The visitor-old man

For a long time it was, very much for a long time. In those days peasants celebrated the harvest beginning. Put on in all the best and left in the field with sickles, but in the first day people had more fun, than worked.

In one settlement there lived three brothers, poor-pre-poor. Even on a holiday of a harvest they had nothing to take with themselves to eat-have a drink, except a piece of stale bread yes a water jug.

Here there were peasants in the field, have worked a little and have sat down to celebrate. Songs sing, joke, have fun, only brothers sit the dejected. There was in the field to anybody an unknown old man. Goes by peasants, greets. All answer, yes nobody treats, to eat-have a drink does not offer. The old man has approached to brothers, has greeted.

- Sit down, the father, you sing with us, - the younger brother speaks to it.

- And than to treat you gather? - Big brothers are surprised.

- What is we eat, also to it we will give!

The old man to them has sat down and asks:

- All sing, all have fun, and you of that gloomy?

- What fun - empty bread is yes water to wash down!

- Anything, pour, we will drink though waters, - the old man cheerfully speaks.

Took the younger brother a jug, and in it - dense red wine! Have drunk also steels заедать stale bread.

- Have a look at that hill, whether a sheep there? - The old man asks.

- No, it is a stone big, - the big brother answers.

- And you поди look, can, and not a stone.

The younger brother on a hill has risen, looks, and there - the hulk of the fattened sheep and a white loaf nearby as if for it are put.

Brothers have fried a sheep, and the lavish feast has gone. Brothers have begun a cheerful song. Reapers are surprised, laugh: that beggars распелись and than they treat the visitor - after all there is nothing to eat!

They have terminated to feast, and the old man of the big brother asks:

- That do you want, than you to allocate?

- To me the earths a little, I then would support a family!

- There will be at you an earth and meal, while will be hospitable.

Then the old man of the average brother asks:

- And you of what dream?

- To me cattle to get!

- Well, there will be at you herds corpulent, while will be hospitable.

Also the old man to the younger brother addresses:

- Tell also you, the sonny that you would like?

- The kind mistress in the house that visitors welcomed also business everyone loved.

- You to me have set a difficult problem! Approaching on light only two - one married, at another now in the evening wedding. Yes well, I will try, can, I will manage to give it for you.

The old man of the big brother with the earth and bread, an average - the big herd has allocated, and younger has resulted in an imperial palace where there was a wedding.

This old man was the wizard. It has caused a rain, a wind that there was an occasion to ask a shelter, and was knocked at doors. Have opened servants, and the old man has asked to let in them, a bad weather to wait. But the tsar of travellers has not allowed to let in: another's people, say, on wedding can predict a trouble.

Has kicked then the old man a door with a foot and has carried it.

Unbidden visitors have entered into a hall. And there to the people it is full, the groom with the bride sit at a wedding table.

- Go banish the groom and sit down near to the bride, - the old man speaks to the guy.

That and has made. The tsar has become angry, was angry.

- In vain you become angry! - the old man speaks to it. - here this poor man its groom, instead of a tsarevitch. Instead of you trust, so we will check up! We will give to both on a rod shank. At whom the rod will blossom and will give grapes, that and will manage the bride.

The tsar has thought, that the old man from mind has gone balmy, but all the same has agreed.

Have brought shanks, have yielded to a tsarevitch and the poor man. The shank in a hand of the poor man was poured by juice, has turned green foliage, and has then become covered by grapes clusters. And the shank in hands of a tsarevitch remained such what was.

The tsar has frowned, and the old man has burst out laughing.

- All the same I will not give you the bride! - the tsar shouts.

- You will give! As you will not give! The poor man its groom, instead of a tsarevitch! You do not trust, so now you will see! Who from us is right, at that in hands the fried pheasant will revive and will fly up.

The tsar of a pheasant from a dish took - does not revive. The old man of a fried pheasant - оперилась a bird took, has waved wings and has flied up under a ceiling.

- All the same I will not give the bride! - the tsar shouts.

- The girl herself will follow the one who will dance on a dagger edge! - the old man answers.

It would not be desirable a tsarevitch to lose the bride. There was it to dance. Has attacked an edge of a dagger and has wounded a foot.

Left to dance the poor man and has begun to spin in dancing on a dagger edge.

The bride has risen, has approached to the poor man - nobody has dared to keep it.

The bride has left a palace together with the old man and the young man. They have come there where there lived brothers. The old man young also has put the new house on the brink of settlement. It has collected them then all and has told at parting:

- Will be happy, while will be hospitable.

Brothers happily have begun to live, needs do not know more neither a grief, nor.

There has passed time, can, a little, and can, both it is a lot of. And here the old man has gone once to visit brothers, to learn, how they live, as its order carry out. It has caused a rain, a wind and was knocked in the house of the big brother:

- Make favour, приюти for the night.

- Go away, into you, on захожих people, some bread you will not save enough!

- If so, live still! - the old man said and was knocked in the house of the average brother.

The average brother too has not let in the unexpected visitor.

- And you live still! - the old man has told and has gone to younger of brothers.

It was knocked. Has opened a door the mistress. She has not learnt the old man.

- Start up me, the kind woman to spend the night.

- Enter, the visitor you will be, - she though and not by time there was a visitor has invited - the husband at it laid at death.

The woman of the old man has set, and itself killed a hen, has made a supper and began to set the table.

- Where the owner? - The old man asks it.

- At the relatives, - it has told lies - did not wish to spoil to the visitor mood - and has gone to a cellar behind wine.

The old man knew, that the owner lays the patient in the next room, and has cured it.

The woman has brought wine and sees - behind a table her husband healthy! She was surprised, but to a kind has not submitted, and has told:

- It is good, that you have returned, to boringly visitor without the owner.

- Thanks, - the old man speaks. - good you have appeared people, and the destiny at you will be good.

From this day younger from brothers began to live even better, and seniors lived in misery, as before.