THE BURNED YARD.[1]
A peasant had a daughter who said unto him: "Little father, Vannka would fain futter me." "Ah! thou fool!" quoth the peasant. "Why give thyself to a stranger? We will futter thee right well ourselves."
He took an iron stud, warmed it in the stove, and planted it right in her coynte, in such fashion that she could not piss for three months.
Vannka encountered the young girl and again made his proposal.
"Permit me to futter thee," said he.
Quoth she :
"Thou ravest, Vannka, who art sprung from the devil. My little father hath futtered me, and he hath so scorched my coynte that for three months I have not been able to piss."
"Fear not, simpleton. My yard is cold."
"Thou liest, Vannka, devil's offspring. Let me touch it."
"Take it, then."
She took his yard in her hand and cried:
"Ah! wretched devil! thou seest well 'tis warm! Dip in the water!"
- ↑ Kruptadia: Heilbronn: Henninger Fréres, 1883: vol. 1: Secret Stories from the Russian.
230
