence she could see neither valley below nor hillside above. She was growing tired. Her feet ached from climbing, and she was wet with perspiration.