One day a bear, a wolf and a fox sowed rye. The rye is ripe. They squeezed her and took her to Riga. They dried the sheaves and began to thresh. And the fox climbed onto the grate, as if holding it, but she herself, no, no, and threw the grate either on the wolf or on the bear’s head. They say to the fox:
[Grid bars are poles on which sheaves are dried.]
- Hold the grate well, godfox, so that it doesn’t fall!
Lisa answers:
“I try so hard, I try so hard, but they don’t hold on!” And she deliberately drops it on the perch.
The bear and the wolf threshed the rye. There were three heaps: in the smaller heap there was grain, in the middle heap there was chaff, and in the largest heap there was straw. They began to divide the harvest. Lisa says:
– Let’s divide it like this: the smallest one gets a small pile, the middle one gets a medium one, the big one gets a large pile.
And so they did. The fox got the grain, the wolf got the chaff, and the bear got the straw.
They began to grind. The fox's millstone is knocking, while the wolf and bear's are quietly rustling. A wolf and a bear ask:
“Why do you, godfox, have a millstone knocking, but ours only rustles?”
Lisa says:
“As soon as I started grinding, I added sand, that’s why the millstone is knocking.”
The wolf and the bear added sand - and their millstones began to rattle. They ground everything and began to cook the porridge. They cook and cook, the fox’s porridge is white and puffs, but the wolf and bear’s porridge is black and does not puff. They ask the fox:
- Why is your porridge white and puffing, but ours is so black and not puffing? Let me try your porridge.
- No, I’ll try yours first.
The fox took some porridge from the wolf and the bear, quietly put it in his cauldron, on the edge, and said:
- From this, from this edge, try! The bear tried it and said:
“Your porridge is no better than mine.” The bear tasted his porridge!
The wolf tried:
- Radish horseradish is not sweeter. He also got his own porridge.
- Why is your porridge whiter? – the wolf and the bear do not let up.
Lisa answers:
“I kept the flour in running water, that’s why the porridge.”
The wolf and the bear collected chaff and straw and lowered it into the river - everything was carried away from them by the current.
This is how the godfox deceived them.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru