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Leo Tolstoy's wonderful cute fairy tales make an indelible impression on children. Little readers and listeners make unusual discoveries for themselves about wildlife, which are given to them in a fabulous form. At the same time, they are interesting to read and easy to understand. For better perception, some of the previously written author's tales were later released in processing.
Who is Leo Tolstoy?
He was a famous writer of his time and remains so to this day. He had an excellent education, knew foreign languages, was fond of classical music. He traveled a lot in Europe, served in the Caucasus.
His books have always been published in large editions. Great novels and novellas, short stories and fables - the list of publications amazes with the richness of the author's literary talent. He wrote about love, war, heroism and patriotism. He personally participated in military battles. I saw a lot of grief and complete self-denial of soldiers and officers. He often spoke with bitterness not only about the material, but also about the spiritual poverty of the peasantry. And quite unexpected against the background of his epic and social works were wonderful creations for children.
Why did you start writing for children?
Count Tolstoy did a lot of charity work. On his estate, he opened a school for peasants for free. The desire to write for children arose when the first few poor children came to school. To open the world around them, to teach in simple language what is now called natural science, Tolstoy began to write fairy tales.
Why do people love a writer these days?
It turned out so well that even now, children of a completely different generation, are happy to perceive the works of the Count of the 19th century, learn love and kindness to the world around them and animals. As in all literature, in fairy tales Leo Tolstoy was also talented and loved by his readers.
Our ship was at anchor off the coast of Africa. It was a beautiful day, a fresh breeze was blowing from the sea; but towards evening the weather changed: it became stuffy and as if from a heated stove it was blowing hot air from the Sahara desert. To read...
When I was six years old, I asked my mother to let me sew. She said: "You are still small, you will only prick your fingers"; and I kept pestering. Mother took out a red rag from the chest and gave it to me; then I put a red thread in the needle and showed me how to hold it. To read...
Father gathered in the city, and I told him: "Dad, take me with you." And he says: “You will freeze there; where are you ". I turned around, cried and went to the closet. I cried and cried and fell asleep. To read...
My grandfather lived in a bee-house in the summer. When I went to him, he gave me honey. To read...
I love my brother anyway, but more because he joined the soldiers for me. That's how it was: they began to cast lots. The lot fell on me, I had to go to the soldier, and then I got married a week. I didn't want to leave my young wife. To read...
I had an uncle, Ivan Andreich. He taught me how to shoot when I was 13 years old. He took out a small gun and let me shoot from it when we went for a walk. And I killed once a jackdaw and another time a magpie. To read...
I walked along the road and heard a scream behind me. The shepherd boy shouted. He ran across the field and pointed at someone. To read...
In our house, behind the shutter of the window, a sparrow made a nest and laid five eggs. My sisters and I watched as the sparrow carried one straw and a feather over the shutter and made a nest there. And then, when he put the eggs there, we were very happy. To read...
We had an old old man, Pimen Timofeich. He was 90 years old. He lived with his grandson idle. His back was bent, he walked with a stick and quietly moved his legs. He had no teeth at all, his face was wrinkled. His lower lip was quivering; when he walked and when he spoke, he spanked his lips, and it was impossible to understand what he was saying. To read...
Once I stood in the yard and looked at the nest of swallows under the roof. Both swallows flew away in my presence, and the nest was left empty. To read...
I planted two hundred young apple trees and for three years, in the spring and autumn, I dug in them, and for the winter I wrapped them in straw from hares. In the fourth year, when the snow melted, I went to look at my apple trees. To read...
When we lived in the city, we studied every day, only on Sundays and holidays we went for a walk and played with our brothers. Once the priest said: “Older children need to learn to ride. Send them to the arena. " To read...
We lived poorly on the edge of the village. I had a mother, a nanny (older sister) and a grandmother. Grandmother wore an old chuprun and a slender paneva, and tied her head with some kind of rag, and a bag hung under her throat. To read...
I got myself a cop dog for pheasants. This dog's name was Milton: she was tall, thin, speckled in gray, with long wings and ears, and very strong and intelligent. To read...
When I left the Caucasus, there was still a war there, and at night it was dangerous to travel without an escort. To read...
From the village I went not directly to Russia, but first to Pyatigorsk, and stayed there for two months. I presented Milton to the Cossack-hunter, and I took Bulka with me to Pyatigorsk. To read...
Bulka and Milton ended at the same time. The old Cossack did not know how to deal with Milton. Instead of taking him with him only for the bird, he began to take him after the boars. And in the same autumn a boar chopper fought him. No one knew how to sew it up, and Milton died. To read...
I had a face. Her name was Bulka. She was all black, only the tips of her front paws were white. To read...
Once in the Caucasus, we went to hunt for wild boars, and Bulka came running with me. As soon as the hounds had driven away, Bulka rushed at their voice and disappeared into the forest. It was in the month of November; boars and pigs then are very fatty. To read...
Once I went hunting with Milton. Near the forest, he began to search, stretched out his tail, raised his ears and began to sniff. I prepared my gun and went to get it. I thought he was looking for a partridge, pheasant or hare.
Despite the fact that Tolstoy was of the nobility, he always found time to communicate with peasant children, and even opened a school for them on his estate.
The great Russian writer, a man of progressive views, Lev Tolstoy died on the train at Astapovo station. According to his will, he was buried in Yasnaya Polyana, on a hill, where in childhood little Leo was looking for a "green stick" that would help make all people happy.
All kids like to read Tolstoy's bedtime stories. It was at this time, before going to bed, that children want something kind and fabulous, to find themselves in a completely different world, where magic and celebration reign. Children need fairy tales. These are their little steps into adulthood, which bright stories help to learn a lot. In addition, it is in this form that children are best taught morality, life principles and goodness. This is a very important process in shaping their personality. Therefore, the presence of fairy tales in childhood is simply necessary.
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We offer you Tolstoy's fairy tales, which are great for reading to children at night, or in other free time. Leo Tolstoy made a huge contribution to children's literature, writing such original masterpieces. This writer tried very hard to make the stories so fascinating and informative that the children were not only interested, but also have pleasant impressions after reading.
Plunging into a serene world, without unsolvable problems, will be interesting not only for little readers, but also for adults with them. Tales for Tolstoy's children are filled with instructive stories, exciting plots, funny but visual characters, as well as vivid representatives of good and evil. The writer tried very hard to fit everything beautiful into these small works that show the reality of that time, but in a fabulous form and with a ray of hope.
Among the huge list of wonderful works there is the famous "Golden Key" - everyone's favorite fairy tale, which can not leave anyone indifferent. The difficult adventures of Pinocchio and his current circumstances make you deeply empathize with the hero in your imagination. The help of his faithful friends and a happy ending show the victory of good. This tale remains a priority for the most impressive.
Also on the list are "Magpie Tales", which consist of many small and long stories about various animals, people, good, evil, victories and defeats. They are filled with instructive meaning and will be very interesting for children. There are many other equally interesting tales of Tolstoy, which you can read on our website.
You can choose for your child any suitable work of this author that he likes, and go with him into a world filled with good and miracle.
Fairy tales for every taste and with any plot you can find in this section of our website andis free read them to your child at any time. Hope reading fairy talesonline will bring you and your children nothing but pleasure.
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Stories
Filipok
There was a boy, his name was Philip.
Once all the guys have gone to school. Philip took his hat and wanted to go too. But his mother said to him:
- Where are you going, Filipok?
- To school.
- You are still small, don't go, - and his mother left him at home.
The guys went to school. Father left for the forest in the morning, mother left for daily work... Remained in the hut Filipok and grandmother on the stove. Filipka became bored alone, grandmother fell asleep, and he began to look for a hat. I didn't find my own, took the old one, my father's and went to school.
The school was outside the village by the church. When Philip walked through his settlement, the dogs did not touch him, they knew him. But when he went out to other people's yards, Zhuchka jumped out, barked, and behind Zhuchka - the big dog Volchok. Filipok started to run, the dogs followed him. Filipok began to scream, stumbled and fell.
A man came out, drove the dogs away and said:
- Where are you, shooter, alone running?
Filipok said nothing, picked up the floors and started running at full speed.
He ran to the school. There is no one on the porch, and the voices of the children can be heard at school. Fear found on Filipka: "What will drive me away as a teacher?" And he began to think about what to do. Go back - again the dog will jam, go to school - the teacher is afraid.
A woman with a bucket walked past the school and said:
- Everyone is studying, but what are you standing here?
Filipok and went to school. In the senets, he took off his cap and opened the door. The whole school was full of children. Everyone shouted their own, and the teacher in a red scarf walked in the middle.
- What are you? He shouted at Filipka.
Filipok grabbed his cap and said nothing.
- Who are you?
Filipok was silent.
- Or are you dumb?
Filipok was so scared that he could not speak.
- Well, go home if you don’t want to talk.
And Filipok would be glad to have something to say, but his throat was dry with fear. He looked at the teacher and began to cry. Then the teacher felt sorry for him. He stroked his head and asked the guys who this boy was.
- This is Filipok, Kostyushkin's brother, he has been asking to go to school for a long time, but his mother does not let him in, and he stealthily came to school.
- Well, sit on the bench next to your brother, and I'll ask your mother to let you go to school.
The teacher began to show Filipok the letters, but Filipok already knew them and could read a little.
- Come on, add your name.
Filipok said:
- Hwe-i-hvi, le-i-li, pe-ok-pok.
They all laughed.
- Well done, - said the teacher. - Who taught you to read?
Filipok dared and said:
- Kosciushka. I'm bad, I immediately understood everything. What a clever passion I am!
The teacher laughed and said:
- Do you know the prayers?
Filipok said:
“I know,” and began to speak to the Mother of God; but every word was not spoken like that.
The teacher stopped him and said:
- You wait to boast, but study.
Since then Filipok began to go to school with the children.
Debaters
Two people on the street found a book together and began to argue about whom to take it.
The third walked past and asked:
- So why do you need a book? You argue anyway, how two bald ones fought for a comb, and there was nothing to scratch ourselves.
Lazy daughter
Mother and daughter took out a bucket of water and wanted to carry it into the hut.
The daughter said:
- It's hard to carry, let me salt a little water.
Mother said:
- You yourself will drink at home, and if you merge, you will have to go another time.
The daughter said:
- I won't drink at home, but here I will get drunk all day.
Old grandfather and granddaughter
My grandfather became very old. His legs did not walk, his eyes did not see, his ears did not hear, he had no teeth. And when he ate, his mouth flowed back. The son and daughter-in-law stopped seating him at the table, and gave him dinner at the stove.
They took him to dinner once in a cup. He wanted to move her, but dropped and broke. The daughter-in-law began scolding the old man for spoiling everything in the house with them and beating the cups, and said that now she would give him lunch in the tub. The old man only sighed and said nothing.
Once a husband and wife are sitting at home and watching - their little son is playing with boards on the floor - he is working on something. The father asked:
- What are you doing, Misha?
And Misha says:
- This is me, father, doing the pelvis. When you and your mother are old enough to feed you from this pelvis.
The husband and wife looked at each other and wept. They felt ashamed that they had so offended the old man; and from then on they began to sit him at the table and look after him.
Bone
My mother bought plums and wanted to give them to the children after dinner.
They were on a plate. Vanya never ate plums and smelled them all the time. And he liked them very much. I really wanted to eat. He kept walking past the sinks. When no one was in the upper room, he could not resist, grabbed one plum and ate it.
Before dinner, the mother counted the plums and sees that one is missing. She told her father.
At lunch, the father says:
- And what, children, has anyone eaten one plum?
Everybody said:
Vanya blushed like a cancer and said too:
- No, I didn't eat.
Then the father said:
- What any of you ate is not good; but that's not the problem. The trouble is that there are seeds in the plums, and if someone does not know how to eat them and swallows the bone, he will die in a day. I'm afraid of that.
Vanya turned pale and said:
- No, I threw the bone out the window.
And everyone laughed, and Vanya began to cry.
Jacob's dog
One guard had a wife and two children - a boy and a girl. The boy was seven years old and the girl was five years old. They had a shaggy dog \u200b\u200bwith a white muzzle and large eyes.
Once the guard went to the forest and told his wife not to let the children out of the house, because the wolves walked around the house all night and rushed at the dog.
The wife said:
- Children, do not go to the forest - and she sat down to work.
When his mother sat down to work, the boy said to his sister:
- Let's go to the forest, I saw an apple tree yesterday, and apples ripened on it.
The girl said:
- Let's go to.
And they ran into the forest.
When the mother finished working, she called the children, but they were not there. She went out onto the porch and began to click them. There were no children.
The husband came home and asked:
- Where are the children?
The wife said she didn't know.
Then the guard ran to look for the children.
Suddenly he heard a dog squealing. He ran there and saw that the children were sitting under the bush and crying, and the wolf grappled with the dog and gnawed at it. The guard grabbed an ax and killed the wolf. Then he took the children in his arms and ran home with them.
When they got home, the mother locked the door and they sat down to dinner.
Suddenly they heard a dog squealing at the door. They went outside and wanted to let the dog into the house, but the dog was covered in blood and could not walk.
The children brought her water and bread. But she did not want to drink or eat and only licked their hands. Then she lay down on her side and stopped screaming. The children thought the dog was asleep; and she died.
Kitten
There were brother and sister - Vasya and Katya; and they had a cat. In the spring, the cat disappeared. The children looked for her everywhere, but could not find it. Once they were playing near the barn and heard something meowing in thin voices overhead. Vasya climbed the stairs under the roof of the barn. And Katya stood below and kept asking:
- Found? Found?
But Vasya did not answer her. Finally Vasya shouted to her:
- Found! Our cat ... And she has kittens; so wonderful; come here soon.
Katya ran home, got milk and brought it to the cat.
There were five kittens. When they grew up a little and began to crawl out from under the corner where they hatched, the children chose one kitten for themselves, gray with white paws, and brought it into the house. The mother distributed all the other kittens, and left this to the children. The children fed him, played with him and put him to bed with them.
Once the children went to play on the road and took a kitten with them.
The wind stirred the straw along the road, and the kitten played with the straw, and the children rejoiced at him. Then they found sorrel near the road, went to collect it and forgot about the kitten. Suddenly they heard someone shouting loudly: "Back, back!" - and saw that the hunter was galloping, and in front of him two dogs saw a kitten and wanted to grab it. And the stupid kitten, instead of running, sat down on the ground, hunched over its back and looked at the dogs.
Katya was frightened by the dogs, screamed and ran away from them. And Vasya, with all the spirit, set off to the kitten and at the same time with the dogs ran up to him. The dogs wanted to grab the kitten, but Vasya fell on his stomach on the kitten and closed him from the dogs.
The hunter jumped up and drove the dogs away; and Vasya brought the kitten home and no longer took it with him to the field.
How auntie talked about how she learned to sew
When I was six years old, I asked my mother to let me sew.
She said:
- You are still small, you will only prick your fingers.
And I kept pestering. Mother took out a red rag from the chest and gave it to me; then I put a red thread in the needle and showed me how to hold it. I began to sew, but I could not make even stitches: one stitch came out large, and the other fell to the very edge and broke through. Then I pricked my finger and wanted not to cry, but my mother asked me:
- What are you?
I could not resist and cried. Then my mother told me to go play.
When I went to bed, I kept dreaming of stitches; I kept thinking about how I could learn to sew as soon as possible, and it seemed to me so difficult that I would never learn.
And now I have grown up big and do not remember how I learned to sew; and when I teach my little girl to sew, I wonder how she cannot hold a needle.
Girl and mushrooms
Two girls were walking home with mushrooms.
They had to cross the railroad.
They thought that car far away, climbed onto the embankment and went over the rails.
Suddenly a car rustled. The older girl ran back, and the younger one ran across the road.
The older girl shouted to her sister:
- Don't go back!
But the car was so close and made such a loud noise that the younger girl did not hear; she thought she was being told to run back. She ran back across the rails, stumbled, dropped the mushrooms and began to pick them up.
The car was already close, and the driver whistled with great force.
The older girl shouted:
- Throw the mushrooms!
And the little girl thought she was being told to pick mushrooms and crawled along the road.
The driver could not hold the cars. She whistled with all her might and ran into the girl.
The older girl screamed and cried. Everyone passing by looked out of the windows of the carriages, and the conductor ran to the end of the train to see what had happened to the girl.
When the train passed, everyone saw that the girl lay between the rails, head downward and did not move.
Then, when the train had already driven far away, the girl raised her head, jumped to her knees, picked up the mushrooms and ran to her sister.
How the boy talked about how he was not taken to the city
Father is going to the city, and I tell him:
- Dad, take me with you.
And he says:
- You will freeze there; where are you ...
I turned around, cried and went into the closet. I cried and cried and fell asleep.
And I see in a dream, as if there is a small path from our village to the chapel, and I see Dad walking along this path. I caught up with him, and we went with him to the city. I walk and see - the stove is burning in front. I say: "Dad, is this a city?" And he says: "He is the most." Then we came to the stove, and I see - they are baking rolls there. I say, "Buy me a roll." He bought and gave it to me.
Then I woke up, got up, put on my shoes, took my mittens and went out into the street. On the street, the guys ride ice floes and on skids. I began to skate with them and skated until I was cold.
As soon as I returned and climbed onto the stove, I hear - Dad returned from the city. I was delighted, jumped up and say:
- Dad, what - bought me a roll?
He says:
- I bought it, - and gave me a roll.
I jumped from the stove to the bench and began to dance with joy.
Little bird
Seryozha was a birthday boy, and they gave him many different gifts: tops, horses, and pictures. But Uncle Seryozha presented a net to catch birds most of all. The grid is made in such a way that a plate is attached to the frame and the grid is folded back. Put the seed on a board and put it out in the yard. A bird will fly in, sit on the board, the board will turn up, and the net will slam shut itself. Seryozha was delighted and ran to show the net to his mother.
Mother says:
- The toy is not good. What do you need birds for? Why are you going to torture them!
- I'll put them in cages. They will sing and I will feed them.
Seryozha took out the seed, poured it on a board and put the net in the garden. And he stood still, waiting for the birds to fly. But the birds were afraid of him and did not fly to the net. Seryozha went to dinner and left the net. I looked after dinner, the net snapped shut and a bird was beating under the net. Seryozha was delighted, caught the bird and carried it home.
- Mum! Look, I caught the bird, it’s probably a nightingale! .. And how his heart beats!
Mother said:
- It's a siskin. Look, don't torture him, but rather let him go.
- No, I will feed and drink him.
Seryozha put a siskin in a cage and for two days he poured seed on him, and put water, and cleaned the cage. On the third day, he forgot about the siskin and did not change his water. His mother says to him:
- You see, you forgot about your bird, you better let it go.
“No, I won’t forget, I’ll put the water on and clean the cage.
Seryozha thrust his hand into the cage, began to clean, and the siskin got scared, beating against the cage. Seryozha cleaned out the cage and went to fetch water. The mother saw that he had forgotten to close the cage, and shouted to him:
- Seryozha, close the cage, otherwise your bird will fly out and be killed!
Before she could say, the siskin found the door, was delighted, spread its wings and flew through the upper room to the window. Yes, I did not see the glass, hit the glass and fell on the windowsill.
Seryozha came running, took the bird, carried it to the cage. Chizhik was still alive; but he lay on his chest, spreading his wings, and breathing heavily. Seryozha looked, looked and began to cry.
- Mum! What should I do now?
- Now you can't do anything.
Seryozha did not leave the cage all day and kept looking at the siskin, but the siskin still lay on his chest and was breathing heavily and quickly. When Seryozha went to bed, the siskin was still alive. Seryozha could not sleep for a long time. Every time he closed his eyes, he imagined a siskin, how it lies and breathes. In the morning, when Seryozha approached the cage, he saw that the siskin was already lying on its back, tucked its legs and became numb.
Since then, Seryozha has never caught birds.
How the boy talked about how a thunderstorm caught him in the forest
When I was little, I was sent to the forest for mushrooms. I reached the forest, picked up some mushrooms and wanted to go home. Suddenly it became dark, it started to rain and thundered. I got scared and sat down under a large oak tree. Lightning flashed, so bright that my eyes hurt, and I closed my eyes. Above my head something crackled and thundered; then something hit me in the head. I fell down and lay there until the rain stopped. When I woke up, trees were dripping all over the forest, birds were singing and the sun was playing. A large oak tree broke and smoke was coming out of the stump. Lay around me scraps from oak. My dress was all wet and sticky to my body; there was a bump on my head and it hurt a little. I found my hat, took the mushrooms and ran home.
There was no one at home, I took out bread from the table and climbed onto the stove. When I woke up, I saw from the stove that they had fried my mushrooms, put them on the table and were already hungry. I shouted:
- What are you eating without me?
They say:
- Why are you sleeping? Go quickly, eat.
Fire
In the harvest the men and women went to work. Only the old and the little ones remained in the village. The grandmother and three grandchildren remained in one hut. The grandmother lit the stove and went to rest. Flies landed on it and bit it. She covered her head with a towel and fell asleep.
One of the granddaughters, Masha (she was three years old), opened the stove, scooped up the coals into a shard and went into the passage. And in the entryway lay sheaves. The women prepared these sheaves for hooked.
Masha brought in coals, put them under the sheaves and began to blow. When the straw began to catch fire, she was delighted, went into the hut and led her brother Kiryushka by the hand (he was a year and a half, and he had just learned to walk), and said:
- Look, Kilyuska, what kind of stove I blew up.
The sheaves were already burning and cracking. When the canopy was covered with smoke, Masha got scared and ran back to the hut. Kiryushka fell on the doorstep, bruised his nose and began to cry; Masha dragged him into the hut, and they both hid under the bench. Grandma heard nothing and slept.
The eldest boy Vanya (he was eight years old) was on the street. When he saw that smoke was pouring out of the passage, he ran through the door, slipped through the smoke into the hut and began to wake up his grandmother; but the grandmother was dazed to sleep and forgot about the children, jumped out and ran through the courtyards after the people.
Masha, meanwhile, was sitting under the bench and was silent; only the little boy screamed because he hurt his nose. Vanya heard his cry, looked under the bench and shouted to Masha:
- Run, you will burn!
Masha ran into the passage, but it was impossible to get through from the smoke and fire. She came back. Then Vanya raised the window and told her to climb. When she got through, Vanya grabbed his brother and dragged him. But the boy was hard and not given to his brother. He cried and pushed Vanya. Vanya fell two times, while he dragged him to the window, the door to the hut was already on fire. Vanya put the boy's head out the window and wanted to push it through; but the boy (he was very frightened) grabbed his hands and did not let them go. Then Vanya shouted to Masha:
- Get him by the head! - and he pushed from behind. And so they dragged him out the window onto the street and jumped out themselves.
Cow
The widow Marya lived with her mother and six children. They lived in poverty. But with the last money they bought a brown cow so that there was milk for the children. The older children fed Burenushka in the field and gave her slops at home. Once the mother left the yard, and the older boy Misha climbed onto the shelf for bread, dropped the glass and broke it. Misha was afraid that his mother would scold him, picked up the large glasses from the glass, carried them out into the yard and buried them in the manure, and picked up the small glasses and threw them into the tub. Mother missed a glass, began to ask, but Misha did not say; and so it remained.
The next day, after lunch, her mother went to give Burenushka slop from the pelvis, she saw that Burenushka is boring and does not eat food. They began to treat the cow, called the grandmother. Grandma said:
- The cow will not live, we must kill her for meat.
They called the peasant and began to beat the cow. The children heard Burenushka roaring in the yard. Everyone gathered on the stove and began to cry.
When Burenushka was killed, skinned and cut into pieces, glass was found in her throat. And they learned that she died from the fact that she got glass in the slops.
When Misha found out this, he began to cry bitterly and confessed to his mother about the glass. The mother said nothing and cried herself. She said:
- We killed our Burenushka, now there is nothing to buy. How will small children live without milk?
Misha began to cry even more heavily and did not get off the stove when they ate jelly from a cow's head. Every day in a dream he saw how Uncle Vasily carried by his horns the dead, brown head of Burenushka with open eyes and a red neck.
Since then, the children have not had milk. Only on holidays there was milk when Marya asked the neighbors for a pot.
It happened that the lady of that village needed a nanny for her child. The old woman says to her daughter:
- Let me go, I'll go to the nanny, and maybe God will help you manage the children alone. And I, God willing, deserve a year for a cow.
And so they did. The old woman went to the lady. And Marya became even harder with the children. And the children lived without milk for a whole year: one jelly and jail ate and became thin and pale.
A year passed, the old woman came home and brought twenty rubles.
- Well, daughter! - He speaks. - Now let's buy a cow.
Marya was delighted, all the children were delighted. Marya and the old woman gathered at the market to buy a cow. The neighbor was asked to stay with the children, and the neighbor, Uncle Zakhar, was asked to go with them, to choose a cow. We prayed to God and went to the city.
The children had lunch and went out into the street to see if they were leading a cow. The children began to judge whether the cow would be brown or black. They began to say how they would feed her. They waited, waited all day. Per a mile went to meet the cow, it was getting dark, came back. Suddenly they see: grandmother is riding a cart down the street, and a motley cow is walking by the rear wheel, tied by the horns, and mother is walking behind, urging on with twigs. Children ran up and looked at the cow. They collected bread, herbs, and began to feed.
Mother went to the hut, undressed and went out into the yard with a towel and a milk pan. She sat under the cow and wiped the udder. Lord bless! - began to milk the cow; and the children sat down in a circle and watched as the milk spurted from the udder into the edge of the milk pan and whistled from under the mother's fingers. Mother fed half of the milk box, took it to the cellar and poured a pot for the children for dinner.
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Jackdaw and jug
Galka wanted to drink. There was a jug of water in the yard, but the jug had water only at the bottom.
The jackdaw was out of reach.
She began to throw stones into the jug and scribbled so much that the water became higher and it was possible to drink.
Rats and egg
Two rats found an egg. They wanted to share it and eat it; but they see a crow is flying and wants to take the egg.
The rats began to think how to steal an egg from a crow. Carry? - do not grab; roll? - you can break it.
And the rats decided this: one lay on its back, grabbed the egg with its paws, and the other carried it by the tail, and, like on a sled, pulled the egg under the floor.
Bug
Bug carried the bone across the bridge. Look, her shadow is in the water.
It came to the Bug's mind that there was not a shadow in the water, but a Bug and a bone.
She and put your bone in to take that. She did not take it, but its own went to the bottom.
Wolf and goat
The wolf sees - the goat is grazing on a stone mountain and he cannot get close to it; he said to her: "You should have gone down: here the place is more even, and the grass is much sweeter for you to feed."
And the Goat says: "That is not why you, wolf, are calling me down: you are not about mine, but about your food."
Monkey and peas
(Fable)
The monkey carried two handfuls of peas. One pea jumped out; the monkey wanted to pick it up and sprinkled twenty peas.
She rushed to pick up and spilled everything. Then she got angry, scattered all the peas and ran away.
Mouse, cat and rooster
The mouse went out for a walk. I walked around the yard and came back to my mother.
“Well, mother, I saw two animals. One is scary and the other is kind. "
The mother said, "Tell me, what kind of animals are they?"
The mouse said: “One is scary, he walks around the yard like this: his legs are black, the crest is red, his eyes are protruding, and his nose is crocheted. When I walked by, he opened his mouth, lifted his leg and began to shout so loudly that I did not know where to go from fear! "
“It's a rooster,” said the old mouse. - He does no harm to anyone, do not be afraid of him. Well, what about another beast?
- Another lay in the sun and basked. His neck is white, legs are gray, smooth, he licks his white breast and moves his tail slightly, looks at me.
The old mouse said: “You are a fool, you are a fool. It's the cat itself. "
Lion and mouse
(Fable)
The lion was asleep. A mouse ran over his body. He woke up and caught her. The mouse began to ask him to let her go; she said: "If you let me in, and I will do you good." The lion laughed that the mouse promised him good things, and let her go.
Then the hunters caught the lion and tied it to a tree with a rope. The mouse heard a lion's roar, came running, gnawed at the rope and said: “Do you remember, you laughed, did not think that I could do good to you, but now you see - sometimes good comes from a mouse”.
Varya and siskin
Varya had a siskin. Chizh lived in a cage and never sang.
Varya came to the chyzh - "It's time for you, siskin, to sing."
- "Let me go free, I will sing all day long."
Old man and apple trees
The old man was planting apple trees. He was told: “Why do you need apple trees? Wait a long time from these apple trees, and you will not eat apples from them. " The old man said: "I will not eat, others will eat, they will say thank you to me."
Old grandfather and granddaughter
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My grandfather became very old. His legs did not walk, his eyes did not see, his ears did not hear, he had no teeth. And when he ate, his mouth flowed back. The son and daughter-in-law stopped seating him at the table, and gave him dinner at the stove. They took him to dinner once in a cup. He wanted to move her, but dropped and broke. The daughter-in-law began scolding the old man for spoiling everything in the house with them and beating the cups, and said that now she would give him lunch in the tub. The old man only sighed and said nothing. Once a husband and wife are sitting at home and watching - their little son is playing with boards on the floor - he is working on something. The father asked: "What are you doing this, Misha?" And Misha and saying: “This is me, father, doing the pelvis. When you and my mother are old enough to feed you from this pelvis. "
The husband and wife looked at each other and wept. They felt ashamed that they had so offended the old man; and from then on they began to sit him at the table and look after him.
