For you, girl, my life will be easy - you won’t have to work as much as you will relax!
In the morning you will stand up, well, as expected, before the light. You will wash the hut, tidy up the yard, milk the cows, let them out for the cattle, tidy up the barn and - sleep and rest!
You cook breakfast, you warm the samovar, you feed my mother and me breakfast - sleep and rest!
You'll work in the field, or weed in the garden, and if in winter, you'll go get firewood or go get hay, and then sleep and rest!
You’ll cook dinner, bake pies: Mother and I will sit down for dinner, and you go to sleep and rest!
After dinner, wash the dishes, tidy up the hut, and go to sleep and rest!
When the time is right, you go to the forest to pick berries or mushrooms, or your mother sends you to town and you run away. It’s just a stone’s throw to the city, and it won’t be eight miles, and then go to sleep and rest!
You’ll run from the city and set up the samovar. Mother and I will drink tea, and you go to sleep and rest!
In the evening you will meet the cows, milk them, give them food, give them food and - sleep and rest!
You’ll cook the food, my mother and I will eat it, and you go to sleep and rest!
You apply water, chop wood - it’s done by tomorrow, and - sleep and rest!
You'll fix the beds and put mother and me to bed. And you, girl, sleep and rest all day long - what will you sleep at night?
At night you will spin, sweat, embroider, sew and again - sleep and rest!
Well, in the morning, wash the clothes that need to be darned and sewn and sleep and rest!
But, girl, it’s not for nothing. I will pay the money. Every year for a ruble! Think for yourself. One hundred years - one hundred rubles. You will become rich!
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru