Once a fox was walking earlier, saw a wood grouse sitting on a tree, and asked him:
- What are you doing, godfather? What are you eating?
- I eat fir and cedar.
- How do you sleep?
— I sleep on a tree at night.
Lisa says:
- Why are you sitting on a tree at night? You have to sleep on the ground in the snow.
The capercaillie does not listen to her, he sits upstairs. The fox runs around the tree and licks its lips. Here the wood grouse says:
“I see a man walking there with a dog.”
“Well, godfather, goodbye,” said the fox and immediately ran away.
The capercaillie remained on the tree, sitting and sleeping.
The fox walks and walks and meets people. People are walking along a river on a branch; a fox is chasing them along the edge of the bank. He drives, chases, asks:
- Why don’t you take me to your branch? I will still chase you. Give me a place on the nose, I’ll sit.
People listened to her, gave her a place on her nose, and took her with them. Then they swim. Lisa says:
- We need to sit on the shore. We’ll find a sandy shore, we’ll jump, see who can jump further.
She was up to something bad. He examines the shore and sees a quagmire, a ripple. Says:
“We’ll jump here, but only at once.”
People agreed. They drove up to the place, stood sideways, and jumped. The fox bent over, raised its nose, and jumped to a strong place. People were caught in the mud up to their shoulders. The fox runs around, rejoices that he deceived people, bites their ears and noses. She jumped into the branch again, swam, and then pulled her ashore. I found dried glue in a branch. He sits on the shore, gnawing. He hears a noise, the twigs are cracking - the old man is coming.
- What are you doing here, fox?
“Grandpa, I walked across the river, dived twice, and got two piles of glue.”
- Let me try!
The fox threw a small piece, sideways, sideways to the side; The glue doesn't come out of my mouth.
The bear tried:
- Really, it’s delicious! - Asks: - Give me more!
Lisa says:
- Dive yourself!
- How will I dive, how will I emerge later?
Lisa says:
- Take off your parka and put it away so it doesn’t slide into the water.
The bear obeyed, took off the skin, and put it to the side so that it wouldn’t get dirty in the sand. Asks the fox:
- How did you dive?
Lisa answers:
- Dive deep, follow the bottom.
He dived, walked along the bottom, looking for glue. The fox shouts after him:
- You walk the path, look well!
The bear emerged and said:
- There’s nothing, where’s the glue?
- Dive back and don’t go straight, but obliquely!
He went down to the bottom again, and the fox grabbed the skin and gnawed all the fatty places. I threw in the dry glue.
The bear surfaced and saw that the fox was gnawing on his skin. He quickly swam back. By the time I got there, the fox had finished the whole skin. She ran away into the thorny bushes herself. The bear is behind her. The old man got angry. The fox runs between the thorny bushes, the old man follows. The thorns were all stuck into him, naked. He collapsed. And the fox returned to finish eating the lard.
Such a cunning fox, but he didn’t deceive the wood grouse. And he rarely falls into a trap! He digs around, but does not go into the trap. And everyone is hunting for wood grouse. How it will jump - when it has, when only the tail remains in its paws.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru