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The Tale of the Old Woman Back then people were better than today Then even God came to our Earth accompanied by Saint Peter as an inseparable traveling companion Among the old peasants in ragged clothes one might have thought they were beggars In the depths of the world unknown to anyone rewarding each one according to their deeds At that time lived a poor old man He was alone All his family had died She gives each of the poor a coat shoes or some money for expenses For they knew him to be a hardworking thrifty and honest man In the fall when the village was making sausages the old man would get even more good things As the years passed the old man felt increasingly weak and old A constant thought tormented him I have eaten at many foreign restaurants in my life But me who has no one who will make a memorial for me when I die And with the little money he had he also managed to buy a bit of soul for himself The old man invited everyone to dinner We have waited a long time but no one has stepped across the threshold Everyone in the village was saying The old man's pig has nothing to eat either Where else are we supposed to go Why should we help him take what he has And no one came to the old man's feast Very sad and not understanding such a thing the old man took everything he had prepared sausages pastries bread candles and spread the table at the crossroads of the roads on the fields and wherever he knew people passed Only once did a beggar get to taste his porridge Where can I find something to eat Lord The Holy Peter of God They are limited We can find a place the Lord replied Here the village is not far As they descended a hill Saint Peter saw that they were indeed approaching the gate of a village Upon arriving there what a great miracle On both sides of the road several large platters of stuffed cabbage and rice from which warm steam rose Above them round loaves beautifully browned with candles lit in the centers The old man had not forgotten to bring food here Without asking anything else Saint Peter began to eat heartily God did the same after first blessing the food You have always taken care of us Lord Praise be to Your name Saint Peter bows in reverence after satisfying his hunger placing the ring and candle in his pocket Thanks be to the good-hearted Christian who though poor brought here everything that we are now enjoying And illuminated by the words of God Saint Peter understood the entire story of the feast Lord it is not right that such a beautiful deed should go unrewarded added Saint Peter Come on Petre Don't worry He reprimanded him gently When Saint Peter and God arose and continued on in the place of the beggars with food ere as if by magic appeared some large green leafy crowns spread out on the ground and raised in the middle At the top of swaying branches yellow flowers like tiny torches And ever since every spring the thistle has been in our way everywhere At road intersections by the roadside on hilltops in forest clearings He had brought with great effort food and lit candles to the good old man's heart