Lived the grandfather with the woman. There were at them two sons and daughter . Beautiful sons - high yes harmonous have grown. And a daughter, that still .
Sons ploughed the earth, bread sowed, in an economy were engaged, it here and lived.
Once they have coped to term with work, all from a field have cleaned, have brought and have threshed.
The father has had a look at incomplete granaries and speaks:
- And bread, sons my darlings, avariciously was born in the summer. Whether to go to you to another's people on earnings? The stock of a trouble does not repair.
Brothers - well, and the truth have thought: it would be advisable to have a superfluous penny in an economy. For it it will be possible to buy breads if the will not suffice in the spring. Yes here where on earnings to go? Around all poor people live.
- Descend for a dense forest, - the father advises. - Perhaps there who will employ you.
Brothers on a feed bag have typed and speak:
- If in a week we will not return, let will bring to us of fresh bread.
- And how I learn, where to you it to bear? - Asks .
- And we take with ourselves a sack of straw and on road we will throw on a straw - here this trace and will lead you to us.
- Time so it will be easy to me to find you, - sister has agreed.
Brothers have gathered and have gone.
Go yes on a straw after itself throw.
They have passed a field, have entered into a dense dense forest. And in more that of veins terrible with iron language. He has seen, that brothers behind themselves leave a trace, took and has thrown straws on another to a stitch. And that conducted a stitch straight to a bone palace.
There has passed week. Brothers have not returned. The father rejoices:
- It is visible, they there have found suitable work. Carry it, a daughter, fresh bread.
Took breads moreover to bread something and has moved to a way-road. There is also all to straws looks narrowly. Suddenly sees before itself a palace - from bones human constructed, skulls human covered …
The girl was frightened: “Where it I have got?” - thinks.
And here and the owner from a palace leaves - a scarecrow nasty.
- , - he grins, - you were fell to me into hands! For a long time I admired at you, to take away in the palace gathered. And here you and itself were to me. Well, now the father-mother forget, to me go. You will live in my palace . Instead of you will want - I will throw also your skull to myself on a roof.
It was filled in with bitter tears, yes what to do … will not take pity nasty .
And in the meantime brothers and the truth have found to themselves at one rich person good work. to work on the . Have worked week, and then see, that already left. They waited, waited sister - yes and have not waited.
Brothers home come and ask:
- And that you to us, the father, has not sent meal?
- How has not sent? - The father is surprised. - after all has incurred to you and breads and to bread …
- No, - brothers speak, - we it and to see did not see.
Were frightened the father with mother, will grieve: “Instead of whether was gone where a daughter?”
- I will go it to search, - the big brother speaks.
- Go, the sonny, - have agreed the father with mother. It has gathered and has gone. Goes a dense forest-wood, sees - straws absolutely in other party have led. It has gone on that a stitch where straws conducted, and has come to a bone palace.
it from a window, has run out towards.
- Ah, the brother, native mine! - sister cries. - unfortunate I now, the slave hapless …
Also she has told to the brother as to bondage to nasty has got.
- Do not cry, the sister, - consoles her brother, - I will get out you.
- No, the brother, you with whom business you have do not know. Go better more likely back, and that will kill you. It for hundred versts feels human spirit.
- I am not afraid of death, - the brother answers. - and here give ive we will better think, as your owner to deceive, as you from here to the father-mother to return.
Sister speaks:
- Wait you here, and I will go I will ask the owner, whether it will start up you to itself(himself) in a palace. And there we yes will think up something.
It has gone to .
- What you, - speak, - the owner, have made, if here my brother has come to visit me?
- As staying has accepted, - has grinned . Has believed to it and has resulted the brother in a palace.
Has set the visitor for a table and speaks :
- Bring to us of iron beans. Has brought a copper of iron beans.
- Give, , , - speaks . Also began to get from a copper handfuls.
Took also the visitor one , has taken in a mouth and has spat out.
it was twisted.
- You to see, the visitor, not painfully hungry?.
- , - the visitor speaks, - is to me and the truth would not be desirable …
- Well, so we will go we will look my riches. All of them have bypassed the rooms, all cellars-g - good at and not to consider: both gold, and silver, and furs precious.
Has led the visitor on a stable. And there were there twelve stallions, and each stallion on twelve chains to iron columns is chained.
- Well, the visitor who from us is richer: you or I? - The owner is praised.
- Yes where already to me with you to be equaled, - the visitor speaks. - at me and the 100-th share of that is not present.
- And now I will show you one more piece. Has resulted it in a pack - in four sazhens in the thickness, in twelve length.
- You see this pack?
- I see, - the visitor answers.
- And so: if you without an axe chop it, without fire will burn, then will come back home the live. Instead of that death to you!
The visitor speaks:
- For the life of me on a place and make me of it I cannot.
- You can not! - has cried . - That you to me on a visit were? You after all with me, with the tsar wood, have conceived!
Has killed the visitor, eyes has pricked out, and most in a stable on a crossbeam has hung up.
There has passed day, another, the big brother has not come back home.
Speaks then the younger brother to the father-mother:
- I will go sister to search.
It is a pity to the father-mother to release it in unknown road, last after all it at them remained. They have started it to dissuade.
- No, - the younger brother speaks, - I will go, Has gathered and has gone.
Well, clearly, and with it there was the same, as with the senior.
Has visited about that , has loudly begun to wail;
- Ah, the owner! What for was the death of my native brothers? One now old men, the father with mother, at me remained. Time so kill also me and hang up in the stable at the same time with brothers …
- No, - grins , - you will be not not killed by me. And here if the father and mother I will catch, then I will kill, that you are more about them and did not think.
It became difficult to live to the father-mother without children. They sit, will grieve: who on an old age of years will look after them who will bury …
The woman behind water has gone once. Lo and behold - slides on road . It has lifted that and has eaten.
And soon the boy was born at them. Yes such nice - full, curly, with fair-haired hair. Also have named it the father with mother .
The boy not on days, and on hours grows. Rejoice the father with mother, admire - there will be it in an old age a help. One only a trouble: will touch somebody from children, , , and the child and falls, as a sheaf. To the old man with the old woman neighbours every day come to complain, that supposedly their children offends.
And so it also grew.
Once began to ask at mother:
- Why I at you one? Why there are at me either no sisters, or brothers?
Mother has wiped a corner of a scarf of an eye and speaks:
- There was at you, a sonny, both brothers and the sister …
- And where they? Kohl I anything to do not in forces and if to bondage have got I will go them to get out.
Has told mother that knew about children.
For other day left on street to take a walk. Has found there old any carnations, has brought home and speaks:
- Carry, , carnations this to the smith yes tell to it that has shaped from it a mace on twelve poods.
The father of anything to it has not told, and about itself has thought:
“Here the baby what at me has arisen, not such, as at people. It is still small, and already at the father laughs. Where it that from carnation mace to shape?”
The father of carnations on a shelf has thrown, and itself has gone to the smith and has ordered to it a mace.
In the evening brings a mace home. Took a mace, left on a kitchen garden, has swung and has thrown it in the sky. And itself has returned to a hut and has laid down to sleep.
Next morning has risen , has dropped the right ear to the earth, hears: the earth hoots!
- ! - the son. - Go listen, the mace back from the sky flies.
It has substituted a knee, the mace has hit about a knee and has broken in two. Has looked at it and speaks:
- You to me, , have made a mace not from this gland, that I have given to you. Tell to the smith that has made from this a carnation!
The father has scratched a nape and has gone again to the smith, this time already with .
The smith is surprised - as it is possible from a carnation yes a mace to shape! But nevertheless was accepted to work. Has thrown carnations in fire, and that and allow to grow, by leaps and bounds. Grows and grows.
The smith from a carnation has shaped a mace, moreover how many gland remains …
The father has brought a mace home. The son has had a look at it and asks:
- From what the smith forged a mace? Perhaps again not from a carnation?
- No, now, - the father speaks, - everything as you and asked is made.
Has thrown up a mace on a shoulder, has said goodbye to the father-mother and has gone on to light to search for sister and brothers.
Whether long shortly there was it, has come to to a palace. On a court yard his sister Palasha has met.
- Who you such? - Asks. - and what for was here? After all here terrible-prestrashnyj lives …
Who has told to it , it and where goes.
- No, - speaks , - a lie it: there were at me two brothers, yes nasty them, on a crossbeam in a stable has hung up. And you I brother.
Also she has not believed.
- So permit though to spend the night at you! - has asked . Has gone to .
- You of that so ? - Asks it .
- Yes here has come any and says, that it my brother. Asks to spend the night from road.
Took the magic book, has developed it, has had a look and speaks:
- Yes, you still will have one brother … But not … This deceives this. Call him here, I will talk to it.
Has entered to 1
- Good afternoon, the owner!
- Good afternoon, the visitor!
Has put on a table an entertainment - iron beans.
- Sit down, - it has shown on an iron armchair.
And only villages Pokatigoroshek so the armchair also has failed.
- , the owner, - is surprised . - And fragile armchairs at you! Unless there are no good masters that have made more strong?
Was frightened . Has brought other armchair, more strong.
Villages Pokatigoroshek for a table. has palmed off on it a copper.
- Be treated.
- Yes I and the truth for long road have got hungry, - speaks .
Also they have begun is. a handful in the , and - two. Eats, already behind ears cracks.
Have emptied all copper.
- Well, has gorged on? - Asks .
- Not so. Only a worm . Sees : in meal not to consult to it with it !
- So we will go we will look at my riches, - speaks .
Has shown all riches.
- At whom it is more kind, - grins , - At you or at me?
- I am not rich, - speaks , - but also to you to brag there is nothing. Has become angry .
- You laugh over me! We will go, I will show you one piece.
It has resulted in the same pack to what and its brothers drove.
- If without an axe you will chop it, without fire you will burn, I will release you home. And is not present - you will be there, where also your brothers …
- Well, we still will look it! - laughs . - do not frighten the falcon black!
It has touched a finger-little finger a pack, and that at once and was scattered on small chips. And then as died, so from chips of anything and does not remain.
Sees - not the simple visitor has got.
- Let's go now we will be overcome, - speaks . - we Will look, who from us is more feasible.
- What for at once to struggle. Give at first on hands we will try: I will compress your hand, and you mine.
- Yes where to you, the greenhorn, with me on hands to compete! - began to get excited .
- Anything, give!
Has become angry outright
- Well, give!
Have seized. the hand only has turned blue, and has already turned black.
- No, - speaks , - so to struggle I it do not agree. Give better in another way.
It died - the copper current has become. Died - the silver has become.
Have started to fight. Died - has driven in a silver current on ankles. Has knocked a mace - has left in a copper current on knees. Second time died - has driven in a silver current on knees.
And as has knocked a mace - has left in a copper current on the breast. it was requested:
- , the visitor: give we will take rest.
- Yes is not sick we and have got tired, - grins . - I from a long journey and that feel anything. And you for days on end to itself as the sir.
Has thought , has twisted a head and speaks:
- It is visible, , you will kill me.
- For this purpose I also have come!
- Leave to me though half-lives, - has begun to yell . - Take away all my riches, only to death do not kill.
- No, the evil spirit, will suffice! You me the greenhorn, have defamed, and now still favour ask. There is no to you a mercy!
It was pulled out from a silver current and allow to beat mace . Beat, beat and has driven it in a copper current on the ears.
Here and the end has come.
Has had a rest a little and has gone in a stable. Has deduced one stallion in the field, has skinned it a bag and has climbed itself in that bag. Sits there and waits. The raven with arrives. Began to peck a skin. And suffice for a foot.
Has seen it an old raven, has started talking a voice human:
- Who here?
- I, .
- Give my child.
- Extract aiming and waters - I will give.
- Well, - the raven has agreed. - I will extract.
It took two flasks and has departed at the other end of the world, in a kingdom. And in that kingdom beat from under one mountain a spring with aiming, and from under another - with . Has typed a raven of water and that and another and it was turned back back.
- On, - speaks , - to you water, only return me the child.
Here in a moment has broken off in two.
- Ah-jaj! - the old raven has begun to wail. - that you have done?
- Anything, - speaks . Is I to try.
It has sprinkled with aiming water - it has become whole, - has revived .
- Well here you see, - rejoices , - now I know, what is water.
He has thanked an old raven, and itself has gone on a stable, to dead brothers. Has sprinkled them with water - brothers have revived, aiming - eyes have begun to see clearly.
- Oh, - brothers speak, - and as we long slept!.
- To sleep to you here eyelids eternal if not I, - answer .
Brothers have wiped eyes, peer.
- Who you such? - Ask .
- Your brother.
- No, - the younger brother has begun to argue, - brothers at us any more were not. You deceive. And the big brother speaks:
- Well: whoever you were, and if us from a trouble has got out, you to us and the brother.
Brothers have embraced, have thanked him. Have then burnt a bone palace, have taken away sister and all together home have returned.
Also the sumptuous feast has gone there. And I at them was. Honey, wine of saws. On a beard flew, and to a mouth has not got. And a fairy tale all.