One evening the hedgehog met a jackal. The hedgehog said hello and asked:
-Where are you going? -Seek happiness.
- And I'm with you.
They went together. Both were tormented by thirst, and they stopped near a well to drink.
The well had two buckets: if one went up, the other went down.
The hedgehog came down first. Having drunk, he shouted to the jackal:
- There are eight sheep with lambs... Jump into the bucket. The jackal jumped and sank to the very bottom, while the hedgehog climbed out.
“Here they are, the vicissitudes of fate, which elevates some and overthrows others,” thought the jackal, trying in vain to get out of the well.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru