Sapphire fairy. Prose in English. Natalia Patratskaya
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looked and were silent. Tamara, a girl of eight, jumped out of the house and shouted:
– Mama! Dad! I am waiting for you!
She stopped in surprise when she saw beautiful people, somewhat similar to her parents, standing on the threshold of a golden chicken coop.
– Oh! And who are you? – asked Tamara.
– Tamara, do not worry! I am your mom, and he is your dad. And here is our neighbor, Semyonovna, – and she pointed to a youthful pretty woman.
– Are you telling me a fairy tale? – Tamara asked incredulously. – My mom never wore jeans.
And then the girl saw the golden eggs in the basket in the hands of the mother.
“Good,” she said. – Are the eggs real?
Then the girl just grabbed one egg, but it burst out of her hands and rolled. Tamara ran after the egg and disappeared around the corner of the house. At this time, her father woke up and ran for her daughter.
Chapter 4
Around the corner of the house stood an old old woman with a stick, holding in her hand gold fragments from the shell, in which stood a little yellowish chicken.
A boy rode nearby on a bicycle at high speed. He snatched the chicken out of the hands of the old woman and disappeared. A minute later the boy on a bicycle stopped at a hen house.
– Your chicken? Take it, – said the boy and threw a little chicken.
The chicken, while flying through the air, grew up in a big rooster and nearly bruised her neighbor Semenovna. The cyclist cheered:
– Great here with you, I’ll call the guys now.
Five minutes later, seven young cyclists stopped at a hen house. They immediately noticed the golden eggs in the basket at Aunt Dashi, who did not know what to do with them. Ecstatic shouts from a distance of the boys on bicycles.
Ivan Kuzmich came up and said that Tamara did not catch up, but an old woman with a crook dragged behind him.
On the porch a neighbor woke up Semenovna.
– Hello! Where are you going to be in our area? – She turned to the old woman with a stick.
– Grandma, I’m your neighbor, Tamara, I’m eight years old!
– I myself am old, but not so much that I do not know my neighbors older than myself.
And then the cock, which grew up in two seconds of flight, pecked the old woman’s stick. And the old woman in front of everyone turned into a girl Tamara. Then the rooster flew up to the basket and pecked all the eggs one by one, and chickens hatched from the eggs, which instantly turned into big chickens.
Cyclists happily laughed at such a spectacle.
At this time, a rooster and six chickens ran out of the coop; they saw a young rooster and five chickens. Two rooster started a fight. Cyclists hooted and cheered cocks-fighters. Suddenly, the bikes grew wings, and they flew away from the battlefield with angry cries.
The rooster won from the hen house, and immediately the sun came out, and sunny rain began.
Katerina softly sang her little song:
– Rain, rain and sunshine, it is not wet at all. He is like a grain, golden and kind.
The sun stretched its rays and said:
– Thank you, Katerina!
It was not hail that fell from heaven to earth, but golden grain. The grain fell into the ground, and soon a whole field of wheat grew. The cyclists returned from the sky and stared in surprise at the wheat field, which was not there. The hen house owners came to their senses. They slowly walked to their old wooden house. As soon as they entered the porch, in the blink of an eye, their house turned into a new house.
The sun waved at them and hid behind a cloud.
The cock after the victory decided that he now had eleven chickens, and was very happy. But five chickens, hatched from golden eggs, could not cross the threshold of the chicken coop and turned into a sculpture of five chickens. Next to them was the sculpture of the defeated cockerel of the golden egg.
The cockerel and pestles sat down on their perches and dozed off.
At this time, seven young cyclists roared and left the place of the former miracles, which became uninteresting. On perches in the golden henhouse, the hens started and dozed off. Gold shells remained to lie around the hen house. The crows flew in, began to peck at the golden shell, and turned into a crow sculpture of crows.
A field of wheat has been tipped with golden grain. Golden pies were baked from it and a rooster and hens were treated to them. Seeing that they were carrying cakes from the house on the tray, the cycling boys arrived and grabbed the cake, but they did not dare to eat the cakes. But, seeing that Tamara and Aunt Dasha eat pies, they also ate a couple of pies, and nothing happened to the cyclists.
The sun appeared and lit up two brand new bikes at the hen house. Katerina and Tamara rode bicycles and joined the rest of the cyclists, and they had long learned to ride. Dusty country roads are good for both chickens and cyclists, when it does not rain, even if it is golden.
Aunt Dasha and Ivan Kuzmich looked after the children and decided that they themselves would buy a motorcycle with a sidecar. A neighbor, Semenovna, will be put into the pram and will travel to the nearest villages without waiting for passing cars. Local they are all.
A rooster issued a victory cry. A rooster and hens came out of the coop – to walk, to look at people, to show themselves. The cock gained weight and became a solid rooster, and now he was rosy too lazy to take off. Pestlets flew up, and he lazily sat in a cozy low basket. Became a cockerel to remind the master cat.
The sun lit up, the rain came, and he looked, looked at the sun, but Katerina did not sing a little song. The sun was offended and said nothing. Among the new eggs, one egg was silver. A new cockerel hatched out of a silvery egg, it grew quickly and joyfully, and took off easily to roost.
Once he decided to replace the old and lazy cock. Two rooster staged a cockfight. Watch the battle of two roosters came all the cyclists. The guys were rooting for the new silver cock. The fight was good. One rooster, overfed and sluggish, took with its mass, the second, thin and smart, won with speed. Cyclists watched cockfighting. Chickens clucked and did not know for whom to root. After the battle, they demolished eggs, and chickens hatched from them.
The old chickens were silenced. Aunt Dasha went into the chicken coop and said that the new change of hens is growing up. The whole village came to the second rooster fight. Bicycles stood by. The winner became the best rooster of the village. Won the young silver cock. The old hens refused to serve him, they remained with the old rooster. The coop was divided into two parts: for young and old. The sun because of the clouds was not shown.
Katerina once again sang a little song:
– Rain, rain and sunshine, it is not wet at all. He is like a grain, golden and kind.
Katerina looked at her watch and hurried to the mansion. The girl walked and saw her dream: the copper roof gleams in the sun. The house shines, decorated with vertical copper stripes. The first floor of the perimeter is lined with greenish marble, located between the sheets of copper. All the tracks on the site are lined with greenish ceramics. She painfully wanted to return to the mansion of Prince Athanasius Afanasyevich.
Afanasy Afanasyevich didn’t lead by ear in honor of the return of Catherine. She was even offended by his blatant indifference.
He asked:
– Katerina, did you bring stories from the village?
– I myself took part in all the stories.
– That is what she herself