Fairy tale about Дедке Петко and the grandma Foam

There lived-were in one village the old man and the old woman — дедка Петко and the grandma Foam. They loved is tasty to attempt, in winter in heat to have a sleep, and in the summer in a chill to doze. One only did not like — to work.

— Work to me to what, — used to say дедка Петко.

Somehow time the grandma Foam has welded a bean soup in a pot. Old men, выхлебали all pot have sat down to table, were full.

Here the grandma Foam also speaks:

— I have welded a soup, and you roll up sleeves yes wash up a pot. In the morning it is required to me — I will be a cow доить.

— I will not become, — answers дедка Петко. Is a female business. Itself wash up!

— I will not wash!

— Well, start up there is a dirty.

There has come night. Old men have laid down to sleep, and the pot remained dirty.

— Listen, — speaks дедка Петко to the wife, — you rise before yes вскипяти to me of milk in the morning. Похлебаю dairy тюри also I will go in the field.

— And in what to me доить milk? The Pot dirty costs. You will wash up — надою.

— I will not begin to wash it, — rests дедка Петко. — give we will be beaten about заклад Is better. Who will lose, that and will wash up.

— Give, — the grandma Foam speaks. — and how?

— Both we will be silent. Who the first will not restrain, will utter a word, that let and washes a pot.

Old men have become silent, and have fallen asleep. There has passed night, there has ascended the sun. Peasants go for work. The shepherd has collected herd, drives it on a glade to be grazed. On a court yard at old men the cow lows — there is nobody it подоить yes on пастабище to expel.

And old men sit to themselves посиживают yes are silent. Here and neighbours have begun to worry, began to look through a wattle fence. In sense do not take, that such has happened at дедки Петки — the cow costs adhered, lows, and in a court yard anybody is not present.

Neighbours have entered into a hut and ask:

— What at вac such, the grandma Foam? Why not доишь a cow?

The grandma Foam is silent.

— Дедка Петко, say though you a word! Why the grandma Foam is silent?

But дедка Петко too words. Only a head swings, as a horse.

— Well and affairs! — one neighbour speaks. — Old men to see, have grown dumb. Run ome for the doctor, yes поживей! Игнатка, run, the sonny, покличь the doctor.

Игнатка has run for the doctor. And that of veins in the distant end of village. While мальчонка behind it ran, neighbours have started to disperse who where: one hastens in the field, another on a market, work waits for the third house. Only two remained at "dumb" old men — one old woman and the priest.

The priest too was going to leave and speaks to the old woman:

— You, the old woman divine, remain here, the doctor will not come yet. You will look for old men. And that as though with them has not happened that thin.

— I can not, the father.

— Why you can not?

— Nowadays anybody does not work for nothing. Pay — I will remain.

— How? Your way, I to you should pay? I? Yes where it видано that priests money paid?

The priest around has looked back — on a camp fragmentary кацавейка hangs. It has gone to remove кацавейку, and the grandma Foam as will begin to squeal:

— You that? You wish to give моки кацавейку to this idler? And I in what will go?

Has heard дедка Петко as its old woman has started shouting, has risen and speaks:

— Well, the grandma, you has started talking the first — has lost заклад. Go now wash up a pot.

Have guessed then both the priest and the old woman why дедка Петко and the grandma Foam have grown dumb. They have shaken a head and were cleaned back home.