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Rh pretty Bopolûchî had run away, he became wild with rage, and determined to bring her back somehow.

Now Bopolûchî was convinced that the robber would try to carry her off, so every night she begged a new lodging in some friend's house, leaving her own little bed in her own little house quite empty; but after a month or so she had come to the end of

her friend, and did not like to ask any of them to give her shelter a second time.So she determined to brave it out and sleep at home, whether happened; but she took a bill-hook to the bed with her. Sure enough, in the very middle of the night four men crept in, and each seizing a leg of the bed, lifted it up and walked off, the robbed himself having hold of the leg close behind her head. Bopolûchî was wide awake, but pretended to be fast asleep, until she