The daughter is seven years old. Encyclopedia of fairy-tale characters: “Seven-year-old daughter” Seven-year-old daughter, what riddles are there

Two brothers were traveling: one poor, the other rich. Both have a horse - the poor one has a mare, the rich one has a gelding. They stopped for the night nearby. The poor man's mare gave birth to a foal at night; the foal rolled under the rich man's cart. He wakes up the poor man in the morning:

Get up, brother! My cart gave birth to a foal at night.

The brother stands up and says:

How is it possible for a cart to give birth to a foal? My mare brought this. Rich says:

If your mare had delivered, the foal would have been next to her!

They argued and went to the authorities. The rich gave the judges money, and the poor justified himself with words.

The matter reached the king himself. He ordered to call both brothers and asked them four riddles:

What is the strongest and fastest thing in the world? What's the fattest thing in the world? What's softest? And what's the cutest thing? And he gave them three days:

Come on the fourth and give me the answer!

The rich man thought and thought, remembered his godmother and went to her to ask for advice.

She sat him down at the table, began to treat him, and she asked:

Why are you so sad, kumanek?

Yes, the sovereign asked me four riddles, but gave me only three days.

What is it, tell me.

Here's what, godfather! The first riddle: what is stronger and faster than anything in the world?

What a mystery! My husband has a brown mare; no she's faster! If you hit him with a whip, he will catch up with the hare.

The second riddle: what is the fattest thing in the world?

Another year, the spotted hog feeds on us; He's become so fat that he can't stand up!

The third riddle: what is the softest thing in the world?

A well-known thing is a down jacket, you couldn’t imagine a softer one!

The fourth riddle: what is the cutest thing in the world?

My dearest granddaughter is Ivanushka!

Well, thank you, godfather! I taught you wisdom, I will never forget you.

And the poor brother burst into bitter tears and went home. His seven-year-old daughter meets him:

What are you sighing and shedding tears about, father?

How can I not sigh, how can I not shed tears? The king asked me four riddles that I would never be able to solve in my life.

Tell me what riddles.

And here’s what, daughter: what is the strongest and fastest in the world, what is the fattest, what is the softest and what is the cutest?

Go, father, and tell the king: the wind is strongest and fastest, the earth is fattest: whatever grows, whatever lives, the earth feeds! The softest thing is the hand: what a person does not lie on, but puts his hand under his head; and there is nothing sweeter in the world than sleep!

Both brothers came to the king - both the rich and the poor. The king listened to them and asked the poor man:

Did you get there yourself or who taught you? The poor man answers:

Your Royal Majesty! I have a seven-year-old daughter, she taught me.

When your daughter is wise, here is a thread of silk for her; Let him weave a patterned towel for me by morning.

The man took the silk thread and came home sad and sad.

Our trouble! - says to his daughter. - The king ordered a towel to be woven from this thread.

Don't worry, father! - answered the seven-year-old; She broke off a twig from a broom, gave it to her father and punished him: “Go to the king, tell him to find the master who would make a cross from this twig: there would be something to weave a towel on!”

The man reported this to the king. The king gives him one and a half hundred eggs.

Give it, he says, to your daughter; let him hatch one hundred and fifty chickens for me by tomorrow.

The man returned home even sadder, even sadder:

Oh, daughter! If you dodge one trouble, another will come your way!

Don't worry, father! - answered the seven-year-old. She baked the eggs and hid them for lunch and dinner, and sent her father to the king:

Tell him that the chickens need one-day millet for food: in one day the field would be plowed, and the millet would be sown, harvested and threshed. Our chickens won’t even peck at any other millet.

The king listened and said:

When your daughter is wise, let her come to me herself in the morning - neither on foot, nor on horseback, neither naked, nor clothed, neither with a gift, nor without a gift.

“Well,” the man thinks, “my daughter won’t solve such a tricky problem; It’s time to completely disappear!”

Don't worry, father! - his seven-year-old daughter told him. - Go to the hunters and buy me a live hare and a live quail.

Her father went and bought her a hare and a quail.

The next day, in the morning, the seven-year-old girl took off all her clothes, put on a net, took a quail in her hands, sat astride a hare and rode to the palace.

The king meets her at the gate. She bowed to the king.

Here's a gift for you, sir! - and gives him a quail.

The king extended his hand, the quail fluttered - and flew away!

“Okay,” says the king, “as he ordered, so it was done.” Tell me now: after all, your father is poor, what do you feed on?

My father catches fish on the dry shore and doesn’t set traps in the water, but I wear fish with my hem and cook fish soup.

What are you, stupid, when a fish lives on a dry shore? Fish swims in water!

And you are smart! When have you seen a cart bring a foal?

The king decided to give the foal to the poor man, and took his daughter to him. When the seven-year-old grew up, he married her, and she became a queen.

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Two brothers were traveling: one poor, the other rich. Both have a horse - the poor one has a mare, the rich one has a gelding. They stopped for the night nearby. The poor man's mare gave birth to a foal at night; the foal rolled under the rich man's cart. He wakes up the poor man in the morning:

Get up, brother! My cart gave birth to a foal at night.

The brother stands up and says:

How is it possible for a cart to give birth to a foal? My mare brought this.

Rich says:

If your mare had delivered, the foal would have been nearby!

They argued and went to the authorities. The rich gave the judges money, and the poor justified himself with words.

The matter reached the king himself. He ordered to call both brothers and asked them four riddles:

What is the strongest and fastest thing in the world? What's the fattest thing in the world? What's softest? And what's the cutest thing?

And he gave them three days:

Come on the fourth and give me the answer!

The rich man thought and thought, remembered his godmother and went to her to ask for advice.

She sat him down at the table, began to treat him, and she asked:

Why are you so sad, kumanek?

Yes, the sovereign asked me four riddles, but gave me only three days.

What is it, tell me.

Here's what, godfather! The first riddle: what is stronger and faster than anything in the world?

What a mystery! My husband has a brown mare; no she's faster! If you hit him with a whip, he will catch up with the hare.

The second riddle: what is the fattest thing in the world?

Another year, the spotted hog feeds on us; He's become so fat that he can't stand up!

The third riddle: what is the softest thing in the world?

A well-known thing is a down jacket, you couldn’t imagine a softer one!

The fourth riddle: what is the cutest thing in the world?

My dearest granddaughter is Ivanushka!

Well, thank you, godfather! I taught you wisdom, I will never forget you.

And the poor brother burst into bitter tears and went home. His seven-year-old daughter meets him:

What are you sighing and shedding tears about, father?

How can I not sigh, how can I not shed tears? The king asked me four riddles that I would never be able to solve in my life.

Tell me what riddles.

And here’s what, daughter: what is the strongest and fastest in the world, what is the fattest, what is the softest and what is the cutest?

Go, father, and tell the king: the wind is strongest and fastest, the earth is fattest: whatever grows, whatever lives, the earth feeds! The softest thing is the hand: no matter what a person lies on, he still puts his hand under his head; and there is nothing sweeter in the world than sleep!

Both brothers came to the king - both the rich and the poor. The king listened to them and asked the poor man:

Did you get there yourself or who taught you?

The poor man answers:

Your Royal Majesty! I have a seven-year-old daughter, she taught me.

When your daughter is wise, here is a thread of silk for her; Let him weave a patterned towel for me by morning.

The man took the silk thread and came home sad and sad.

Our trouble! - says to his daughter. - The king ordered a towel to be woven from this thread.

Don't worry, father! - answered the seven-year-old girl, broke off a twig from a broom, gives it to her father and punishes: - Go to the king, tell him to find a master who would make a cross from this twig: there would be something to weave a towel on!

The man reported this to the king. The king gives him one and a half hundred eggs.

Give it, he says, to your daughter; let him hatch one hundred and fifty chickens for me by tomorrow.

The man returned home even sadder, even sadder:

Oh, daughter! If you dodge one trouble, another will come your way!

Don't worry, father! - answered the seven-year-old.

She baked the eggs and hid them for lunch and dinner, and sent her father to the king:

Tell him that the chickens need one-day millet for food: in one day the field would be plowed, the millet sown, harvested and threshed. Our chickens won’t even peck at any other millet.

The king listened and said:

When your daughter is wise, let her come to me in the morning, neither on foot nor on horseback, neither naked nor clothed, neither with a gift nor without a gift.

“Well,” the man thinks, “my daughter won’t solve such a tricky problem; It’s time to completely disappear!”

Don't worry, father! - his seven-year-old daughter told him. - Go to the hunters and buy me a live hare and a live quail.

Her father went and bought her a hare and a quail.

The next day, in the morning, the seven-year-old girl took off all her clothes, put on a net, took a quail in her hands, sat astride a hare and rode to the palace.

The king meets her at the gate. She bowed to the king.

Here's a gift for you, sir! - and gives him a quail.

The king extended his hand, the quail fluttered and flew away!

“Okay,” says the king, “as he ordered, so it was done.” Tell me now: after all, your father is poor, what do you feed on?

My father catches fish on the dry shore and doesn’t set traps in the water, but I wear fish with my hem and cook fish soup.

What are you, stupid, when a fish lives on a dry shore? Fish swims in water!

Are you smart? When have you seen a cart bring a foal?

The king decided to give the foal to the poor man, and took his daughter to him. When the seven-year-old grew up, he married her, and she became a queen.

“Russian folk tale with riddles “The Seven-Year-Old Daughter” The purpose of the lesson: delve into the features of the artistic world of everyday fairy tales, learn to see its hidden meaning.

Lesson objectives:

Educational: Arouse interest in everyday fairy tales and oral folk art.

Teach children to see the hidden subtext of a folk tale, its wisdom.

Developmental: Develop skills in analyzing literary texts, imaginative thinking.

Develop students' speech and expressive reading skills.

Include creative imagination atstudents.

Teach children to dialogue with the author

Educators:Feel proud of your folk culture, treat your living native language with care.

During the classes

1. Self-determination for activity (organizational moment)

Literature is a wonderful lesson

There is a lot of useful information in each of the lines.

Is it a fairy tale or a story,

You teach them - they teach you.

What goal do you set for yourself in a literary reading lesson?

( Learn to talk with a book

-Improve reading technique

-Learn to express your attitude to what you read.

-Describe the heroes of the works and give them characteristics

-Learn to answer questions correctly and competently

- Learn to work with a textbook and dictionaries.)

How would you like our lesson to be?? (Interesting, playful, fabulous, funny, amazing)

May this lesson bring us the joy of communication and

will fill our souls with wonderful feelings.

2. Updating knowledge.

There are many sad and funny fairy tales in the world

And we can’t live in the world without them

Let the heroes of fairy tales

Give us warmth

May it be good forever

Evil wins

What do you think the lesson will be about? (- About the fairy tale)

What do we call a fairy tale?(A fairy tale is a work of art in which there is fiction, elements of the wonderful, fantastic. A fairy tale necessarily teaches something.)

    Working with reference literature.

    Checking homework completion.

    Working with text before reading.

    Working with illustrations.

    Working with the text of a fairy tale while reading.

    Identifying the features of a fairy tale in the form of a conversation on the following questions:

    Drawing up a plan (block diagram) on pieces of paper.

    Work in a notebook (from 17) In pairs with a neighbor, complete the tasks in a notebook. (At the end of the work, mutual check in the group)

    Group creative research in small groups.Goal: compiling a baby book

Use the reference dictionary. Read out which work is called a fairy tale.

Where do we start when working with a dictionary? (From the alphabetical index of words p. 139.

- A fairy tale is a literary work where there is always a struggle between good and evil, honest, good always wins.)

What is the main theme of fairy tales? (- The fight between good and evil)

What kind of fairy tales are there?(author's, folk), (magical, everyday, about animals)

What do you know about fairy tales?

fairy tales about animals?

everyday fairy tales?

Try to formulate the topic of our lesson.

That’s right, the topic of the lesson is “Russian folk tale with riddles “The Seven-Year-Old Daughter”

What wise advice can a fairy tale give a person?(The fairy tale helps answer critical issues, teaches a person to be kind, to believe in oneself)

What fairy tale did you read at home? Fairy tale “About Lazy and Lazy”

Who are the heroes of this fairy tale?An old man, an old woman, two daughters Lazy and Radivaya, a Green old man

Now we will check homework. To do this, we will divide into 2 groups. Group 1 works at the computer and takes a test on previously read fairy tales, and group 2 reads the fairy tale by role. Then we change.

3. Summing up the homework check.

Passed the test...

Which question gave you difficulty?

One can note the emotional reading of….

3. Collaborative discovery of knowledge.

Today in the lesson we will read not an ordinary fairy tale, but a fairy tale with riddles, and I invite you to answer the question during the lesson:

Why do fairy tales need riddles? (write the question on the board) The purpose of the lesson

To do this, you need to delve into the features of the artistic world of everyday fairy tales and learn to see its hidden meaning - this will be the goal of our lesson.

An example of such a work would be the fairy tale “The Seven-Year-Old Daughter.”

2. Working with the text before reading.

Open the textbook on page 38

What is shown in the picture?

What do you think the story will be about?

What does the hero do?

What is his facial expression?

Is it possible to determine the genre of a work based on the illustration?

· Working with the title.

Read the title. Can we use it to determine who the heroes of our fairy tale will be?

Pay attention to the supporting (key) words on the board:

Two brothers: poor and rich

Cart

Foal

Dispute

Tsar

Kuma

Wise seven-year-old daughter

What do these reference words tell you?

Listen to a reading of this work performed by a professional actor.Let's check our assumptions.Pay attention to how the actor creates images of the main characters with his voice. fairy tale heroes, convey the character's character.

Did you like the fairy tale?

1) Where does the fairy tale take place: in the real world or in the fantasy world?

2) What type do we classify this tale as and why? (There are no miracles in the fairy tale, there are no talking animals, there are real characters in it - which means it is an everyday fairy tale.)

3) Who are the heroes of the fairy tale?

4) What unusual actions do the heroes perform?The daughter rode a hare

5) What is the fiction based on in this fairy tale?Fiction in an everyday fairy tale is that the characters find themselves in incredible situations and perform unusual, funny actions, their negative qualities are greatly exaggerated

5. Application of knowledge.

Slow "thoughtful" repetitionindependentreading

Try to see the author's questions in the text

These are questions the answers to which are contained in the text, but in an implicit, hidden form:

Why did the rich man decide that his cart had given birth to a foal at night?the foal ended up under the cart

Can you guess why?

Why did the dispute start?The rich man wanted to outwit the poor man, and the poor man wanted to prove that he was right.

Why did the brothers turn to the boss?The rich man wanted to win the argument by paying

This can be explained by...?The rich is cunning and greedy,

Why did the king ask riddles?Check how smart they are

Did the godfather correctly guess the four riddles of the king? No

Why? She was stupid, evil, cunning

How does the poor brother defeat his opponents? My daughter helped

Does he have magical helpers? No

What was the girl like? Smart, kind, honest

What's unusual about this fairy tale?There are riddles in the fairy tale

Read the riddles...

For what? Do fairy tales need riddles?(Guessing the riddle helps to understand the characters. Textbook p. 35)

What follows from this?Necessary rely on your own strength and intelligence.

What human flaw is ridiculed in the fairy tale?Greed , stupidity

Observations on the language of fairy tales.

What features of fairy-tale speech did you see?

1) Find stable combinations of words in the text that are characteristic of the common language.Silk thread, bitter tears, royal majesty.

2) Find spacee real words.Mare, father, gelding, twig, cart, godfather, near, call, sovereign, hog, spinning, cross, quail, palace, trap.

3) Are there any proverbs in the fairy tale?“If you dodge one trouble, another will come your way!”

6. Physical education minute - Here is an exhibition of books and fairy tales. Some you have read and others you can read. Let everyone come up and choose their favorite fairy tale; later you can exchange books with your friends.

What parts do you think can be identified in this fairy tale?

Re-read the fairy tale.

Let's write down the fairy tale using “substitutes” that will help us draw up a plan for the text:

B – brother

Ts - king

K - godfather

D - daughter

What is the first part about? How would you title this part?

What answers did the godfather come up with? In your opinion, what title will this part have?

How did the seven-year-old daughter guess and what tasks did the king come up with for her? Title this part.

How does the fairy tale end? What will the title of this part be?

Research objectives

1. group - determine the genre of the work, theme and title(Cover title of the fairy tale, Russian folk tale)

2. group - draw up and write down a plan for a fairy tale(Tale plan)

3. group - Illustrations for a fairy tale(children's creative work)

4. group -Find words in the text that are characteristic of the common languagewrite them down and explain them(Difficult words)

5. group - find and write down riddles in a fairy tale(Riddles in a fairy tale)

6. reflection: apples of different colors with children’s names

7. Reflection stage.

In many fairy tales there is an apple tree with its plump apples. So, in our lesson, such an apple tree grew. (book page)

But she’s kind of sad, there are no apples on her. Let's revive her.

Everyone has 3 apples (red, yellow, green)

If you think that the lesson was interesting for you, you showed yourself, worked well, understand the features of the fairy tale - attach a red apple.

If not everything has worked out yet. There are some problems, something is not working out - yellow.

If it was difficult for you, there are difficulties - it’s green, you need to mature a little. Write your name and stick it in the book.

8. Summing up the lesson.

What fairy tale did you come across?We got acquainted with the everyday Russian folk tale “The Seven-Year-Old Daughter”

What is unusual about this fairy tale?There are mysteries in this tale

Why do fairy tales need riddles?Guessing the riddle helps to understand the characters.

What did you learn in the lesson?- Learned new words, learned to make a plan,

-Learned to communicate with each other

What was the task for our lesson?Delve into the features of an everyday fairy tale and learn to see its hidden meaning.

What is the peculiarity of an everyday fairy tale?In household In fairy tales, the heroes are real people - poor people in need, rich merchants. The fairy tale, its plot, and the actions of the main characters convince us readers to rely on our own strength and intelligence.

What is the main idea of ​​this fairy tale?This fairy tale is instructive. No matter how you hide the truth, it will come out. The beginning of the tale corresponds to an unjust state of affairs, and the end destroys this injustice. This is how the people’s firm confidence in the triumph of truth is expressed.

9.Homework information stage.

Select and write down the task that you can choose:

1. OptionRetelling a fairy tale according to plan.

2. OptionAdditional reading of fairy tales with riddles. (Introduce books from the school library)

3. OptionExpressive reading of the fairy tale “The Seven-Year-Old Daughter”

Ι. Updating knowledge

* Mark the students who answered the teacher's questions correctly.

ΙΙ. Collaborative discovery of knowledge

Work in the textbook

* Recognize students who read and answered questions well.

ΙΙΙ. Application of new knowledge.

Working in a notebook

* Mark the students who correctly completed the tasks in the notebook.

* Mark the students who correctly drew the outline of the story.

Two brothers were traveling: one poor, the other rich. Both have a horse - the poor one has a mare, the rich one has a gelding. They stopped for the night nearby. The poor man's mare gave birth to a foal at night; The foal rolled under the rich man's cart. He wakes up the poor man in the morning:
- Get up, brother! My cart gave birth to a foal at night. The brother stands up and says:
- How is it possible for a cart to give birth to a foal? My mare brought this.
Rich says:
- If your mare had brought it, the foal would have been nearby!
They argued and went to the authorities. The rich gave the judges money, and the poor justified himself with words. The matter reached the king himself.
He ordered to call both brothers and asked them four riddles:
- What is stronger and faster than anything in the world? What's the fattest thing in the world? What's softest? And what's the cutest thing?
And he gave them three days:
- Come on the fourth, give me the answer!
The rich man thought and thought, remembered his godfather and went to her to ask for advice. She sat him down at the table, began to treat him, and she asked:
- Why are you so sad, little kuman?
- Yes, the sovereign asked me four riddles, but gave me only three days.
- What is it, tell me.
- That's it, godfather! The first riddle: what is stronger and faster than anything in the world?
- What a mystery! My husband has a brown mare; no it's faster! If you hit him with a whip, he will catch up with the hare.
- The second riddle: what is the fattest thing in the world?
- Another year we have a speckled hog feeding; He's become so fat that he can't stand up!
- The third riddle: what is softer than anything in the world?
- It’s a well-known thing - a down jacket, you can’t imagine anything softer!
- The fourth riddle: what is sweetest in the world?
- My dearest granddaughter is Ivanushka!
- Well, thank you, godfather! I taught you wisdom, I will never forget you.
And the poor brother burst into bitter tears and went home. His seven-year-old daughter meets him:
- What are you sighing and shedding tears about, father?
- How can I not sigh, how can I not shed tears? The king asked me four riddles that I would never be able to solve in my life.
- Tell me what riddles.
- And here they are, daughter: what is the strongest and fastest in the world, what is the fattest, what is the softest and what is the cutest?
- Go, father, and tell the king: the wind is strongest and fastest, the earth is fattest: whatever grows, whatever lives, the earth feeds! The softest thing is the hand: no matter what a person lies on, he still puts his hand under his head; and there is nothing sweeter in the world than sleep!
Both brothers came to the king - both the rich and the poor. The king listened to them and asked the poor man:
- Did you get there yourself or who taught you? The poor man answers:
- Your Royal Majesty! I have a seven-year-old daughter, she taught me.
- When your daughter is wise, here is a thread of silk for her; Let him weave me a patterned towel by morning.
The man took the silk thread and came home sad and sad.
- Our trouble! - says to his daughter. - The king ordered a towel to be woven from this thread. - Don't worry, father! - answered the seven-year-old girl, broke off a twig from the broom, gave it to her father and punished:
- Go to the king, tell him to find a craftsman who would make a cross from this twig: there would be something to weave a towel on!
The man reported this to the king. The king gives him one and a half hundred eggs.
“Give it,” he says, “to your daughter; let him hatch one hundred and fifty chickens for me by tomorrow.
The man returned home even sadder, even sadder:
- Oh, daughter! If you dodge one trouble, another will come your way!
- Don't worry, father! - answered the seven-year-old. She baked the eggs and hid them for lunch and dinner, and her father
sends to the king:
- Tell him that the chickens need one-day millet for feed: in one day the field would be plowed, the millet sown, harvested and threshed. Our chickens won’t even peck at any other millet.
The king listened and said:
“When your daughter is wise, let her come to me in the morning, neither on foot nor on horseback, neither naked nor clothed, neither with a gift nor without a gift.”
“Well,” the man thinks, “my daughter won’t solve such a tricky problem; It’s time to completely disappear!”
- Don't worry, father! - his seven-year-old daughter told him. - Go to the hunters and buy me a live hare and a live quail. Her father went and bought her a hare and a quail. The next day, in the morning, the seven-year-old girl took off all her clothes, put on a net, took a quail in her hands, sat astride a hare and rode to the palace. The king meets her at the gate.
She bowed to the king.
- Here's a gift for you, sir! - and hands him a quail.
The king extended his hand, the quail fluttered and flew away!
“Okay,” says the king, “as I ordered, so it was done.” Tell me now: after all, your father is poor, what do you feed on?
“My father catches fish on the dry shore and doesn’t set traps in the water, but I wear fish with my hem and cook fish soup.”
- What are you, stupid, when the fish is on a dry shore? lives? Fish swims in water!
-Are you smart? When have you seen a cart bring a foal?
The king decided to give the foal to the poor man, and took his daughter to him. When the seven-year-old grew up, he married her, and she became a queen.

Russian folktale.

Illustrations: Sazonova T.P. and Prytkov Yu.A.

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Two brothers were traveling: one poor, the other eminent. Both have a horse - the poor mare, the famous gelding. They stopped for the night. The poor man's mare gave birth to a foal at night; The foal rolled under the rich brother's cart. He wakes up the poor man in the morning:

Get up, brother! My cart gave birth to a foal at night.

The brother stands up and says:

How can a cart give birth to a foal? My mare brought this. Rich says:

If your mare had delivered, the foal would have been next to her!

They argued and went to court. The eminent gave money to the judges, and the poor justified himself with words.

The matter reached the king himself. The king ordered to call both brothers and asked them four riddles:

What is the strongest and fastest thing in the world? What's the fattest thing in the world? What's softest? What's the cutest thing?

And he gave them three days:

Come on the fourth and give me the answer!

The rich man thought and thought, remembered his godmother and went to her to ask for advice.

She sat him down at the table, began to treat him, and she asked:

Why are you so sad, kumanek?

Yes, the sovereign asked me four riddles, but gave me only three days.

What is it, tell me.

Here's what, godfather! The first riddle: what is stronger and faster than anything in the world?

What a mystery! My husband has a brown mare; no she's faster! If you hit him with a whip, he will catch up with the hare.

The second riddle: what is the fattest thing in the world?

Another year, the spotted hog feeds on us; He's become so fat that he can't stand up!

The third riddle: what is the softest thing in the world?

A well-known thing is a down jacket, you couldn’t imagine a softer one!

The fourth riddle: what is the cutest thing in the world?

My dearest granddaughter is Ivanushka!

Well, thank you, godfather! I taught you wisdom, I will never forget you.

And the poor brother burst into bitter tears and went home. His seven-year-old daughter meets him:

What are you sighing and shedding tears about, father?

How can I not sigh, how can I not shed tears? The king asked me four riddles that I would never be able to solve in my life.

Tell me what riddles.

And here’s what, daughter: what is the strongest and fastest in the world, what is the fattest, what is the softest and what is the cutest?

Go, father, and tell the king: the wind is strongest and fastest, the earth is fattest: whatever grows, whatever lives, the earth feeds! The softest thing is the hand: what a person does not lie on, but puts his hand under his head; and there is nothing sweeter in the world than sleep!

Both brothers came to the king - both the rich and the poor. The king listened to them and asked the poor man:

Did you get there yourself or who taught you? The poor man answers:

Your Royal Majesty! I have a seven-year-old daughter, she taught me.

When your daughter is wise, here is a thread of silk for her; Let him weave a patterned towel for me by morning.

The man took the silk thread and came home sad and sad.

Our trouble! - says to his daughter. - The king ordered a towel to be woven from this thread.

Don't worry, father! - answered the seven-year-old; She broke off a twig from a broom, gave it to her father and punished him: “Go to the king, tell him to find the master who would make a cross from this twig: there would be something to weave a towel on!”

The man reported this to the king. The king gives him one and a half hundred eggs.

Give it, he says, to your daughter; let him hatch one hundred and fifty chickens for me by tomorrow.

The man returned home even sadder, even sadder:

Oh, daughter! If you dodge one trouble, another will come your way!

Don't worry, father! - answered the seven-year-old. She baked the eggs and hid them for lunch and dinner, and sent her father to the king:

Tell him that the chickens need one-day millet for food: in one day the field would be plowed, and the millet would be sown, harvested and threshed. Our chickens won’t even peck at any other millet.

The king listened and said:

When your daughter is wise, let her come to me herself in the morning - neither on foot, nor on horseback, neither naked, nor clothed, neither with a gift, nor without a gift.

“Well,” the man thinks, “my daughter won’t solve such a tricky problem; It’s time to completely disappear!”

Don't worry, father! - his seven-year-old daughter told him. - Go to the hunters and buy me a live hare and a live quail.

Her father went and bought her a hare and a quail.

The next day, in the morning, the seven-year-old girl took off all her clothes, put on a net, took a quail in her hands, sat astride a hare and rode to the palace.

The king meets her at the gate. She bowed to the king.

Here's a gift for you, sir! - and gives him a quail.

The king extended his hand, the quail fluttered - and flew away!

“Okay,” says the king, “as he ordered, so it was done.” Tell me now: after all, your father is poor, what do you feed on?

My father catches fish on the dry shore and doesn’t set traps in the water, but I wear fish with my hem and cook fish soup.

What are you, stupid, when a fish lives on a dry shore? Fish swims in water!

And you are smart! When have you seen a cart bring a foal?

The king decided to give the foal to the poor man, and took his daughter to him. When the seven-year-old grew up, he married her, and she became a queen.