Petrified kingdom

In a certain kingdom, in some States, there lived a soldier; He served for a long time and perfectly, the service is well known, on shows, on the scientists come clean and serviceable. It began last year dosluzhivat - as a trouble, disliked his superiors, not only large, and small: and then under pressure to take the rap.

Hard to become a soldier, and he planned to flee;knapsack over his shoulder, his gun on his shoulder and began to bid farewell to his teammates, and they ask him:

- Where are you going? Al battalion require?

- Do not ask, my friends! Pull-ka knapsack tighter yes Do not think badly of me!

And he went, my good fellow, aimlessly.

Much or how little was - was in that state, I have seen time and asks:

- Can you where to stop and rest?

All said the corporal, corporal - an officer, the officer - General General reported to the king. The king ordered to call the serviceman before his bright eyes.

Here was a soldier - as it should, with the form, made a gun on the guard and became rooted to the spot. King tells him:

- Tell me the truth, how and where are you going?

- Your Royal Highness, do not tell them to put to death, tell them to utter a word.

Is recognized around the King of conscience and became the service asked for.

- Well, - said the king - hiring watch my garden. I now have a garden unfavorable - someone breaks my favorite trees - so you try, defended it, and for work will give you a considerable fee.

The soldier agreed, was the garden to keep guard.

And two is the year - everything about him regularly;That's at the end of the third year, went one looks around and sees the garden: half that neither has the best trees is broken.

"Oh my God! - He thinks to himself. - That's what evil has happened! As the king is now tells me to grab and hang up. "

He took the gun in his hands, leaned against a tree and tightly thoughtful.

Suddenly he heard the crackle and noise; woke up fine young man, looking - arrived in a huge garden, a terrible bird, well cut down trees! A soldier shot her with a gun, kill killed but only wounded her in the right wing;It dropped from the wing three feathers and the bird itself on the ground heels empty. The soldier - her. Bird legs fast, skorehonko ran to provalischa and disappeared from view.

The soldier was not afraid and ran after her in the provalische: fell into a deep, deep abyss, all the suburbs of the liver and the whole day lying unconscious.

Once recovered, she got up and looked around.What? - Underground and the same light.

"So - I think - and there are people here!"

He walked and walked - in front of it a big city at the gate sentries at her watch; was his question - hour silent, not moving; He took his hand - and he does a stone!

I came the soldiers in the guard. A lot of people - and stand and sit - just all petrified; Let them wander the streets - everywhere the same: there is not a living human soul, all as there is a stone! That's the palace - painted, engraved. Marsh there looking - room rich on the table all sorts of snacks and drinks, and all around is quiet and empty.

Soldier bit, I drank, sat down to rest, and heard it, as if someone pulled up to the porch; He grabbed his gun and stood in the door.

Included in the ward nurse with a beautiful princess, with nurses. The soldier saluted her, and she told him gently bowed.

- Hello, serviceman! Tell me - he says - what brings you here?

The soldier began to tell:

- I was hoping to de king's garden to watch, and got into the habit to a large bird fly so trees breaking. So I lay in wait for her, fired a gun and knocked it out of the three wings of the pen; I rushed her to the chase and ended up here.

- This bird - my sister; it creates a lot of all evil and trouble to my kingdom send down - all my people hardened.

Listen: there's your book, become here, and read it in the evening as long as the roosters do not sing.Whatever your passion may seem, you know your - read the book but keep it tight, so as not to have pulled out, not that you will not be alive! If you stand for three nights, you'll marry you.

- Okay! - Replied the soldier.

Only the dark, he took a book and began to read.

All of a sudden pounding, thundered - the palace was an army, the soldier rushed to his former bosses and scolded him and threatened with death for desertion; Here too a gun charge, taking aim. But the soldier does not look at it, the book does not let out of the hands, know yourself reading.

Cried roosters - and all at once vanished!

The next night it was terrible, but on the third, and the Forest: the executioners ran with saws, axes, hammers, want to crush his bones, veins pull the fire to burn it, and themselves only think how to snatch from the hands of the book. Such passion was that the soldiers barely survived.

Cock crowed - and delusion vanished!

In the same hour the whole kingdom came to life on the streets and in the homes of people bustled about, the palace was the princess with the generals, with his retinue, and have become blagodarstvovat soldier and called him their sovereign.

The next day he married a beautiful princess and lived with her in love and joy.