Andrey of all is wiser
Veins one inquisitive Andrey. He wanted all the nobility. Where will look, that will see, about all at people asks, about all finds out. They float on the cloud sky … Whence undertook? And where float? The river … rustles behind village Where flows? Wood … Who it grows has planted? Why at birds wings. Everywhere it is free fly, and the person does not have wings?
People answered it, answered, yes in the end see, as they do not know what to answer.
- You, Andrey, wish all to be wiser, - people began to laugh at it. - yes unless all is possible the nobility?
But Andrey that is impossible all the nobility does not believe.
- I will go, - speaks, - to the sun, it everywhere shines, all sees, all knows. Here to me it that I do not know also will tell.
He has left the and has gone to search for that place where the sun on a lodging for the night sits down.
There is it, goes, lo and behold - the person sits at road on a stone and all asks: whether “Long to me here to sit?”
And Andrey too could not answer it of anything.
It has gone further. Sees - the person shoulders props up.
- What it you, , do? - Asks Andrey. - what for old you prop up?
- I do not know … Perhaps you you know?
- I would not search for the one who all knows knew, - Andrey has told and was started up further.
Has passed it is a little, sees - the person rummages in dust.
- You what for it, , rake dust?
- I do not know.
- Well and I do not know, - Andrey has told and has moved further.
Whether long shortly there was it, has come into dense wood. All the day went wood, and towards evening has got out on a glade. - and here to it suddenly eyes and has blinded: such shine from a glade has begun to shine. He has screwed up eyes, sees - nearby a mansion fire flares. It only has entered into a mansion - anything from it is not visible. , lo and behold - sits in an armchair old mother.
- You of that, , here were? - Asks. Andrey has bowed to it and speaks:
- I have come to the sun about that yes about this .
- And about what it - about that yes about this?
- Yes about everything that I do not know.
- And that you do not know?
Began it to tell Andrey, and the old woman listened-listened and to yawn the beginnings.
- All right, - she speaks, - it is a little, here soon son to spend the night will return. And I will doze in the meantime: I am sick for long day .
There was Andrey mansion. Has dissolved a fire, has started to roast fat on a spit: has got hungry after all for long road!
He has gorged on fat with bread. To drink it wanted. Has gone to small river and has bent down to water. Suddenly sees - from a river bed the maiden, yes such beautiful, as eyes not to tear off. And it too on it .
- Do not drink some water from small river, - she speaks, - and that sun will burn you!
- And me very much to drink it would be desirable.
- Go for me.
Its maiden has led to an old oak, and from under it beats a spring of pure ice cold water.
Andrey has bent down and has got drunk in plenty waters spring. And here and the sun has started to go down from the sky in the mansion. It is necessary to go to it, yes not in forces he with the maiden to leave.
- You look, do not say to the sun, that me here saw, - the maiden has told, has risen up and has begun to shine therefrom a clear asterisk.
Andrey has gone to a mansion. And there the sun so bakes, that already walls of a mansion crackle. But to Andrey though that - it has got drunk spring water, here and cannot burn the sun it. Only a cap has pulled over a forehead that eyes has not burnt.
He has told to the sun, what for has come. Speaks the sun:
- To me to learn you there is no time. But I will make so, that you learn all.
This sun has told, has collected all beams in one bunch and has flashed to it in a head. And in a moment Andrey has felt, that in his head it became clearer and is more light, only it too burns, and heart has become suddenly cold, as ice …
There was it mansion. It became bad to it with cold heart. He has recollected about the maiden. And so it wanted to it to see it once again, that it even has languished all. Began to call her. The clear asterisk also has rolled down from the sky and has turned back before it the maiden. As Andrey so in a moment and has felt has looked at it, that its heart became again same as was.
Took it the maiden for a hand and has led in the edges. And so it was happy now, as to birds winged any more did not envy.
They have approached to that person, that the dust raked. Has looked at it Andrey, and all became clear to it.
- You, - speak it to the person, - search for the lost copecks in dust and in vain only time spend. Undertake better for work - you will more soon earn those copecks, than you will find them.
Its person has obeyed, has started to work and has acquired good and money.
There are they further, have seen the person that propped up shoulders . Has looked at it Andrey and speaks:
- Do not prop up, , that has decayed, it will all the same be filled up. Make you better new .
Its person has obeyed and has put new instead of the rotten.
They have reached the person, that on a stone sits and does not know, whether long to it there to sit. Andrey speaks to it:
- Not be, , such greedy: allow to sit on this stone and other passer-by.
Has removed Andrey the person from a stone and villages itself with the maiden. And the person has run happy home.
They had a rest a little and have moved further to those edges where there lived Andrey.
And now not Andrey at people about all asks, and people at it.
So Andrey of all became wiser.