Girls on an Apiary

Family Gavrilovykh lives in the city of St.-Petersburg which has been based in 1703 on May, 16th. This day the Peter and Paul Fortress has been incorporated, and construction of seaport has begun.

Daddy Anton Petrovich works on construction by the construction superintendent. Mum Antonina Viktorovna works as the doctor in a children's polyclinic. Anton Petrovich and Antonina Viktorovna have three daughters.
Юлю five years, Katya of six years and Настю eight years. They live on the Foundry prospectus which is to Perpendicularly Neva prospectus constructed in 1710 by efforts of monks and captured Swedes.
Near to city grandmother Klava lives in village Vo

jbakalo. It has the friend grandfather Vanyu who works in village as the beekeeper. Every year it comes to the city of Sankt - Petersburg in shop for beekeepers behind stock, comes on a visit and brings greater to bank of honey, dried mushrooms, мочёную a cranberry, вяленую a fish.

Grandfather Vanya helps to collect to girls of a thing in the machine to go with them to village Vojbakalo to grandmother Klave. The grandmother is always pleased to arrival of girls. Puts all for a table, feeds, поит tea and puts to bed. Having woken up early in the morning from bark of dogs, girls listen пенье to cocks, кудахтанье hens, мычанье cows. New day begins.

Как-that time was sent by the grandmother of girls for щавелем on a meadow. In one of hot days, the grandmother has decided to weld a green borshch with which eat in cold a kind with яйцом and sour cream.
In it add to taste a green onions, fennel, kefir and the spoon of honey, white or black гренки.

On a meadow it was very beautiful, пахло the oblique grass, colors, and honey. Grasshoppers chirred, caterpillars crept, bugs, ants, flitted butterflies, dragonflies, shaggy bumblebees and bees.

Girls have dispersed on a meadow and began to collect щавель. The further they moved ahead deep into meadows, the there were bees is more often. Настя has told to girls - “ there Were many bees. Probably, we have come on an apiary ”.

They have looked around and have seen many bushes of acacias. Through branches of lindens small beer small houses were visible. Настя has solved, that it is necessary to go very silently home, to not wave hands, and that bees закусают. They have taken the baskets with щавелем and have gone home.

The grandmother has put Юлю on a bed, обтёрла the person and hands a wet towel, has wetted spirit cotton wool, has wiped the stung place, has disinfected a tweezers in spirit and has removed a sting. The grandmother knew one national means which is applied at stings of bees.

It has made a solution of a blue, has wetted in it a gauze and began to put it to the stung places. After 3 hours the pain has passed, the tumour was removed, but the grandmother continued to do compresses till the morning. Next day girls smiled.

Grandmother Klava has welded a green russian cabbage soup, has baked a pie with a bilberry and honey, has made tasty tea from fragrant grasses and has invited grandfather Vanyu. All was eaten amicably with a green russian cabbage soup, drank tea with a pie, honey, cheerfully talked and smiled.