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Updated: June 27, 2025
It is an old story, little one, and I must have told it you a dozen times." "No, never, grandfather," said Maroosia. She was nearly as sleepy as Vanya after the day in the village, and the fuss and pleasure of the christening. "Oh, well," said old Peter; and he told the tale of Mr.
Not a bit of it. The net came in as heavy as if it were full of fighting fish, but empty . "Empty?" said Maroosia. "Well, not quite empty," said old Peter, and went on with his tale. Not quite empty, for when the last of the net came ashore there was something glittering in it a golden fish, not very big and not very little, caught in the meshes.
At last, towards evening, old Peter packed what was left of the hay into the cart, and packed Vanya and Maroosia in with the hay. Everybody said good-byes all round, and Peter climbed in and took up the rope reins. "He'll be a fine man," he shouted through the door to Nastasia, "a fine man; and God grant he'll be as healthy as he is good.
In the winter the children in their little sheepskin coats.... "Like ours?" said Vanya and Maroosia together. "Like yours," said old Peter. In their little sheepskin coats, he went on, played in the crisp snow. They pelted each other with snowballs, and shouted and laughed, and then they rolled the snow together and made a snow woman a regular snow Baba Yaga, a snow witch; such an old fright!
The old merchant says, "Long hair, short sense," just as I say to Maroosia; but he promised the little pretty one, who was so good that her sisters called her stupid, that if he could get her a silver saucer and a transparent apple she should have them. Then they all kissed each other, and he cracked his whip, and off he went, with the little bells jingling on the horses' harness.
That is the story about salt, and how it made a rich man of Ivan the Ninny, and besides, gave him the prettiest wife in the world, and she a Tzar's daughter. This chapter is not one of old Peter's stories, though there are, doubtless, some stories in it. It tells how Vanya and Maroosia drove to the village to see a new baby.
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