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The little girl ran on home. Even though she had gotten the better of Baba Yaga, the little girl was afraid to go in and see her stepmother, so she ran into the shed.
Scratch, scratch! Out came the little mouse. “So you got away all right, my dear,” said the mouse. “Now, run inside. Don’t be afraid. Your father is back, and you must tell him all about what you have seen.”
The little girl went into the house. “Where have you been?” her father asked. “And why are you so out of breath?”
When the stepmother saw the little girl, she ground her teeth so hard together that they broke. But the little girl went to her father, and climbed on his knee, and told him everything just as it happened. And when the old man finally realized that the stepmother had lied to him all along and had sent his daughter away to be eaten by Baba Yaga, he was so angry that he drove her out of the hut, never to return.
The little mouse came and lived in the hut with the little girl and her father, and every day it would sit up on the table and eat crumbs, and warm its paws on the girl’s glass of tea. The tangled forest that grew from the little girl’s comb kept Baba Yaga away for the rest of their lives. The people from the village still tell the tale of Baba Yaga and the girl with the kind heart.
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