Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School - Echoes Yearbook (Peterborough, Ontario Canada)

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Ebel-g Ecbocs 31 llvan 'lippalov FIRST PRIZE I. ONCE upon a time in a Russian village lived a peasant named Ivan Ippalov. Ivan ought indeed to have been a happy peasant. He had a fine farm which always gave him fifty bushels to the acre, a beautiful wife named Tana: and, best of all, two fine sons named Boris and Igor. But Ivan was not happyg he wanted to be rich. Ivan got his chance one day when a certain rich man visited the village. Fat and insolent, but always on the watch for any good opportunity of increasing his wealth, this man soon got his eye on Ivan, and, finding he had a little hard-earned money saved up, easily persuaded' him to leave the village and try his fortune in the city, and there the rich man helped Ivan. He was sly and clever, and knew the ways of the' city dwellers: soon Ivan was astonished to see how his money increased. In a word, Ivan became rich, and the rich man became richer, until finally one day Ivan said: Now I am rich as I ever desire to be. I have all the money I ever dreamed of. I am going back to our vil- lage to show those silly peasants how rich I have become. Thereupon the rich man said farewell to him, and begged him to remember always if he met a man who had money to invest, to send the man to him. As soon as Ivan had gone, he rubbed his hands and said: What a fool! How lucky for him it was that I decided using him would be more profit- able than robbingf' But Ivan did not hear this. He was on his way home. When the villagers heard that Ivan was returning they were indeed happy: the village had not been the same while he was away. Hurrah! they cried. Good old Ivan is coming back. Now we shall have happy times together again! But alas! VVhen Ivan returned they found he was no longer the same. He had found more than gold in the city: he had become proud and overbearing, haughty and scornful. He had forgotten that at heart he was only a peasant, and he was no sooner back in the village than he began to loathe its inhabitants and their customs. Away, you boors, he cried. make way for a man with some brains. Bring me food and drink, and don't look so stupid! When the old people of the vil- lage came in to- welcome him, Ivan quickly told them to scatter. f'Can't you see I am tired? ' he shouted. And when the aged inn-keeper ran up to shake hands with him, Ivan roughly threw him his coat. saying: See no harm comes to it, or I will make trouble for you! Then were the villagers shocked! For a while they could scarcely believe t.heir ears. Ah! they sighed, we ought to known it. He is no longer our old Ivan. have He has become like the first rich man. He has no more use for such as we 5' Soon Ivan built a great house above the village on a high forested hill. Here he dwelt in splendour and wealth, entertain- ing rich friends from far-off cities, who never failed to make fun of the poor vil- lage folk, fun in which Ivan often joined. This made the old people of the village very bitter. Ah! Ivan Ippalovlu they cried, you had better be careful, for trouble will surely fall upon you one of these days. Everyone, however, in the house on the hill was not happy. Poor Tana and her sons were sorry to see Ivan foolishly. They still loved the simple village folk and felt out of place among Ivan's rich friends. They tried to persuade him, but he only asked: Are you, too, as stupid as they? act so II. One day, suddenly a11d unexpectedly, the Hrst great storm of the cold Russian winter swept down from the north and almost buried the village under its great drifts. The villagers were in desperate straits. Not expecting winter for some time to come, they had neglected their supplies of fuel and provisions, and as a result many were on the verge of starvation and freezing. The strong grew weak. The weak died. Then in hasty consultation the peas- ants gathered together to try and save Cflontinued on page 345

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