Let's send the cockerel and the chicken to the nuts. The cockerel climbed onto the hazel tree, to the very top, and the chicken stood below, waiting. The cockerel picked one nut and threw it on the ground, picked another and threw it, and when he threw the third one, it hit the chicken right in the eye.
- What a sin! – the cockerel was upset. - How did I miss so much?
And the hen can’t even hear the cockerel. She screamed and ran home.
A chicken runs and screams, and suddenly the master comes towards him. Asks her:
- Why did you shout?
“Well, well, well,” the hen complains, “I threw a nut right in the eye.”
- Who threw it?
- The cockerel threw it, the cockerel!
- Those are the times! Where is he? Let him come to me. The cockerel came to the estate and the master asked him:
- Why are you throwing nuts? Why did you knock out the chicken's eye?
– I didn’t knock it out at all! He flew up to the hazel tree, and it swayed, so the nut hit the chicken in the eye.
- Well, if so, let the hazel tree come to me. The hazel man came to the estate, and the master scolded him:
- Why were you rocking? Why did you throw a nut in the chicken's eye?
“I wouldn’t have swung, but the neighbor’s goat would gnaw my bark, what could I do?”
- OK. Let the goat come to me. The goat came to the estate, and the master came to her:
- Why are you gnawing the bark of a hazel tree?
“Would I gnaw the bark if the shepherd were tending me?” What should I do if he doesn’t shepherd me?
- Let the shepherd come to me.
A shepherd came to the estate and the master scolded him:
- Answer me, why don’t you graze the goat? You see, the whole hazel tree has been gnawed off!
“I would have tended her, but the hostess deceived me: she promised to bake some flatbread, but she didn’t bake it, and I was left hungry.”
- OK. Where is the mistress? Let him come to me. The hostess came, the master came to her:
- Tell me, why didn’t you give the shepherd the cakes?
“I would have given him some flatbread, but a misfortune happened to me, good master: the pig, if it were bad, ate the leaven, so we were left without any flatbread.”
- Well, then let the hen and the pig ask for their own eyes.
That was the end of the matter.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru