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Basque Legends; With an Essay on the Basque Language

Note 6 — II—The Heren-Suge.—The Seven-Headed Serpent.

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And they begin to fight. With his sword he cuts off one head, and the horse with his feet another;6 and the serpent asks quarter till the next day. Petit Yorge leaves the young lady there. The young lady is full of joy; she wishes to take the young man home with her. He will not go by any means (he says); that he cannot; that he has made a vow to go to Rome; but he tells her that “to-morrow my brother will come, and he will be able to do something, too.” The young lady goes home, and Petit Yorge to his garden. At noon she comes to him with the dinner, and Petit Yorge says to her,

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