Page 20 - L'anatra dalle uova d'oro

came home. When Abrosim did not see the duck,
he asked his wife where it was, and she told him
that she did not know.
Then Little Ivan said to his father, "My dear
father, when I came home, in the middle of the
day, for dinner; my mother was not in, so I
looked in the oven, and there found a roast duck.
I took it out and ate it all but the bones, but I do
not know whether it was our duck or a strange
one."
Then old Abrosim was in such a rage that he
thrashed his wife till she was half dead, and he
turned Little Ivan out of doors.
Little Ivan began his journey. Where should he
go? He determined to follow his nose. For ten
days and nights he went on. Then he came to a
____

20