Vsevolod Garshin “The Fairy Tale That Which Didn’t Happen.” A fairy tale is something that never happened, read What a fairy tale is about, something that never happened
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This tale is either a dream or a vision, inspired by the terrible heat in the afternoon.
It was as if humanized insects had gathered in a circle to talk about what life is. Everyone has their own point of view. For example, the dung beetle spends its entire life working, and proudly believes that one should act “as it should.” And he teaches this to his children! A sort of wealthy peasant. Only the worker ant, practically a proletarian, reproaches him for the fact that the beetle is trying for itself. The ant works for the team all his life, but does not feel much joy. The grasshopper objects to both.
It’s good to work, of course, but you can also chat with pleasure. He looks like a man of art. The caterpillar also speaks out, but nothing interests it now, because “after death” it will become a butterfly. Everyone respects the issue of the reincarnation of this “spiritual young lady.”
An old horse suddenly enters the conversation. His life represents something that insects could not understand: miles, villages, cities... Then a man comes for the horse. And he attacks the entire honest company! And the lizard's tail. That is why the lizard can proudly say that they tore off her tail, which remained disfigured when she wanted to say the most important thing.
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One fine June day - and it was beautiful because it was twenty-eight degrees Reaumur - one fine June day it was hot everywhere, and in the clearing in the garden, where there was a shock of recently mown hay, it was even hotter, because The place was sheltered from the wind by thick, thick cherry trees. Everything was almost asleep: people had eaten their food and were engaged in afternoon side activities; the birds fell silent, even many insects hid from the heat. There is nothing to say about domestic animals: large and small livestock hid under the canopy; the dog, having dug a hole under the barn, lay down there and, half-closing his eyes, breathed intermittently, sticking out his pink tongue almost half an arshin; sometimes she, apparently from melancholy arising from the deadly heat, yawned so much that a thin squeal was even heard; the pigs, a mother with thirteen children, went to the shore and lay down in the black, greasy mud, and from the mud only snoring and snoring pig snouts with two holes, elongated backs covered in mud and huge drooping ears were visible. Some chickens, not afraid of the heat, somehow killed time, raking with their paws the dry soil opposite the kitchen porch, in which, as they knew very well, there was no longer a single grain; and even then the rooster must have had a bad time, because sometimes he looked stupid and shouted at the top of his lungs: “what a ska-an-da-al!”
So we left the clearing where it was hottest, and in this clearing sat a whole society of sleepless gentlemen. That is, not everyone was sitting; the old bay, for example, raking a haystack with his sides at risk from the whip of coachman Anton, being a horse, did not even know how to sit; The caterpillar of some butterfly also did not sit, but rather lay on its stomach: but the point is not in the word. A small but very serious company had gathered under the cherry tree: a snail, a dung beetle, a lizard, the aforementioned caterpillar; the grasshopper galloped up. An old bay man stood nearby, listening to their speeches with one bay ear turned towards them with dark gray hair sticking out from the inside; and two flies were sitting on the bay.
The company argued politely, but rather animatedly, and, as it should be, no one agreed with anyone, since everyone valued the independence of their opinion and character.
“In my opinion,” said the dung beetle, “a decent animal should first of all take care of its offspring.” Life is work for the future generation. He who consciously fulfills the duties assigned to him by nature stands on solid ground: he knows his business, and no matter what happens, he will not be responsible. Look at me: who works harder than I? Who spends whole days without rest rolling such a heavy ball - a ball that I so skillfully created from dung, with the great goal of giving the opportunity to grow new dung beetles like me? But I don’t think that anyone would be so calm in conscience and with a pure heart could say: “yes, I did everything I could and should have done,” as I will say when new dung beetles are born. This is what work means!
- Go away, brother, with your work! - said the ant, who, during the speech of the dung beetle, dragged along, despite the heat, a monstrous piece of dry stem. He stopped for a minute, sat down on his four hind legs, and wiped the sweat from his exhausted face with his two front legs. “And I work harder than you do.” But you work for yourself or, anyway, for your bugs; not everyone is so happy... You should try to carry logs for the treasury, like me. I myself don’t know what makes me work, exhausted, even in such heat. “No one will say thank you for this.” We, unfortunate worker ants, are all working, but what makes our life so special? Fate!..
“You, dung beetle, are too dry, and you, ant, look at life too gloomily,” the grasshopper objected to them. - No, beetle, I like to chatter and jump, and that’s okay! Conscience doesn't bother you! Moreover, you did not touch at all on the question posed by the lady lizard: she asked, “What is the world?”, and you are talking about your ball of dung; It's not even polite. Peace - peace, in my opinion, is a very good thing simply because it has young grass, sun and breeze for us. Yes, and he is great! You here, between these trees, cannot have any idea how big it is. When I am in the field, I sometimes jump as high as I can and, I assure you, I reach a great height. And from her I see that the world has no end.
“That’s right,” the bay man confirmed thoughtfully. “But all of you still won’t see even a hundredth part of what I have seen in my lifetime.” It’s a pity that you can’t understand what a mile is... A mile away from here there is the village of Luparevka: I go there every day with a barrel for water. But they never feed me there. And on the other side are Efimovka, Kislyakovka; there is a church with bells in it. And then Holy Trinity, and then Epiphany. In Bogoyavlensk they always give me hay, but the hay there is bad. But in Nikolaev - this is such a city, twenty-eight miles from here - they have better hay and oats, but I don’t like to go there: the master drives us there and tells the coachman to drive, and the coachman whips us painfully with a whip... Otherwise there is also Aleksandrovka, Belozerka, Kherson-city too... But how can you understand all this!.. This is what the world is; not all of it, let’s say, but still a significant part.
And the bay fell silent, but his lower lip was still moving, as if he were whispering something. This was due to old age: he was already seventeen years old, and for a horse this is the same as seventy-seven for a person.
“I don’t understand your tricky horse words, and, to be honest, I don’t chase them,” said the snail. “I could use some burdock, but that’s enough: I’ve been crawling for four days now, and it still doesn’t end.” And behind this burdock there is another burdock, and in that burdock there is probably another snail. That's it for you. And there is no need to jump anywhere - all this is fiction and nonsense; sit and eat the leaf you are sitting on. If I weren’t too lazy to crawl, I would have left you long ago with your conversations; They give you a headache and nothing else.
- No, excuse me, why? - interrupted the grasshopper, - it’s very pleasant to chatter, especially about such good items, like infinity and so on. Of course, there are practical people who only care about filling their bellies, like you or this lovely caterpillar...
- Oh, no, leave me, I beg you, leave me, don’t touch me! - the caterpillar exclaimed pitifully: - I do this for a future life, only for a future life.
- What kind of future life is there for? - asked the bay.
“Don’t you know that after death I will become a butterfly with colorful wings?”
The bay, the lizard and the snail did not know it, but the insects had some idea. And everyone was silent for a while, because no one knew how to say anything worthwhile about the future life.
“Strong convictions must be respected,” the grasshopper finally crackled. “Does anyone want to say anything else?” Maybe you? - he turned to the flies, and the eldest of them answered:
“We can’t say that it’s bad for us.” We're just out of the rooms now; The lady placed the boiled jam in bowls, and we climbed under the lid and ate our fill. We are glad. Our mother is stuck in jam, but what can we do? She's already lived long enough in the world. And we are happy.
“Gentlemen,” said the lizard, “I think that you are all absolutely right!” But in other way…
But the lizard never said what was on the other side, because she felt something firmly pressing her tail to the ground.
It was the awakened coachman Anton who came for the bay; he accidentally stepped on the company with his boot and crushed it. Some flies flew off to suck on their dead mother, covered in jam, and the lizard ran away with its tail torn off. Anton took the bay by the forelock and led him out of the garden to harness him into a barrel and go for water, saying: “Well, go away, little tail!” To which the bay answered only in a whisper.
And the lizard was left without a tail. True, after a while he grew up, but forever remained somehow dull and blackish. And when the lizard was asked how it injured its tail, it modestly answered:
“They tore it off for me because I decided to express my convictions.”
And she was absolutely right.
Information for parents: Vsevolod Garshin wrote a cautionary tale"What didn't happen." In it, through a conversation between insects and animals, he teaches that everyone sees the world in their own way. For one, a “burdock leaf” is enough, while for another, spacious fields are needed. The short fairy tale “What Didn’t Happen” is useful to read to children aged 4 to 7 years. You can read it before bed.
Read the fairy tale What Didn't Happen
One fine June day - and it was beautiful because it was twenty-eight degrees Reaumur - one fine June day it was hot everywhere, and in the clearing in the garden, where there was a shock of recently mown hay, it was even hotter, because The place was sheltered from the wind by thick, thick cherry trees. Everything was almost asleep: people had eaten their food and were engaged in afternoon side activities; the birds fell silent, even many insects hid from the heat. There is nothing to say about domestic animals: large and small livestock hid under the canopy; the dog, having dug a hole under the barn, lay down there and, half-closing his eyes, breathed intermittently, sticking out his pink tongue almost half an arshin; sometimes she, apparently from melancholy arising from the deadly heat, yawned so much that a thin squeal was even heard; the pigs, a mother with thirteen children, went to the shore and lay down in the black, greasy mud, and from the mud only snoring and snoring pig snouts with two holes, elongated backs covered in mud and huge drooping ears were visible. Some chickens, not afraid of the heat, somehow killed time, raking with their paws the dry soil opposite the kitchen porch, in which, as they knew very well, there was no longer a single grain; and even then the rooster must have had a bad time, because sometimes he looked stupid and shouted at the top of his lungs: “what a ska-an-da-al!”
So we left the clearing where it was hottest, and in this clearing sat a whole society of gentlemen who had not slept. That is, not everyone was sitting; the old bay, for example, raking a haystack with his sides at risk from the whip of coachman Anton, being a horse, did not even know how to sit; The caterpillar of some butterfly also did not sit, but rather lay on its stomach: but the point is not in the word. A small but very serious company had gathered under the cherry tree: a snail, a dung beetle, a lizard, the aforementioned caterpillar; the grasshopper galloped up. An old bay man stood nearby, listening to their speeches with one bay ear turned towards them with dark gray hair sticking out from the inside; and two flies were sitting on the bay.
The company argued politely, but rather animatedly, and, as it should be, no one agreed with anyone, since everyone valued the independence of their opinion and character.
“In my opinion,” said the dung beetle, “a decent animal should first of all take care of its offspring.” Life is work for the future generation. He who consciously fulfills the duties assigned to him by nature stands on solid ground: he knows his business, and no matter what happens, he will not be responsible. Look at me: who works harder than I? Who spends whole days without rest rolling such a heavy ball - a ball that I so skillfully created from dung, with the great goal of giving the opportunity to grow new dung beetles like me? But I don’t think that anyone would be so calm in conscience and with a pure heart could say: “yes, I did everything I could and should have done,” as I will say when new dung beetles are born. This is what work means!
- Go away, brother, with your work! - said the ant, who during the speech of the dung beetle, despite the heat, dragged a monstrous piece of dry stem. He stopped for a minute, sat down on his four hind legs, and wiped the sweat from his exhausted face with his two front legs. “And I work harder than you do.” But you work for yourself or, anyway, for your bugs; not everyone is so happy... You should try to carry logs for the treasury, like me. I myself don’t know what makes me work, exhausted, even in such heat. “No one will say thank you for this.” We, unfortunate worker ants, are all working, but what makes our life so special? Fate!..
“You, dung beetle, are too dry, and you, ant, look at life too gloomily,” the grasshopper objected to them. - No, bug, I like to chatter and jump, and that’s okay! Conscience doesn't bother you! Moreover, you did not touch at all on the question posed by the lady lizard: she asked, “What is the world?”, and you are talking about your ball of dung; It's not even polite. Peace - peace, in my opinion, is a very good thing, simply because it has young grass, sun and breeze for us. Yes, and he is great! You here, between these trees, cannot have any idea how big it is. When I am in the field, I sometimes jump as high as I can and, I assure you, I reach a great height. And from it I see that the world has no end.
“That’s right,” the bay man confirmed thoughtfully. “But all of you still won’t see even a hundredth part of what I have seen in my lifetime.” It’s a pity that you can’t understand what a mile is... A mile away from here there is the village of Luparevka: I go there every day with a barrel for water. But they never feed me there. And on the other side - Efimovka, Kislyakovka; there is a church with bells in it. And then Holy Trinity, and then Epiphany. In Bogoyavlensk they always give me hay, but the hay there is bad. But in Nikolaev - this is such a city, twenty-eight miles from here - they have better hay and oats, but I don’t like to go there: the master rides us there and tells the coachman to drive, and the coachman whips us painfully with a whip... Otherwise there is also Aleksandrovka, Belozerka, Kherson-city too... But how can you understand all this!.. This is what the world is; not all of it, let’s say, but still a significant part.
And the bay fell silent, but his lower lip was still moving, as if he were whispering something. This was due to old age: he was already seventeen years old, and for a horse this is the same as seventy-seven for a person.
“I don’t understand your tricky horse words, and, to be honest, I don’t chase them,” said the snail. “I could use a burdock, but that’s enough: I’ve been crawling for four days now, and it still doesn’t end.” And behind this burdock there is another burdock, and in that burdock there is probably another snail. That's it for you. And there is no need to jump anywhere - all this is fiction and nonsense; sit and eat the leaf you are sitting on. If I weren’t too lazy to crawl, I would have left you long ago with your conversations; They give you a headache and nothing else.
- No, excuse me, why? - interrupted the grasshopper, - it’s very pleasant to chatter, especially about such good subjects as infinity and so on. Of course, there are practical people who only care about filling their bellies, like you or this lovely caterpillar...
- Oh, no, leave me, I beg you, leave me, don’t touch me! - the caterpillar exclaimed pitifully: - I do this for a future life, only for a future life.
- What other future life is there for? - asked the bay.
“Don’t you know that after death I will become a butterfly with colorful wings?”
The bay, the lizard and the snail did not know it, but the insects had some idea. And everyone was silent for a while, because no one knew how to say anything worthwhile about the future life.
“Strong convictions must be treated with respect,” the grasshopper finally crackled. - Does anyone want to say anything else? Maybe you? - he turned to the flies, and the eldest of them answered:
“We can’t say that it’s bad for us.” We're just out of the rooms now; The lady placed the boiled jam in bowls, and we climbed under the lid and ate our fill. We are glad. Our mother is stuck in jam, but what can we do? She's already lived long enough in the world. And we are happy.
“Gentlemen,” said the lizard, “I think that you are all absolutely right!” But in other way…
But the lizard never said what was on the other side, because she felt something firmly pressing her tail to the ground.
It was the awakened coachman Anton who came for the bay; he accidentally stepped on the company with his boot and crushed it. Some flies flew off to suck on their dead mother, covered in jam, and the lizard ran away with its tail torn off. Anton took the bay by the forelock and led him out of the garden to harness him in a barrel and go for water, and said: “Well, go away, tail!” To which the bay answered only in a whisper.
And the lizard was left without a tail. True, after a while he grew up, but forever remained somehow dull and blackish. And when the lizard was asked how it injured its tail, it modestly answered:
“They tore it off for me because I decided to express my convictions.”
And she was absolutely right.
One fine June day - and it was beautiful because it was twenty-eight degrees Reaumur - one fine June day it was hot everywhere, and in the clearing in the garden, where there was a shock of recently mown hay, it was even hotter, because The place was sheltered from the wind by thick, very thick cherry trees. Everything was almost asleep: people had eaten their food and were engaged in afternoon side activities; the birds fell silent, even many insects hid from the heat.
There is nothing to say about domestic animals: large and small livestock hid under the canopy; the dog, having dug a hole under the barn, lay down there and, half-closing his eyes, breathed intermittently, sticking out his pink tongue almost half an arshin; sometimes she, apparently from melancholy arising from the deadly heat, yawned so much that a thin squeal was even heard; the pigs, a mother with thirteen children, went to the shore and lay down in the black, greasy mud, and from the mud only snoring and snoring pig snouts with two holes, elongated backs covered in mud and huge drooping ears were visible. Some chickens, not afraid of the heat, somehow killed time, raking with their paws the dry soil opposite the kitchen porch, in which, as they knew very well, there was no longer a single grain; and even then the rooster must have had a bad time, because sometimes he looked stupid and shouted at the top of his lungs: “what a ska-an-da-al!”
So we left the clearing where it was hottest, and in this clearing sat a whole society of gentlemen who had not slept. That is, not everyone was sitting; the old bay, for example, raking a haystack with his sides at risk from the whip of coachman Anton, being a horse, did not even know how to sit; The caterpillar of some butterfly was also not sitting, but rather lying on its stomach: but the point is not in the word. A small but very serious company had gathered under the cherry tree: a snail, a dung beetle, a lizard, the aforementioned caterpillar; the grasshopper galloped up. An old bay man stood nearby, listening to their speeches with one bay ear turned towards them with dark gray hair sticking out from the inside; and two flies were sitting on the bay.
The company argued politely, but rather animatedly, and, as it should be, no one agreed with anyone, since everyone valued the independence of their opinion and character.
“In my opinion,” said the dung beetle, “a decent animal should first of all take care of its offspring.” Life is work for the future generation. He who consciously fulfills the duties assigned to him by nature stands on solid ground: he knows his business, and no matter what happens, he will not be responsible. Look at me: who works harder than I? Who spends whole days without rest rolling such a heavy ball - a ball that I so skillfully created from dung, with the great goal of giving the opportunity to grow new dung beetles like me? But I don’t think that anyone would be so calm in conscience and with a pure heart could say: “yes, I did everything I could and should have done,” as I will say when new dung beetles are born. This is what work means!
- Go away, brother, with your work! - said the ant, who, during the speech of the dung beetle, dragged along, despite the heat, a monstrous piece of dry stem. He stopped for a minute, sat down on his four hind legs, and wiped the sweat from his exhausted face with his two front legs. “And I work harder than you do.” But you work for yourself or, anyway, for your bugs; not everyone is so happy... You should try to carry logs for the treasury, like me. I myself don’t know what makes me work, exhausted, even in such heat. “No one will say thank you for this.” We, unfortunate worker ants, are all working, but what makes our life so special? Fate!..
“You, dung beetle, are too dry, and you, ant, look at life too gloomily,” the grasshopper objected to them. - No, beetle, I like to chatter and jump, and that’s okay! Conscience doesn't bother you! Moreover, you did not touch at all on the question posed by the lady lizard: she asked, “What is the world?”, and you are talking about your ball of dung; It's not even polite. Peace - peace, in my opinion, is a very good thing simply because it has young grass, sun and breeze for us. Yes, and he is great! You here, between these trees, cannot have any idea how big it is. When I am in the field, I sometimes jump as high as I can and, I assure you, I reach a great height. And from her I see that the world has no end.
“That’s right,” the bay man confirmed thoughtfully. “But all of you still won’t see even a hundredth part of what I have seen in my lifetime.” It’s a pity that you can’t understand what a mile is... A mile away from here there is the village of Luparevka: I go there every day with a barrel for water. But they never feed me there. And on the other side are Efimovka, Kislyakovka; there is a church with bells in it. And then Holy Trinity, and then Epiphany. In Bogoyavlensk they always give me hay, but the hay there is bad. But in Nikolaev - this is such a city, twenty-eight miles from here - they have better hay and oats, but I don’t like to go there: the master drives us there and tells the coachman to drive, and the coachman whips us painfully with a whip... Otherwise there is also Aleksandrovka, Belozerka, Kherson-city too... But how can you understand all this!.. This is what the world is; not all of it, let’s say, but still a significant part.
And the bay fell silent, but his lower lip was still moving, as if he were whispering something. This was due to old age: he was already seventeen years old, and for a horse this is the same as seventy-seven for a person.
“I don’t understand your tricky horse words, and, to be honest, I don’t chase them,” said the snail. “I could use some burdock, but that’s enough: I’ve been crawling for four days now, and it still doesn’t end.” And behind this burdock there is another burdock, and in that burdock there is probably another snail. That's it for you. And there is no need to jump anywhere - all this is fiction and nonsense; sit and eat the leaf you are sitting on. If I weren’t too lazy to crawl, I would have left you long ago with your conversations; They give you a headache and nothing else.
- No, excuse me, why? - the grasshopper interrupted, - it’s very pleasant to chatter, especially about such good subjects as infinity and so on. Of course, there are practical people who only care about filling their bellies, like you or this lovely caterpillar...
- Oh, no, leave me, I beg you, leave me, don’t touch me! - the caterpillar exclaimed pitifully: - I do this for a future life, only for a future life.
- What kind of future life is there for? - asked the bay.
“Don’t you know that after death I will become a butterfly with colorful wings?”
The bay, the lizard and the snail did not know it, but the insects had some idea. And everyone was silent for a while, because no one knew how to say anything worthwhile about the future life.
“Strong convictions must be respected,” the grasshopper finally crackled. “Does anyone want to say anything else?” Maybe you? - he turned to the flies, and the eldest of them answered:
“We can’t say that it’s bad for us.” We're just out of the rooms now; The lady placed the boiled jam in bowls, and we climbed under the lid and ate our fill. We are glad. Our mother is stuck in jam, but what can we do? She's already lived long enough in the world. And we are happy.
“Gentlemen,” said the lizard, “I think that you are all absolutely right!” But in other way…
But the lizard never said what was on the other side, because she felt something firmly pressing her tail to the ground.
It was the awakened coachman Anton who came for the bay; he accidentally stepped on the company with his boot and crushed it. Some flies flew off to suck on their dead mother, covered in jam, and the lizard ran away with its tail torn off. Anton took the bay by the forelock and led him out of the garden to harness him into a barrel and go for water, saying: “Well, go away, little tail!” To which the bay answered only in a whisper.
And the lizard was left without a tail. True, after a while he grew up, but forever remained somehow dull and blackish. And when the lizard was asked how it injured its tail, it modestly answered:
“They tore it off for me because I decided to express my convictions.”
And she was absolutely right.
