flying ship

Once upon a time an old man so old. They had three sons - two senior reputed clever men, and all the younger was called a fool. Senior old woman loved - wore clean, the food is tasty. A tattered shirt Jr. walked, the black crust chewed.

- Him, fool, anyway, he did not understand anything, he does not understand!

That day came to that village news: the king who will build such a ship, and to go on the seas and flying below the clouds - the fact the king will give his daughter.

We decided to try his luck older brothers.

- Let us go, father and mother! Perhaps that is one of the king's son in law we will!

Shells mother of eldest sons, they baked cakes in the way white-fry chicken Navarro da goose:

- Go on, son!

Brothers went into the forest to cut trees become so cut. Many chop-sawed. And what to do next - do not know. They began to argue but to swear, that and look at each other's hair clung.

He came here to the old man and asked him:

- Because of what you do, well done, but the dispute wrestle? Maybe I have a word in favor say?

Attacked two brothers on the old man - he did not listen, bad words cursed and drove away. He left the old man. Brothers quarreled even ate all his supplies, that they gave his mother, and returned home with nothing ...

As they came, he began to ask the younger:

- Let go of me now!

Steel mother and father to dissuade him but hold:

- Where are you, a bad - you will eat the wolves on the road!

A fool know his firm:

- Let go - go and do not let go - go!

See the mother and father - could not cope with it.They gave him the road loaf of black bread dry and escorted out of the house.

I took a fool with an ax and went to the forest.Walked-walked through the woods and spotted the tall pines: the tip of the clouds in the pine rests, embrace it fit only three.

He cut down a pine tree, it became clear the branches from. The old man came up to him.

- Hi, - he says - little child!

- Hello, Grandpa!

- What is it, dear child, you do, what is the big tree cut down?

- And here, my grandfather, the king promised to give his daughter to the one who will build his flying ship, and I order.

- Are not you can make such a ship? This is tricky business, perhaps not cope.

- Tricky not tricky, but we must try: look, and sweeter! That's the way you came: old people experienced, knowledgeable. Maybe you and me prisovetuesh.

The old man said:

- Well, if you ask Council to submit, listen, Take-ka you his ax and oteshi the pine laterally: Like this!

He showed how to broach.

I listened to fool the old man - chipped pine tree as he showed. Hewing he diva given: and the ax as he walks and walks!

- Now - said the old man, - arrange pine ends: here and here's that way!

Fool Starichkova words deaf ears do not miss how the old man shows how he is doing.

He finished the work, the old man praised him and said:

- Well, now is not a sin but a snack break a little.

- Oh, grandfather, - says the fool - for me a meal there, that this loaf stale. And you something than to treat? I bet you never ugryzesh my meal?

- Come on, little child, - says the old man, - Give me your loaf!

Fool gave him a loaf. The old man picked it up, looked, felt and even says:

- Not so callous your loaf!

And he gave her wrong. He took a loaf of fool - does not believe his eyes: Hunk turned into a soft white loaf yes.

As they ate, the old man and said:

- Well, now let us sail fit!

And took from his pocket a piece of canvas.

The old man shows a fool tries to conscience does everything - and sails ready, carries his.

- Sit down now on his ship, - says the old man - and fly where you wanted. Yeah, see, remember, my mandate: to put in the way of your ship any counter!

Then they parted. The old man went on his way, and the fool in the flying ship sat sails spread. Sulked sails, the ship soared into the sky, flew faster than a falcon. It flies just below the clouds walking, standing just above the forest ...

Flying, flying fool and saw a man lying on the road - an ear to the damp earth fell. And later he says:

- Hello, Uncle!

- Wow, well done!

- What are you doing?

- Listen to me, that at the end of the earth is made.

- And what is going on there, Uncle?

- Sing-filled vociferous birds there, one better than the other!

- Eka you what sluhmenny! Get me to the ship, fly together.

Sluhay did not make excuses, he boarded a ship, and they flew on.

Flew-flew seen - by the way of a man is on one leg while the other leg is attached to the ear.

- Hello, Uncle!

- Wow, well done!

- What are you on one leg you ride?

- Yes, if I Untie the other foot, so in three steps: step over the whole world!

- What are you fast! Sit down with us.

Runner did not give up, climbed up on the ship, and they flew on.

Much or how little flying, looking - is a man with a gun, aiming. And during that aims - know.

- Hello, Uncle! With whom are you tselishsya - neither beast nor bird circle is not visible.

- Ekie you! But I'm not going to shoot close. Tselyus I Teterka that sits on a tree over a thousand miles away. Here's shooting at me.

- Sit down with us, we fly together!

He sat down and shoot, and they flew on.

They flew, flew and see: there is a man carries on his back a great big bag of bread.

- Hello, Uncle! Where are you going?

- I'm going to produce bread for dinner.

- What do you want more bread? You and so full of bag!

- Whats up! This bread is put in my mouth but swallowed. And to eat their fill, I need a hundred times as much!

- Look at that one! Get us to the ship, we fly together.

He sat down, and consume the ship, they flew on.

They fly over the forest, flying over the fields, over the rivers fly over the villages of the villages so fly.

Lo and behold: a man walks near a large lake, shakes his head.

- Hello, Uncle! What are you looking for?

- Thirsty, that's looking for where to get a drink.

- Yes, in front of you the whole lake. Drink it at your leisure!

- Yes, this water to me for just one sip will.

I marveled fool, marveled at his companions and say:

- Well, do not worry, you will find water. Sit down with us to the ship, fly away, it will be for you a lot of water!

Opivalo got into the ship, and they flew on.

How many flying - no one knows, but see: a man goes into the forest, and behind his bundle of firewood.

- Hello, Uncle! Say you to us, why are you dragging firewood in a forest?

- And it's not easy firewood. Koli throw it at once an army appear.

- Sit down, my uncle, with us!

And that got to him. They flew on.

Flew-flew, lo and behold: there is an old man carries a sack of straw.

- It's great grandfather, gray head! Where are you straw talking about?

- In the village.

- Did a little straw in the village?

- Straw lot, but this is not present.

- What is it with you?

- And that's what: if I throw it in the hot summer - and will at once cold: snow fall, frost crackling.

- If so, your righteousness: in the village will not find a straw. Sit down with us!

COLD climbed with its Kul in the ship, and they flew on.

We flew, flew and flew to the royal court.

The king at the time was sitting at lunch. He saw a flying ship and sent his servants:

- Go ask someone on that ship arrived - which overseas the princes and the king's son?

The servants ran to the ship and see - sitting on a ship simple peasants.

Do not become the king's servants, and ask them: Who are and whence came. Gates and reported to the king:

- Anyway! Out of the ship no prince, no king's son, and all the black bone - men are simple. What do you command them to do?

"For the simple peasant's daughter to give us ashamed, - thinks the king. - It must be rid of these suitors. "

He asked his courtiers - the princes yes boyars:

- What do we do now, what to do?

They prisovetovali:

- It is necessary to ask the groom different challenges, perhaps he will solve them and do not.Then we turn him down and show!

King was delighted, immediately he sent messengers to bad with the order of:

- Let the groom would get to us as our royal dinner is not over, living and dead water!

I thought a fool:

- What am I going to do now? Yes, I for the year, and perhaps his whole life do not find such water.

- I what? - Said Skorokhod. - Instantly I manage for you.

He untied his leg and ran from ear to distant lands tridesyatom kingdom. Scored two jugs of water living and dead, and he thinks, "ahead of a lot of time left, let me sit a little - have time to go back in time!"

I crouched under the thick of spreading oak tree, and fell asleep ...

Royal dinner at the end of the solution, but there is no Skorokhod.

We grieve all on a flying ship - do not know what to do. A sluhay put his ear to the damp ground, listened and said:

- What a sleepy dremlivy yes! Sleeps himself under a tree, snoring at all!

- But I'll wake it now! - Says the shoot.

He grabbed his gun, took aim and fired into an oak, under which Skorokhod slept. Showered with oak acorns - right on the head Skorokhod. I woke up one.

- Good heavens, yes, did, I fell asleep!

He jumped up and at the same moment brought jugs of water:

- Get!

The king rose from the table, looked at the pitchers and says:

- Perhaps, this water is not real?

Caught cock his head torn off and sprinkled dead water. The head suddenly rooted. Sprinkled the water of life - the cock jumped to their feet, clapping their wings, "Ku-ka-river!" He cried.

Annoyingly became king.

- Well, - he said the bad - that you have fulfilled my task. Now I will ask the other! If you're so clever, you eat with your matchmakers in one sitting twelve bulls fried bread so much as forty ovens baked!

Saddened fool says to his comrades:

- But I'm the one bread for the whole day, not eat!

- I what? - He says overeat. - Me and the bulls and the loaves of one driving. Yet little is!

Ordered fool said to the king:

- Drag the bull and bread. Let's eat!

They took twelve bulls fried bread so much as forty ovens baked.

Let's eat eats bulls - one by one. And so the bread in his mouth and throws a loaf of loaf. All wagons were empty.

- Let's! - Shouts to overeat. - Why do so few in store? I just came to talk!

And the king any more bulls or no bread.

- Now, - he says - the new order you: to have been drunk at a time forty barrels of beer each barrel forty buckets.

- Yes, I did not drink one bucket - says fool his matchmakers.

- Eka grief! - Responsible Opivalo. - Yes, I'm the one they all drink beer, little else will!

Forty-barrel-rolled sorokovok. They began to draw beer buckets so fed Opivale. It's like glotnet - bucket and empty.

- What is it you hold me in buckets? - Says Opivalo.- So we spent the whole day prokanitelimsya!

He raised the barrel and the emptied it at a time, without rozdyha. He raised another barrel - and that empty bounced. So forty barrels and emptied.

- Is not there - wondered Pivtsov yet? No, I drank plenty! I do not wet my throat!

He sees the king fool can not take anything. I decided to kill his cunning.

- Well, - he says - I'll give my daughter for you, get ready for the crown! Just before the wedding, take a sauna, vymoysya-evaporated carefully.

And he commanded to heat bath.

A room-it was all cast iron.

Three days stoked sauna, hot red-hot. Fire, heat radiates from her, five yards to her not to come.

- How I will wash? - Says a fool. - Burn them alive.

- Do not worry - meets the cold. - I'll go with you!

He ran to the king and asked:

- Is not allowed if the groom and I go to the sauna? I gave him straw podstelil him to heel not dirtied!

King of what? He has permitted: "That one burned that both of you!"

Led fool with refrigerators in the bath, locked up there.

A COLD scattered straw in the bath - and it was cold, the walls were covered with rime, in cast iron water froze.

How some time has passed, the servant opened the door. Watch and fool alive and well, and the old man, too.

- Oh, you - fool says - but in your bath, do not bathe, but perhaps on a sled ride!

They ran to the servants of the king. They reported: So, they say, and so. Swept out by the king, he does not know what to do, how to get rid of the fool.

I thought and thought and told him:

- Expose the morning in front of my palace a regiment of soldiers. Expose - for you I'll give my daughter. Do not expose - out drive out!

And of mind: "How simple peasant army to get it?Oh, he will not be able to perform. It was then that we expel him in the neck! "

Heard fool royal decree - says his matchmakers:

- I rescued you, brothers, out of trouble more than once or twice ... And now what do we do?

- Oh, you found what sorrow! - Says the old man with the brushwood. - Yes, I even seven regiments generals expose! Go to the king, say - he will be an army!

He came to the king of fool.

- Run, - he says - your order is only for the last time.And if you will make excuses - the foam!

Early in the morning the old man with the brushwood clicked badly and left him in a field. He scattered a bundle, and there was a myriad army - and foot and horse, and with guns. The trumpeters blew trumpets, beat drums drummers, the generals command fed horses hooves hit the ground ...

Fool forward was to the royal court led troops. He stopped in front of the palace, ordered the trumpets to sound louder, stronger drums beat.

I heard the king, looked out the window from her fright became whiter cloth. He ordered his army to withdraw the magistrates, a bad war going.

They took the magistrates royal army began to shoot so fool to shoot. A wall Durneva soldiers go, the royal army mauled as grass. Frightened by the magistrates and ran back, and behind them followed all the royal army.

King got out of the palace, on his knees before crawling fool, asked to take expensive gifts but rather marry a princess.

Fool says to the king,

- Now you do not we ukazchik! We have your mind!

He drove away the king and told never to return to the kingdom. And he married the princess.

- Princess - young girl so good. It is no fault, no!

And he began to live in the kingdom, to administer all sorts of things.