Show I I1L L t j L I j i oma THEBUSSMSS I Curious Legend Current Among I a L 2 Jtho MaMyals Those interested in folk lore may perhaps I bftjilad foj > eitbotfoUosriiijjilegendss < fea h the origin of the llassianp found byCqlonel I Prjemlslg bocurrSnfimontffMonfcol in l1a iwitok adontuid pphlighed initba I ifJss I1ft ltr1H C11J lJ 1 I In former times there lived in n cave far j f away from all people a good hermit lama Ii t ores3vlopas5e iinLirajixrj 7fA pritiiuhtrta N1iBl p bditThtft1trr I gea1 I > r I nioth rand her daughter happened to go I that > 5rayjand the daughter while tending j cattle came upon the cave of the holy lama I vhoTOi8 at that time ill The compassionate l compassion-ate maiden offered him some sour milk but he didnot like to taste it At last he gateway gate-way t her entreaties and took the sour mijk evfiraJaynntil he got well Evfintually of gratitude for the cure thelama married the maiden As soon as the Czar of that country heard of this he sent his troops to kilf the priest who had BOflagrantly broke his vows and j I committed the sin of marriage When the troops approached the lama gathered a bunch of reeds and stuck them in the ground JOJUuLhisJeritjand then by forceofjMrayer causedthemto be all turned into soldiers who defeated the troops of the Czar The latter sent a second and a third army but both were beaten as the lama continued to pray and turn int more fightuig men the reeds broken off by his hrstcreated defenders de-fenders so that the holy lama soon had a greatnumber of troops After the defeat of hiSthird array the Czar left the lama alone in peace mt the latter did not wish to live any longer on the earth The lama left his wife to rule the people created from the reeds and from those arose the Russians Th iavewhite bodies and their hair is often fair j because the stems of the reeds were of a yellowish color and the tops S mew me-w at darker |