Russian Fable
Krylov and his fables
Russian Literature – Children Books – Russian Poetry – Ivan. A. Krylov – Contents
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The Merchant
“COME here, Andrew, my brother! Where have you got to ? Come here, quickly, and admire your uncle’s doings. Deal as I do, and you’ll never suffer loss.” Thus in his shop spoke a Merchant to his nephew. ” You know that remnant of Polish cloth — the one we have had on our hands so long, because it was old, and damp, and rotten? Well, I ‘ve just passed it off for English. Here is a hundred-rouble note I have just this instant got for it. Heaven must have sent a fool this way.”
” Just so, uncle, just so,” replied the nephew ; ” only I ‘m not quite sure as to which was the fool. Just look here; you ‘ll see you’ve taken a forged note.”
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To cheat ! — the Merchant cheated : there ‘s nothing wonderful in that. But if one looks around in the world a little higher than where the shops are, one sees that even there people go on in the self-same manner. Almost all of them are occupied in everything by the same calculation ; and that is, ” How can one man best succeed in cheating another?”
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Russian Literature – Children Books – Russian Poetry – Ivan. A. Krylov – Contents
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