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Exactly a quarter of a century ago I got the first pair of reading, when I tried to prove that we are still talking about a carpenter... But admit, you did not think of the line "Spring-Stretch summer red propelled"...Stretch does not jump and does not make sounds!

It was not far from the truth. Grandfather Krylov was engaged, as it is common to say, in the "import substitution". In the original fairy tale of Ezop, which Lafonten smiled, from whom it was borrowed by Krylov, it is about the cycade. She jumps and sings.