A fox was walking along the path and found a shoe, came to the man and asked:
- Master, let me spend the night. He says:
- Nowhere, little fox! Closely!
- How much space do I need? I myself am on the bench, and my tail is under the bench.
They let her spend the night; she says:
- Put my little foot on your chickens. They laid it down, and the little fox got up at night and threw her bast shoe. In the morning they get up, she asks for her bast shoe, and the owners say:
- Little Fox, he’s missing!
- Well, give me the chicken for it.
She took a chicken, came to another house and asked that her chicken be placed with the owner's geese. At night the fox hid the chicken and received a goose for it in the morning.
She comes to a new house, asks to spend the night and says that her goose should be put with the lambs; She cheated again, took the lamb by the goose and went to another house.
She stayed overnight and asked to put her lamb with the owner’s bulls. At night the little fox stole the lamb, and in the morning she demands that they give her the bull in exchange for it.
She strangled them all - the chicken, the goose, the lamb, and the bull - and hid the meat, and stuffed the skin of the bull with straw and placed it on the road.
A bear walks with a wolf, and the fox says:
“Come on, steal a sleigh, and let’s go for a ride.”
So they stole both the sleigh and the collar, harnessed the bullock, and all sat in the sleigh; The fox began to rule and shouted:
- Schnu, schnu, bull, straw barrel! The sleigh is someone else’s, the collar is not yours, drive it - don’t stand there! The bull is not coming. She jumped out of the sleigh and shouted:
- Stay, fools! - and she left.
The bear and the wolf were delighted with the prey and began to tear the bull: they tore, tore, and saw that it was just skin and straw, shook their heads and went home.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru