Magic ointment

The aunt Hoot was the nurse. It looked after patients and nursed small children. Somehow time has woken her at midnight. It has gone down from a bedroom in a vestibule and has seen any strange old man, in addition the cross-eyed. He has asked the aunt Hoot to go to it, saying, that its wife is sick and cannot nurse the baby.

The visitor has not liked the aunt Hoot, but unless she could refuse earnings? And here she has hasty put on and left with it the house. The old man has set her on black as coal of a high racer with fiery eyes that stood at doors, and they have rushed somewhere with unprecedented speed. The aunt Hoot, being afraid to fall, has very much seized the old man.

They rushed and rushed and at last have stopped at a small small house. Слезли from a horse also have entered. The mistress laid in bed, the baby - the wonderful, healthy kid - laid near to it, and children around played.

The aunt Hoot took the child on hands, and mother has stretched it a jar with ointment and ordered to smear to the child eyes as soon as it will open them.

A little later the child has slightly opened eyes, and the aunt Hoot has noticed, that it as mows, as well as the father. It took a jar with ointment and has smeared to the child eyelids, and all was surprised: "For what it?" In a life it not видывала that to babies smeared eyelids. And here it has seized minute when anybody did not look at it, and has quietly spread with ointment the right eyelid.

She has not had time to make it as all has around changed as if on magic. The furniture in a room became magnificent; the woman in beds has turned to the fine lady in white silk clothes; the baby has got prettier even more, and its diapers have become shining and transparent, as if a silver muslin. But its brothers and the little sister that played at bed, have turned to imps with flat noses, sharp ears and long hairy pads. They built each other physiognomies, were scratched, dragged for ears sick mother - a word to that only did not get up. Here the aunt Hoot has understood, that has got to demons.

But she has not uttered a word about it. And as soon as the woman has recovered and could nurse itself the child, the aunt Hoot has asked to bring the owner it home. It has brought to doors black as coal of a horse with fiery eyes, and they have jumped as quickly as for the first time, and can, even faster, and, at last, have hopped to the house of the aunt Hoot. The cross-eyed old man has removed it from a horse, has politely thanked, and has paid to it so much, how many to it never before did not pay for similar services.

For other day the aunt Hoot has gone on a market behind purchases - after all she long did not live at home, and all its supplies have come to an end. Here there was it приценяться to the goods, and has suddenly seen that cross-eyed old man that carried it on black as coal a game! And how you think, what it did on a market? Went from a counter to a counter and from everyone took something: from it fruit, from that egg... But anybody, probably, did not notice it.

The aunt Hoot was not going to stir to it, but considered, that it is not necessary to miss such generous employer, not перемолвившись with it a word-other. It here approaches to it, squats and speaks:

- Good afternoon, the sir! I hope, your spouse and младенчик feel well...

But to finish speaking it was not in time: the old man has started back from it as if having been taken aback from surprise, and has exclaimed:

- Really you me now see?!

- How not to see? - She has answered. - it is final, I see, and as it is clear, as the sun in the sky. And still I see, - she has added,-that you are very occupied by purchases...

- Here is how? Well, means you see too much, - he has told. - and tell, what eye all of you it see?

- Right, of course, - she happy has answered, that has convicted it.

- Ointment! Ointment! - the old demon-thief has exclaimed. - receive that you are put not in the affairs! You are more than me will not see!

Here it has struck it on the right eye, and she has ceased to see it at once.

But that worst of all - from this hour it окривела on the right eye, yes and remained a curve to the most death.