The slow-witted people began to sew a boat. Summer is coming, we need to fish. Crafts in the barn. Now the boat is ready. Let's test how many people it can withstand. Ten people sat down - it can stand it, twenty - it can stand it. Ninety - also survived. Ninety-nine people climbed into the boat—everyone survived! Another man came, the hundredth one. And the beams in the barn were rotten, they broke, and they all fell down.
They say:
- This boat can only support ninety-nine people, no more!
They launched the boat into the water in the spring. All the men jumped into it at once. The boat drank water on one side, then the other, and sank. But no one knew how to swim, so they all drowned, poor fellows.
The Tugodumov men are hardworking and efficient people. But the trouble is, they didn’t always know what to do. So we went to the neighboring village to find out what the peasants there were doing. They take a look and take on the same work themselves and do everything according to their conscience.
One day in the middle of winter, a guy from Tugodumov went to a neighboring village. He walks along the lake and sees a man pouring ash on the ice so that the ice will melt faster; he wants to put a fence.
The guy asked the man what he was doing. And the man decided to make fun of him and said:
“Don’t you see, I’m sowing oats, they’ll germinate faster, and I’ll reap the harvest in the spring!”
The guy ran to his home in Tugodumovo and told what he had seen. Everyone was happy - the harvest would be harvested earlier. And they sowed all the oats in the snow. In spring, no seeds, no harvest!
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru