“The Peasant And The Robber”, Fable by Ivan. A. Krylov

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The Peasant And The Robber

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A PEASANT, who was beginning to stock his little farm, had bought a cow and a milk-pail at a fair, and was going quietly homewards by a lonely path through the forest, when he suddenly fell into the hands of a Robber. The Robber stripped him as bare as a lime tree.*

” Have mercy !” cried the Peasant. ” I am utterly ruined. You have reduced me to beggary. For a whole year I have worked to buy this dear little cow. I could scarcely bear to wait for this day to arrive.”

” Very good,” replied the Robber, touched by compassion ;

” don’t cry out against me. After all, I shall not want to milk your cow, so I’ll give you back your milk-pail.”

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* Bare as a lime tree after it has been stripped of its bark, of which the peasants make shoes, baskets, &c.

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Russian Literature – Children Books – Russian Poetry – Ivan. A. Krylov – Contents

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