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Czar. He was heartily pleased, began to rule over
the people, and to appoint his officers.
A short time after he called one of them, named
Luga, to him, and said, "My true friend and good
knight Luga, I want you to do me a service. Go to
my own country, go to the Czar, salute him from
me, and ask him to deliver to you the shopkeeper
Abrosim and his wife, so that you may bring them
to me. If he will not deliver them up to you, tell
him that I will lay waste his country with fire, and
will make him himself my prisoner." When the
servant Luga was come into Little Ivan's country
he went to the Czar and asked him to let Abrosim
and Fetinia go away with him. The Czar was
unwilling to let Abrosim go, for he wanted to
keep the rich merchant in ____

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