It's unbelievable, but I was raised by a deer. Yes, the orphaned boy was adopted by a lame deer, suckled and cared for me. People named the deer. When I grew up, I befriended a hunter in the forest.

Sometimes what happened to us and sometimes - what. Faithfully, shoulder to shoulder, we coped with difficulties. Oh, there were no difficulties, one would be followed by another, another would be followed by a third.

What did we do? I tell you everything...

With illustrations by Varlam Jmukhadze