Three little men in wood
There lived-was the husband at whom the wife has died; also there lived-was the wife at whom the husband has died. And the widower still had daughter, and with the widow - a daughter. Girls were among themselves familiar and together хаживали on walks and then came into the house to the widow.
Also the widow began to speak to the daughter of the widower: "Hear ve, tell to the father, that I wish to marry it and that you then every morning in milk though bathe also fault drink in plenty, and to my daughter and водицы it will be full".
The girl has gone home and has told to the father that the widow spoke. The widower has told: "That to me to do? You marry - нарадуешься, yes you marry - and you will cry at ease". At last, not knowing, on what to dare, it has removed from itself(himself) a boot and has told to a daughter: "Take this boot (at it in a sole a hole), go into an attic, hang up a boot on the big nail and pour in a water boot. If water in it it will be kept - I will take to myself the second wife; it will not be kept - I will not take".
The girl has arrived how it was ordered it; but from water the sole has inflated, both a hole has tightened, and the boot has appeared is full water to edges. The daughter has reported on it on the father. That has climbed up upward and when has seen, that she has told the truth it has gone to the widow, has wooed for it and has celebrated a wedding.
For other morning after wedding when both girls have risen, before вдовцовой a daughter there was a milk for washing and wine for drink, and before the widow daughter - water for washing and drinking water.
Next morning drinking water and water for washing stood equally both before вдовцовой, and before the widow daughter.
For the third morning water for washing and drinking water faced вдовцовой to a daughter, and milk for washing and wine for drink - before the widow daughter; so thus also remains.
The stepmother has begun to hate the stepdaughter and did not know, as though to it any day all to spoil a life worse. Besides there was it and is envious, because its stepdaughter was beautiful and pretty, and its native daughter is ugly and opposite.
Once in winter, when the earth has frozen, as a stone, and on mountains and on dales deep snow everywhere laid, the stepmother has sewed to the stepdaughter a dress from a paper, has called her and has told: "Here, put on this dress, go in wood and bring to me a wild strawberry small basket; I very much this berry wanted!" - "Ah, my God, - the stepdaughter, - yes after all in winter what wild strawberry has told? And the earth has frozen, and all is covered by snow. And what for to me to go to wood in a paper dress? After all on a court yard so it is cold, that the spirit grasps. The such dress and a wind will blow, and the blackthorn will break off it in shreds at me on a body". "You Dare to contradict still to me? - The stepmother has cried. - ruin yes do not dare to be shown to me on eyes, yet you will not type a full small basket of wild strawberry!"
Then it has given it still a piece of stale bread and has told: "you can to become impregnated with It day". And itself has thought: "It in wood will freeze and поколеет with hunger - so perhaps I it and never any more I will not see".
The stepdaughter has obeyed the stepmother, has put on a paper dress and left the house with a small basket. Everywhere around only also it was visible, that snow and from under it did not stick out any green былиночки.
When it has come to wood has seen there a small small house; three tiny little men looked out of a window of that small house. It has greeted them and скромненько was knocked at their door. Those have shouted: "Enter!" - and it has entered into a room and has sat down on a bench about an oven; she there wished to get warm and eat the piece of bread.
Three tiny little men have told: "Share and with us the piece". "Willingly I will share", - she has told, has pulled down the piece in two and has given them half. Those have asked it: "That you here search in wood during winter time, moreover in yours продувном платьишке?" - "Ah, - she answered, - I should type here a full small basket of wild strawberry and without it I do not dare to come back home".
When she has eaten the share of bread, they have given it a broom and have told: "Поди размети this broom snow about a back door of an izba".
And as soon as it left for doors, they began to confer among themselves: "Than it to present that it such nice and kind, and what has divided the bread with us?"
Then the first has told: "I will present it with that it day by day хорошеть becomes".
The second has told: "I will present it with that at it behind each word on a tchervonets will drop out of a mouth".
The third has told: "And I will achieve that there will arrive the king and takes it in spouses".
Meanwhile the girl has executed that it was ordered by three little men: размела snow метлою behind an izba, also what there has appeared? Mature wild strawberry which and exposed the dark red berries from under snow!
It is glad-radeshenka, it has typed these berries a full small basket, then has thanked small little men and with each of them has shaken hands, and has run home to hand over to the stepmother that that wished to receive from it.
When it has entered into the house and has wished the stepmother "good evening", at it the tchervonets has suddenly fallen out of a mouth.
Then she began to tell about everything, that with it in wood happens, and that a word at it from lips dropped out a tchervonets behind a tchervonets so soon all room has been covered by them.
"You will think, what importance, that it so money throws!" - the daughter has told мачехина. But actually it secretly envied the stepdaughter and too has wanted to descend by all means in wood behind wild strawberry.
Mother has advised against to it: "do not go, the lovely daughter, and it is cold, and you can catch a cold". But as that all insisted on the the stepmother at last has conceded, has sewed to a daughter a nice fur coat which that should put on, and has given it with itself a chunk of a bread and butter and a cake for emergency.
The daughter has gone to wood and is direct to a small small house. The same three tiny little men still looked in a window, but she has not bowed to them and, not having bowed to them, at all not having awarded their sight, has entered into a log hut, has sat down to an oven and began to eat heartily the bread and butter and the cake.
"Share with us!" - little men have shouted to it, but she answered them: "I and most have not enough, as I still another to separate to a camp?"
When she has eaten all stock, they have told to it: "Here to you the broom, podi размети to us is purer snow before back дверкой". - "And and разметете, - the daughter, - I answered мачехина to you not the servant".
When she has seen, that they wish to present nothing to it, it has gone from an izba.
Then small little men between themselves began to arrange: "Than to us it to present what it such unfriendly and heart at it such malicious and envious, what on it nobody will please?"
And the first of them has told: "I will present it with that it will become day by day uglier".
The second has told: "I will present it with that at it at each word the toad" will drop out of a mouth.
The third has told: "I will present it with that she will die позорною death.
And мачехина the daughter has looked-has looked in wild strawberry wood, has found nothing also malicious-very evil has come back home.
And as soon as has opened a mouth to tell mothers about everything, that in wood with it happens, as began at it behind its each word to jump out from a mouth of a toad, yes so it is a lot of and so often, that it has soon grown hateful to all.
Here even more the stepmother also began to be angry with the stepdaughter who became day by day more beautiful, and all thought of how, it to cause any fierce grief.
At last took it a copper, has put it on fire and began to boil in it a wool yarn.
When the yarn was boiled, she has shouldered its poor girl, has yielded to it an axe and has sent it on the river: let supposedly there the ice-hole will cut through also all yarn will rinse.
The stepdaughter was obedient, has gone on the river and began to cut through a hole in ice.
And when cut through, the magnificent carriage in which the king sat has from nowhere driven to that place.
The carriage has stopped, and the king has asked: "my Child who you also what you there do?" - "I the poor girl also rinse a wool yarn".
Then the king over it has taken pity and, seeing besides what it the beauty, has told to it: whether "you wish to go with me?" - "about yes, with all my heart I wish", - she pleased with answered that could run from eyes down with from the stepmother and the sister.
And here it has sat down in the carriage and has left with the king and when it has arrived to a royal castle, its wedding with the king has been celebrated perfectly well, in compliance with those advantages with what small little men in wood have presented the stepdaughter.
A year the young queen of the son and when the stepmother услыхала about its great happiness has come with своею дочкою to the lock and has pretended as though wishes to visit the lying-in woman later has given birth.
When the king has somehow left also anybody in a room of the queen was not, the malicious woman has seized unfortunate by a head, and its daughter - for feet, and they have thrown out it from a window directly in the river proceeding by the lock.
Then the stepmother has put the ugly daughter on a bed and has covered with its blanket over a head.
When the king has returned and wished to speak with своею женою, the old woman has cried to it: ", now to speak it is impossible, it lays in the strongest perspiration, today you should leave her alone".
Anything bad has not come to to the king thus mind, and it has again returned to a bedchamber of the wife already only for other morning; when he began to talk with женою, and she - to it to answer, he has seen, that at its each word at it from lips the toad jumped out, meanwhile, as before dropped out on a tchervonets. The king amazed with it has asked, that it means; but the stepmother answered, that it has happened to the queen from a strong perspiration and that it will pass.
And has seen поваренок as has swum up from the river канавкою утица at night and has started talking:
The king, what with you?
You sleep or do not sleep ночною at times?
And, not having received the answer, it continued:
And what my visitors?
Then поваренок answered it from itself:
Sleep, that on a country churchyard.
And she has asked still:
And what wash the child?
And that answered:
Sleeps among diapers.
Then the bird has turned back королевою, has risen on lock top, has given to drink the child, has shaken up to it постельку, has covered it more warmly and again sulphur утицей has departured through a flute in the river.
So it came two nights in succession, and in the third has told поваренку: "Go and tell to the king that it took the sword in hands and has three times waved it it is necessary me when I will be on the threshold".
Has run поваренок and has told to the king, and that has come with a sword and has three times waved it over vision.
And on the third wave his wife became before it живаживехонька and здоровехонька, as before happened.
The king has been very pleased by it, however has covered the queen in a special room till that Sunday in which there should be christening of the baby.
And when the baby christened, the king has told: "What penalty should be appointed to that person who takes sleeping of bed and will throw in water?" - "such villain, - the stepmother answered, - is better would be to plant in a flank, set inside nails, and that to a flank скатить from mountain in water".
The king answered it it: "You have said an own sentence!"
He ordered to drag such to a flank, has set in it the old woman with her daughter and ordered to drive in strong at flanks the bottom; and that to a flank скатили from mountain - it is direct in the river. |
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