Ivan the Gypsy Biography
I looked at his cheerful face everything as it should, ”I could cheerfully make a cheerfulness I can do no worse ..." Gypsies - a simple guy who looks like a child: "Love him - he is a simple soul! .. He laughed with a silk, affectionate laugh, again looking at a swollen hand so, Babania ..." For this, the grandfather and the brothers of Kashirin will seek my word: "Milute my word: The man is not small!
The uncle also turned with a gypsy, friendly and never “joked” with him unexpectedly and plaintively: “Eh, if I would have a voice, I would like to have a voice! The opinion of the protagonist of Alyosha’s story: “I looked at his cheerful face and recalled the grandmother's fairy tales about Ivan Tsarevich, about Ivanushka, the fool ech, Vanyushechka ... Fool!
.. On Saturdays, I glued a small piece of paper on the cockroach’s back, drove him behind the sleigh and explained:“ They forgot the bag, drag it! The insect crawled, poking his head, and Vanka screamed, slapping his hands: - The clerk from the tavern to the evening goes! .. He showed the mice who stood under his team and walked on his hind legs, dragging long tails behind him, ridiculously blinking with black beads of brisk eyes.
He treated the mice carefully, wore them behind the bosom, fed sugar from his mouth, kissed him, he knew how to make tricks with cards, money, shouted more than all children and was almost no different from them. Once, the children, playing with him in the cards, left him a “fool” several times in a row, he was very saddened, infused his lips and threw the game, and then complained to me, sniffing his nose, gypsy dancing tirelessly, selflessly, and it seemed that if the door was open, he would go along the street, around the city, he was driving in the bazaar.
For the sake of entertainment: “She explained to me that gypsies not so much buys in the bazaar as she steals. Once I tried it, - okay it turned out, and at home they laughed, praised for luck, he took theft every Friday gypsy, he admits that he steals from boredom, and not for the sake of money:“ I know: to steal is not bad and dangerous. This is me so -so, from boredom.
And I don’t smoke the money, your uncle in a week will be lured from me. I'm not sorry, take it! I am fed up once in the winter of gypsies helping brothers Kashirin to carry a cross in the cemetery. Gypsies stumbling and falling. The Kashirins brothers throw a cross. The cross falls on the gypsy and crushes him to death: “He stumbled and would cripple us, but we threw the cross in time, the grandfather regrets that in the face the gypsy lost a good employee:“ What kind of guy you have earned in vain!
I told him that I really love him, - he simply answered simply: “So I love you too,” for that, he took the pain, for love! Ali I would become for another for whom? I do not give a damn ... "" I loved Ivan and was surprised at him to the dumbness between them. Friendship was growing: "My friendship with Ivan grew up; for example, he puts his hands under the rods when his grandfather is shifting the boy.
As a result, Alyosha gets less blows:" So sorry I feel about my throat, I feel! And he whips ... "" Well, the rod has not broken, flexible, soaked! And all the same, you got less - you see how much? .. He still substituted his hand under the rod when grandfather sec me