Veins - there was an old man yes the old woman; children at them were not. That they did, as prayed to the god, and the old woman did not give birth to all. Time has gone the old man to wood behind mushrooms; the old grandfather comes across to it дорогою. "I know, - speaks, - that at you on thoughts; you all think of children. Поди - ка on village, collect from each court yard on яичку and plant on those eggs клушку; that will be, itself will see!"...

Lived-were the husband with the wife, and there was at them a daughter. The wife was ill and has died. Pogoreval-pogoreval the muzhik and married another.
The malicious woman has taken a dislike to the girl, beat her, abused, only and thought, as though absolutely to exhaust, ruin. Here time has left the father somewhere, and the stepmother and speaks to the girl:
- Go to my sister, your aunt, ask for it a needle yes a thread - to you a shirt to sew...

Look in a window: what you see? And in the days of yore there was here a field; in the field there was a furnace; on the furnace laid Бухтан Бухтанович. All good at it was - a cockerel yes a chicken. Chicken Бухтану Бухтановичу яички brought, the cockerel побудку to it crowed in the mornings, yes uselessly: liked to have a sleep Бухтан Бухтанович. And lived. Somehow wakes up Бухтан Бухтанович at night: shout the cockerel shouts...

In some kingdom there lived-was a merchant. Twelve years he lived in a matrimony and has begot only one daughter, Василису Fine. When mother has died, to the girl was eight years. Dying, купчиха has called for itself a daughter, has taken out from under a blanket a doll, has given to it and has told...

In some kingdom, in some state of veins - there was a tsar, it had son Ivan - a tsarevitch - both beautiful, and clever, and nice; about it songs sang, fairy tales affected about it, it in a dream dreamt red girls. Has come желанье to have a look to it at a this world; it takes from the tsar - the father благословенье and позволенье and goes wherever one wishes, people to look, itself to show...

The vein - was a goat with kids. The goat in wood есьб a grass silk left, to drink water ice cold. As soon as will leave - козлятки will lock an izba and do not leave anywhere. The goat is turned back, will be knocked at a door and will start singing...

There lived a wolf and a fox. At a wolf an izba хворостяная, at лисички - ice. Has come ростепель, at a fox the izba has thawn. The fox to a wolf on a lodging for the night was to ask:
- Start up me, куманёк, to be warmed!
- My izba is small, - the wolf speaks. - to one to turn there is no place. Where you I will start up?...

Lived-were the husband with the wife. When they were young, lived well, amicably, never quarrelled. But here the old age has come, and they became more often and more often to argue with each other. The old man will tell to the old woman a word, and it to it - two, it to it - two, and it to it - five, it - five, and it - ten. And such quarrel between them begins, that though from a log hut escape...

In some kingdom, in some state of veins yes there was an old man with the old woman and there was at them son Martynka. All life the old man was engaged in hunting, beat an animal and a bird, with that both itself was fed, and a family fed. Time has come — the old man was ill and has died. Remained Мартынка with mother, potuzhili-have cried, yes to do there is nothing: dead you do not turn back back. Have lived for about a week and приели all bread, that in a stock was...

Lived the muzhik yes the woman. They had a daughter yes the sonny small.
- The daughter, - spoke mother, - we will go for work, protect the brother? Do not go from a court yard, be the clear head - we will buy to you a kerchief.
The father with mother have left, and the daughter has forgotten, that to it ordered: has planted the brother on a grass under a window, itself has run on street, has played, has gone on a spree. Geese - swans have flown, have picked up the boy, have carried away on wings...

There lived the old man with the old woman. Here the old woman on the old man always quarrels, that day - that помелом, рогачом отваляет it; to the old man from the old woman of life at all is not present. It Also has gone in the field, took with itself тенеты (a network for catching of animals) both has decided them. It also has caught a crane and speaks to it...

Vein in one village the peasant, the widow. She lived long and the son the Ivan raised.
And here has come it is time - Ivan has grown. Mother rejoices, that it big became, yes thin, that he at it untalented has grown. And the truth: any business at Ivan from hands leaves, not as at people; any business to it not in advantage and for the future, and all across. Will go, happened, Ivan to plough, mother and speaks to it...

The crane and heron to itself have constructed izbas on the different ends of a bog.
It became boring to crane to live to one, and he has decided to marry.
"I will go to a heron to ask in marriage! It is similar to me: and a nose at it long, and feet".
The crane to a heron - tjap-tjap has gone! Seven versts on a bog went, has come and speaks...