Ememkut and his wife Chanayonavyt were nomadic with their reindeer. We caught a lot of wild deer and headed home. Chanayonavyt said:
- Ememkut, the child is thirsty, go get some water. Ememkut went to fetch water. Then the fox Yaechanavyt approached Chanayonavyt. Chanayonavyt keeps his son under the kitchenette. The fox pushed her off the sled into the snow. She sat on the sledge herself. Ememkug came with water.
“What is it,” he says, “your voice is different?” And Yaechana pulled the hood of her khaki jacket down like this so that her fox face was not visible, and said:
- Because I got sick. Ememkut continuously feeds her with bone marrow, because she is sick.
One day Ememkut came closer to Yaechanavyt.
- Bah! Yes, it's a fox! Well, just wait!
The gun fired! Yaechanavyt, running away, said:
. “Well, I ate my fill of bone marrow.” Ememkut Chanayonavyt searched in the tundra. He made her a kukhlyanka from grass. I found her and brought her home.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru