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Rh banishing evil-doers, by shutting them in prisons and punishing them with punishments. How am I to set about removing the evil? I cannot take other people's sins upon my shoulders!" And the godson thought and thought, but he could not think the matter out for himself.

He went on and on, till he came to a field, and in the field corn was growing—good thick corn—and it was harvest-time. And the godson saw how a calf was wandering in the corn, and people who saw this also had mounted their horses, and were driving the calf about in the corn from side to side. And whenever the calf was about to spring out of the corn, someone or other came up and frightened the calf so that it went back into the corn again, and then they also plunged after it into the corn again. And in the road stood an old woman weeping. "They are chiveying my calf about!" she cried.

And the godson began to speak to the muzhiks, and he said to them, "Why do ye thus? Go all of you out of the corn, and let the owner of the calf call it herself."

Then the people obeyed, and the old woman went to the corner of the field and began to call, "Come hither, come hither, my little brownie!" Then the calf pricked up its ears and listened, and then it came running up to the old woman and thrust its nose against her, and did not even kick her with its feet. And the muzhiks were glad, and the old woman was glad, and the calf was glad likewise.

The godson went on further, and thought to himself, "I see now that evil multiplies evil. The more 271