![]() ![]() His letters, and the lad learned in one year what it The lad was ten years old his parents had him taught Joy to his parents, for he was strong and labored ![]() Now the little lad began to grow up, and was a Godfather came likewise, and the child was christened.īut no sooner was the child christened than the god-įather went out, and none knew who he was, norįrom that time forth did any man see him. “Good! Depart in God’s name: to-morrow I willĪnd the next day the godmother came, and the My old age, and my beadsman who shall pray for my Muzhik, “the Lord hath given me a little child toīe the charge of my young manhood, the comfort of “Look now, my lord merchant,” replied the His horse in the courtyard, and the merchant himself Then the poor muzhik returned home, and went By to-morrow morning letĮverything be ready I will be at the christening.” Merchant? He will not let his daughter come, and Godfather,” said he, “how shall I go to the rich Shalt ask the merchant to let his daughter come out In the square at the entrance of this house thou Town to the stone house with the booths before it “For a godmother,” said the wayfaring man, “thou Thanked the wayfaring man, and said, “But whom “The Lord has given me a little child,” replied the muzhik, “to be the charge of my young manhood, the comfort of my old age, and the beadsman who shall pray for my soul when I am dead but because of my poverty nobody will be my child’s sponsor, so I go searching for a godfather.”Īnd the wayfaring man said unto him: “Take me “Hail to thee, little muzhik!” cried he, “whither away, in God’s name?” The muzhik set out for another village, and there met him on the road a wayfaring man, and the wayfaring man stopped and greeted him: He went round the whole village, and nobody would be a sponsor for him. Then the poor muzhik went to another neighbor, and he refused likewise. The neighbor refused he would not be a sponsor to a poor man’s child. The muzhik rejoiced, and went to his neighbor to beg him to be a sponsor for his child. 19.Ī poor muzhik had a son born unto him. “Ye have heard that it hath been said: an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth but I say unto you: That ye resist not evil.” Matt. ![]()
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