Two bunnies sat down in a small forest under a birch tree, bask in the warm sun and talk.
And it’s so good in the forest!.. The flies are buzzing, chasing each other, their wings are ringing as if they are laughing. And there the blackbird whistles, teasing the boy Pilipka:
- Pulip! Pulip!
And Pilipka walks along the heath with a basket, keeping an eye on the boletus mushrooms.
Even further away the cuckoo crows.
Well, it’s so light, warm and fun!
But the bunnies are not having fun, their conversation is not fun.
- Oh, what a bitter lot we have! - says one bunny. - Be afraid every day, tremble
every minute, listen to see if your enemy is walking close.
- And how many enemies we have! Who doesn't offend us, poor bunnies! People offend us, animals offend us; even birds of prey - kites, owls, eagle owls - even bother us bunnies.
- And how can we save ourselves from our evil enemies? Where to look for protection? There is only one hope for our legs: they will carry us away from trouble - our happiness, if they will not carry us away - our skin is gone!
And the bunnies cried bitterly. They cry and wipe away their tears with their paws.
- Well, how can we live in the world? - says the second bunny. “No one is afraid of us, no one at all!.. Should we go and throw ourselves into the water!”
The poor bunnies cried, got sad, and went into the lake to drown themselves out of grief.
We came to the lake, stopped, and said goodbye to each other. They approached the very shore to throw themselves into the water, and suddenly they saw a frog jumping onto a hummock. I saw bunnies and got scared.
“Hey,” says one bunny, “it turns out there are creatures in the world that are afraid of us too.” Apparently, it is even more difficult for them to live in the world.
The bunnies looked at each other and ran back into the forest.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru