One day, the Bear and the Fox pooled a pot of butter and hid it under a thick tree until Christmas. They hid it, and they went aside and lay down to take a nap in the sun. They lay there and lay there, and suddenly the Fox screamed: “I’m coming, I’m coming!” — she ran away and straight to the pot of butter, and ate a good third of it right there. The Fox returned to the Bear, and he asked her where she had gone and why her muzzle was shiny.
And Lisa answered him:
“Didn’t you guess that it was me who was invited to the christening?”
- Oh, that's it! What was the child's name?
“The top,” answers the Fox.
They lay down again, and again the Fox jumped up and shouted: “I’m coming, I’m coming!” - and hurry to the potty. Again she had a good meal, and when she returned, the Bear asked her where she had been.
“Didn’t you guess that I was invited to the christening again?” - says Lisa.
- And what was the child’s name?
“Half,” answers Lisa.
The bear thought: “Strange name,” but didn’t bother racking his brains, started yawning and immediately fell asleep. He slept a little, and again everything was as before. The Fox jumped up and shouted:
"I'm coming, I'm coming!" - and to the potty. She returned to the Bear and again said that she had been at the christening, and again the Bear asked what the child’s name was, and she answered: “Eat-to-the-bottom!”
They went to bed again, and then went together to look at the pot and saw that there was no oil there. The Bear began to scold the Fox, and she began to scold him; The bear says that while he was sleeping, the Fox ate all the butter, and the Fox answered him that he ate everything while she was sleeping.
“You know what,” says Lisa, “now we’ll check who stole the butter.” Let's lie down in the sun again, and when we wake up, we'll see: whoever has the shiniest butt has eaten the butter.
Well, the Bear immediately agreed - he knew that he had not even tried the oil - and calmly fell asleep in the sun. Meanwhile, Foxy slowly went to the pot, scraped up the remains, returned and smeared the bear’s butt, and went to bed as if nothing had happened. They woke up, and the sun melted the butter - so it turned out that the Bear had eaten all the butter.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru