The sorcerer
Veins-was the poor muzhik also has gone in farm laborers to be employed. And where it employed, what payment gave, it does not take.
- Learn, - speaks, - to understand, that birds and animals speak, then I will be employed.
Clearly, anybody such does not know. Here time is met also by its grandfather.
- Employ, - speaks, - to me.
- And learn to understand, what what bird and what animal speak?
- All right, - speaks, - I will learn, only you should me do the whole year that work which I will set. As you will fulfil, I will learn, instead of you will fulfil, I will not learn.
Here also there was it for work, and it was necessary to it to heat the unextinguishable furnace. The grandfather gives it pair of horses and speaks:
- On these horses fire wood you will bring up, and you will feed with their coals, but look, that the furnace did not die away. And as hardly a little will fade, all your work was gone.
Has told it and has disappeared. It here is how undertook to carry, carries for that furnace fire wood, and in any way will not bring in, only will throw, already and is not present. He began to feed time of horses, and they and speak to it:
- Do not put to us some coals, and give though it is a little hay, then we and will cope.
He has put it of hay, - before carried hands not , and already carries , has a rest, and the oven all does not die away. The muzhik has served year, has followed calculation.
- Well, - the grandfather speaks, - go, now you will know all.
It has left, goes and goes, and is seen on a tavern.
“Here, thinks, there and I will stay the night”. Suddenly hears - the raven sits and croaks:
- This tavern will burn down at night, and who in it will stay the night, that will get to a trouble!
He has understood all and has not come into a tavern. Goes further, lo and behold - the carrier goes.
- Hi!
- Hi!
Have asked one another who yes whence, and the carrier and speaks:
- Be employed to me.
- Well, - speaks, - I will be employed.
- And where, - he asks the owner, - to us to spend the night?
- Yes there, in a tavern, perhaps. - is not present, the owner, is better we in steppe we will stop.
Here have stopped, only have laid down to sleep, and the farm laborer and hears, that the doggie who for the carrier all road ran, barks:
- Hey, , the tavern burns!
It has woken the owner, that thanks him, that it to it has advised against in a tavern it to spend the night. Starts to trust it even more. Here, not reaching the farm laborer about what sparrows between themselves chirp is a little to the house, , and speaks to the owner:
- At you at home gold both silver benches and your mistress so has grieved, that at itself the knife carries all: only you will see, so itself and will settle. And we, - speaks, - we will leave for so much versts the waggons, and we will enter into the house but only there is it, behind and at it a knife.
And have made. Have come, and only the mistress on a remanhole, and they it for hands.
- Anything, - speaks, - do not grieve, only the family would be safe.
Here workers have sat down to have supper, and that sorcerer between them. Eat also stones under a table throw, and the dog, that with the owner in road was, and has got quarrel with a domestic dog.
- You, - speak, - here master's good not , and behind a stone, , climb.
- And unless, - the dog speaks, - from the thief will be saved? All gold and silver there in a manure heap and lays till now is dug.
And the sorcerer it understands all and after a supper comes to the owner:
- There, - speaks, - all you is kindly dug. Since then the owner so has grown fond of it, that has soon given out for it the daughter and to itself in sons-in-law took. They here live, and other merchants and began young to utter:
- What it you for the farm laborer left? You reconnoiter, as he learns it, here we and will destroy it. It and the beginnings:
- Tell yes tell, how you all do it?
- Yes if I will tell, immediately and I will die. And to it at all, it the interprets all.
- Well, so get up me, - speaks, - to death, give a pure shirt.
Here it was got up, it is necessary to lay down on a bench, and he speaks:
- I will go though hens I will feed.
Took millet, left on a farmstead. Hens run up, the cock is not present. After the cock runs up also:
- Ah you, such-sjakie, - shouts, - I as will find where a kernel, itself I do not eat, you I convoke, and you here and have not called me. It is not necessary to you as the fool our owner the wife, to trust, and it is necessary to drag you for plaits.
He also has guessed then - and in a hut, in a moment the wife for plaits.
- Here, - speaks, - as I learn! it properly, and they then began to live peacefully.