One boy very much liked to bathe. And even in high water when the river had risen, he did not obey his father and mother and had escaped to bathe. He had undressed ashore and jumped jumped in water. The rough stream picked him up. The boy struggled with a current, dissecting waves. He began to shout, call for aid. Has heard its water. And it is good, that has heard – the small swimmer has already choked also consciousness has lost. When the water has appeared in time to rolling, that was already immovable, and waves carried its all further. To tell the truth, water hated, when somebody from people alive got to it on a bottom. But the small swimmer has liked it. It began a pity to heat the child, and he has decided to rescue it.

Water took the child on hands and has carried in the fine palace on a river bed. Never before the live person did not get to its possession, – for the first time so happens. Has put water the boy on a bed. Then has quietly departed and has hidden, expecting when its visitor will wake up.

The boy has woken up, has looked around and has seen, that lays on a glass bed in the middle of a glass room. Near bed – a little table, and on it all from crystal is full of toys, and. Toys so it is tempting were poured and were such beautiful, that the fellow was pulled to them-wanted to play. But has at the very same time recollected the house and has bitterly begun to cry. Water has there and then run up to it:

– About what, small, you cry?

– Home I want, – the boy sobbed.

– Really at you it is better than the house, than in my hall? – The water was surprised.

– Better! – the boy has begun to cry more loudly. At Has understood water, that all its consolations, are vain, and has left. And the fellow, having cried at ease, has fallen asleep. Then the water has crept to it and has transferred to other room. The boy has woken up, has looked around and has seen, that it lays in a silver room – both walls, and a floor, and a ceiling silver, at bed a silver little table with toys, and all toys from pure silver. Such riches! As bewitched the fellow looked at them. Then took silver toys, began to play. But the entertainment quickly has bothered it. He as was cheerful to play with the brother and the sister has recollected, and has sobbed violently. Has come running water and asks:

– About what you cry, small?

– I want to the brother and the sister, – the boy has answered and has begun to sob still more.

The water could not console it in any way and has left. And the boy has fallen asleep. Water has again crept to it on tiptoe and has transferred to the third room. When the boy has woken up, has seen, that it lays in a gold room on a bed from pure gold.

All there was gold: both a little table, and chairs, and toys. To the boy often told about magic treasuries where gold is stored. But such riches and in a dream did not dream it! Fascinated, undertook there was a boy for toys. But it is short they it amused. Mother and the father were recollected, and the boy has again begun to cry. Has come running water and asks:

– About what you cry, my child?

– I want to the father and to mother! Was surprised water – after all he did not know, that such the father and mother.

– Really the father and mother to you is more expensive some pure gold? – He has exclaimed.

– More expensively, – the boy has told. Water has left and has collected all pearls what was concealed in themselves by depths of its underwater kingdom. Has collected and poured out before the boy. The pearls heap has grown to the ceiling, and water has asked:

– Yet really the father and mother is more expensive to you than such heap of pearls?

The fellow that the light of treasures has not blinded him has blinked.

– In vain you work! – the boy has answered. – all the same not to learn to you the price mine to the father and mother. They to me are the most expensive on light!

Has understood water, that in anything to it not to console the boy, has waited, while that will fall asleep, has cautiously taken out its sleepy of water and has put on coast. The owner the poor clothes Here waited. Water has filled its pockets with gold and pearls and has disappeared.

The boy has woken up and has seen, that lays ashore at the water. Also has there and then recollected about water and an underwater kingdom. At first the boy has thought, that all it has dreamt it, but when has got into a pocket and has pulled out gold and pearls, has understood, that there was that not a dream, and plain truth. The fellow home to the father and mother, to the brother and the sister has rushed. Their pleasures were not the end! Moreover and in the house of all became

It is a lot of, – after all from an underwater kingdom the boy has brought pearls yes gold.

The boy still went on the river to bathe, yes only shoal adhered – there water not to reach.

And water the grieved has returned to the underwater kingdom. He thought, that has chosen in the possession the most valuable treasures. Also it has suddenly appeared, that people have treasures more expensively gold and pearls. There is at people a father and mother, brothers and sisters. And at was water nobody! It has become sad and has cried three days on end; from its sobbings coast were shaken, and waves rustled, as if at flooding. And has then gone water to examine each corner of the kingdom – can, special treasures what did not come across till now to him on eyes somewhere have hidden.