In the old days, the fox and the bear were at first on great friendship. One day, when they met, they started talking.
-What are you most afraid of? — the bear asks the fox.
“I’m most afraid of two-legged people,” she answered.
- Phew, a two-legged one is ready food for me. “I am most afraid of the bird that in the summer, among the hummocks, flies out from under my feet with a whistle,” said the bear.
To this the fox said:
- It turns out that you are afraid of nothing. Let's make an agreement: you fill one ravine with crushed bipeds, and I will fill the other ravine with the birds that you are afraid of. The bear agreed. At this point they parted. The fox, sneaking up, caught snipes and filled the whole ravine with them. Then I went to the people to visit the bear. She saw that people had already eaten the bear and hung its skull on a tree stump.
- Oh, poor thing, it turns out that you were boasting in vain, you yourself were not a strong man. So said the fox and threw the bear's skull to the ground. Since then, foxes and bears have become irreconcilable enemies.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru