ABSTRACT

At that very time a priest approached. He looked and saw the milk in the peasant's beard. He said, "Ivan!"

"What, father?" "Why are you eating fats when it's our Great Lent?" "Who told you, father, that I've been eating fats? I haven't." In the front comer there hung an icon of Nicholas Who Pleased God,

a large one. The priest pointed to it and said, "Nicholas Ugodnik told me."