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Soyuzmultfilm
Puppet animation collective
1972

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Man needs to understood he is creator and master
of the world and that on him lies the responsibility
for all unhappiness on Earth

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and that he receives glory for all goodness in life.
(from a letter by M. Gorkiy to Romain Rolland)

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The master from Clamecy

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After Romain Rolland's “Colas Bruignon”.
Scenario Aleksei Simukov

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directed by Vadim Kurchevsky

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art director Teodor Tezhik

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cameramen Yan Topper,
Teodor Bunimovich, Ilia Minkovetsky

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animators Joseph Douksha,
Natalia Dabizha, Maya Buzinova

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music Michael Meyerovich

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sound Vladimir Kutuzov
cutter Nadezhda Treshcheva

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script editor Raisa Frichinskaya

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text is read by Alexei Konsovsky

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puppets and decor Pavel Lessin,
Roman Gurov, Svetlana Znamenskaya,
Pavel Gussev, V. Ladygin, Vladimir Alisov,

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Marina Chesnokova, Vladimir Abbakumov,
Oleg Massainov, Liliana Lutinskaya,
Galina Gettinger

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executive producer Nathan Bitman

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I don't know, my friends,

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why it give me such satisfaction

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to drink a bumper of old remembrance
from the bottom of my heart.

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I have no idle fancies in my head
No,...

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I only tell what I have
seen, done, and said

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My name is Colas, nicknamed Breugnon,

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An old sparrow of burgundy blood,
wide in soul and trousers.

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My wife - my treasure - is the benefactor of our home.

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She often annoys me.

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but I'm not fool enough to take offense
because of her words.

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She blames me for being a gourmand
and liking banquets too much.

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I indeed love all that's good: a good table, a good wine...

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I praise my good fate and that
which one finds in dreams.

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I'm always hungry;

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my mouth fairly waters before the feast
spread for me by the earth and the sun.

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How good is to live in these parts!

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The land is good, that I'm born in
and on which I make a living.

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I am a carpenter belonging to 
the brotherhood of St. Anne.

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Everything here I made with my own hands.

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What can be better than
the delight of an accurate hand,

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and clever big fingers,

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which can turn out
the most fragile works of art.

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Oh, my granddaughter!
You little, cunning fox!

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As soon as she sees me
she comes running to greet me.

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She knows I always have basket full of tales.
She loves them as much as I do.

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How good it is to stand with a tool in my hand
and saw plane, shave, curve.

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To rouse Beauty sleeping in the wood,
her lover must penetrate to the heart of it.

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How many shapes lie hidden there!

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I look at them
and youth resurrects itself.

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It was a good life when I was twenty,
women's breasts were fuller and more beautiful then,

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and men had the heart in the right place
and all the rest, too.

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Nowadays people aren't made of such wood.

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My weasel, where are you now?
How many years I haven't seen you!

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What is left of your cheerful face,
of the tricky grimaces of my weasel?

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Now there's no need to be afraid you'll
nibble out my heart with your sharp teeth,

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but how they could laugh and bite in the days of the past!

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Once, it was about thirty five years after our
last encounter, I nevertheless saw her again.

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She was driving a donkey 
and shouting across the whole street.

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I said: I'd know you among all women 
from the world with my eyes closed.

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Bruignon, - she said - you're still the same reaper.
I looked at her and I gasped and couldn't say a word.

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And suddenly she said: You know what,
it was you I was in love with then.

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in love...

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but I thought she was taking me on.

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Oh, foolish youth!

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How good it is to think I was such a
fool sometimes. How it is reviving my heart!

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Kiss me, - she asked.

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When I touched her old cheeks

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My eyes were stingy
from how much I wanted to cry.

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But the weasel said to me: "thorny"...

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Then I heard voice of my old hag.

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it cut through the air
and yelled I was a do-nothing and a boozer,

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and that I urgently had to go on
with the order from the Duke:.

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His highness' men were coming for it

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Yes, yes, yes...what they tell is true:
once you have a wife, forget about a quiet life.

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Let them sing their song,
I'll be singing mine.

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To your heath, beauty!

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What's that?
What's that?

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Our friend the vicar is arguing again
with his parishioners.

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Bruignon, can you hear? - he cried.

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These do-nothing always are asking something from God,

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everyday they hanker me and God with their fancies.

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Here they want warmth for fields, 
there they want clouds to be showed aside

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wheat must be reaped,

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now there are these caterpillars and bugs...

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I enjoyed the argument and then we raised glasses.

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The vicar, of course, to Lord God, 
but I to common sense.

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But these parishioners wouldn't 
give up demanding for their priest.

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Vangabonds! - the vicar yelled - 
I'm serving God not you devil's children.

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Yes, - I said -

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there's no worse trade...

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than driving God's truths 
into their thick-skinned heads.

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It was a sin to sit at home in such mornings

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so I went to forest together with 
my granddaughter and my apprentice.

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I needed a piece of wood, flexible and dense.

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I'm ready to caress tirelessly these sides!
For me wood is dearer than woman.

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Everybody has his own passion.

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Occupied with my own business 
I hadn't paid attention to
the riders approaching us.

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Those were men from our duke de Nevier.

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They ran at us like we were some criminals
saying that we were on their master's property.

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We knew this was his land.

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 But until recently when his late father was alive

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we walked these paths freely.

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I tried to explain to this iron blockhead, that since

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 three hundred years our grandfathers
and great-grandfathers pastured cattle here,

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made hay, gathered brushwood...
but he didn't want to listen to anything.

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Coming to my senses again I decided to go 
to the castle of his highness to seek justice.

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Many of my works had gathered there 
during a quarter of a century...

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They were miserable and uncomfortable here, 
my children. the woodwork was damaged and cracked.

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Yes, our young duke 
can't be compared with the old one.

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And I understood I had come in vain.

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Don't you know - he said - 
everything in Clamecy belongs to me!

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Land and forest and even you 
with your wooden figures I buy from you.

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What could I answer? 
Everyone around me was laughing.

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Brazen it out, he did and began to shoot 
at my dear little ones from a harquebus.

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I cry for every of these wooden figures, 
brought to life by my own fingers.

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Man is nothing, holy is what he has created.

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Thrice the murderer murdered a creation.

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But then happened that what the duke and 
his drunk do-nothings couldn't have foreseen.

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One of them tumbled down to my feet.
What's up with him? - the duke asked.

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Your highness, there is a shooter 
more precise than you, - I said to him.

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Who's that?
- The plague, the plague, your highness.

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Going mad from fear for plague and death
people lost their last bits of common sense.

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They burned down houses with sick as well as healthy.

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Others hid in their holes, shutting all windows
because of fear to see each other.

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I felt my song was sung.

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Burning up with fever, 

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my side were stinging and 
my intestines turned inside out.

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Oh, God, why are you punishing 
an innocent man 

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who has done nothing 
to wrong you?

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Why do you need my soul?

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Then I understood he didn't hear me,
and I was just wasting my time.

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I don't know for how long 
I was wallowing in that barn,

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but when I stood up and 
went for a breath of fresh air

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I couldn't recognize Clamecy.

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Then I shouted to people:

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 It can't go on like this!
Come out, we should come together!

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Or are your pants perhaps taken away,
keeping you hiding in your rooms.

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We all came together again.

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Well, what the say is true:

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Evil comes on a swift horse, 
but is slow of foot to leave us.

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Just when I thought we left everything behind,
new misfortune befell us.

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Our little granddaughter fell sick.

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All feverish, she kept calling for help 
and bumping around as an injured bird.

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I can't tell what a night we had.

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Isn't that strange how you get 
so attached to such a little creature,

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everything is alright with her around, 
even the worst,

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but without her there's nothing.

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I completely forgot I had left 
the old hag alone in the room.

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The clock on the wall 
had ticked with it's silent ticking

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 her last minutes during which 
her whole life flashed before her eyes.

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Only praying to save her granddaughter 
kept her on this earth.

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Who created this miracle I down know

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but just as granddaughter's fever began to recede,

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her breathing run as light as a brooklet 
and our birdie began to come back to life,

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my old hag, dropped her head 
on the pillow, sighing: Now I can go.

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the light in her eyes faded, 
her features grew sharp and hollow, 

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and her breathing stopped suddenly.

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That's it. My wife's life had faded away

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You see,

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it's possible not to love your old hag,

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to be angry at each other
day and night for twenty five years,

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but when the boned-one comes for her,

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you feel how something
get stuck in your throat,

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like a piece of yourself has fallen away

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though it's not beautiful,
though it has ashamed you at times, 

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you love it.

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Sun has retreated.
It's freezing.

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This cunning frost has gotten indoors even here.

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Time is the best healer. How long can you
mourn over something that can't be returned?

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The only fault I have to find 
with this good life of ours, my friends, 

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is that it is too short.

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I should like to have more...

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Me, old sparrow, knew how to use it,
and I never would forget friends.

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Let's clink glasses!

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God is my witness,

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we haven't come to an agreement
with our nice duke on who's land this is.

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He won't let us set foot on his fields!

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If there were no one in France like us, 
who love it's wine-yards and fields,

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what grub would the king have?

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In the evening we gathered 
at the "Three Cups" tavern.

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one always agree sitting here at a table.
And this is what we though out.

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It's not enough to our duke teach a lesson,
we need to have fun for ourselves, too.

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We directed ourselves to the fields

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 carrying hidden weapons -
axes covered with clothes and hats.

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And we cried: Hail to our nice duke!

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And these blockheads guarding the field,
didn't realize anything of course.

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With shouts - Where's our lord the duke? - 
they stopped our procession.

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with laughter we answered 
- our nice duke is with us.

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Then the duke himself showed up.

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I said once more 
- our duke is with us.

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He noticed the baldachin at once 
and ordered to take off the cover.

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Is it alike? I think it is.

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the nose may be too long, 
but let it be a duke with such a nose.

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As an educaded man the duke de Nevier 
realized there was no place for two dukes.

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So we began to celebrate our victory.

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We ate, drunk and rejoiced the whole day
 without sparing our soles and mouths.

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This was the method we chose 
to show that the Clamecy people 

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could be true subjects of the Duke and King, 
and yet insist on having our own way 

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The more poor I am, the more riches I have.

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My little ones are with me, my friends.

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My granddaughter - my blue-eyed titmouse.
And my apprentice.

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Isn't this true riches?

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Children leave home, but 
old folk stays with their grandchildren.

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That's better - we always have 
something to talk about.

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Nice little rascals who are nothing yet,
but will definitely become something.

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I live for sake of them.

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These are my seeds I'm throwing into future.

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This is my workshop.

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It was burned down during the plague.

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It's meant like this - 
one man creates, the other destroys.

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Nevertheless, life is good when you feel 
the firmness of a reliable hand,

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when work is with you.

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But the best of what I have made 
are the souls I have scupltured.

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They will be happier,

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because they'll stand on my shoulders 
and see farther/further.

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The End
Subs by dust angel. September 2016
adjusted by Eus using an original book translation