This tale is about how a camel, an elephant and a kurege cultivated a field.
One day a camel came to Kurega and said to him:
— I'm going to work the field. I need an assistant.
- Fine. “I will find you an assistant,” answered the kurege. “It will be a big and strong beast.”
The camel went to the field, cleared it and burned the dried grass on it.
After some time, an elephant came to Kurega and also said to him:
— I'm going to work the field. I need an assistant.
And kurege replied:
- Okay. I'll find you an assistant. It will be a big and strong beast. The next day, after the rain, the elephant went to the field, dug up and sowed it. After some time, a camel came to the field and weeded the seedlings. Then the elephant did a second weeding. Finally the camel came and saw that the grain was ripe; he cut the ears of corn, and the elephant tied them into sheaves.
But all this time the elephant and the camel did not meet each other.
When the camel met Kurega, he asked him:
— I was cultivating the field, but I didn’t see the assistant. Where is he?
“He will come now,” answered the kurege, “but he ordered you to make a pit for storing grain.”
The camel had already dug a large hole when the elephant came and brought grain. The elephant saw the kurege and asked loudly:
— I was cultivating the field, but I didn’t see the assistant. Where is he?
“Here he is, in the hole,” the kurege answered in a whisper, “but he’s angry that you haven’t brought grain for so long.” Now he will come out and scold you.
And the camel heard with fear that some large and angry beast had approached the pit.
Earth fell from the walls of the pit.
Then the elephant thought that someone huge and scary would jump out of there. He got scared, threw the grain and ran into the forest. Hearing his stomping, the camel jumped out of the hole and also began to run. So the elephant and camel ran away, but kurege stayed and took all the grain for himself. This is where the fairy tale ends.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru