- EASTER STORIES BY KAMILA ROSIŃSKA -TRANSLATION: LIBRES, CONSULTATION: AMBER ACOSTA"FOUNDLING"All of this happened in a tiny village, right on the edge of alarge oak forest. The snow melted a long time ago and thearea was wrapped in the first warm sun rays. That day, aspring breeze chased the clouds happily across the sky.Little Hela jumped merrily out of her tiny crib. It will be a good day, the girlthought. Hela looked forward to spring because she knew it was the time ofthe birth of all Mother Nature's gifts.Work in the girl's household was not the easiest one. The family was poor,but together they made ends meet. Helenka's father, Paweł, was often awayfrom home and Hela and her five siblings were looked after by their ailingmother, Józefa . She was a good woman, caring, protective, and loved herchildren very much.Easter holidays were coming. That day, Józefa sent little Hela to thehenhouse for eggs.“Helenka, bring the most beautiful eggs you can find from the henhouse! It'stime to paint the eggs for the Easter basket,” she said to her daughter.Hela eagerly put on her shoes, threw on her red coat, and ran to thehenhouse. In the henhouse there was a great commotion, tumult, and a hugefuss. The old Rooster ruffled his plume and suddenly squeaked with all hismight so that the feather from his tail fell out.“Cock-a-doodle-doo! Quiet in this henhouse!” he crowed to his flock.The hens fell silent, sat on their roosts, and stared with interest at therooster.“I found an egg in our henhouse that is not ours! We have to get rid of it, asthe egg brings shame to the whole coop,” the Rooster said, “It is large andmisshapen. It is blue and it cannot stay here any longer! It must immediatelybe rolled out from the henhouse into the yard. Let the Falcon deal with it,”the Rooster continued.When Hela heard this, she ran into the henhouse, saying, “Rooster, leave thategg, I'll take care of it! No one deserves to be given as a dish to the Falcon!”The rooster thought for a moment and together with the hens, decided togive the egg to little Hela. The girl returned happily home with the egg.“What have you brought us here, Helenka ?! Where are the rest of the eggs?And why is this egg so big?” Mother asked in surprise.“I found this egg in the henhouse and I could not let the hens throw it out oftheir perches. None of them wanted to sit the egg out and it will not be ableto do it on its own. Please mother, let's help it warm up, without us it willdie!” Hela pleaded in a sad voice.The mother had a soft spot for the girl, who was her youngest child and sheagreed and let Hela hide the egg under the covers. It was already an eveningand the whole family gathered to sit down to dinner when suddenly theyheard some knocking.Knock, knock, knock, knock“Now who on earth is that?”, exclaimed the surprised host and checked ifthere was anyone at the door of the cottage. There was no one there butthey could hear the knocking again.Knock, knock, knock, knock“Who is making fun of us?” the host said in a loud, irritated voice, risingto the door again. But this time, still, there was no one behind the door.It was a special night- so much so that it might have seemed to be magic.The moon lined the sky with stars above Helenka's hut. One of themshone so brightly that the light got through the window in the corner ofthe room straight, onto the egg which was lying under the quilt. The eggbegan to move, twitching and swinging until it hit the wooden floor andbroke.Frightened, Helenka jumped out of her bed and, tiptoeing, sheapproached the eggshells so as not to wake anyone up. To her greatestsurprise, she saw a long brown beak, wrapped in unevenly spaced greyfeathers, emerging from the center of the egg. The beaded, sparklingeyes watched Helenka.“Who are you?” the amazed girl asked, but received no answer.“Are you a hen?” She repeated the question, but also this time, thecreature only glanced at Helen in surprise.The dawn was already creeping outside the window and the firstnightingales began to give concerts when mother entered the room.When she saw Helenka sleeping on the floor, huddled in the featheredguest, she quickly guessed that it was not an ordinary egg. It was the eggthat must have fallen out of its nest on an old willow tree growing rightbehind the henhouse which belonged to a stork family.“Wake up, Helenka! It's time to get up and escort our guest to his family.They are definitely looking for him and miss him very much.”Helenka was sad that she would have to give up her new friend, but sheknew she had to. She placed the nestling in a wicker basket and theywent together with her mother to the old willow tree to check whethermom was right.Storks flew nervously over the nest and you could see them looking forsomething on the ground. What joy they had when they saw that theirlittle fluffy son was sitting in little Helenka's basket! The embarrassedRooster watched everything from the henhouse. He understood thatbeing different is not always something wrong and that it is alwaysworth giving others a chance and a helping hand.Hela cuddled up in the arms of her smiling mother and, although the tearfrom her eye slowly fell down her cheek, she was happy. She felt thatjust as the sun melts the ice, compassion and kindness reward thesadness of parting. The girl understood that when you help, it doesn'tmatter how much you possess, but how much you give to others and howyou share it. The Easter eggs? Well, probably next time mother will go tocollect the eggs in the henhouse herself.108 TRAVEL.LOVEPOLAND
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