Babouscka

Book Id: WPLBN0000625567
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 10.46 KB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Babouscka
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: If you were a Russian child you would not watch to see Santa Klaus come down the chimney; but you would stand by the windows to catch a peep at poor Babouscka as she hurries by. Who is Babouscka? Is she Santa Klaus? wife? No, indeed. She is only a poor little crooked wrinkled old woman, who comes at Christmas time into everybody?s house, who peeps into every cradle, turns back every coverlid, drops a tear on the baby?s white pillow, and goes away very, very sorrowful. And not only at Christmas time, but through all the cold winter, and especially in March, when the wind blows loud, and whistles and howls and dies away like a sigh, the Russian children hear the rustling step of the Babouscka. She is always in a hurry. One hears her running fast along the crowded streets and over the quiet country fields. She seems to be out of breath and tired, yet she hurries on.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: BABOUSCKA, 1 -- Author Unknown, 1