Fox met Bear.
- Oh, nephew, I saw you!
- Yes, I saw it.
They went together to the edge of a steep cliff.
“Let’s sleep in the sun,” says Lisa.
“Okay,” agreed the Bear.
And the rock is high and steep.
“Don’t lie down on the edge, otherwise you’ll slide and fall.” Lie down further.
They went to bed. The Fox is on the edge of the cliff, and the Bear is nearby. As soon as the Bear fell asleep, the Fox once crossed over to the other side. He says to the sleeping man:
“Nephew, move over, otherwise you’ll push me,” and she pushed him to the edge and suddenly pushed him. The Bear fell from a cliff and crashed.
The Fox jumped up and began to go down to the foot. He sees that the Bear is dead.
Lisa has many children. They carried the bear meat home. There was a lot of food. Imynna, Lisa's eldest daughter. Lisa says to Imynna:
“Imynna, don’t throw away the bear’s vertebrae, I’ll collect them and bury them.”
And rightly so. The Fox collected the vertebrae and strung them on a rope.
One day the Fox got ready again and went into the tundra, dragging her vertebrae behind her on a rope. He walks and suddenly sees a Wolf sleeping in the bushes. The Fox tied the vertebrae to the Wolf's tail and screamed:
- Nephew, nephew! Bigtooths are chasing you! Run quickly! Run through the bushes!
The Wolf jumped up and rushed out of fear into the dense bushes. The vertebrae caught on the branches and pulled off the entire fluffy white wolf tail.
The Wolf came running home.
- Grandma, grandma! I lost my tail somewhere!
- You wander around anywhere! How can you lose part of your body?! - His grandmother scolds him and sews him another tail from various seedy scraps of skin.
Meanwhile, the Fox followed the Wolf's trail. I saw a wolf's tail hanging on the bushes. I took it and went home.
“Imynna, I brought you a fluffy white wolf’s tail.” Sew white tips from this tail to all the foxes.
Imynna sewed pieces of a wolf's tail onto the foxes' tails, and from then on all the foxes had white tail tips.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru