Youth secret

In one aul there lived the miller, the person fair. Never took it of anything the stranger and was ready to share last handful of a flour with the requiring.

Once it cleared away a mill ditch and has seen the big ripe apple which bore water. Wanted was to eat it, but has thought: <not I have grown up This apple and consequently I have no its right is>. But the beauty of an apple has amazed it, and he has decided to learn, whence it.

The miller along a ditch to the river has gone and after a while has met the old man with a snow-white beard.

- Салам алейкум, about the aged man! Whether such fine apples grow in your garden?

- No, the kind person, they grow above on the river in a garden of my big brother.

The miller has gone further and has met the elderly person who in a beard had many grey hair.

- Салам алейкум, the aged man. Whether you the big brother of that respectable old man what lives more low on the river? And whether these apples grow in your garden?

- This person really my younger brother. And these apples grow in a garden of our third, big brother which lives still above on the river.

After a while the miller has met the young-looking person without uniform grey-haired hair.

- Салам алейкум, the kind person. Whether from your garden these apples? And whether you the big brother of the old men living more low.

- Ваалейкум ассалам! I the senior from brothers, and these apples have grown up I. But come, the traveller, in the house, be the visitor.

The miller has accepted the invitation.

- The wife, allow to us to eat, yes do not forget to choose the ripest water-melon, - the big brother has told, coming in the house.

When they have eaten, the wife has brought a water-melon. The owner cut it and has told:

- It is an unripe water-melon, bring ing better!

Five times the husband sent the wife behind a new water-melon, and only last has liked it.

The miller of owners has thanked and has asked:

- About the hospitable owner. Allow to ask you one question. How there could be, what you, the senior from brothers look so youngly?

- You saw, how I five times sent the wife behind a water-melon. Neither I, nor it thus at all were not irritated. Know, we with the wife live in the excellent world and the consent, and anything did not sadden till now our life. My younger brothers, alas, could not achieve it.

So the miller has learnt a secret of a youth and since then began to live with the wife in peace. It is said that even after hundred years it almost did not have grey hair.