The Steel Cane

Once upon a time there lived an old, quite rich woman who had a small cottage near the forest. She never felt lonely, but she had a bad illness and thought that it would be nice to have someone to speak. At this moment, she heard of the death of a shepherd's family and a boy left alone. She adopted him. But he made friends with rude people who terrorized everyone. Then the boy grew up, he get married a girl who was as good and industrious as well as pretty. After the marriage, he started to...