My grandfather had a cunning goat. His grandfather sent him to graze with a shepherd boy. He grazed him all day in the grove. I arrived late in the evening. Grandfather asks the Goat from a distance:
- Well, how? Goat? How was grazing today?
“I ate grass on a white stone and drank water on dry sand.”
The grandfather swore and kicked the shepherd boy out. In the morning I told my grandmother to herd the Goat better. She grazed him in knee-deep grass. She gave him water in the bright springs. The grandfather asked the Goat again in the evening:
- Well, how? Goat? How were you grazing today?
“I ate grass on a white stone and drank water on dry sand.”
The grandfather threatens to beat the grandmother.
In the morning, grandfather himself brought the Goat out. I fed him some green grass. I gave him some cold water to drink. In the evening he drove me and asked tenderly:
- Well, today. Goat, did you get caught nicely?
“I ate grass on a white stone and drank water on dry sand.”
- Oh, so? Okay, I'll show you! - the grandfather barked and took the knife. “Let me go, grandma, I’ll kill him.”
He sawed and sawed the neck, but the knife didn’t cut. The grandfather ran with a knife to the sharpener. The Goat jumped up, jumped, and ran into the thicket. Collapsed in the bunny's shack.
The Bunny came home and heard a voice.
- Cut-cut-undercut! My teeth are like a rake, my horns are like a pitchfork. Wherever I grab it, I’ll grab the meat! Where I'm gored, I'll shed blood!
The hare rushed and ran without looking back. He ran and ran, sat down and cried. Kumanyok Volchok came out of the forest.
- Why are you crying, Long-Eared Bunny?
- Some kind of animal got into my shack.
- Don’t be sad, I’ll drive out the beast. They approached Zaika's hole. And from there a terrible voice buzzes:
- Cut-cut-undercut! My teeth are like a rake, my horns are like a pitchfork. Wherever I grab it, I’ll grab the meat! Where I'm gored, I'll shed blood!
- Oh, who is it here? Let's run better! - shouted the little boy Volchok and God bless his legs!
The Bear also asked the Bunny:
- Why are you crying, Swift Bunny?
- Some kind of animal got into my shack.
- Don’t be sad, I’ll drive out the beast. The beast was still playing hide and seek. He growled - the bear suddenly greased his heels. Left the Bunny to cry. The Buzz Beetle also stayed late:
- Why are you crying, Bouncing Bunny?
- Oh, leave it alone! The grief is great. Some beast got into my shack.
- Don’t be sad, I’ll drive out the beast.
- I, Zhuzhalo, really have no time for jokes. This beast is not a simple fly. He vomits meat and sheds blood. Scared both the Wolf and the Bear! So is he afraid of you, Bug?
- Don't look at the Wolf and the Bear. They have meat, and some blood. That’s why they’re afraid, right.
And he didn’t wait for Buzz, he went downstairs. He snuck into Zaika's hut. J-zh - pinched the Goat under his foot. Well, he bit me behind the head. Zh-zh - hummed under the beard.
The Goat howled, rushed past the Bunny and disappeared from sight under the mountain.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru