Russian Fairy Tale

people of the defect. There was this boy, and called his wife at birth - by Ivan, on each hand, excess fingers, six fingers on each hand means. Otherwise, he did the other children and did not differ. They lived so live, while not zatuzhili. Found out about this wonder the Russian people - began to walk: rumored to dismiss, the boy's fingers with a pair of sixth fingers show, laugh at it, have fun, kids, small stones were thrown at him, over six Russian called a miracle. Laughed all over him, jeered. The old people used to say that even the sort of miracle tales did not say until now the Russian people. How long will briefly whether he had lived, happiness did not know, bitter tears at night, bathed the pillow, girls its not like helluva lot, honest people, too, a kind word uttered about him.

Worked our Ivan - boy sixth finger once a janitor. In the summer of posade sweeping, winter shovel snow cleaned. Happened at that time a wealthy foreign merchants - Bates no luck threw our exotic merchant deep in his finger splinter fir. It is true that doctors are noble but too clever, it quickly managed to pull out, washed finger, hand silk gauze shook and gave a decree - not to wet the hand, the it is not possible and not to touch move strongly. Willie Bates was wise, and he decided - on the one hand to roll the skis do not - in each hand a stick should be. So he stayed a full day in the room.

Walked, wandered, I thought ... He soon got bored. And I decided to write a letter to his longtime friend e too foreign a rich merchant. How to write and do not know. With one hand he was not accustomed to typing on the keyboard, and laziness.