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Krilof and His Fables.
"Tirez profit de cette fable,Vous tous qui rognez sur un Hard;Vous thésaurisez pour le diable."
The goblin of the fable is the domovoi, or domestic spirit, in whom the Russian peasant has great faith. It is, probably, a near relation of the lubber-fiend which, in Milton's country house,
"Basks at the fire its hairy strength,"
and of the well-known Scotch bogle, which, when its weary landlord was flitting in order to get rid of it, exclaimed, from the centre of the furniture-laden cart, "And I'm flittin', too."]
