There lived-was the old woman, at it son Ivan. Time Ivan has left in a city, and the old woman one remained at home. Two soldiers have come to it and ask to eat something . And the old woman was avaricious and speaks:
- Anything at me is not present , an oven not and are not boiled.
And at most in an oven the cock cooked. Soldiers have visited it and speak among themselves:
- , old! We will learn you, as people to deceive.
Left in a court yard, have let out cattle, have come and speak:
- The grandmother! The Cattle on street left.
The old woman has begun to groan and has run out cattle to exhaust. Soldiers have meanwhile got from an oven a pot with a soup, a cock have taken out and have put in a satchel, and instead of it in a pot have put a bast shoe.
The old woman has tired out cattle, has come to a log hut and speaks:
- I will think to you, , a riddle.
- Think, the grandmother.
- Listen: in , under Skovorodinsky, sits .
- , old! Has late missed: in was , yes it is translated in , and now there Braid . Guess here, the grandmother, our riddle.
But the old woman has not understood a soldier's riddle.
Soldiers have sat, have eaten a stale crust with sour kvass, have joked with the old woman, have laughed over its riddle, have said goodbye and have left.
There has arrived from a city the son and asks from mother to have dinner. The old woman has collected on a table, has got a pot from the furnace, has stuck into a bast shoe with a plug and cannot pull out. “Ah yes the cockerel, - thinks about itself, - as has boiled soft, - I can not get”. Has got, … a bast shoe!