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Looking for work!

- Hire me!

- What's the job?

- The water boiled.

- And what agreement?

- One hundred rubles a year!

- Okay, I agree! Here's voice says:

- Fence!

Intake in response to a human voice:

- What, master?

- It shall be opened!

Fence - open, closed, and let Elijah again by itself.

Elijah went into the yard and saw him standing in front of the owner, menacing eyes bulging. Led to a large master Ilya iron boilers, and closed one pot lid tightly and burn beneath the birch wood.

The host says:

- Here's to you, Ilya, boiler, here firewood. Lay a wood, do not be lazy, look, to not cool! And persuasion: the boiler looks. Look within for once - did not get a hundred rubles, lost his head - said the host, and went to the house.

Ascended the ladder at the door and says:

- Ladder!

She answered,

- As you wish, master?

- Take me to the house!

Ladder off the ground and took the owner of the house. The doors slammed shut behind him.

"That's the boss!" - Ilya thought - he deftly commands the things! "

Elijah remained in the courtyard of the boiler and set to work.

And in the spring in the wind, and in the heat of summer, and autumn rain and winter frost - knows is waving an ax, chopping firewood, a boiler under. And there Ilya no peace, no rest. A master in the morning until the evening sitting on the porch, staring into the sky, finger scratching his beard.

Already a year has passed. Tomorrow Ilya term work to finish, get a hundred rubles. Ilya sitting by the fire and thought, "I do not want a hundred rubles, I would master's word to learn to become a master of things, do not I languished all year round in the hard work ..." Ilya thought and thought, and fell asleep. In most host midnight came and became Elijah tried: he is asleep or awake? First called, then pushed the end of a needle stabbed in the side!

Elijah would be happy to wake up, but there is no strength! Then the owner came to the boiler, and said:

- Boiler!

He responded:

- What ought to, master?

- Open up!

The owner scooped water drunk and ordered to shut down the boiler. The boiler was closed and the owner had gone into the house.

Elijah woke at dawn and thought, "Let me check, what's the pot?" He came up to the boiler, I moved the lid, and it's heavy, can not be!

Right hand moved Ilya - can not be with both moved - can not be! Angry Elias leaned heroic chest, pushed an iron lid.

Ilya looked into the pot, and the water in it - clean, clear as a tear. Ilya scooped that water, gulped once or twice and sensed the strength unusual. Because the water-it was not easy: who gets drunk, to give power over things! Elijah ordered the boiler shut down - the boiler shut down.

Ilya became chop wood, and just then the owner goes:

- Well, Ilya agreement completed? - Ilya silent.

- The boiler looked? - Ilya silent. Then the owner of the boiler:

- Boiler, Ilya you opened?

- Yes! - Meets the boiler.

- Ilya! Agreement violated - cup your head!

And shouting boss ax:

- Axe!

Hatchet to Tip:

- Ready to serve!

- Ruby head Ilya!

The ax swung, and Ilya both shout:

- Axe, wait! - An ax and froze! Host commands:

- Axe, Ruby! - Ilya and defiance:

Ax, wait! - Ax in place gallop-gallop! Whom to obey, do not know! Then Elijah said:

- Axe who you sharpening?

- You!

- Who you cut down?

- You!

- Well, from now on, listen to me for one!

Stopped to listen to the master ax and a hatchet and all things against the owner went. Rushing through the yard owner, nowhere to escape him! Shouts the fence:

- It shall be opened! - A fence does not open the door. Shouts ladder:

- Blow the house! - Does not carry a ladder. Tears of anger beard owner, and Ilya looks at him, smiles. Finally Elijah says:

- Broom, sweeping the excess dirt from the yard!

How to go there but scrub broom sweep and swept away from the litter and the owner away from the yard!

Then Elijah said:

- Fence, opened to the whole world!

Fence - wide open! And cried Ilya:

- Hey, who's there naked, barefoot and hungry, all here!

Knock him down there to him for the people by the thousand! Ilya says:

- The boiler, run to the river, bring clean water and get on fire!

The boiler did. Ilya says:

- The bag, run to the barn, bring millet and eruption in the pot!

Bag did. Ilya says:

- Wood, jump into the boiler, burn brighter, hotter Warm and cook us a mess!

Elijah fed all people fill and began to live with them in harmony, Pohang land, bread, sow, harvest gathered. She went on to thank them thousands of miles around!