M. Gorky
Sparrows are exactly the same as people: adult sparrows and female sparrows are boring little birds and talk about everything as it is written in books, but young people live by their own minds.
Once upon a time there lived a yellow-throated sparrow, his name was Pudik, and he lived above the window of the bathhouse, behind the upper casing, in a warm nest made of tow, moths and other soft materials. He had not yet tried to fly, but he was already flapping his wings and kept looking out of the nest: he wanted to quickly find out what God’s world is and is it suitable for him?
- I'm sorry, what? - the mother sparrow asked him.
He shook his wings and, looking at the ground, chirped:
- Too black, too much!
Dad flew in, brought bugs to Pudik and boasted:
- Am I still alive? Mother Sparrow approved of him:
- Chiv, chiv!
And Pudik swallowed the bugs and thought: “What are they bragging about - they gave a worm with legs - a miracle!”
And he kept leaning out of the nest, looking at everything.
“Child, child,” the mother worried, “look, you’ll go crazy!”
- With what, with what? - Pudik asked.
“Nothing, but you’ll fall to the ground, cat—chick!” and gobble it up! - the father explained, flying off to hunt.
So everything went on, but the wings were in no hurry to grow.
One day the wind blew and Pudik asked:
- I'm sorry, what?
- The wind will blow on you - chirp! and throws it to the ground - to the cat! - explained the mother.
Pudik didn’t like this, so he said:
- Why do trees sway? Let them stop, then there will be no wind...
His mother tried to explain to him that this was not so, but he did not believe it - he liked to explain everything in his own way.
A man walks past the bathhouse, waving his arms.
“The cat tore off his wings,” said Pudik, “only the bones remained!”
- This is a man, they are all wingless! - said the sparrow.
- Why?
- They have such a rank that they can live without wings, they always jump on their feet, huh?
- If they had wings, they would catch us, like dad and I catch midges...
- Nonsense! - said Pudik. - Nonsense, nonsense! Everyone should have wings. It’s worse on the ground than in the air!.. When I grow up big, I’ll make everyone fly.
Pudik did not believe his mother; He didn’t yet know that if he didn’t trust his mother, it would end badly.
He sat on the very edge of the nest and sang poems of his own composition at the top of his lungs:
He sang and sang and fell out of the nest, and the sparrow followed him, and the cat - red, green eyes - was right there.
Pudik got scared, spread his wings, swayed on his gray legs and chirped:
- I have the honor, I have the honor...
And the sparrow pushes him aside, her feathers stood on end - scary, brave, her beak opened - aiming at the cat's eye.
- Get away, get away! Fly, Pudik, fly to the window, fly...
Fear lifted the sparrow from the ground, he jumped, flapped his wings - once, once and - on the window!
Then his mother flew up - without a tail, but in great joy, sat down next to him, pecked him on the back of the head and said:
- I'm sorry, what?
- Well! - said Pudik. - You can’t learn everything at once!
And the cat sits on the ground, cleaning sparrow feathers from her paw, looks at them - red, green eyes - and meows regretfully:
- Myaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaandaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalittle sparrow, it’s like we-yyshka... mea-alas...
And everything ended well, if you forget that mom was left without a tail...
Maxim Gorky (Peshkov Alexey Maksimovich) (1868-1936) - Russian writer, publicist, public figure. The founder of "socialist realism". Among the works of Maxim Gorky, readers of every age will find their own, and the names of the heroes of his “Song of the Falcon” and “Song of the Petrel” have become household names.
Fairy tale "Sparrow"
Sparrows are just like people: adult sparrows and female sparrows are boring little birds and talk about everything as it is written in books, but young people live by their own wits.
Once upon a time there lived a yellow-throated sparrow, his name was Pudik, and he lived above the window of the bathhouse, behind the upper casing, in a warm nest made of tow, flywheels and other soft materials. He had not yet tried to fly, but he was already flapping his wings and kept looking out of the nest: he wanted to quickly find out what God’s world is and is it suitable for him?
- I'm sorry, what? - the mother sparrow asked him.
He shook his wings and, looking at the ground, chirped:
- Too black, too much!
Dad flew in, brought bugs to Pudik and boasted:
- Am I still alive?
Mother Sparrow approved of him:
- Chiv, chiv!
And Pudik swallowed the bugs and thought: “What are they bragging about - they gave a worm with legs - a miracle!”
And he kept leaning out of the nest, looking at everything.
“Child, child,” the mother worried, “look, you’ll go crazy!”
- With what, with what? - Pudik asked.
“Nothing, but you’ll fall to the ground, cat—chick!” and gobble it up! - the father explained, flying off to hunt.
So everything went on, but the wings were in no hurry to grow.
One day the wind blew and Pudik asked:
- I'm sorry, what?
- The wind will blow on you - chirp! and throws it to the ground - to the cat! - explained the mother.
Pudik didn’t like this, so he said:
- Why do trees sway? Let them stop, then there will be no wind...
His mother tried to explain to him that this was not so, but he did not believe it - he liked to explain everything in his own way.
A man walks past the bathhouse, waving his arms.
“The cat tore off his wings,” said Pudik, “only the bones remained!”
- This is a man, they are all wingless! - said the sparrow.
- Why?
- They have such a rank that they can live without wings, they always jump on their feet, huh?
- If they had wings, they would catch us, like dad and I catch midges...
- Nonsense! - said Pudik. - Nonsense, nonsense! Everyone should have wings. It’s worse on the ground than in the air!.. When I grow up big, I’ll make everyone fly.
Pudik did not believe his mother; He didn’t yet know that if he didn’t trust his mother, it would end badly.
He sat on the very edge of the nest and sang poems of his own composition at the top of his lungs:
- Eh, wingless man,
You have two legs
Even though you are very great,
The midges are eating you!
And I'm very small
But I eat midges myself.
He sang and sang and fell out of the nest, and the sparrow followed him, and the cat was red, green eyes- right here.
Pudik got scared, spread his wings, swayed on his gray legs and chirped:
- I have the honor, I have the honor...
And the sparrow pushes him aside, her feathers stood on end - scary, brave, her beak opened - aiming at the cat's eye.
- Get away, get away! Fly, Pudik, fly to the window, fly...
Fear lifted the sparrow from the ground, he jumped, flapped his wings - once, once and - on the window!
Then his mother flew up - without a tail, but in great joy, sat down next to him, pecked him on the back of the head and said:
- I'm sorry, what?
- Well! - said Pudik. - You can’t learn everything at once!
And the cat sits on the ground, cleaning sparrow feathers from her paw, looks at them - red, green eyes - and meows regretfully:
- Myaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaandaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalittle sparrow, it’s like we-yyshka... mea-alas...
And everything ended well, if you forget that mom was left without a tail...
Sparrows are exactly the same as people: adult sparrows and female sparrows are boring little birds and talk about everything as it is written in books, but young people live by their own minds.
Once upon a time there lived a yellow-throated sparrow, his name was Pudik, and he lived above the window of the bathhouse, behind the upper casing, in a warm nest made of tow, moths and other soft materials. He had not yet tried to fly, but he was already flapping his wings and kept looking out of the nest: he wanted to quickly find out what God’s world is and is it suitable for him?
- I'm sorry, what? - the mother sparrow asked him.
He shook his wings and, looking at the ground, chirped:
- Too black, too much!
Dad flew in, brought bugs to Pudik and boasted:
- Am I still alive?
Mother Sparrow approved of him:
- Chiv, chiv!
And Pudik swallowed the bugs and thought: “What are they bragging about - they gave a worm with legs - a miracle!” And he kept leaning out of the nest, looking at everything.
“Child, child,” the mother worried, “look, you’ll go crazy!”
- With what, with what? - Pudik asked.
“Nothing, but you’ll fall to the ground, cat—chick!” and gobble it up! - the father explained, flying off to hunt.
So everything went on, but the wings were in no hurry to grow. One day the wind blew. Pudik asks:
- I'm sorry, what?
- Wind. He will blow on you - chirp! and throws it to the ground - to the cat! - explained the mother.
Pudik didn’t like this, so he said:
- Why do trees sway? Let them stop, then there will be no wind...
His mother tried to explain to him that this was not so, but he did not believe it - he liked to explain everything in his own way.
A man walks past the bathhouse, waving his arms.
“The cat tore off his wings,” said Pudik, “only the bones remained!”
- This is a man, they are all wingless! - said the sparrow.
- Why?
- They have such a rank that they can live without wings, they always jump on their feet, huh?
- For what?
- If they had wings, they would catch us, like dad and I catch midges...
- Nonsense! - said Pudik. - Nonsense, nonsense! Everyone should have wings. It’s worse on the ground than in the air!.. When I grow up big, I’ll make everyone fly.
Pudik did not believe his mother; He didn’t yet know that if he didn’t trust his mother, it would end badly. He sat on the very edge of the nest and sang poems of his own composition at the top of his lungs:
Eh, wingless man,
You have two legs
Even though you are very great,
The midges are eating you!
And I'm very small
But I eat midges myself.
He sang and sang and fell out of the nest, and the sparrow followed him, and the cat - red, green eyes - was right there.
Pudik got scared, spread his wings, swayed on his gray legs and chirped:
- I have the honor, I have the honor...
And the sparrow pushes him aside, her feathers stood on end - scary, brave, her beak opened - aiming at the cat's eye.
- Get away, get away! Fly, Pudik, fly to the window, fly...
Fear lifted the sparrow from the ground, he jumped, flapped his wings - once, once and - on the window! Then his mother flew up - without a tail, but in great joy, sat down next to him, pecked him on the back of the head and said:
- I'm sorry, what?
- Well! - said Pudik. - You can’t learn everything at once!
And the cat sits on the ground, cleaning sparrow feathers from her paw, looks at them - red, green eyes - and meows regretfully:
- Myaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaandaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalittle sparrow, it’s like we-yyshka... mea-alas...
And everything ended well, if you forget that mom was left without a tail...
Maksim Gorky
Stories and fairy tale
Sparrow
Sparrows are just like people: adult sparrows and female sparrows are boring little birds and talk about everything as it is written in books, but young people live by their own minds.
Once upon a time there lived a yellow-throated sparrow, his name was Pudik, and he lived above the window of the bathhouse, behind the upper casing, in a warm nest made of tow, flywheels and other soft materials. He had not yet tried to fly, but he was already flapping his wings and kept looking out of the nest: he wanted to quickly find out what God’s world is and is it suitable for him?
I'm sorry, what? - the mother sparrow asked him.
He shook his wings and, looking at the ground, chirped:
Too black, too much!
Dad flew in, brought bugs to Pudik and boasted:
Am I chiv?
Mother Sparrow approved of him:
Chiv-chiv!
And Pudik swallowed bugs and thought:
“What do they boast about - they gave a worm with legs - a miracle!”
And he kept leaning out of the nest, looking at everything.
Child, child,” the mother worried, “look, you’ll get crazy!”
What, what? - Pudik asked.
Not with anything, but you will fall to the ground, cat - chick! and - gobble it up! - explained the father, flying off to hunt.
So everything went on, but the wings were in no hurry to grow.
One day the wind blew - Pudik asked:
I'm sorry, what?
The wind will blow on you - teal! and throw it to the ground - to the cat! - explained the mother.
Pudik didn’t like this, so he said:
Why do trees sway? Let them stop, then there will be no wind...
His mother tried to explain to him that this was not so, but he did not believe it - he liked to explain everything in his own way.
A man walks past the bathhouse and waves his arms.
“The cat tore off his wings,” said Pudik, “only the bones remained!”
This is a man, they are all wingless! - said the sparrow.
They have such a rank that they can live without wings, they always jump on their feet, wow?
If they had wings, they would catch us like dad and I catch midges...
Nonsense! - said Pudik. - Nonsense, nonsense! Everyone should have wings. It’s worse on the ground than in the air!.. When I grow up big, I’ll make everyone fly.
Pudik did not believe his mother; He didn’t yet know that if he didn’t trust his mother, it would end badly.
He sat on the very edge of the nest and sang poems of his own composition at the top of his lungs:
Eh, wingless man,
You have two legs
Even though you are very great,
The midges are eating you!
And I'm very small
But I eat midges myself.
He sang and sang and fell out of the nest, and the sparrow followed him, and the cat - red, green eyes - was right there.
Pudik got scared, spread his wings, swayed on his gray legs and chirped:
I have the honor, I have the honor...
And the sparrow pushes him aside, her feathers stood on end - scary, brave, her beak opened, aiming at the cat's eye.
Away, away! Fly, Pudik, fly to the window, fly...
Fear lifted the sparrow from the ground, he jumped, flapped his wings - once, once, and - on the window!
Then his mother flew up - without a tail, but in great joy, sat down next to him, pecked him on the back of the head and said:
I'm sorry, what?
Well! - said Pudik. - You can’t learn everything at once!
And the cat sits on the ground, cleaning the feathers from the sparrow’s paw, looks at them - red, green eyes - and meows regretfully:
My-oh, such a sparrow, like us-yshka... Me-alas...
And everything ended well, if you forget that mom was left without a tail...
About Ivanushka the Fool
RUSSIAN FOLKTALE
Once upon a time there lived Ivanushka the Fool, a handsome man, but no matter what he did, everything came out funny for him, not like other people.
One man hired him as a worker, and he and his wife went to the city; wife and says to Ivanushka:
You stay with the children, look after them, feed them!
With what? - asks Ivanushka.
Take water, flour, potatoes, crumble and cook - there will be a stew!
The man orders:
Guard the door so that the children do not run away into the forest!
The man and his wife left; Ivanushka climbed onto the floor, woke up the children, dragged them to the floor, sat down behind them and said:
Well, I'm watching you!
The children sat on the floor for a while and asked for food; Ivanushka dragged a tub of water into the hut, poured half a sack of flour and a measure of potatoes into it, shook it all out with a rocker and thought out loud:
Who needs to be chopped?
The children heard it and got scared:
He'll probably crush us!
And they quietly ran away from the hut.
Ivanushka looked after them, scratched the back of his head, and realized:
How am I going to look after them now? Moreover, the door must be guarded so that she does not run away!
He looked into the tub and said:
Cook, stew, and I’ll go look after the children!
He took the door off its hinges, put it on his shoulders and went into the forest; suddenly a bear steps towards him - surprised, growls:
Hey, why are you carrying the tree into the forest?
Ivanushka told him what happened to him - the bear sat down on hind legs and laughs:
What a fool you are! I'll eat you for this!
And Ivanushka says:
You’d better eat the children, so that next time they listen to their father and mother and don’t run into the forest!
The bear laughs even harder and rolls on the ground laughing!
I've never seen such a stupid thing! Let's go, I'll show you to my wife!
He took him to his den. Ivanushka walks and hits the pine trees with the door.
Give it up! - says the bear.
No, I am true to my word: I promised to save it, so I will.
We came to the den. The bear says to his wife:
Look, Masha, what a fool I brought you! Laughter!
And Ivanushka asks the bear:
Aunt, have you seen the kids?
Mine are at home, sleeping.
Come on, show me if these are mine?
The mother bear showed him three cubs; He says:
Not these, I had two.
Then the bear sees that he is stupid and laughs too:
But you had human children!
Well, yes,” said Ivanushka, “you can sort them out, little ones, which ones are whose!”
That's funny! - the bear was surprised and said to her husband:
Mikhailo Potapych, we won’t eat him, let him live among our workers!
Okay,” the bear agreed, “even though he’s a person, he’s too harmless!”
The bear gave Ivanushka a basket and ordered:
Go pick some wild raspberries, the kids will wake up, I’ll treat them to something delicious!
Okay, I can do this! - said Ivanushka. - And you guard the door!
Ivanushka went to the forest raspberry patch, picked a basket full of raspberries, ate his fill, went back to the bears and sang at the top of his lungs:
Oh, how awkward
Ladybugs!
Is it the ants?
Or lizards!
He came to the den and shouted:
Here it is, raspberry!
The cubs ran up to the basket, growled, pushed each other, tumbled - they were very happy!
And Ivanushka, looking at them, says:
Ehma, it’s a pity that I’m not a bear, otherwise I would have children.
The bear and his wife laugh.
Oh, my fathers! - the bear growls. - You can’t live with him, you’ll die laughing!
That’s it,” says Ivanushka, “you guard the door here, and I’ll go look for the kids, otherwise the owner will give me trouble!”
And the bear asks her husband:
Misha, you should have helped him!
“We need to help,” the bear agreed, “he’s very funny!”
The bear and Ivanushka went along the forest paths, they walked and talked in a friendly way:
Well, you are stupid! - the bear is surprised, and Ivanushka asks him:
Are you smart?
Don't know.
And I don't know. You're evil?
No. For what?
But in my opinion, whoever is angry is stupid. I'm not evil either. Therefore, you and I will both not be fools.
Look how you brought it out! - the bear was surprised.
Suddenly they see two children sitting under a bush, asleep.
The bear asks:
Are these yours, or what?
I don’t know,” says Ivanushka, “we need to ask them.” Mine - they wanted to eat.
They woke up the children and asked:
Are you hungry?
They shout:
We've been wanting it for a long time!
Well,” said Ivanushka, “that means these are mine!” Now I will lead them to the village, and you, uncle, please bring the door, otherwise I don’t have time myself, I still need to cook the stew!
Okay! - said the bear. - I'll bring it!
Ivanushka walks behind the children, looks after them, as he was ordered, and he himself sings:
Eh, such miracles!
The beetles catch the hare.
A fox sits under a bush,
Very surprised!
I came to the hut, and the owners returned from the city, they saw: in the middle of the hut there was a tub, filled to the top with water, filled with potatoes and flour, there were no children, the door was also missing - they sat down on the bench and cried bitterly.
The fairy tale “Sparrow” by Maxim Gorky was written in 1912. It was first published in the collection of fairy tales “The Blue Book”, published by O. Popova, St. Petersburg. 1912, and as a separate book by the Parus publishing house, Petrograd 1917. Not included in collected works. On this page of our website you can read the text of the fairy tale.
Fairy tale "Sparrow" read online
Sparrows are exactly the same as people: adult sparrows and female sparrows are boring little birds and talk about everything as it is written in books, but young people live by their own minds.
Once upon a time there lived a yellow-throated sparrow, his name was Pudik, and he lived above the window of the bathhouse, behind the upper casing, in a warm nest made of tow, moths and other soft materials. He had not yet tried to fly, but he was already flapping his wings and kept looking out of the nest: he wanted to quickly find out what God’s world is and is it suitable for him?
- I'm sorry, what? - the mother sparrow asked him.
He shook his wings and, looking at the ground, chirped:
- Too black, too much!
Dad flew in, brought bugs to Pudik and boasted:
- Am I still alive? Mother Sparrow approved of him:
- Chiv, chiv!
And Pudik swallowed the bugs and thought: “What are they bragging about - they gave a worm with legs - a miracle!”
And he kept leaning out of the nest, looking at everything.
“Child, child,” the mother worried, “look, you’ll go crazy!”
- With what, with what? - Pudik asked.
“Nothing, but you’ll fall to the ground, cat—chick!” and gobble it up! - the father explained, flying off to hunt.
So everything went on, but the wings were in no hurry to grow.
One day the wind blew and Pudik asked:
- I'm sorry, what?
- The wind will blow on you - chirp! and throws it to the ground - to the cat! - explained the mother.
Pudik didn’t like this, so he said:
- Why do trees sway? Let them stop, then there will be no wind...
His mother tried to explain to him that this was not so, but he did not believe it - he liked to explain everything in his own way.
A man walks past the bathhouse, waving his arms.
“The cat tore off his wings,” said Pudik, “only the bones remained!”
- This is a man, they are all wingless! - said the sparrow.
- Why?
- They have such a rank that they can live without wings, they always jump on their feet, huh?
- If they had wings, they would catch us, like dad and I catch midges...
- Nonsense! - said Pudik. - Nonsense, nonsense! Everyone should have wings. It’s worse on the ground than in the air!.. When I grow up big, I’ll make everyone fly.
Pudik did not believe his mother; He didn’t yet know that if he didn’t trust his mother, it would end badly.
He sat on the very edge of the nest and sang poems of his own composition at the top of his lungs:
Eh, wingless man,
You have two legs
Even though you are very great,
The midges are eating you!
And I'm very small
But I eat midges myself.
He sang and sang and fell out of the nest, and the sparrow followed him, and the cat - red, green eyes - was right there.
Pudik got scared, spread his wings, swayed on his gray legs and chirped:
- I have the honor, I have the honor...
And the sparrow pushes him aside, her feathers stood on end - scary, brave, her beak opened - aiming at the cat's eye.
- Get away, get away! Fly, Pudik, fly to the window, fly...
Fear lifted the sparrow from the ground, he jumped, flapped his wings - once, once and - on the window!
Then his mother flew up - without a tail, but in great joy, sat down next to him, pecked him on the back of the head and said:
- I'm sorry, what?
- Well! - said Pudik. - You can’t learn everything at once!
And the cat sits on the ground, cleaning sparrow feathers from her paw, looks at them - red, green eyes - and meows regretfully:
- Myaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaandaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalittle sparrow, it’s like we-yyshka... mea-alas...
And everything ended well, if you forget that mom was left without a tail...
