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diff --git a/28770.txt b/28770.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3a5ece6 --- /dev/null +++ b/28770.txt @@ -0,0 +1,885 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Story of Tim, by Anonymous, Translated by +George Borrow + + +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 +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: The Story of Tim + + +Author: Anonymous + + + +Release Date: May 12, 2009 [eBook #28770] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***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. + + LONDON: + Printed for THOMAS J. 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