The shoemaker in the sky
Earlier — as the shoemaker, so last person, and the drunkard. And this was fair. To another give a skin — it will steal it also money will not give. And this was fair. Here it
Has died. Has died and has gone in paradise. There is at gate apostle Peter.
— There is no god of the house! It to walk has gone. And sacred with it. Sit down and wait it. For now tell, how you lived on the earth. Whether stole?
The shoemaker speaks:
— Only that to itself left, that s-under a knife falls.
— Well, if so — sit down for this door and wait.
There was a shoemaker in a corner and waits. Sees — there is a small bench small.
Took it it and villages on a corner. And the bench was the god — the god sits down on the place, and on a foot bench puts. The shoemaker on a bench and suddenly the whole world has sat down. And the wife sees. That rinses linen in small river. Took and has hung up to dry. And home has gone. And other woman has approached yes allow this linen to remove, steal …
the shoemaker also has shouted:
— You that do? You that steal another's linen?
Far from the sky to the earth — it is audible nothing. As the shoemaker has seized a bench yes as has started up in the woman!
And here suddenly noise, music, voices … the Shoemaker has more likely hidden. He/she is the god has come with all sacred back. Have ascended all on heavens. There it became light. And the shoemaker sits at a door in a corner. The god into place has sat down, sees — the bench is not present.
— Well, speaks, search for it where it has got to. Angels have run up, search for a small bench. the shoemaker:
— And you that here do?
— Yes sacred apostle Peter has let in me here. The god speaks:
— And where my small bench? The shoemaker tells:
— Yes here is how I have sat down on it so all and has seen — as the woman stole linen from my wife. I shouted-shouted — she hears nothing. I have not sustained, and have thrown a bench.
The god speaks:
— If I was such as you so me, on the earth looking, and to sit there is nothing was. All furniture downwards would abandon …
Also has sent the shoemaker on the earth.
Ruff . Russian satirical fairy tales. Moscow, the Children's literature. 1989.