The grandmother the Blizzard

At one widow was two daughters: a native daughter and the stepdaughter. The native daughter was lazy yes choosy, and the stepdaughter - good and diligent. But the stepmother did not love the stepdaughter and forced it to do all heavy work. The poor thing for days on end sat in the street at a well and spun. It so spun much, that all fingers at it were исколоты to blood.

Here somehow time the girl has noticed, that its spindle is soiled by blood. She wished it to wash and has bent over a well. But the spindle has slipped out at it hands and has fallen in water. The girl has bitterly begun to cry, has run to the stepmother and has told to it about the trouble.

- Well, has managed to drop - manage and to get, - the stepmother has answered.

The girl did not know, that to it to do how to get a spindle. It has gone back to a well yes from a grief and has jumped in it. At it the head has strongly begun to spin, and she even has blinked for fear. And when has again opened eyes has seen that costs on a fine green meadow, and around it is a lot of colours and the bright sun shines.

The girl on this meadow has gone and sees - there is an oven full of breads.

- The girl, the girl, take out us from an oven, and we will burn down that! - have cried to it хлебы.

The girl has approached to an oven, took a shovel and has taken out one behind another all хлебы.

It has gone further, sees - there is an apple-tree, all covered with ripe apples.

- The girl, the girl, shake us from a tree, we have ripened for a long time already! - apples have cried to it. The girl has approached to an apple-tree and so began to shake it, that apples a rain fell down on the earth. It shook until on branches of any apple does not remain. Has then collected all apples in a heap and has gone further.

And here it has come to a small small house, and there was this small house to it towards an old woman. The old woman had such huge teeth, that the girl was frightened. She wished to escape, but the old woman has shouted to it:

- Be not afraid, the lovely girl! Remain better at me yes help me with an economy. If you is diligent and hardworking, I will generously award you. Only you should so to shake up my feather-bed that from it the down flied. I after all the Blizzard and when from my feather-bed the down at people on the earth snow goes flies.

Услыхала the girl as with it the old woman affably speaks, and remained to live at it. She tried to please the Blizzard, and when shook up a feather-bed, down and flied around, as if snow flakes. The old woman has grown fond of the diligent girl, always with it was tender, and to the girl was at the Blizzard much better, than houses.

But here it has lived how many time and began to grieve. At first she and itself did not know, why grieves. And has then understood, that has become bored of the native house.

It has gone then to the Blizzard and has told:

- To me it is very good at you, the grandmother, but I so has become bored of the! It is possible for me to go home?

- It is good, that you have become bored of the house: kind heart means, at you, - the Blizzard has told. - and that you so diligently helped me, I spend you upward.

It took the girl for a hand and has led to its big collars. Gate have widely swung open, and when the girl passed under them, on it has watered a shower of gold, and it all has become covered by gold.

- It to you for your diligent work, - the grandmother the Blizzard has told; then it has submitted to the girl its spindle.

Gate were closed, and the girl has come to be on the earth near the house.

On house collars the cock sat. He has seen the girl and has cried:

- Ku-ka-re-ku! Look, the people:

Our girl all in gold goes!

Have seen also the stepmother with a daughter, that the girl all in gold, and have met her tenderly, have started to ask. The girl has told it about everything, that with it happens.

Here the stepmother also has wanted, that its native daughter, ленивица, too has grown rich. It has given ленивице a spindle and has sent it to a well. Ленивица has pricked to itself purposely a finger about dogrose prickles, has smeared a spindle with blood and has thrown it in a well. And then and itself there has jumped. It too as her sister, has got on a green meadow and has gone on a path.

It has reached an oven, хлебы and to it have cried:

- The girl, the girl, take out us from an oven, and we will burn down that!

- Very much it is necessary to me to spoil hands! - has answered them ленивица and has gone further.

When it passed by an apple-tree, apples have shouted:

- The girl, the girl, shake us from a tree, we have ripened for a long time! - is not present, I will not shake! And that will fall still to me to a head, ушибёте, - has answered ленивица and has gone further.

The lazy girl to the Blizzard has come and at all was not frightened of its long teeth. After all sister has already told to it, that the old woman completely not malicious. Here also began ленивица to live at the grandmother of the Blizzard.

In the first day it somehow hid the laziness and did, that to it the old woman ordered. Very much it would be desirable it to receive the award! But for the second day has started to be lazy, and on the third has not wanted even to rise in the morning from bed. She did not care at all of a feather-bed of the Blizzard and shook up it so badly, that from it did not take off any plumelet. The grandmother the Blizzard very much did not like the lazy girl.

- Let's go, I will take away you home, - she has told in some days ленивице.

Ленивица was delighted and has thought: "At last and on me the shower of gold will pour down!" Its Blizzard has led to the big collars but when ленивица passed under them, on it not gold fell down, and the whole copper of black pitch has poured out.

- Here, get for the work! - the Blizzard has told, and gate were closed.

When has approached ленивица to the house, the cock what she became dirty has seen, has flied up on a well and has cried:

- Ku-ka-re-ku! Look, the people:

Here the slob to us goes!

Washed, washed ленивица - could not wash pitch in any way. And remained the slob.