There lived two guys. They were great friends. One was called Adychakh, the other was Kechokh. They swore an oath not to leave each other in trouble.
— My father is very brave. I went all into it. You, Kechokh, will not be lost with me,” said Adychakh.
Kechokh listened silently to his friend and remembered his words well.
Once they were walking through the taiga. A bear meets them. Adychakh instantly found himself on a tree. Kechokh fell to the ground and pretended to be dead. The bear approached him, sniffed his face and hobbled off into the taiga - bears don’t touch the dead. Adychakh waited until the bear left, climbed down from the tree and asked his comrade:
- What did the bear tell you?
“He said: never go to the taiga with a friend who only thinks about himself...
Since then, the Khakass have a proverb: “You won’t recognize a friend without trouble.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru