The Wise Girl and the Riddles

Hello, this is Janna and I'm here with a Russian Folk Tale.

It has some interesting characters including a very clever little girl.

And if you like solving riddles, you will love this story.

Later we are going to be telling you about our wonderful sponsor, Outschool.

And then we will have some music for you.

This story is about a Russian countryman.

His name was Ivan Ivanovich.

People said that he had an unbuttoned soul, meaning he was open and sincere.

Not entirely by coincidence, he also happened to be rather poor.

And he was happy.

He lived in a small hut with his seven-year-old daughter, who was the apple of his eye.

She was extremely bright and full of wisdom.

For instance, when her dad complained that they had nothing for supper, she would say,

Puppa, without effort, he won't even pull a fish out of a pond.

And he would understand her meaning and take his net down from the hook on the wall and

go and catch a fish.

And when he was angry with himself for leaving the milk to boil over, she would say,

don't worry, Puppa.

Even a grandmother can make mistakes.

She was so clever that sometimes her father wondered if she was the grown-up and he was

the child.

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