Mali Zub's grandmother, the original Peasant Woman, is always bringing over gifts and things when she comes to visit the little pezoro. Yesterday, she had two new gifts for the little guy: a brightly-colored toy lion and a pear. Which one do you think he liked better? That's right, the pear.
Which got me thinking about the benefits of being a Peasant Child. While most other kids out there are swimming in a sea of mechanical and stuffed toys, Peasant Children are out in fields, learning the joys of nature. Picking cherries in orchards, chasing chickens out of coops, shooing donkeys out of the road.
But seriously. There's something nice about the simple beauty of a pear as a gift. And you should have seen Mali Zub eat it up! He loved it -- pears have always been one of his favorite foods. The plastic lion, meanwhile, has already been abandoned to the outskirts of toy land. Maybe the dog will take pity on him and adopt him.