R. Nisbet Bain 
Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Introduction TO the first edition HE favourable reception given to my volume of Russian Fairy Tales has encouraged me to follow it up with a sister volume of stories selected from another Slavonic dialect extraordinarily rich in folk-tales – I mean Ruthenian, the language Of the Cossacks.