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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Story of Tim, by Anonymous, Translated by
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+Title: The Story of Tim
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF TIM***
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+
+Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email
+ccx074@pglaf.org
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+                             THE STORY OF TIM
+
+
+                      _Translated from the Russian_
+                                    BY
+                              GEORGE BORROW
+
+                                 LONDON:
+                     PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION
+                                   1913
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION
+
+
+The Russians have three grand popular tales, the subjects of which are
+thievish adventures.  One is called the _Story of Klim_, another is
+called the _Story of Tim_, and the third is called the _Story of Tom_.
+Below we present a translation of the _Story of Tim_.
+
+That part of the tale in which Tim inquires of the drowsy Archimandrite
+as to the person to whom the stolen pelisse is to be awarded, differs in
+no material point from a portion of a tale narrated in the Turkish
+story-book of the lady and the forty vizirs.  The concluding part,
+however, in which we are told how Tim’s comrades twice stole the pig from
+him, and how he twice regained it, is essentially Russian, and is
+original.
+
+
+
+
+THE STORY OF TIM
+
+
+In a certain village there lived an old man who had lost almost the whole
+of his hair, partly from age, and partly from the friction of his fur
+cap, which he never laid aside, either by day or night.  He had a
+helpmeet as ancient as himself, but who differed from him in having a
+hump.  Our story, however, does not relate to them, but to a son of
+theirs, called Timoney, who was a sharp lad enough, but who had learnt
+nothing but to play on the fife.  The old man thinking that music,
+however sweet, would never fill the belly, and that it was quite
+impossible to live on an empty stomach, determined to have the boy taught
+some trade, but ere fixing on what it should be, he deemed it expedient
+to consult his old woman on the subject; and, accordingly, requested her
+opinion, adding that he would wish to see the boy either a blacksmith, or
+a tailor.
+
+“No!” cried the old woman.  “I’ll have him neither the one nor the other.
+The blacksmith by always going amidst fire and soot is so begrimed that
+he looks rather like a devil than a man.  Would you make a monster of
+him?  As for a tailor—I don’t deny that tailoring is a rare art, but
+sitting doubled up, in a little time brings on a consumption.”
+
+“Then what would you make of him?” cried the old man.
+
+“Make of him?” said she; “why a goldsmith or a painter, or something
+similar.”
+
+“And do you know,” said the old man, “how much money one must lay down to
+have him bound either to a goldsmith or a painter?  Why he would swallow
+up all we have, or more.”
+
+They disputed so long, that they almost came to blows.  The old woman had
+already armed herself with the fire-pan.  At last, however, they agreed
+to bind their son to the first master they should meet, whatever his
+trade might be.  So the old man, taking with him the sum of ten roubles,
+which he destined for the binding his son out as an apprentice, set out
+leading Tim by the hand.  It happened, that the first people he met were
+two born brothers, who maintained themselves by levying taxes on the
+highway, and besides being tax-gatherers were expert tailors, using their
+needles so adroitly, that with a stitch or two they could make for
+themselves a coat or mantle; in plain language, they were robbers.
+
+The old man, after saluting them, said:
+
+“Are you craftsmen?”
+
+“Oh, yes! and very skilful ones,” replied the highwaymen.
+
+“And what may be your trade?” inquired the old man.
+
+“What is that to you?” they replied.
+
+“Why, I wish to give my son a trade,” said the old man.
+
+“Oh! we will take your son with pleasure,” they cried, “and instruct him
+in what we understand ourselves.  As for our trade, we have particular
+reasons for not telling you what it is.  Know, however, that you will
+never repent entrusting your son to our hands.”
+
+“But what must I give you for your trouble, good people?” cried the old
+man.
+
+“Why, you can hardly give us less than twenty roubles,” replied the
+craftsmen.
+
+“O! where shall I get so much money?” cried the old man.  “I have but ten
+roubles in all the world.”
+
+“O, very well! hand them over,” said they, “We’ll take them, though they
+be only ten roubles; we don’t wish to higgle with you.”
+
+The old man gave them the money, and begging them to spare no pains in
+teaching his son their trade, he trudged homeward.  Remembering, however,
+that it was necessary to know where they dwelt, he turned back, and went
+along with them.  After some time, they came to a house in a great wood,
+where the thieves lived with a young girl who was their sister.  On their
+arrival they took off from Tim his rough country craftan and breeches,
+and clothed him in habiliments of the very best quality, and regaled the
+old man with plenty of capital wine.  So the old man, after staying an
+hour or two, left their dwelling quite happy and content.
+
+As soon as it was night, the thieves thought that they would give Tim his
+first lesson in their art, so arming him in the same manner as they did
+themselves, with a pike and a long knife, they went out on the road.  As
+soon as they were got there, one of the masters said to the pupil:
+
+“Suppose, now, any people were to attack us, what would you do, Tim?”
+
+“What’s this for?” said he, grasping his knife; “with this I don’t care a
+straw for a dozen men.”
+
+“It will be of service to you, no doubt, some time or other,” said the
+thieves; “it will be best, however, that your first essay be in something
+not quite so dangerous as levying taxes on the highways generally is.  We
+will go to the neighbouring monastery, and break into the treasury of the
+Archimandrite; we shall find there quite enough to enrich us.”
+
+“O! just as you please,” cried Timoney; “where the master goes the
+’prentice follows.”
+
+So away they went, all three in high spirits.  When they came to the
+cloister, they flung an iron hook upon the roof of the treasure-room, and
+Tim climbing up by means of a rope which was attached to it, at once gave
+proof that he was anything but a dull pupil.  In a trice a hole was made
+in the roof—the chests in the treasury were broken open—money-bags were
+piled up upon the floor, and then flung down out of the treasury upon the
+ground, where they were gathered up by Tim’s comrades, and what had taken
+a long series of years to acquire was in a few minutes lost to the
+proprietor.  All would have gone on in the smoothest manner in the world,
+provided Tim had been anything of a fool.  But he knew perfectly well
+that his friends below would take all the money by virtue of being his
+instructors, and would not give him a share; he, therefore, took from out
+of a chest the cloak of the Archimandrite, which was made of the choicest
+sable-skin, and flung it out of the hole upon the ground, intending it
+for himself, but had no sooner done so, than one of his masters took it
+up and put it on.  Tim then, letting himself down began to feel for the
+cloak upon the ground, for it was very dark.
+
+“What are you groping for?” said his masters.
+
+“I am seeking for my cloak,” answered Tim.
+
+“What do you mean by calling it yours?” said one.  “I have put it on
+myself.  How should it belong to you?”
+
+“Because,” said Tim, “I took it for myself, and not for you.”
+
+“But we are your instructors,” said they, “consequently whatever you take
+belongs to us.”
+
+“O! no,” cried he, with a loud voice.  “I got the money for you, it is
+true, and no share of that belongs to me, but the cloak is mine.”
+
+“You lie, fool,” said they.
+
+“O! if you talk in that manner,” said Tim, “I will go and ask the
+Archimandrite, and the one to whom he adjudges it shall have the cloak.”
+
+“Let’s see how you’ll go to work,” said they.
+
+“You shall,” said he, “only don’t be afraid.”
+
+Thereupon, he went to the window of the cell in which the Archimandrite
+and his servant slept, the latter a very lively lad, and a great teller
+of pleasant stories.  Tim peeping in, perceived that the Archimandrite
+was asleep, and snoring like a hedgehog, but the lad was awake.  Tim
+tapped with his finger against the window, whereupon the lad got up and
+looked out.  But before he could ask who was there, Tim seized him by the
+ears with both his hands, dragged him out, and tying a handkerchief over
+his mouth, delivered him to the custody of his associates.  Then climbing
+softly in at the window, he lay down in the young fellow’s bed.  After
+waiting a little time, he fell to arousing the Archimandrite.  His
+masters who were listening under the window, hearing him try to awake the
+ghostly man, begged him to come out.
+
+“What are you about?” they cried.  “The devil take you and the cloak,
+too!  Woe is us, that we ever came here with you!”
+
+But without attending to them, he cried:
+
+“Father Archimandrite! your reverence!”
+
+“Hey! what!” replied the Archimandrite, in a voice half-suffocated with
+sleep.
+
+“I have had a very bad dream,” said Tim, “I dreamt that thieves broke
+into the treasure-room, and carried away all the money, and also your
+cloak of sable.  He who climbed up to steal the treasure, took the cloak
+out of the box, intending it for himself.  He gave his comrades all the
+money, and only wanted to keep the cloak; but they refused to give it
+him.  Now, who do you say should have the cloak?”
+
+The Archimandrite imagining that it was his chamberlain who was speaking
+to him, cried:
+
+“Oh, how tiresome you are!  People are sure to dream at night.  Pray
+don’t trouble my rest.”
+
+Tim was silent for a time, but no sooner had the Archimandrite fallen
+asleep again, than he again awoke him, crying:
+
+“Whom is the cloak to be given to?”
+
+“Oh, you tiresome fellow!” cried the Archimandrite.  “Well, if you must
+know, I would have it given to him who broke in.  But, pray, let me
+sleep.”
+
+Tim troubled him no more, and as soon as he was fast asleep got out of
+the window and took possession of the cloak without any opposition from
+his teachers, who extolled his cleverness to the skies.  They set out for
+home, and the first thing they did when they arrived was to hide their
+booty.  After this adventure, Tim’s masters frequently discoursed with
+each other about their apprentice.  His address and cleverness pleased
+them exceedingly.  They hoped that he would be of the greatest assistance
+to them, and in order to keep him with them, they determined to give him
+their sister, who was rather a pretty girl.  When they declared their
+mind to Tim, he was far from refusing so good a match, for they offered
+plenty of money with her.  So he married, and ceasing to be their
+apprentice, became their brother-in-law and comrade.
+
+After some time his wife said to him:
+
+“It is bad living with these brothers of mine who are thieves to the very
+bone.  Moreover, you know the rhyme, ‘Though the thief may thrive for
+many a day, he becomes at last the hangman’s prey.’  So it is my wish and
+counsel that we separate from them at once and for ever, and go and live
+at your father’s house, where, though we may not be so rich, we shall at
+any rate be in peace.”
+
+Tim approved of what she said, and communicated his intention to those
+honest gentlemen—his brothers-in-law.  They were very much mortified at
+what he told them, and endeavoured to persuade him to stay with them, but
+in vain.  At last they said:
+
+“We will let you go on the following conditions: we will give you a
+swine, and if to-night we contrive to steal it from you, you shall pay us
+two hundred roubles, or remain in our service till you have gained for us
+that amount, and if we are unable to steal the swine, we will pay the
+same sum to you.”
+
+“Very good,” said Tim, “I will see whether you can steal her away from
+me.”
+
+Then he loaded a cart with his property, and set off with his wife to the
+house of his father.
+
+As soon as he got home he mixed up in the trough a mess of barley-meal
+and wine for the pig, who, after gorging herself with it, became
+senselessly drunk.  Tim, then, dressing her in a sarafan or woman’s long
+night-gown, placed her on the petsch or stove in a corner, where she
+stretched herself out and lay without motion.  He then went to bed with
+his wife in the chamber above.  They were scarcely asleep when the
+thieves arrived, and searched in every nook and corner round about the
+house, but not finding what they were in quest of, they repaired to the
+kitchen, and, listening, heard something snoring.  Forthwith one of them
+crept in, and moving about softly touched the swine, but feeling the
+nightgown at the same time, he jumped out of the kitchen almost
+frightened out of his wits.
+
+“Who are you?” cried his comrade.
+
+“Your brother,” he replied.  “Oh, I got into such a scrape.  The thing
+which is snoring in the kitchen is the old beldame, Tim’s mother.  I took
+hold of her by the side, but so softly that I did not wake her, and such
+a stench came from her that I really thought I should have fainted.  Now,
+what to do I don’t know—but, stay!  I will go and ask my sister where the
+swine is.  Perhaps she will tell me whilst she is dozing.”  He then
+climbed softly on the top of the chamber, removed a board from the roof,
+and, poking his sister gently with his stick, said: “Wife! where did we
+put the sow?”
+
+“Don’t you remember,” said she, “that we placed her in the kitchen, on
+the petsch, dressed in a nightgown?”
+
+No sooner did the thief hear this than he sprang like a madman from the
+roof, and rushing into the kitchen, dragged off from the petsch the
+drunken swine.  He and his brother then lugged her away from the house,
+and when they had got to some distance, they tied her feet together, and
+thrusting a stick under, they carried her off on their shoulders at full
+trot.  This riding on a stick—which was very different from lying in a
+cradle—soon brought the sow to her senses, who began to behave in a very
+obstreperous and disagreeable manner, and the faster they went the more
+obstreperous and disagreeable did she become.  The thieves now began to
+repent of the expedient which they had devised for bringing back Tim to
+their society; but, fearing to lose two hundred roubles, they bore all
+the nuisance of the swine, and hastened on their way.
+
+Tim awoke a little time after the swine had been carried away, and being
+quite drowsy clean forgot what he had done with her.
+
+“Wife! wife!” cried he, jogging his bedfellow on the side with his elbow,
+“where did we hide the swine?”
+
+“How long is it,” said she, “since you asked me that?  Did I not tell you
+that she lies on the petsch in the night-gown?”
+
+“When did you tell me that?” cried he.
+
+“Not long ago,” said she; “but no doubt you were drowsy.”
+
+“Now, farewell to our swine!” said Tim.  “No doubt they have taken her
+away.”  And springing from the bed he ran into the kitchen, but found no
+swine upon the petsch.  Tim felt his knees quake under him.  But the
+prospect of living with the thieves, as their slave, compelled him to
+cast aside all useless despondency, and to seek a remedy for the
+misfortune.  Flinging himself upon his horse he galloped off in the hope
+of overtaking the travelling swine, in which he succeeded.  He came up
+with the party just as they were entering the wood, and rode gently after
+them; the night, which was exceedingly dark, preventing the thieves from
+seeing him.  By this time they were excessively weary, and wishing to
+take some rest, they flung the swine upon the ground in a rage, and one
+of them said:
+
+“What a weight!  It’s enough to kill one.  Yet one must not mind toiling
+when two hundred roubles are at stake.”
+
+Quoth the other: “I would almost give up the roubles for a horse or
+something to carry this load of carrion for us.”
+
+Meanwhile, Tim, leading his horse some way aside, tied it to a tree, then
+drawing softly nigh he began to make a jingling with the bridle and
+stirrups which he had taken off the horse.  One of the thieves hearing
+the jingling said:
+
+“Listen, brother! some horse is going about entangled in its harness.”
+
+As Tim still continued jingling, one of them fully persuaded that there
+was a horse close at hand set off to catch it, whilst the other rested
+himself sitting close by the swine.  Tim moved on before the thief, who
+followed, expecting every moment to lay his hand upon the strayed horse.
+Imperceptibly he led him to a great distance, and then leaving him
+hurried back to the other.  When he was not more than twenty yards from
+him he stopped and cried:
+
+“Pray, brother, come and help me to untie this accursed brute.”
+
+The fellow, imagining that it was his brother, got up to help him,
+saying:
+
+“A pretty baby you, who cannot untie a horse.”
+
+Tim, however, pretending that he could not hold the horse, moved away,
+and led him very far from the road.  Then leaving him to seek his brother
+who was in vain pursuit of the horse he ran to where the swine lay, and,
+seizing hold of her, placed her upon his horse and carried her off.  As
+soon as he got home he tied her by the leg to the hand-mill which stood
+in the middle of the kitchen, round which he strewed a quantity of rye.
+Forthwith the swine fell to eating the rye, and, by moving round, set the
+mill a grinding.  Tim then flung himself upon his bed, and without any
+care resigned himself to sleep.
+
+In the meanwhile the thieves met each other.
+
+One said, “Where’s the horse?”
+
+The other answered, that he had never caught a glimpse of it.
+
+“Then why did you call me to help you to untie it?” said the first.
+
+“You are mad!” replied the other; “I never spoke a word.”
+
+“Well, then,” said his comrade, “it is plain that fellow Tim has played
+us a trick.  Let us go and see whether the swine is where we left her.”
+
+But, after seeking her for a long time in vain, they concluded that their
+brother-in-law had carried her back with him home, whereupon they set off
+for Tim’s house with all speed.
+
+On arriving at the court-yard, they went to the kitchen, and one of them
+said:
+
+“Brother, I am afraid we have lost our two hundred roubles.  The old
+beldame, Tim’s mother, is awake and up.  Don’t you hear her getting the
+mill in order?  She is going to grind.  However, I will go to my sister,
+and ask her, as I did before, where the swine is hid; perhaps it is not
+in the kitchen.”
+
+So he climbed up upon the roof as he had done before, and waking his
+sister said:
+
+“Wife, where is the swine?”
+
+“You must be asleep,” she replied; “have you forgotten that she is tied
+to the hand-mill in the kitchen?”
+
+The thief, having learnt where the swine was, ran to the kitchen, and
+seizing his booty hastened away with his brother, saying:
+
+“Master Tim has taught us a lesson; he will not deceive us again.”
+
+Shortly after this Tim awoke, and jumping up, ran to look after the
+swine.  But on entering the kitchen, he perceived that she had been
+stolen a second time.  Nothing now remained for him to do but to run and
+overtake the thieves, and discover some means of deceiving them again.
+He ran without any burden on his back, and besides, was all the fresher
+for having rested, consequently he had no difficulty in overtaking the
+tired thieves, who were carrying the swine between them.  He went softly
+behind them till they came to the wood.
+
+As soon as they had entered it one of the thieves said to his comrade:
+
+“Let us rest awhile here.”
+
+But the other replied:
+
+“No, brother; if Tim overtakes us here, he will trick us again by some
+means or other.  But some way farther on you remember there is an empty
+cottage, near the road, there we can rest without danger.”
+
+“Very good,” said his comrade, “we will stop there.”
+
+Tim, hearing what they said, turned aside, and, getting before them,
+daubed his face with clay; then, running as fast as he could to the
+cottage, he sat down within the ruined petsch, holding in his hand a
+brick.  He had not waited five minutes when they entered the cottage and
+cast the swine down upon the floor.
+
+“Now, brother,” said one, “we have nearly finished the business, let us
+smoke a pipe of tobacco.”
+
+“Capital!” replied the other, taking out his flint and steel; but though
+he struck and struck, he could not make the tinder take light.  “Here’s a
+pretty affair,” said he, “the tinder got damp as I ran amidst the dew of
+the wood endeavouring to overtake that rascal Tim.”
+
+“Go to the mouth of the petsch,” said the other, “perhaps a spark will
+take hold of the soot.”
+
+The other went up to the petsch and began again to strike.  In the
+meantime Tim, looking full at him, gnashed his teeth violently.  The
+thief, hearing something gnashing, struck harder than before, and,
+looking into the petsch by the light of the sparks, instantly fell to the
+ground, for seeing the face of Tim he took him for the devil and was so
+terrified that he could only utter with a broken voice:
+
+“Oh, brother!—the devil!—the devil!”
+
+Thereupon, Tim knocked violently upon the petsch, and hurled the brick at
+the other thief, who made for the door, but, striking his forehead
+against the lintel, he fell senseless.  Tim then seizing one of their
+sticks began to belabour his brothers-in-law so lustily that they soon
+recovered their recollection and betook themselves to flight.  Their legs
+trembled so with the fright they were in that they stumbled more than
+once; but Tim assisted them on their way by pelting them with bricks.
+Having driven them off, he took the swine and carried her home, where he
+arrived just as the day was beginning to break.
+
+The first word which the thieves said on recovering their breath was
+about the wager with their brother-in-law.
+
+“Now,” said they, “as the devil has run away with the swine, Tim cannot
+produce her, so we will force him to come and live with us again.”
+
+Thereupon they set off straight for the house, because it was already
+getting light; but on their arrival they found that they had lost their
+wager, and that it was not the devil who had routed them in the deserted
+cottage, but their brother-in-law.
+
+“Oh, you precious rascal!” said they, “you nearly killed us with terror.”
+
+“There’s no help, brothers,” he replied, “you were thinking of taking two
+hundred roubles from me, but now you have to pay them to me.”
+
+After some demur, he received the money from them, and began to live in a
+highly respectable manner.
+
+                                 LONDON:
+               Printed for THOMAS J. WISE, Hampstead, N.W.
+
+                   _Edition limited to Thirty Copies_.
+
+
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+Title: The Story of Tim
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF TIM***
+</pre>
+<p>Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David
+Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org</p>
+<h1>THE STORY OF TIM</h1>
+<p style="text-align: center"><i>Translated from the
+Russian</i><br />
+<span class="smcap">by</span><br />
+GEORGE BORROW</p>
+<p style="text-align: center"><span
+class="smcap">London</span>:<br />
+<span class="smcap">printed for private circulation</span><br />
+1913</p>
+<h2><!-- page 5--><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+5</span>INTRODUCTION</h2>
+<p>The Russians have three grand popular tales, the subjects of
+which are thievish adventures.&nbsp; One is called the <i>Story
+of Klim</i>, another is called the <i>Story of Tim</i>, and the
+third is called the <i>Story of Tom</i>.&nbsp; Below we present a
+translation of the <i>Story of Tim</i>.</p>
+<p>That part of the tale in which Tim inquires of the drowsy
+Archimandrite as to the person to whom the stolen pelisse is to
+be awarded, differs in no material point from a portion of a tale
+narrated in the Turkish story-book of the lady and the forty
+vizirs.&nbsp; The concluding part, however, in which we are told
+how Tim&rsquo;s comrades twice stole the pig from him, and how he
+twice regained it, is essentially Russian, and is original.</p>
+<h2><!-- page 6--><a name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+6</span>THE STORY OF TIM</h2>
+<p>In a certain village there lived an old man who had lost
+almost the whole of his hair, partly from age, and partly from
+the friction of his fur cap, which he never laid aside, either by
+day or night.&nbsp; He had a helpmeet as ancient as himself, but
+who differed from him in having a hump.&nbsp; Our story, however,
+does not relate to them, but to a son of theirs, called Timoney,
+who was a sharp lad enough, but who had learnt nothing but to
+play on the fife.&nbsp; The old man thinking that music, however
+sweet, would never fill the belly, and that it was quite
+impossible to live on an empty stomach, determined to have the
+boy taught some trade, but <!-- page 7--><a
+name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 7</span>ere fixing on
+what it should be, he deemed it expedient to consult his old
+woman on the subject; and, accordingly, requested her opinion,
+adding that he would wish to see the boy either a blacksmith, or
+a tailor.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;No!&rdquo; cried the old woman.&nbsp; &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll
+have him neither the one nor the other.&nbsp; The blacksmith by
+always going amidst fire and soot is so begrimed that he looks
+rather like a devil than a man.&nbsp; Would you make a monster of
+him?&nbsp; As for a tailor&mdash;I don&rsquo;t deny that
+tailoring is a rare art, but sitting doubled up, in a little time
+brings on a consumption.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Then what would you make of him?&rdquo; cried the old
+man.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Make of him?&rdquo; said she; &ldquo;why a goldsmith or
+a painter, or something similar.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;And do you know,&rdquo; said the old man, &ldquo;how
+much money one must lay down to have him bound either to a
+goldsmith or a painter?&nbsp; <!-- page 8--><a
+name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 8</span>Why he would
+swallow up all we have, or more.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>They disputed so long, that they almost came to blows.&nbsp;
+The old woman had already armed herself with the fire-pan.&nbsp;
+At last, however, they agreed to bind their son to the first
+master they should meet, whatever his trade might be.&nbsp; So
+the old man, taking with him the sum of ten roubles, which he
+destined for the binding his son out as an apprentice, set out
+leading Tim by the hand.&nbsp; It happened, that the first people
+he met were two born brothers, who maintained themselves by
+levying taxes on the highway, and besides being tax-gatherers
+were expert tailors, using their needles so adroitly, that with a
+stitch or two they could make for themselves a coat or mantle; in
+plain language, they were robbers.</p>
+<p>The old man, after saluting them, said:</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Are you craftsmen?&rdquo;</p>
+<p><!-- page 9--><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+9</span>&ldquo;Oh, yes! and very skilful ones,&rdquo; replied the
+highwaymen.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;And what may be your trade?&rdquo; inquired the old
+man.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;What is that to you?&rdquo; they replied.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Why, I wish to give my son a trade,&rdquo; said the old
+man.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Oh! we will take your son with pleasure,&rdquo; they
+cried, &ldquo;and instruct him in what we understand
+ourselves.&nbsp; As for our trade, we have particular reasons for
+not telling you what it is.&nbsp; Know, however, that you will
+never repent entrusting your son to our hands.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;But what must I give you for your trouble, good
+people?&rdquo; cried the old man.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Why, you can hardly give us less than twenty
+roubles,&rdquo; replied the craftsmen.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;O! where shall I get so much money?&rdquo; cried the
+old man.&nbsp; &ldquo;I have but ten roubles in all the
+world.&rdquo;</p>
+<p><!-- page 10--><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+10</span>&ldquo;O, very well! hand them over,&rdquo; said they,
+&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll take them, though they be only ten roubles; we
+don&rsquo;t wish to higgle with you.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>The old man gave them the money, and begging them to spare no
+pains in teaching his son their trade, he trudged homeward.&nbsp;
+Remembering, however, that it was necessary to know where they
+dwelt, he turned back, and went along with them.&nbsp; After some
+time, they came to a house in a great wood, where the thieves
+lived with a young girl who was their sister.&nbsp; On their
+arrival they took off from Tim his rough country craftan and
+breeches, and clothed him in habiliments of the very best
+quality, and regaled the old man with plenty of capital
+wine.&nbsp; So the old man, after staying an hour or two, left
+their dwelling quite happy and content.</p>
+<p>As soon as it was night, the thieves thought that they would
+give Tim his first lesson in their art, so arming him in the same
+manner as they did <!-- page 11--><a name="page11"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 11</span>themselves, with a pike and a long
+knife, they went out on the road.&nbsp; As soon as they were got
+there, one of the masters said to the pupil:</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Suppose, now, any people were to attack us, what would
+you do, Tim?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;What&rsquo;s this for?&rdquo; said he, grasping his
+knife; &ldquo;with this I don&rsquo;t care a straw for a dozen
+men.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;It will be of service to you, no doubt, some time or
+other,&rdquo; said the thieves; &ldquo;it will be best, however,
+that your first essay be in something not quite so dangerous as
+levying taxes on the highways generally is.&nbsp; We will go to
+the neighbouring monastery, and break into the treasury of the
+Archimandrite; we shall find there quite enough to enrich
+us.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;O! just as you please,&rdquo; cried Timoney;
+&ldquo;where the master goes the &rsquo;prentice
+follows.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>So away they went, all three in high spirits.&nbsp; When they
+came to the cloister, they flung an <!-- page 12--><a
+name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 12</span>iron hook
+upon the roof of the treasure-room, and Tim climbing up by means
+of a rope which was attached to it, at once gave proof that he
+was anything but a dull pupil.&nbsp; In a trice a hole was made
+in the roof&mdash;the chests in the treasury were broken
+open&mdash;money-bags were piled up upon the floor, and then
+flung down out of the treasury upon the ground, where they were
+gathered up by Tim&rsquo;s comrades, and what had taken a long
+series of years to acquire was in a few minutes lost to the
+proprietor.&nbsp; All would have gone on in the smoothest manner
+in the world, provided Tim had been anything of a fool.&nbsp; But
+he knew perfectly well that his friends below would take all the
+money by virtue of being his instructors, and would not give him
+a share; he, therefore, took from out of a chest the cloak of the
+Archimandrite, which was made of the choicest sable-skin, and
+flung it out of the hole upon the <!-- page 13--><a
+name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 13</span>ground,
+intending it for himself, but had no sooner done so, than one of
+his masters took it up and put it on.&nbsp; Tim then, letting
+himself down began to feel for the cloak upon the ground, for it
+was very dark.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;What are you groping for?&rdquo; said his masters.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;I am seeking for my cloak,&rdquo; answered Tim.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;What do you mean by calling it yours?&rdquo; said
+one.&nbsp; &ldquo;I have put it on myself.&nbsp; How should it
+belong to you?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Because,&rdquo; said Tim, &ldquo;I took it for myself,
+and not for you.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;But we are your instructors,&rdquo; said they,
+&ldquo;consequently whatever you take belongs to us.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;O! no,&rdquo; cried he, with a loud voice.&nbsp;
+&ldquo;I got the money for you, it is true, and no share of that
+belongs to me, but the cloak is mine.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;You lie, fool,&rdquo; said they.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;O! if you talk in that manner,&rdquo; said Tim, <!--
+page 14--><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+14</span>&ldquo;I will go and ask the Archimandrite, and the one
+to whom he adjudges it shall have the cloak.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s see how you&rsquo;ll go to work,&rdquo;
+said they.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;You shall,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;only don&rsquo;t be
+afraid.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Thereupon, he went to the window of the cell in which the
+Archimandrite and his servant slept, the latter a very lively
+lad, and a great teller of pleasant stories.&nbsp; Tim peeping
+in, perceived that the Archimandrite was asleep, and snoring like
+a hedgehog, but the lad was awake.&nbsp; Tim tapped with his
+finger against the window, whereupon the lad got up and looked
+out.&nbsp; But before he could ask who was there, Tim seized him
+by the ears with both his hands, dragged him out, and tying a
+handkerchief over his mouth, delivered him to the custody of his
+associates.&nbsp; Then climbing softly in at the window, he lay
+down in the young fellow&rsquo;s bed.&nbsp; After waiting a
+little time, he fell to arousing <!-- page 15--><a
+name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 15</span>the
+Archimandrite.&nbsp; His masters who were listening under the
+window, hearing him try to awake the ghostly man, begged him to
+come out.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;What are you about?&rdquo; they cried.&nbsp; &ldquo;The
+devil take you and the cloak, too!&nbsp; Woe is us, that we ever
+came here with you!&rdquo;</p>
+<p>But without attending to them, he cried:</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Father Archimandrite! your reverence!&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Hey! what!&rdquo; replied the Archimandrite, in a voice
+half-suffocated with sleep.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;I have had a very bad dream,&rdquo; said Tim, &ldquo;I
+dreamt that thieves broke into the treasure-room, and carried
+away all the money, and also your cloak of sable.&nbsp; He who
+climbed up to steal the treasure, took the cloak out of the box,
+intending it for himself.&nbsp; He gave his comrades all the
+money, and only wanted to keep the cloak; but they refused to
+give it him.&nbsp; Now, who do you say should have the
+cloak?&rdquo;</p>
+<p><!-- page 16--><a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+16</span>The Archimandrite imagining that it was his chamberlain
+who was speaking to him, cried:</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Oh, how tiresome you are!&nbsp; People are sure to
+dream at night.&nbsp; Pray don&rsquo;t trouble my
+rest.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Tim was silent for a time, but no sooner had the Archimandrite
+fallen asleep again, than he again awoke him, crying:</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Whom is the cloak to be given to?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Oh, you tiresome fellow!&rdquo; cried the
+Archimandrite.&nbsp; &ldquo;Well, if you must know, I would have
+it given to him who broke in.&nbsp; But, pray, let me
+sleep.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Tim troubled him no more, and as soon as he was fast asleep
+got out of the window and took possession of the cloak without
+any opposition from his teachers, who extolled his cleverness to
+the skies.&nbsp; They set out for home, and the first thing they
+did when they arrived was to hide their booty.&nbsp; After this
+adventure, Tim&rsquo;s <!-- page 17--><a name="page17"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 17</span>masters frequently discoursed with
+each other about their apprentice.&nbsp; His address and
+cleverness pleased them exceedingly.&nbsp; They hoped that he
+would be of the greatest assistance to them, and in order to keep
+him with them, they determined to give him their sister, who was
+rather a pretty girl.&nbsp; When they declared their mind to Tim,
+he was far from refusing so good a match, for they offered plenty
+of money with her.&nbsp; So he married, and ceasing to be their
+apprentice, became their brother-in-law and comrade.</p>
+<p>After some time his wife said to him:</p>
+<p>&ldquo;It is bad living with these brothers of mine who are
+thieves to the very bone.&nbsp; Moreover, you know the rhyme,
+&lsquo;Though the thief may thrive for many a day, he becomes at
+last the hangman&rsquo;s prey.&rsquo;&nbsp; So it is my wish and
+counsel that we separate from them at once and for ever, and go
+and live at your father&rsquo;s house, <!-- page 18--><a
+name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 18</span>where, though
+we may not be so rich, we shall at any rate be in
+peace.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Tim approved of what she said, and communicated his intention
+to those honest gentlemen&mdash;his brothers-in-law.&nbsp; They
+were very much mortified at what he told them, and endeavoured to
+persuade him to stay with them, but in vain.&nbsp; At last they
+said:</p>
+<p>&ldquo;We will let you go on the following conditions: we will
+give you a swine, and if to-night we contrive to steal it from
+you, you shall pay us two hundred roubles, or remain in our
+service till you have gained for us that amount, and if we are
+unable to steal the swine, we will pay the same sum to
+you.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Very good,&rdquo; said Tim, &ldquo;I will see whether
+you can steal her away from me.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Then he loaded a cart with his property, and set off with his
+wife to the house of his father.</p>
+<p>As soon as he got home he mixed up in the <!-- page 19--><a
+name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 19</span>trough a mess
+of barley-meal and wine for the pig, who, after gorging herself
+with it, became senselessly drunk.&nbsp; Tim, then, dressing her
+in a sarafan or woman&rsquo;s long night-gown, placed her on the
+petsch or stove in a corner, where she stretched herself out and
+lay without motion.&nbsp; He then went to bed with his wife in
+the chamber above.&nbsp; They were scarcely asleep when the
+thieves arrived, and searched in every nook and corner round
+about the house, but not finding what they were in quest of, they
+repaired to the kitchen, and, listening, heard something
+snoring.&nbsp; Forthwith one of them crept in, and moving about
+softly touched the swine, but feeling the nightgown at the same
+time, he jumped out of the kitchen almost frightened out of his
+wits.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Who are you?&rdquo; cried his comrade.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Your brother,&rdquo; he replied.&nbsp; &ldquo;Oh, I got
+into such a scrape.&nbsp; The thing which is snoring in <!-- page
+20--><a name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 20</span>the
+kitchen is the old beldame, Tim&rsquo;s mother.&nbsp; I took hold
+of her by the side, but so softly that I did not wake her, and
+such a stench came from her that I really thought I should have
+fainted.&nbsp; Now, what to do I don&rsquo;t know&mdash;but,
+stay!&nbsp; I will go and ask my sister where the swine is.&nbsp;
+Perhaps she will tell me whilst she is dozing.&rdquo;&nbsp; He
+then climbed softly on the top of the chamber, removed a board
+from the roof, and, poking his sister gently with his stick,
+said: &ldquo;Wife! where did we put the sow?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t you remember,&rdquo; said she, &ldquo;that
+we placed her in the kitchen, on the petsch, dressed in a
+nightgown?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>No sooner did the thief hear this than he sprang like a madman
+from the roof, and rushing into the kitchen, dragged off from the
+petsch the drunken swine.&nbsp; He and his brother then lugged
+her away from the house, and when they had got to some distance,
+they tied her feet <!-- page 21--><a name="page21"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 21</span>together, and thrusting a stick
+under, they carried her off on their shoulders at full
+trot.&nbsp; This riding on a stick&mdash;which was very different
+from lying in a cradle&mdash;soon brought the sow to her senses,
+who began to behave in a very obstreperous and disagreeable
+manner, and the faster they went the more obstreperous and
+disagreeable did she become.&nbsp; The thieves now began to
+repent of the expedient which they had devised for bringing back
+Tim to their society; but, fearing to lose two hundred roubles,
+they bore all the nuisance of the swine, and hastened on their
+way.</p>
+<p>Tim awoke a little time after the swine had been carried away,
+and being quite drowsy clean forgot what he had done with
+her.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Wife! wife!&rdquo; cried he, jogging his bedfellow on
+the side with his elbow, &ldquo;where did we hide the
+swine?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;How long is it,&rdquo; said she, &ldquo;since you asked
+<!-- page 22--><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+22</span>me that?&nbsp; Did I not tell you that she lies on the
+petsch in the night-gown?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;When did you tell me that?&rdquo; cried he.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Not long ago,&rdquo; said she; &ldquo;but no doubt you
+were drowsy.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Now, farewell to our swine!&rdquo; said Tim.&nbsp;
+&ldquo;No doubt they have taken her away.&rdquo;&nbsp; And
+springing from the bed he ran into the kitchen, but found no
+swine upon the petsch.&nbsp; Tim felt his knees quake under
+him.&nbsp; But the prospect of living with the thieves, as their
+slave, compelled him to cast aside all useless despondency, and
+to seek a remedy for the misfortune.&nbsp; Flinging himself upon
+his horse he galloped off in the hope of overtaking the
+travelling swine, in which he succeeded.&nbsp; He came up with
+the party just as they were entering the wood, and rode gently
+after them; the night, which was exceedingly dark, preventing the
+thieves from seeing him.&nbsp; By this time they were excessively
+weary, and <!-- page 23--><a name="page23"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 23</span>wishing to take some rest, they flung
+the swine upon the ground in a rage, and one of them said:</p>
+<p>&ldquo;What a weight!&nbsp; It&rsquo;s enough to kill
+one.&nbsp; Yet one must not mind toiling when two hundred roubles
+are at stake.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Quoth the other: &ldquo;I would almost give up the roubles for
+a horse or something to carry this load of carrion for
+us.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Meanwhile, Tim, leading his horse some way aside, tied it to a
+tree, then drawing softly nigh he began to make a jingling with
+the bridle and stirrups which he had taken off the horse.&nbsp;
+One of the thieves hearing the jingling said:</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Listen, brother! some horse is going about entangled in
+its harness.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>As Tim still continued jingling, one of them fully persuaded
+that there was a horse close at hand set off to catch it, whilst
+the other rested himself sitting close by the swine.&nbsp; Tim
+moved <!-- page 24--><a name="page24"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 24</span>on before the thief, who followed,
+expecting every moment to lay his hand upon the strayed
+horse.&nbsp; Imperceptibly he led him to a great distance, and
+then leaving him hurried back to the other.&nbsp; When he was not
+more than twenty yards from him he stopped and cried:</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Pray, brother, come and help me to untie this accursed
+brute.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>The fellow, imagining that it was his brother, got up to help
+him, saying:</p>
+<p>&ldquo;A pretty baby you, who cannot untie a horse.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Tim, however, pretending that he could not hold the horse,
+moved away, and led him very far from the road.&nbsp; Then
+leaving him to seek his brother who was in vain pursuit of the
+horse he ran to where the swine lay, and, seizing hold of her,
+placed her upon his horse and carried her off.&nbsp; As soon as
+he got home he tied her by the leg to the hand-mill which stood
+in the <!-- page 25--><a name="page25"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 25</span>middle of the kitchen, round which he
+strewed a quantity of rye.&nbsp; Forthwith the swine fell to
+eating the rye, and, by moving round, set the mill a
+grinding.&nbsp; Tim then flung himself upon his bed, and without
+any care resigned himself to sleep.</p>
+<p>In the meanwhile the thieves met each other.</p>
+<p>One said, &ldquo;Where&rsquo;s the horse?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>The other answered, that he had never caught a glimpse of
+it.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Then why did you call me to help you to untie
+it?&rdquo; said the first.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;You are mad!&rdquo; replied the other; &ldquo;I never
+spoke a word.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Well, then,&rdquo; said his comrade, &ldquo;it is plain
+that fellow Tim has played us a trick.&nbsp; Let us go and see
+whether the swine is where we left her.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>But, after seeking her for a long time in vain, they concluded
+that their brother-in-law had <!-- page 26--><a
+name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 26</span>carried her
+back with him home, whereupon they set off for Tim&rsquo;s house
+with all speed.</p>
+<p>On arriving at the court-yard, they went to the kitchen, and
+one of them said:</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Brother, I am afraid we have lost our two hundred
+roubles.&nbsp; The old beldame, Tim&rsquo;s mother, is awake and
+up.&nbsp; Don&rsquo;t you hear her getting the mill in
+order?&nbsp; She is going to grind.&nbsp; However, I will go to
+my sister, and ask her, as I did before, where the swine is hid;
+perhaps it is not in the kitchen.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>So he climbed up upon the roof as he had done before, and
+waking his sister said:</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Wife, where is the swine?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;You must be asleep,&rdquo; she replied; &ldquo;have you
+forgotten that she is tied to the hand-mill in the
+kitchen?&rdquo;</p>
+<p>The thief, having learnt where the swine was, ran to the
+kitchen, and seizing his booty hastened away with his brother,
+saying:</p>
+<p><!-- page 27--><a name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+27</span>&ldquo;Master Tim has taught us a lesson; he will not
+deceive us again.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Shortly after this Tim awoke, and jumping up, ran to look
+after the swine.&nbsp; But on entering the kitchen, he perceived
+that she had been stolen a second time.&nbsp; Nothing now
+remained for him to do but to run and overtake the thieves, and
+discover some means of deceiving them again.&nbsp; He ran without
+any burden on his back, and besides, was all the fresher for
+having rested, consequently he had no difficulty in overtaking
+the tired thieves, who were carrying the swine between
+them.&nbsp; He went softly behind them till they came to the
+wood.</p>
+<p>As soon as they had entered it one of the thieves said to his
+comrade:</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Let us rest awhile here.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>But the other replied:</p>
+<p>&ldquo;No, brother; if Tim overtakes us here, he will trick us
+again by some means or other.&nbsp; <!-- page 28--><a
+name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 28</span>But some way
+farther on you remember there is an empty cottage, near the road,
+there we can rest without danger.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Very good,&rdquo; said his comrade, &ldquo;we will stop
+there.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Tim, hearing what they said, turned aside, and, getting before
+them, daubed his face with clay; then, running as fast as he
+could to the cottage, he sat down within the ruined petsch,
+holding in his hand a brick.&nbsp; He had not waited five minutes
+when they entered the cottage and cast the swine down upon the
+floor.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Now, brother,&rdquo; said one, &ldquo;we have nearly
+finished the business, let us smoke a pipe of tobacco.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Capital!&rdquo; replied the other, taking out his flint
+and steel; but though he struck and struck, he could not make the
+tinder take light.&nbsp; &ldquo;Here&rsquo;s a pretty
+affair,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;the tinder got <!-- page 29--><a
+name="page29"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 29</span>damp as I ran
+amidst the dew of the wood endeavouring to overtake that rascal
+Tim.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Go to the mouth of the petsch,&rdquo; said the other,
+&ldquo;perhaps a spark will take hold of the soot.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>The other went up to the petsch and began again to
+strike.&nbsp; In the meantime Tim, looking full at him, gnashed
+his teeth violently.&nbsp; The thief, hearing something gnashing,
+struck harder than before, and, looking into the petsch by the
+light of the sparks, instantly fell to the ground, for seeing the
+face of Tim he took him for the devil and was so terrified that
+he could only utter with a broken voice:</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Oh, brother!&mdash;the devil!&mdash;the
+devil!&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Thereupon, Tim knocked violently upon the petsch, and hurled
+the brick at the other thief, who made for the door, but,
+striking his forehead against the lintel, he fell
+senseless.&nbsp; Tim then seizing one of their sticks began to
+belabour his <!-- page 30--><a name="page30"></a><span
+class="pagenum">p. 30</span>brothers-in-law so lustily that they
+soon recovered their recollection and betook themselves to
+flight.&nbsp; Their legs trembled so with the fright they were in
+that they stumbled more than once; but Tim assisted them on their
+way by pelting them with bricks.&nbsp; Having driven them off, he
+took the swine and carried her home, where he arrived just as the
+day was beginning to break.</p>
+<p>The first word which the thieves said on recovering their
+breath was about the wager with their brother-in-law.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Now,&rdquo; said they, &ldquo;as the devil has run away
+with the swine, Tim cannot produce her, so we will force him to
+come and live with us again.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>Thereupon they set off straight for the house, because it was
+already getting light; but on their arrival they found that they
+had lost their wager, and that it was not the devil who had <!--
+page 31--><a name="page31"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
+31</span>routed them in the deserted cottage, but their
+brother-in-law.</p>
+<p>&ldquo;Oh, you precious rascal!&rdquo; said they, &ldquo;you
+nearly killed us with terror.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no help, brothers,&rdquo; he replied,
+&ldquo;you were thinking of taking two hundred roubles from me,
+but now you have to pay them to me.&rdquo;</p>
+<p>After some demur, he received the money from them, and began
+to live in a highly respectable manner.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 32--><a
+name="page32"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 32</span><span
+class="smcap">London</span>:<br />
+Printed for THOMAS J. WISE, Hampstead, N.W.</p>
+<p style="text-align: center"><i>Edition limited to Thirty
+Copies</i>.</p>
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Story of Tim, by Anonymous, Translated by
+George Borrow
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+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
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+
+Title: The Story of Tim
+
+
+Author: Anonymous
+
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+Release Date: May 12, 2009  [eBook #28770]
+
+Language: English
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+
+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF TIM***
+
+
+Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email
+ccx074@pglaf.org
+
+
+
+
+
+                             THE STORY OF TIM
+
+
+                      _Translated from the Russian_
+                                    BY
+                              GEORGE BORROW
+
+                                 LONDON:
+                     PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION
+                                   1913
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION
+
+
+The Russians have three grand popular tales, the subjects of which are
+thievish adventures.  One is called the _Story of Klim_, another is
+called the _Story of Tim_, and the third is called the _Story of Tom_.
+Below we present a translation of the _Story of Tim_.
+
+That part of the tale in which Tim inquires of the drowsy Archimandrite
+as to the person to whom the stolen pelisse is to be awarded, differs in
+no material point from a portion of a tale narrated in the Turkish
+story-book of the lady and the forty vizirs.  The concluding part,
+however, in which we are told how Tim's comrades twice stole the pig from
+him, and how he twice regained it, is essentially Russian, and is
+original.
+
+
+
+
+THE STORY OF TIM
+
+
+In a certain village there lived an old man who had lost almost the whole
+of his hair, partly from age, and partly from the friction of his fur
+cap, which he never laid aside, either by day or night.  He had a
+helpmeet as ancient as himself, but who differed from him in having a
+hump.  Our story, however, does not relate to them, but to a son of
+theirs, called Timoney, who was a sharp lad enough, but who had learnt
+nothing but to play on the fife.  The old man thinking that music,
+however sweet, would never fill the belly, and that it was quite
+impossible to live on an empty stomach, determined to have the boy taught
+some trade, but ere fixing on what it should be, he deemed it expedient
+to consult his old woman on the subject; and, accordingly, requested her
+opinion, adding that he would wish to see the boy either a blacksmith, or
+a tailor.
+
+"No!" cried the old woman.  "I'll have him neither the one nor the other.
+The blacksmith by always going amidst fire and soot is so begrimed that
+he looks rather like a devil than a man.  Would you make a monster of
+him?  As for a tailor--I don't deny that tailoring is a rare art, but
+sitting doubled up, in a little time brings on a consumption."
+
+"Then what would you make of him?" cried the old man.
+
+"Make of him?" said she; "why a goldsmith or a painter, or something
+similar."
+
+"And do you know," said the old man, "how much money one must lay down to
+have him bound either to a goldsmith or a painter?  Why he would swallow
+up all we have, or more."
+
+They disputed so long, that they almost came to blows.  The old woman had
+already armed herself with the fire-pan.  At last, however, they agreed
+to bind their son to the first master they should meet, whatever his
+trade might be.  So the old man, taking with him the sum of ten roubles,
+which he destined for the binding his son out as an apprentice, set out
+leading Tim by the hand.  It happened, that the first people he met were
+two born brothers, who maintained themselves by levying taxes on the
+highway, and besides being tax-gatherers were expert tailors, using their
+needles so adroitly, that with a stitch or two they could make for
+themselves a coat or mantle; in plain language, they were robbers.
+
+The old man, after saluting them, said:
+
+"Are you craftsmen?"
+
+"Oh, yes! and very skilful ones," replied the highwaymen.
+
+"And what may be your trade?" inquired the old man.
+
+"What is that to you?" they replied.
+
+"Why, I wish to give my son a trade," said the old man.
+
+"Oh! we will take your son with pleasure," they cried, "and instruct him
+in what we understand ourselves.  As for our trade, we have particular
+reasons for not telling you what it is.  Know, however, that you will
+never repent entrusting your son to our hands."
+
+"But what must I give you for your trouble, good people?" cried the old
+man.
+
+"Why, you can hardly give us less than twenty roubles," replied the
+craftsmen.
+
+"O! where shall I get so much money?" cried the old man.  "I have but ten
+roubles in all the world."
+
+"O, very well! hand them over," said they, "We'll take them, though they
+be only ten roubles; we don't wish to higgle with you."
+
+The old man gave them the money, and begging them to spare no pains in
+teaching his son their trade, he trudged homeward.  Remembering, however,
+that it was necessary to know where they dwelt, he turned back, and went
+along with them.  After some time, they came to a house in a great wood,
+where the thieves lived with a young girl who was their sister.  On their
+arrival they took off from Tim his rough country craftan and breeches,
+and clothed him in habiliments of the very best quality, and regaled the
+old man with plenty of capital wine.  So the old man, after staying an
+hour or two, left their dwelling quite happy and content.
+
+As soon as it was night, the thieves thought that they would give Tim his
+first lesson in their art, so arming him in the same manner as they did
+themselves, with a pike and a long knife, they went out on the road.  As
+soon as they were got there, one of the masters said to the pupil:
+
+"Suppose, now, any people were to attack us, what would you do, Tim?"
+
+"What's this for?" said he, grasping his knife; "with this I don't care a
+straw for a dozen men."
+
+"It will be of service to you, no doubt, some time or other," said the
+thieves; "it will be best, however, that your first essay be in something
+not quite so dangerous as levying taxes on the highways generally is.  We
+will go to the neighbouring monastery, and break into the treasury of the
+Archimandrite; we shall find there quite enough to enrich us."
+
+"O! just as you please," cried Timoney; "where the master goes the
+'prentice follows."
+
+So away they went, all three in high spirits.  When they came to the
+cloister, they flung an iron hook upon the roof of the treasure-room, and
+Tim climbing up by means of a rope which was attached to it, at once gave
+proof that he was anything but a dull pupil.  In a trice a hole was made
+in the roof--the chests in the treasury were broken open--money-bags were
+piled up upon the floor, and then flung down out of the treasury upon the
+ground, where they were gathered up by Tim's comrades, and what had taken
+a long series of years to acquire was in a few minutes lost to the
+proprietor.  All would have gone on in the smoothest manner in the world,
+provided Tim had been anything of a fool.  But he knew perfectly well
+that his friends below would take all the money by virtue of being his
+instructors, and would not give him a share; he, therefore, took from out
+of a chest the cloak of the Archimandrite, which was made of the choicest
+sable-skin, and flung it out of the hole upon the ground, intending it
+for himself, but had no sooner done so, than one of his masters took it
+up and put it on.  Tim then, letting himself down began to feel for the
+cloak upon the ground, for it was very dark.
+
+"What are you groping for?" said his masters.
+
+"I am seeking for my cloak," answered Tim.
+
+"What do you mean by calling it yours?" said one.  "I have put it on
+myself.  How should it belong to you?"
+
+"Because," said Tim, "I took it for myself, and not for you."
+
+"But we are your instructors," said they, "consequently whatever you take
+belongs to us."
+
+"O! no," cried he, with a loud voice.  "I got the money for you, it is
+true, and no share of that belongs to me, but the cloak is mine."
+
+"You lie, fool," said they.
+
+"O! if you talk in that manner," said Tim, "I will go and ask the
+Archimandrite, and the one to whom he adjudges it shall have the cloak."
+
+"Let's see how you'll go to work," said they.
+
+"You shall," said he, "only don't be afraid."
+
+Thereupon, he went to the window of the cell in which the Archimandrite
+and his servant slept, the latter a very lively lad, and a great teller
+of pleasant stories.  Tim peeping in, perceived that the Archimandrite
+was asleep, and snoring like a hedgehog, but the lad was awake.  Tim
+tapped with his finger against the window, whereupon the lad got up and
+looked out.  But before he could ask who was there, Tim seized him by the
+ears with both his hands, dragged him out, and tying a handkerchief over
+his mouth, delivered him to the custody of his associates.  Then climbing
+softly in at the window, he lay down in the young fellow's bed.  After
+waiting a little time, he fell to arousing the Archimandrite.  His
+masters who were listening under the window, hearing him try to awake the
+ghostly man, begged him to come out.
+
+"What are you about?" they cried.  "The devil take you and the cloak,
+too!  Woe is us, that we ever came here with you!"
+
+But without attending to them, he cried:
+
+"Father Archimandrite! your reverence!"
+
+"Hey! what!" replied the Archimandrite, in a voice half-suffocated with
+sleep.
+
+"I have had a very bad dream," said Tim, "I dreamt that thieves broke
+into the treasure-room, and carried away all the money, and also your
+cloak of sable.  He who climbed up to steal the treasure, took the cloak
+out of the box, intending it for himself.  He gave his comrades all the
+money, and only wanted to keep the cloak; but they refused to give it
+him.  Now, who do you say should have the cloak?"
+
+The Archimandrite imagining that it was his chamberlain who was speaking
+to him, cried:
+
+"Oh, how tiresome you are!  People are sure to dream at night.  Pray
+don't trouble my rest."
+
+Tim was silent for a time, but no sooner had the Archimandrite fallen
+asleep again, than he again awoke him, crying:
+
+"Whom is the cloak to be given to?"
+
+"Oh, you tiresome fellow!" cried the Archimandrite.  "Well, if you must
+know, I would have it given to him who broke in.  But, pray, let me
+sleep."
+
+Tim troubled him no more, and as soon as he was fast asleep got out of
+the window and took possession of the cloak without any opposition from
+his teachers, who extolled his cleverness to the skies.  They set out for
+home, and the first thing they did when they arrived was to hide their
+booty.  After this adventure, Tim's masters frequently discoursed with
+each other about their apprentice.  His address and cleverness pleased
+them exceedingly.  They hoped that he would be of the greatest assistance
+to them, and in order to keep him with them, they determined to give him
+their sister, who was rather a pretty girl.  When they declared their
+mind to Tim, he was far from refusing so good a match, for they offered
+plenty of money with her.  So he married, and ceasing to be their
+apprentice, became their brother-in-law and comrade.
+
+After some time his wife said to him:
+
+"It is bad living with these brothers of mine who are thieves to the very
+bone.  Moreover, you know the rhyme, 'Though the thief may thrive for
+many a day, he becomes at last the hangman's prey.'  So it is my wish and
+counsel that we separate from them at once and for ever, and go and live
+at your father's house, where, though we may not be so rich, we shall at
+any rate be in peace."
+
+Tim approved of what she said, and communicated his intention to those
+honest gentlemen--his brothers-in-law.  They were very much mortified at
+what he told them, and endeavoured to persuade him to stay with them, but
+in vain.  At last they said:
+
+"We will let you go on the following conditions: we will give you a
+swine, and if to-night we contrive to steal it from you, you shall pay us
+two hundred roubles, or remain in our service till you have gained for us
+that amount, and if we are unable to steal the swine, we will pay the
+same sum to you."
+
+"Very good," said Tim, "I will see whether you can steal her away from
+me."
+
+Then he loaded a cart with his property, and set off with his wife to the
+house of his father.
+
+As soon as he got home he mixed up in the trough a mess of barley-meal
+and wine for the pig, who, after gorging herself with it, became
+senselessly drunk.  Tim, then, dressing her in a sarafan or woman's long
+night-gown, placed her on the petsch or stove in a corner, where she
+stretched herself out and lay without motion.  He then went to bed with
+his wife in the chamber above.  They were scarcely asleep when the
+thieves arrived, and searched in every nook and corner round about the
+house, but not finding what they were in quest of, they repaired to the
+kitchen, and, listening, heard something snoring.  Forthwith one of them
+crept in, and moving about softly touched the swine, but feeling the
+nightgown at the same time, he jumped out of the kitchen almost
+frightened out of his wits.
+
+"Who are you?" cried his comrade.
+
+"Your brother," he replied.  "Oh, I got into such a scrape.  The thing
+which is snoring in the kitchen is the old beldame, Tim's mother.  I took
+hold of her by the side, but so softly that I did not wake her, and such
+a stench came from her that I really thought I should have fainted.  Now,
+what to do I don't know--but, stay!  I will go and ask my sister where
+the swine is.  Perhaps she will tell me whilst she is dozing."  He then
+climbed softly on the top of the chamber, removed a board from the roof,
+and, poking his sister gently with his stick, said: "Wife! where did we
+put the sow?"
+
+"Don't you remember," said she, "that we placed her in the kitchen, on
+the petsch, dressed in a nightgown?"
+
+No sooner did the thief hear this than he sprang like a madman from the
+roof, and rushing into the kitchen, dragged off from the petsch the
+drunken swine.  He and his brother then lugged her away from the house,
+and when they had got to some distance, they tied her feet together, and
+thrusting a stick under, they carried her off on their shoulders at full
+trot.  This riding on a stick--which was very different from lying in a
+cradle--soon brought the sow to her senses, who began to behave in a very
+obstreperous and disagreeable manner, and the faster they went the more
+obstreperous and disagreeable did she become.  The thieves now began to
+repent of the expedient which they had devised for bringing back Tim to
+their society; but, fearing to lose two hundred roubles, they bore all
+the nuisance of the swine, and hastened on their way.
+
+Tim awoke a little time after the swine had been carried away, and being
+quite drowsy clean forgot what he had done with her.
+
+"Wife! wife!" cried he, jogging his bedfellow on the side with his elbow,
+"where did we hide the swine?"
+
+"How long is it," said she, "since you asked me that?  Did I not tell you
+that she lies on the petsch in the night-gown?"
+
+"When did you tell me that?" cried he.
+
+"Not long ago," said she; "but no doubt you were drowsy."
+
+"Now, farewell to our swine!" said Tim.  "No doubt they have taken her
+away."  And springing from the bed he ran into the kitchen, but found no
+swine upon the petsch.  Tim felt his knees quake under him.  But the
+prospect of living with the thieves, as their slave, compelled him to
+cast aside all useless despondency, and to seek a remedy for the
+misfortune.  Flinging himself upon his horse he galloped off in the hope
+of overtaking the travelling swine, in which he succeeded.  He came up
+with the party just as they were entering the wood, and rode gently after
+them; the night, which was exceedingly dark, preventing the thieves from
+seeing him.  By this time they were excessively weary, and wishing to
+take some rest, they flung the swine upon the ground in a rage, and one
+of them said:
+
+"What a weight!  It's enough to kill one.  Yet one must not mind toiling
+when two hundred roubles are at stake."
+
+Quoth the other: "I would almost give up the roubles for a horse or
+something to carry this load of carrion for us."
+
+Meanwhile, Tim, leading his horse some way aside, tied it to a tree, then
+drawing softly nigh he began to make a jingling with the bridle and
+stirrups which he had taken off the horse.  One of the thieves hearing
+the jingling said:
+
+"Listen, brother! some horse is going about entangled in its harness."
+
+As Tim still continued jingling, one of them fully persuaded that there
+was a horse close at hand set off to catch it, whilst the other rested
+himself sitting close by the swine.  Tim moved on before the thief, who
+followed, expecting every moment to lay his hand upon the strayed horse.
+Imperceptibly he led him to a great distance, and then leaving him
+hurried back to the other.  When he was not more than twenty yards from
+him he stopped and cried:
+
+"Pray, brother, come and help me to untie this accursed brute."
+
+The fellow, imagining that it was his brother, got up to help him,
+saying:
+
+"A pretty baby you, who cannot untie a horse."
+
+Tim, however, pretending that he could not hold the horse, moved away,
+and led him very far from the road.  Then leaving him to seek his brother
+who was in vain pursuit of the horse he ran to where the swine lay, and,
+seizing hold of her, placed her upon his horse and carried her off.  As
+soon as he got home he tied her by the leg to the hand-mill which stood
+in the middle of the kitchen, round which he strewed a quantity of rye.
+Forthwith the swine fell to eating the rye, and, by moving round, set the
+mill a grinding.  Tim then flung himself upon his bed, and without any
+care resigned himself to sleep.
+
+In the meanwhile the thieves met each other.
+
+One said, "Where's the horse?"
+
+The other answered, that he had never caught a glimpse of it.
+
+"Then why did you call me to help you to untie it?" said the first.
+
+"You are mad!" replied the other; "I never spoke a word."
+
+"Well, then," said his comrade, "it is plain that fellow Tim has played
+us a trick.  Let us go and see whether the swine is where we left her."
+
+But, after seeking her for a long time in vain, they concluded that their
+brother-in-law had carried her back with him home, whereupon they set off
+for Tim's house with all speed.
+
+On arriving at the court-yard, they went to the kitchen, and one of them
+said:
+
+"Brother, I am afraid we have lost our two hundred roubles.  The old
+beldame, Tim's mother, is awake and up.  Don't you hear her getting the
+mill in order?  She is going to grind.  However, I will go to my sister,
+and ask her, as I did before, where the swine is hid; perhaps it is not
+in the kitchen."
+
+So he climbed up upon the roof as he had done before, and waking his
+sister said:
+
+"Wife, where is the swine?"
+
+"You must be asleep," she replied; "have you forgotten that she is tied
+to the hand-mill in the kitchen?"
+
+The thief, having learnt where the swine was, ran to the kitchen, and
+seizing his booty hastened away with his brother, saying:
+
+"Master Tim has taught us a lesson; he will not deceive us again."
+
+Shortly after this Tim awoke, and jumping up, ran to look after the
+swine.  But on entering the kitchen, he perceived that she had been
+stolen a second time.  Nothing now remained for him to do but to run and
+overtake the thieves, and discover some means of deceiving them again.
+He ran without any burden on his back, and besides, was all the fresher
+for having rested, consequently he had no difficulty in overtaking the
+tired thieves, who were carrying the swine between them.  He went softly
+behind them till they came to the wood.
+
+As soon as they had entered it one of the thieves said to his comrade:
+
+"Let us rest awhile here."
+
+But the other replied:
+
+"No, brother; if Tim overtakes us here, he will trick us again by some
+means or other.  But some way farther on you remember there is an empty
+cottage, near the road, there we can rest without danger."
+
+"Very good," said his comrade, "we will stop there."
+
+Tim, hearing what they said, turned aside, and, getting before them,
+daubed his face with clay; then, running as fast as he could to the
+cottage, he sat down within the ruined petsch, holding in his hand a
+brick.  He had not waited five minutes when they entered the cottage and
+cast the swine down upon the floor.
+
+"Now, brother," said one, "we have nearly finished the business, let us
+smoke a pipe of tobacco."
+
+"Capital!" replied the other, taking out his flint and steel; but though
+he struck and struck, he could not make the tinder take light.  "Here's a
+pretty affair," said he, "the tinder got damp as I ran amidst the dew of
+the wood endeavouring to overtake that rascal Tim."
+
+"Go to the mouth of the petsch," said the other, "perhaps a spark will
+take hold of the soot."
+
+The other went up to the petsch and began again to strike.  In the
+meantime Tim, looking full at him, gnashed his teeth violently.  The
+thief, hearing something gnashing, struck harder than before, and,
+looking into the petsch by the light of the sparks, instantly fell to the
+ground, for seeing the face of Tim he took him for the devil and was so
+terrified that he could only utter with a broken voice:
+
+"Oh, brother!--the devil!--the devil!"
+
+Thereupon, Tim knocked violently upon the petsch, and hurled the brick at
+the other thief, who made for the door, but, striking his forehead
+against the lintel, he fell senseless.  Tim then seizing one of their
+sticks began to belabour his brothers-in-law so lustily that they soon
+recovered their recollection and betook themselves to flight.  Their legs
+trembled so with the fright they were in that they stumbled more than
+once; but Tim assisted them on their way by pelting them with bricks.
+Having driven them off, he took the swine and carried her home, where he
+arrived just as the day was beginning to break.
+
+The first word which the thieves said on recovering their breath was
+about the wager with their brother-in-law.
+
+"Now," said they, "as the devil has run away with the swine, Tim cannot
+produce her, so we will force him to come and live with us again."
+
+Thereupon they set off straight for the house, because it was already
+getting light; but on their arrival they found that they had lost their
+wager, and that it was not the devil who had routed them in the deserted
+cottage, but their brother-in-law.
+
+"Oh, you precious rascal!" said they, "you nearly killed us with terror."
+
+"There's no help, brothers," he replied, "you were thinking of taking two
+hundred roubles from me, but now you have to pay them to me."
+
+After some demur, he received the money from them, and began to live in a
+highly respectable manner.
+
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