Fairy Tales Kazochki

Michael Ouzikov

Fairy Tales «Kazochki» for adults and not only! Count Leo Tolstoy, the great Russian writer, so fond of illiterate children that once he went «to the local people» and became the director of small village school. To save money on textbooks, he wrote his famous Fairy Tales «Kazochki», which, with some fine-tuning, are relevant to our difficult today days.

© Michael Ouzikov, 2017

© Egor Ouzikov, 2017

© Michael Ouzikov, перевод, 2017

© Egor Ouzikov, перевод, 2017

© Croft Lara, дизайн обложки, 2017

© Peter Malkov, иллюстрации, 2017

Редактор Egor Ouzikov

ISBN 978-5-4483-7466-1

Создано в интеллектуальной издательской системе Ridero

To my children — Egor and Stephanie

«Count Lev Tolstoy

loved children a lot…»

Daniel Harms

Plum stone

(A true story)

Mother bought a bucket of plums and wanted to give them to the children in the afternoon.

Mother never ate plums before in her life and smelt them constantly. And she liked them. She really wanted to eat them.

When there was no one else in the room, she would not resist herself and ate the whole bucket.

At dinner, father asked, «Children, did anyone eat the plums?»

The children answered, «No.»

Then father said, «If any of you ate them — that’s not good of course, but not a trouble. The trouble is that plums have stones, and if someone does not know how to eat them and swallows the stone, then this person will die. That’s what I’m afraid of.»

Everyone laughed, but mother began to cry.

And next morning father died.