The Tale of the Silver saucer and the Transparent apple (6)

The Tale of the Silver saucer and the Transparent apple (6)

And the there was the great river Volga, with men on the banks towing ships against the stream.

Yes, and she saw a sturgeon asleep in  deep pool.

" Oh ! oh ! oh ! " says the little pretty one, as sha saw all these things.

And bad one, they saw how her eyes shine, and they came and looked over her shoulder, and saw how all the world was there, in the spinning apple and the silver saucer.

And the old father came and looked over her shoulder, too, and he saw the market at Jijni Novgorod.

" Why, there is the inn where I put up the horses, " says he.
" You haven't done so badly after all, Little Stupid. "

And the little pretty one, Little Stupid, went on staring into the glass whirlpool in the saucer, spinning the apple, and seeing all the world she had never seen before, floating there before her in the saucer, brighter than leaves in sunlight.

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