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

But the girl had to go

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.