Once upon a time there lived a blacksmith. Once he received a jug of milk for his work. I took the milk home, and on the road people gathered to talk. They saw the blacksmith and began to laugh. The blacksmith put the jug on the ground, looked at the jokers and said:
- You're laughing at me, right? So you’ll see: I’ll sell this jar of milk, buy a pig, it will grow up and bring me twelve more piglets. And each of them will give birth to twelve more children. Then I will sell them all, get rich and become your headman. You come to me with petitions, and I will kick you all out! That's it!..
And he kicked the milk jug! So you were left with nothing, poor fellow!
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru