It was good in the country!
There was a summer. Золотилась a rye, the oats turned green, hay has been swept away in stacks; on a green meadow the long-legged stork perambulated and stirred on-egipetski - to this language it was learnt at mother.
Behind fields and meadows the big woods lasted, and in woods there were deep lakes. Yes, it was good in the country!.

As it was cold this evening! There was a snow, and twilight was condensed. And evening was last in a year - eve of New year. The small poor girl went to this cold and dark time on streets with an uncovered head and barefooted. However, from the house it left put, but whether was to use in huge old shoes much? These shoes were carried before by her mother - here what they were big, - and the girl has lost them today when has rushed to run through road, having been frightened of two carriages which rushed...

Far-far, in that country where depart from us for winter of a swallow, there lived the king. At it was eleven sons and one daughter which called Элизой. Eleven brothers-princes already went to school; at everyone on a breast the star shone and at the left side the sabre rattled. Princes wrote diamond slate pencils on gold boards and perfectly were able to read - both under the book, and without the book, for memory...

Vein on light one woman. It did not have children, and it very much would like the baby. It here has gone to the old sorcerer and speaks:
- I so would like, that I had a daughter, though the smallest!.
- Than that is easier! - the sorcerer has answered. - here to you barley grain. This grain not idle time, not that ripen at you on fields and will be born to a bird on a forage. Take ake it yes plant in a flowerpot. You will see, that will be...

It is a lot of years there lived-was the king who passion as loved dresses and new things back and all money for them was spent. And to the soldiers left, and in theatre left or in wood on walk precisely in order that only in the new dress to flaunt. On each o'clock in the afternoon there was at it a special camisole and as about kings speak: “the King in council” so about it always spoke: “the King in wardrobe”...

In olden time when the grandfather was still absolutely the little boy and walked about in red panties, red курточке with a belt and a hat with a feather - and it is necessary to you to tell, that then children and dressed, if wished them to dress up, - and so, during those far, far times all was perfect differently, than now...

There was a soldier on road: time-two! Time-two! A satchel behind the back, a sabre on one side; it went home from war. On road there was to it an old witch - ugly, opposite: the lower lip hung at it to the breast...

Anybody on light does not know so much histories, how many Ole-Lukoje. Here the master to tell! In the evening when children quietly sit at a table or on the small benches, is Ole-Lukoje. In one stockings he подымается quietly on a ladder, then will cautiously half-open a door, will quietly step in a room and slightly will sprinkle to children in eyes with sweet milk. Eyelids at children start to stick together, and they cannot make out Оле any more, and it creeps to them behind and starts to blow slightly it in a nape...

You sometime saw the ancient-ancient case turned black from time and decorated with carved curls and leaves? Such here the case - прабабушкино the inheritance - stood in a drawing room. It was all is covered by a carving - roses, tulips and the most intricate curls. Between them looked out оленьи heads with branchy horns, and on most середке the little man has been cut out in all growth...

There lived-was the prince, he wished to take to itself(himself) as wife the princess, yes only the present princess. Here it also has gone round all light, searched such, yes everywhere there was something not that: of princesses it was full, and whether here the presents they, he could not distinguish it up to the end in any way, always with them there was something not as it should be. Here both it was turned back home and has very much grieved: so it would like the present princess...

In a paradise garden under a knowledge tree the pink bush blossomed; in the first rose dismissed on it the bird was born; feathers cast it wonderful paints, its flight was - light, singing - marvellous harmony...

Far in the sea water dark blue-dark blue as petals of the most beautiful cornflowers, and transparent-transparent as the purest glass, only it is very deep so it is deep, that no anchor rope will suffice. Many belltowers it is necessary to put one on another then only the top will look out on a surface. There at the bottom there live the underwater people...

Veins-was the poor prince. The kingdom at it was absolutely small, but what-any, and nevertheless kingdom - though marry, and here to marry it just and wanted...

Well, we will begin! Having reached the end of our history, we will know more than now. And so, there lived-was the troll, a malicious-very evil, real devil. Time was it in especially good mood: has made such mirror in which all kind and fine decreased further there is no place, and all bad and ugly and stuck out, became still гаже...

There were once on light twenty five tin tell-tales, all brothers because were born from an old tin spoon. A gun on a shoulder, look directly before itself, and a uniform what magnificent - red with dark blue! They laid in a box and when a cover have removed, the first, that they have heard, was...