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in Borohrady had an only son whose name was Yanechek, but that one son was more trouble to her than ten daughters would have been to any other mother. Yanechek was in truth a very mischievous boy. There was not one of his playmates, girl or boy, upon whom he had not practised some trick; and not a woman in Borohrady who had not complained of his pranks to his mother, the widow Dorothy.

"Gossip Dorothy," cried Mistress Betusche, "your Yanechek fastened my door on the outside last night, and I had to call to my neighbours for half a day before I could get out."

"Shepherdess Dorothy," said the magistrate one day in the village market-place, "if I catch Yanechek in my pigeon-house again I will send him to prison."