There lived a flying squirrel. She had five children. One day a fox came to the flying squirrel and
says:
- Flying squirrel, give up your child!
“No, I won’t give it to you!” he says.
- If you don’t give it, I’ll gore you! Then the flying squirrel gave her cub to the fox.
The fox left. The next day she came again:
- Flying squirrel, give up your child!
“I won’t give it, I won’t give it!” he says.
- If you don’t give it, I’ll gore you!
Again the flying squirrel gave her cub to the fox. The fox left.
The next day she came again and said:
- Flying squirrel, give up your child!
“I won’t give it, I won’t give it!” shouts the flying squirrel.
- If you don’t give it, I’ll gore you!
Again the flying squirrel gave away her baby. With that the fox left.
The next day it comes again:
- Flying squirrel, give up your child!
“I won’t give it, I won’t give it!” he says.
- If you don’t give it, I’ll gore you!
Again she gave the cub to the fox. After the fox left, grandfather owl
comes to the flying squirrel. Grandfather owl asks the flying squirrel:
- Flying squirrel, why are you crying?
Letyaga says:
- The fox eats my cubs.
- Okay, don't cry. If the fox comes, say: I will not eat your horns.
I'm afraid Then, if he asks: Who said? -say: Grandfather the owl said.
So the fox comes again and says:
- Flying squirrel, give up your child! “I won’t,” answers the flying squirrel.
- I'll gore you!
“I’m not afraid of your grass horns!” The fox asks:
- Who said about grass horns?
“Grandfather the owl said,” answers the flying squirrel. Then the fox says:
- Where is Grandfather Owl?
- Ta-am, over there, further away, on the mountain.
The fox went. I saw my grandfather owl creeping up.
“Fox, who are you sneaking up on?” asks the owl grandfather.
- Grandfather owl, you will scare away, you will scare away: the bird is sitting behind you!
The fox jumped to the grandfather owl. Grandfather owl claws the fox by the neck
grabbed it. Then he flew up with her. The fox cries in the talons of the owl.
Grandfather the owl flew to the sea and said:
- Say: Let's eat grandpa-owl's fat.
Fox says:
- Let’s eat grandpa owl’s fat. Here the grandfather owl drops the fox. At sea
The fox fell. She floats on the sea and cries. Then he says:
Teeth, become a white sea stone! Pagan, become a leaf of the sea!
Brains, become sea clay!
The seal emerged from the water and said:
- Fox, why are you crying?
- Nerpushka, my cousin, I don’t cry, I sing. I am those songs
I repeat, who sang when they matched my mother and my father. Nerpa, and yours
Are the people great? Look at the stars - these are my people. There are many of your people
is it?
Nerpa says:
- A lot.
Then the seal dived and came out again, and behind it many seals appeared.
The whole sea was covered with seals. The fox began to count:
One-ding-two - we'll miss, One-ding-two - we'll miss, Three-four - we'll miss,
Five-six-let's pass.
So the fox began to jump on the seals. Nerpa asks:
- Why don’t you count everyone? Fox says:
“When I go back, I’ll count it.” Fox over seal heads to the ground
got out again and asked:
- When were we related by mother? Here the seal says:
- Liar, at the end of your journey you will die! Fox says:
- I won't die!
The fox ran. As I was running, I met a burbot.
“Bubot, where are you going?” he asks.
- Where? Home. And you, fox, where are you running?
- I'm going in the same direction as you. Well, burbot, let's go!
So they walked and walked, the fox shouted:
- Burbot!
- Hey! - he responds.
Walking like this, at the end of one bend in the river the fox again calls out:
- Burbot!
“Hey!” the burbot responds through two bends. So goes the fox. Finally
approaches the place where an old woman is drying bird cherry. Came up and started
there is bird cherry. I ate, I filled my belly full. Then I fell asleep. The old woman came and
I saw a sleeping fox. The old woman returned home, took a knife and came to
the place where she dried the bird cherry. She came up, and the fox was still lying there. Killed
The old woman skinned the fox and spread the skin. When the skin was dry, the old woman
I made myself a hat from it. She put on her hat and went to feed her puppies. Suitable
the wolf comes to her and says:
- Old woman, entrust me with guarding, lend me your hat - my ears are freezing.
The old woman gave her hat to the wolf, went home, sat and went to look
their puppies. I went up to the dog kennel, but there was no wolf. The old woman cried and
said: “The wolf is a liar, he stole my hat.”
At that time the crow flew in:
- Kar-kar, old woman, what are you crying about?
“What am I crying about?” The wolf stole my hat and I’m crying for it.
- Old woman, kar-kar, let me go get your hat!
The old woman says:
- What do you say? “I came for the old woman’s hat, I’ll tell you!”
- Leave it, let it be as it happened, there’s no point in following her!
The crow flew away. The old woman is crying. When she cried so much, she flew
birdie:
- Old woman, why are you crying, chvik-chvik?
- I regret my hat and cry.
- Let me go get her, chwik-chwik!
“What do you say?” he says.
-Old woman, someday I’ll say, chwik-chvik! The bird flew away. Old woman
no longer cries, began to wait for the bird.
Waiting. The bird flies to one winter road and flies into a round window. A
in that winter road there are hares, and foxes, and wolves, and crows, and ferrets, and an old man with
are an old woman. The mother of the fox cross is performing rituals. The old man says:
- Hey, hey, Mother Cross, you'll burn your tail!
Then the bird began to cry:
“Chvi-ik, chwi-ik,” she chirped, fluttered through the window, and fluttered out and
fluttered back.
The old man says:
- Let her wear our hat - she’s probably a big shaman! Your hat
they gave it to the bird.
“Chick-chick!” she chirped, stomping across the floor, hopping across the bunks, in the corner.
jump-jump, flutter-flutter-fluttered through the window.
With that hat, she flew back to the old woman and gave the hat to her.
The old woman was delighted and gave the bird a small knife for needlework
gave. This ends.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru