One day a goat went to catch fish with a net. She cast the net here and there, but nothing caught her in the net.
The goat thought: “What should I do? What should I feed the hungry kids?”
Suddenly he sees a jackal walking along the shore and dragging a whole bag of fresh fish - apparently the catch was rich.
“Eh, I was not!” thought the goat, “Either the jackal will eat me, or I will outwit him!”
- Hey neighbor, how are you? - the jackal shouted from afar. But the goat still sat with a thoughtful look, as if she had not heard anything.
The jackal called to her a second time, and again the goat did not answer. Then the jackal, in frustration, threw the bag of fish, threw the net, jumped up to the goat and shouted:
- Hey, goat, wake up! I ask: how are you?!
- A? What did you say? - the goat perked up.
- Listen, neighbor, what are you so busy thinking about that you don’t even hear when they ask you? - the jackal was surprised. - Apparently you don’t value your skin!
“Oh, sorry,” the goat answered with fear. “I can’t imagine what I should do with the meat.” I have a shed full of meat at home, and in this heat it spoils quickly. So I’m thinking, what should I do, how to save it?
- Where do you get so much meat from? - the jackal said incredulously.
“Yes, I recently visited a powerful sorcerer, and he made me such horns that as soon as I point them at some animal, it immediately dies.” Many animals did not believe, so they died. I dragged the carcasses into the barn, and now it is full. And the meat spoils. What? Don't you believe me either?
- I believe, I believe! - the jackal shouted.
He looked at the goat's horns and closed his eyes in fear. So, with his eyes closed, he began to back away into the bushes. And then he turned and rushed as fast as he could away from the terrible horns of the goat.
And the goat picked up the bag of fish and the jackal’s net and calmly went home.
That evening in the goat's house everyone was well-fed, and the jackal ran around the village howling from hunger.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru