CROATIAN TALES
OF LONG AGO
CONTENTS
| Page | |
| How Quest Sought the Truth | 9 |
| Fisherman Plunk and His Wife | 55 |
| Reygoch | 93 |
| Bridesman Sun and Bride Bridekins | 137 |
| Stribor’s Forest | 161 |
| Little Brother Primrose and Sister Lavender | 185 |
| Notes | 255 |
How Quest Sought the Truth
I
ONCE upon a time verylong ago there lived an oldman in a glade in themidst of an ancient forest.His name was Witting, andhe lived there with his threegrandsons. Now this oldman was all alone in theworld save for these threegrandsons, and he hadbeen father and mother tothem from the time when they were quite little.But now they were full-grown lads, so tall thatthey came up to their grandfather’s shoulder, andeven taller. Their names were Bluster, Carefuland Quest.
One spring morning old Witting got up early,before the sun had risen, called his three grandsonsand told them to go into the wood where theyhad gathered honey last year; to see