Conradin was ten, and he was often ill. The doctor sayd that he was going to die.
The boy had a big imagination. One day, the child discovered a shed which was abandoned. He went there every day. The boy had a ferret and a chicken in the shed; the ferret was called Sredni Vashtar, and it was the true god for him. Every Thursday, he took presents to his pet. After a time, the aunt noticed Conradin’s visits to the shed. The aunt didn’t like it, and killed the chicken. The boy often said: “Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar”. One day, the aunt prohibited the child to enter the shed; she entered and minutes later, the child saw the ferret go out of the shed with red spots in the mouth and in the neck; later, the house keeper entered the shed and went out running, saying: “Who will say it to the poor child?”
THE STORY-TELLER
It was a hot afternoon, there was a woman with two children; they were asking questions to their aunt, and she told them stories so that they stopped talking. She was very bad at telling stories, and a man that was next to her, told them a story about a girl who was very good, she had three medals which she always carried with her; one day, the king of the country invited the girl to live in a palace, and she accepted; one day, the girl went to the garden, and saw a wolf running behind her, so she ran to her house. The woman was angry with the man, because this story was improper for the children. Then the man thought that the children were going to ask her what the meaning of “improper” was.