ABSTRACT
This woman lived on a hill, and her husband had gone away to Moscow. And in place of her husband the devil had taken to visiting her. And then they had this son. The Unclean One wrote: "Alive he's yours, but dead he's mine." Then he got to be eight years old and this note was lying there in the desk. The boy was playing around and he glanced in the desk, and in the desk this note was lying. He read it: "Alive he's yours, but dead he's mine."
