They then gathered beside him in a great throng, and conversed with him in a strange tongue. And at once all the horsemen rode up, descended from their horses and brought him all the birds and game. Shortly after came a man clad in yellow, wearing a king’s crown, who climbed on an empty couch and seated himself there. And the falcons settled down on him, and the dogs crawled along his body. The scholar pretended to be asleep and watched them.
They followed the trace of whatever hid in the cracks, and nosed it out, so that in a short space of time they had killed nearly all the vermin. And the hunting dogs climbed on the bed, and sniffed along the walls trailing the fleas, and ate them up. Then the fleas and gnats began to rise in the air but were all slain by the falcons. And they had hunting falcons and hunting dogs by the hundred, too. The scholar had no more than set eyes on them when a third entered, clad like the others, but carrying a bow and arrows and leading a little hunting dog the size of an ant with him.Īfter him came a great throng of footmen and horsemen, several hundred in all. They rode about the room with great rapidity. On their gauntleted hands they held hunting falcons as large as flies. They might have been two inches high, and rode horses about the size of grasshoppers. Once he was resting on his bed after dinner, when suddenly two little knights with plumes in their helmets rode into the room. Yet he suffered because there were always so many gnats and fleas in his room that he could not sleep at night. So he made his home in a Buddhist temple. Once upon a time, in the city of Shansi, there lived a scholar who found the company of others too noisy for him. I will keep trying.īecause I have to be a champion. I eat well and go to the wrestling gym every day. From that moment, I heard about Karelin, I started trying to become a champion. At the age of 18, Karelin won a junior world title. The Russians affectionately called him «Russian Bear», «Russian King Kong», «Alexander the Great».īefore that he tried boxing, weightlifting, volleyball, basketball and skiing. He is considered the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of all time. He was a three-time Olympic champion, a nine-time world champion and a twelve-time European champion.
One day I saw a show on TV about a famous Russian wrestler.
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