illustrated by the students of M.V. Chelnokov
Secondary School #38 Sevastopol
Once upon a time there lived the Old Dochia, an evil mother-in-law
On the first day of March she sent her daughter-in-law in the mountains, in search of strawberries
It was very cold outside.
The road was long and dangerous for a young girl
Suddenly she met an old man (maybe God), who helped her
The weather changed and the girl gathered a lot of strawberries
Seeing the strawberries, the Old Dochia believed that spring had come.
She put on her nine coats, took her sheep and went into the mountains
The warm weather made her take off her coats, one by one
But the frost and the rain came next and the old woman and her sheep turned into ice, which later became rock.