Nikolai Osipov

The Greedy OakAt the edge of the forest grew an oaksullen, cantankerous, and greedy. He refused to share with anyone else. Once a field mouse came scampering up to him and said:"Let me have two of your acorns. I'll eat one, and the other I'll plant in a distant clearing, so that a little oak will...

THE INVINCIBLE FOREST I'll begin by telling you a story that I heard from the trees themselves. They say there once lived a wicked sorcerer who was so evil-tempered that he hated even himself, so you can imagine how he hated others. The longer he lived, the more nasty he became. Once he went...