Previously, people considered the fox to be cunning. She thought that it would be like this forever. Not so... Somehow recently she remembered her old tricks. I wanted to repeat it.
I came once to the collective farm reindeer herd. Thinks:
“If I deceive the shepherd, I’ll save some meat.” And so tenderly he says to him:
- Why are you, my friend, bothering with mosquitoes with them? I would go home, and I would watch over them... I would find good food for your deer.
The shepherd answers her:
“Their food is already quite good.” And the board of the collective farm entrusted me with the reindeer. And I won’t trust them to anyone. And you, fox, get out of here before I get the hell out of here,” and he took the gun off his shoulders.
The fox was scared to death. She started to run and disappeared into the bushes. “Wow,” the fox thinks, “the Evenks, it turns out, have become different.”
She remembered that in the last house of the village there was a groom. “I’ll go,” he thinks, “I’ll hire him as a matchmaker. Something will break off.” He comes running to the groom and says:
- They say you are going to get married?
“Yes,” the guy answers.
- Do you want me to buy you a suit?
- And I have ten of my own.
- And the boots?
- And there are boots.
- Do you want me to marry you Prince’s daughter? The groom looks at the fox and thinks: “Has the fox gone crazy with old age?” and says to her:
- You're behind, fox. The princes and their daughters have not been in the taiga for a long time. We have a lot of girls on the collective farm without them. Choose any one.
- Well, let me help you get married...
- Now, fox, they will marry for love. And I know how to get married myself...
No matter how the fox twisted it, no matter how much he persuaded it, nothing came of it. I got angry. She ran into the forest. She ran out to the river. He looks at the collective farmers on the boat, who are going to take food to their husbands for hunting. He runs up and shouts:
- Women!
“Now there are no women,” the collective farmers answer her.
- Sorry, dear ones, I forgot. Let me help you row.
- And we don’t even have oars.
- How will you swim?
“The engine will take us,” answered the collective farmers and started the engine. There was a crash and noise. The fox had never heard this on the river. She got scared and ran as fast as she could into the forest.
Since then he hasn't run to people. He deceives only animals and birds.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru