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The prince pined away, lamenting and weeping bitterly for the loss of Siminok, and sorely repenting his undue haste, but all was vain, nothing could be changed. So, in his grief and anguish, he resolved not to live any longer without his brother, ordered his own eyes and those of his horse to be bandaged, mounted it, and bade it hasten to the forest where Siminok had perished.
He set the hounds upon her to tear her to pieces. "Stop," cried the Wood Witch, "call off your dogs that they may not tear me, and I'll give you back your brother with his horse, hounds, and all." Siminok called off the dogs. The Wood Witch swallowed three times and up came Busujok, his horse, and his dogs. Siminok now set his hounds upon her, and they tore her into mince-meat.
"If you want to do me a favor," the Wood Witch answered, "take a strand of my hair and tie your dogs with it." Siminok put the hair in the fire. "Oh! how horribly the hair I gave you smells you have put it in the fire." "Go away from here and don't talk any more nonsense," replied Siminok. "One of the hounds put its tail a little too near the fire and scorched it, that's what smells so badly.
The maid-servant's child precisely resembled the royal one. The prince was named Busujok, the maid-servant's son was called Siminok. They grew up together, were taught their lessons, and learned as much in one day as other children in a whole year. When they were playing in the garden, the empress watched them from her window with great delight.
If you are cold, come down and warm yourself, if not, hold your tongue and let me alone." The Wood Witch believed him, came down, approached the fire, and said: "I am hungry." "What shall I give you to eat? Take what you want of all I have." "I should like to eat you," said the Wood Witch, "prepare for it." "And I will devour you," replied Siminok.
When Busujok recovered his senses, he wondered at seeing Siminok there and said: "Welcome, I'm glad to meet you so well and gay, Brother Siminok, but I've been asleep a very long time." "You might have slept soundly till the end of the world, if I had not come?" he replied. Then Siminok told him every thing that had happened from their parting until that moment.
The horse went as fast as it could, and plump! it tumbled into the very same spring where Siminok had fallen, and there Busujok, too, ended his days. But at the same time the morning star, the emperor's son Busujok, and the evening star, the maid-servant's son Siminok, appeared in the sky. Into the saddle then I sprung, This tale to tell to old and young. The Two Step-Sisters.
Busujok returned home and questioned his wife; she told just the same story as Siminok. Then, to be still more certain of the truth, he, too, ordered the sword to jump down from the wall and scratch the one who was wrong. The sword leaped down and wounded his middle finger.
But Busujok remained firm in his resolve, and when he took leave of Siminok, he said to him: "Take this handkerchief, Brother Siminok, and if you ever see three drops of blood on it, you will know that I am dead." "May the Lord help you, Brother Busujok, that you may prosper; but I beg you once more by my love, stay!" "Impossible," replied Busujok.
"Brother Siminok," he said, "I'm going out into the wide world, because I can't understand why my mother tied my hair while she was playing with it." "Listen to reason, Brother Busujok, and do nothing of the sort," replied Siminok; "if the empress tied your hair, it certainly was not for any evil purpose."
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