Hello, Godfather Faddey!\" — \"Hello, Godfather Egor!\" —
\"Well, how are you, my friend?\" —
\"Oh, Godfather, you don\'t know my misfortunes, what I see!
God has visited me: I burned my yard to the ground
And have been paupered in the world ever since.\" —
\"What do you mean? A bad toy Godfather,!\" —
\"Yes, just like that! We had a feast on Christmas;
I went with a candle to feed the horses;
I must admit, my head was buzzing;
I somehow dropped the and barely saved myself;
And the yard and all the goods burned up.
Well, how are you?\" — \"Oh, Godfather, that\'s a bad thing!
And God must have been angry with me:
You see, I have no legs;
How I survived, I really think, is a miracle.
I also went to the icehouse for beer on Christmas,
And I must admit, I drank too much
Of polugaru with my friends;
And so that in my drunkenness I wouldn\'t set fire to myself,
So I blew out the candle completely:
But the devil pushed me down the stairs in the dark.
That made me not at all human,
And so I\'ve been a cripple ever since.\" -
\"Blame yourself, friends!\"
The matchmaker Stepan said to them: \"To tell the truth, I
Don\'t consider it a miracle at all,
That you burned down your yard, and you\'re on crutches:
For a drunk, even with a candle is bad;
But it\'s hardly worse in the dark.\"