One day a man was walking through the forest and suddenly he heard chicks squeaking in a nest in a tree. “Did some voracious creature attack them?” - he thought and poked the nest with a stick to scare away the thief. At that same moment, a snake slithered out of the nest, wrapped itself around a stick and crawled over it towards the man. She pressed the ring on his neck and said:
- Now I’ll sting you!
The man was completely at a loss, but he immediately collected his thoughts and began to beg the snake to delay the reprisal - let the first person he met judge whether it had the right to sting him?
The snake agreed. A passerby comes across their path. Yes, he did not want to judge the truth, he only cared about saving his own skin. And the passerby said that the snake has the right to bite the one who dared to touch it. Again the man asks the snake to wait a little longer, maybe another judge will meet. Lo and behold, there’s a fox coming towards you. And he says that here, in the clearing, in a low place, he cannot judge. Come with me to the nearest tree stump. I’ll climb onto a stump, then I’ll judge from a higher place. So the fox climbed onto the stump and ordered the snake to get down to the ground and stand next to the man. When the man and the snake were in front of the fox, she said to the man:
- Oh, you fool! After all, you have a stick in your hand and brains in your head - hit the villainess on the head!
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru