One day a bear went looking for a nanny for his cubs. He wandered through the forest, wandered, and met a wolf.
-Where are you going, grandfather? - asked the wolf.
“I’m going to look for a nanny for the cubs,” answered the bear.
“Take me as a nanny,” the wolf purred.
-Can you sing? - asked the bear.
“Of course I can,” the wolf answered and howled: “Oooh!” Woohoo!
“You won’t make a nanny, you eat too poorly,” said the bear and moved on. A hare meets him.
-Where are you going, grandpa?
“I’m going to look for a nanny for the cubs.”
- Take me as a nanny.
-Can you sing?
“Pu-pu, pu-pu, pu-pu,” the hare sang.
“You won’t make a nanny, you eat too poorly,” said the bear and hobbled along the path again. A fox meets him.
-Where are you going, grandpa?
“I’m going to look for a nanny for the cubs.”
- Take me as a nanny.
-Can you sing?
“I’m the only one who can do it,” the fox boasted and sang affectionately:
I'll sing to you, baby
The song of a vociferous bird,
Tuuti-lullaa, tuuti-lullaa,
Tuuli-lullaa, ah-ah!
“I’ll take you, you sing very beautifully,” the bear was touched and took the fox to his home.
The next day the bear went hunting, but the fox didn’t want to do anything, didn’t feed the cubs, didn’t clean them. The bear returned in the evening and asked:
- Did you nurse my children well?
“I sang songs to them all day long,” answered the fox.
The bear was so tired that he didn’t ask anything else.
In the morning the bear went hunting again. But the fox doesn’t even care about the cubs, they are hungry and completely unkempt. The bear returned in the evening and saw the cubs crying and asking for food. The bear got angry and is about to punish the lazy nanny, and the cunning fox hops out into the street, flutters his tail and runs into the forest.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru