APPLE-TREE MAN

In Somerset, the oldest apple tree in the garden called the apple man, it was thought that it focuses the power of all the fertile garden.
Once upon a time there was a guy who had to work very hard, since her father died, leaving him nothing. Possession of all the younger brother, and he gave some of his father's inheritance for others, but his older brother did not like, and so only got an old donkey, ox so sick grandfather's crumbling shack, near which grew apples. The older brother did not complain about the injustice he mow hay, and a skinny donkey began to recover, and then cured with herbs and charms bull, so he zalosnilsya, fertilized with manure garden and old trees were covered with flowers. But the time to get money, he was not. After all, the younger brother ordered him to pay the rent. And besides, the day!

One day, the younger brother came into the garden and said, "Tomorrow is Christmas, but this time the animals speak in human language. The treasure is buried somewhere here, which we have all heard. You're an ass, at midnight to tell me where it is hidden, and I will take it into account rent. " Christmas Eve arrived, the older brother asked the donkey and ox double portion of hay, then took the last cup of cider, warmed to Ashenvale brushwood and made the garden to bring it Yablon ... And then he called apple man and said, "Look at my roots." The guy dug up a pot of gold! "This is yours, - said the apple people. - Take it and hide it in a safe place. Then you can call my dear brother. " And he did as told apple people.

The younger brother came running out of breath, to overhear the conversation of a donkey and an ox. And the donkey said to his friend: "You know, that fat greedy fool who so rudely listening to us, wants us to tell him where the treasure." - "Where he will not find it exactly, because some people already ahead of the sluggard and took the treasure," - answered 2.

In this tale, it is noteworthy that the apple man himself wished to speak with her older brother, who took care of the garden and picked up a cup of apple cider.