
Let the wife console them!īut there were no troubles in the village. But consoling sufferings - count him out. If something is needed to be made of wood - a table, a chest of drawers, a closet - everyone asks Pahom. Pahom thought that anyone could hardly get caress from him. “What’s so amazing, a man needs affection! What is your caress?” “Wife, how do you seduce them?” They don’t want to talk to me, but they’re turning to you!” Well, they’re going to talk to Terra, and what? And they left satisfied. Pahom didn’t understand how his wife could help them. “They’d lost not all of their conscience! So, they went home.”Īnd neighbors always went to his wife… If anyone in trouble, everyone went to Terra at once. The men moved back and disappeared behind the door, and their chief crawled out. “I’m sorry, mistress! We’re not up to that! We just wanted to have fun!” And his legs stopped to hold him, he sat down on the floor and whined in a thin voice: Terrochka woke up and stared at their chief. “Get up host, feed us, and let your wife dancing and entertaining.” “Come on, come on! Everything’s alright! You’ve hurt a little bit! You took a steam bath - it was gone.”Īnd one night five men of a beastly kind fell into their hut… “How did that happen, wife? Is it your work?” He woke up in the morning - his leg doesn’t hurt. And then - to the bed, and she speaks whispering, and she strokes his leg… And the pain goes away, away… And Pahom falls asleep. Terrochka prepares the steam bath, with kvass - she prepared it herself! She waters it with kvass. There were a lot of different things… He is taken home on a cart - the leg was broken with a log on a felling.

Now Terra wanted to wait for the younger great-great-granddaughter Milochka before her last trip.Īnd Pahom was going through the cases of his life. Well, Pahom did not get discouraged, because he had daughters from the first wife, both of them were already married, and each of them had a couple of children: one daughter has sons, the other daughter has daughters, who have their children and grandchildren. How old she was, no one asked, but everyone understood the fact that more than she was about half a century. But they didn’t have children: Terrochka wasn’t young either. So a woman with the strange name Terra settled in his house, she became his new wife. Therefore, she remained with an inconsolable man, watched so that he did not commit suicide.

“I’m sorry, Pahom, I didn’t help your wife….” She thought she could save her, but she was late. She became ill with some unknown disease and burned down in three days The next day, Terra appeared, as if she knew where the patient was. It’s been a long time ago, about one hundred and fifty years, at least. He didn’t know much about his wife, and the main thing, he didn’t know how old she was. There was a reason that Terra didn’t want to discuss it with the old one. The angels are coming to me at night in my dreams, inviting me to the far, unknown way…” “All right,” granddad Pahom grumbled, “let’s wait a bit more. It’s too early for us! Here I’ll pickle cucumbers, make sour cabbage… And I have to wait for Milochka, I have to tell her everything… Get back to your stove bench and don’t get in the way!” “Don’t call me granny, I am too young for you?” his wife said, “I am no more than two hundred. “Granny! Granny!” granddad Pahom called his wife out, getting off the stove.
