Once on the river, a lion was talking to a pike, and a man stood at a distance and listened. Only the pike saw the man and immediately went into the water.
Lev then asks her: —? Why did you go into the water? —? You saw a man. —? So what? —? Yes, he’s cunning. —? What kind of man? - asks the lion. - Give it to me, I’ll eat it.
The lion went to look for the man. A boy comes towards you.—?Are you human?—?No, I’m not human yet. I'm a boy. When will I be a man? The lion didn’t touch him, he passed by. An old man comes towards you.—?Are you a man?—?No, father lion! What kind of person am I now! Was once a man.
And the lion didn’t touch this one. —? What a wonder! You won’t find a man anywhere! The lion walked and walked and met a soldier with a gun and a saber. “Are you a man?”—?A man.—?Well, I’ll eat you!—?And you wait,” the soldier tells him. “Get away from me, I’ll throw myself into your mouth.” Open your mouth wider!
The lion walked away and opened its mouth. The soldier appeared and the gun went off! Then he ran up and cut off the lion’s ear with a saber. Leo - run. Runs to the river. A pike swims up and asks: “Well, have you seen a man?” “Well,” says the lion, “the man is cunning!” I didn’t find him right away: he said that he was a man, then he said that he would still be a man, but when I found a man, I was not happy. He told me to move away and open his mouth, then he would spit in my mouth, and now it still stings, and then he would stick out his tongue and lick my ear off!—? That’s the same thing, I told you that a man is cunning...
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru