The Affectionate Boy
Sasha loved sweets.
But his mother did not give him many sweets in order not to spoil his teeth.
He thought of a way of begging some from her—he knew that she had some bonbons, and so he would begin to kiss her and coax her:
“You are my sweet little bonbon, my handsome little bonbon.”
His mother would laugh and give Sasha a bonbon.
Once his pockmarked uncle came and brought some honey-cakes. Sasha got up on his knees, and said coaxingly:
“You are my lovely little honey-cake, my handsome little honey-cake!”
But the pockmarked uncle replied:
“I don’t like little beggars.”
And he put the honey-cakes back into his pocket.