Elias: a parable. (fiction)

From: Saturday Evening Post | Date: March 1, 1998| Author: Tolstoy, Leo | Copyright information

At one time the elderly couple had been the wealthiest in the region; now they were merely servants who had nothing but each other.

In the Province of Oufa there lived Bashkir named Elias. His father died a year after he had procured his son a wife, and left him a poor man. At that time Elias's property consisted only of seven mares, two cows, and twenty sheep, but now that he had become master he began to better himself. He and his wife worked hard from morning till nigh...

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