The Kestrel was basking in the sun, sitting on warm stones by the river, and did not notice how the red Fox crept up to her. Once! - and in one leap the Fox found herself near the dozing bird and grabbed it in her claws.
- Don't eat me, Fox! - Kestrel begged. “Let me go, and I’ll tell you what kind of egg I’ll lay—bigger than your head!”
The fox decided that she had caught not an ordinary bird, but a special one, and she wanted to get an unusual egg so much that she released the little bird.
And the Kestrel flew up the tree and, feeling safe, began to tease the stupid Fox:
“I won’t lay an egg bigger than your head, I can’t lay such an egg!” But I can give you three pieces of advice. Remember them, they will be useful to you. My first advice: don’t believe empty fables! Second: you can’t make an elephant out of a molehill. And the third... - Kestrel looked at the hungry Fox and finished: - I caught it, keep it up!
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru