Chapter 3 : 
The Foundling
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Author : Leo Tolstoy

Translator : Nathan Haskell Dole

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A poor woman had a daughter, Masha. Masha one 
morning, in going after water, saw something lying on 
the door-step, wrapped up in rags. 
Masha set down her pail and undid the rags. When 
she had opened the bundle, there came forth a cry from 
out the rags, ua! ua! ua ! 
Masha bent over and saw that it was a pretty little 
baby. He was crying lustily, ua! ua! ua! Masha 
took him up in her arms and carried him into the house, 
and tried to give him some milk with a spoon. 
The mother said : 
" What have you brought in ? " 
Masha said : 
" A baby ; I found it at our door." 
The mother said : 
" We are so poor, how can we get food for another 
child ? I am going to the police and tell them to take 
it away." 
Masha wept, and said : 
" Matushka, he will not eat much ; do keep him ! 
Just see what pretty little dimpled hands and fingers he 
has." 
The mother looked, and she had compassion on the 
child. She decided to keep him. Masha fed him and 
swaddled him, and she sang cradle songs to him when 
she put him to sleep. 



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     Chapter 3 -- Publication : November 30, 1887

     Chapter 3 -- Added : July 01, 2021

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