Tales [antikvár]

HOW ONE iPLAIN PEASANT FED TWO HIGH OFFICIALS Once upon a time there lived two high officials, and so featherbrained were they that, hey presto!-they found themselves on a desert island. Now, the two officials had served all their life in a certain registry. There they had been registered at birth, and there, too, they had grown to manhood and reached old age. And so it was quite natural that they did not understand a thing. All the words they knew were "Accept assurances..and so on. After a while, on the grounds of its uselessness, the registry was abolished, and our officials were discharged. They took up