The story is about Robin Hood, one of the heroes of the history of the English people. According to legend, he lived in the second half of the 12th century. ...

“The jungle is a good school for both animals and boys. My father was firmly convinced of this. “Reading and writing,” he said, “are the last rung of the lad...

“In our wanderings through the jungle we often encountered herds of elephants. I always looked with longing at the crowds of giants, remembering my Kari. Thr...

“Spring has come, and with it came hopes: finally, I thought, we will go in search of my old friend. But for some reason my father was in no hurry with this ...

“By the age of five, Kari was already slightly shorter than our house. We did not teach him to hunt because we ourselves did not hunt wild animals. My father...

“This summer a tiger visited our village. One night, near the outskirts, he killed two buffaloes. Then he began to visit us often, every now and then he slau...

“I couldn't wait for Kari and me to be taken to the sawmill; but only adult, well-trained elephants were accepted there, and my friend and I still had to wai...

“Stepan Petrovich is our teacher. His real name is Pugovitsyn. We nicknamed him Confusion because he is a very absent-minded person...”

“Uncle Remus was nailing the soles to his shoes, and the boy did not want to leave his hammers, knives and awls alone, so the old man even frowned as if he w...

“- Uncle Remus,” Joel asked in the evening, when the old man seemed to be not busy with anything, “tell me, when the Fox caught the Rabbit with a Stuffed Ani...

“- Well, the Fox never caught the Rabbit? Eh, Uncle Remus? – Joel asked the other evening. “It happened like that, my friend,” I almost caught it. Remember h...

““Your mom probably has guests,” said Uncle Remus when Joel ran up to him with a huge piece of layer cake. “And if it’s not guests, it’s certainly true that ...