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                         TOLSTOI FOR THE YOUNG

                     [Illustration: IVAN THE FOOL.

                           _Frontispiece._]




                            TOLSTOI FOR THE
                                 YOUNG

                       SELECT TALES FROM TOLSTOI

                      Translated from the Russian
                                  By
                          MRS. R. S. TOWNSEND

               WITH SIX  PLATES BY MICHEL SEVIER

                                LONDON
                KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., LTD
                     NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.

                                 1916




CONTENTS


                                          PAGE

IVAN THE FOOL                                1

WHERE THERE IS LOVE, THERE IS GOD ALSO      56

A PRISONER                                  82

EMELIAN AND THE EMPTY DRUM                 138

THE GREAT BEAR                             156

THREE QUESTIONS                            158

THE GODSON                                 167




LIST OF  PLATES


Ivan the Fool                                 _Frontispiece_

Where there is Love, there is God also      _To face p._ 57

A Prisoner                                               82

Emelian and the Empty Drum                              138

Three Questions                                         158

The Godson                                              167




IVAN THE FOOL

     THE STORY OF IVAN THE FOOL AND HIS TWO BROTHERS SIMON THE WARRIOR
     AND TARAS THE POT-BELLIED, AND OF HIS DEAF AND DUMB SISTER, AND THE
     OLD DEVIL AND THREE LITTLE DEVILKINS.


Once upon a time there lived a rich peasant, who had three sons--Simon
the Warrior, Taras the Pot-bellied, and Ivan the Fool, and a deaf and
dumb daughter, Malania, an old maid.

Simon the Warrior went off to the wars to serve the King; Taras the
Pot-bellied went to a merchant’s to trade in the town, and Ivan the Fool
and the old maid stayed at home to do the work of the house and the
farm. Simon the Warrior earned a high rank for himself and an estate and
married a nobleman’s daughter. He had a large income and a large estate,
but he could never make both ends meet, for, what he managed to gather
in, his wife managed to squander; thus it was that he never had any
money.

And Simon the Warrior went to his estate one day to collect his income,
and his steward said to him, “There is nothing to squeeze money out of;
we have neither cattle, nor implements, nor horses, nor cows, nor
ploughs, nor harrows; we must get all these things first, then there
will be an income.”

Then Simon the Warrior went to his father and said, “You are rich,
father; and have given me nothing, let me have a third of your
possessions and I will set up my estate.”

And the old man replied, “Why should I? You have brought nothing to the