One day in winter, when cold winds swirled across the Tundra and not a single animal left a trace behind them, a hungry fox said to her sister:
“We will die of hunger with our children if we don’t come up with something.” One dressed up as a Russian merchant, the other as a translator, and in the evening they arrived at the camp. There they were greeted well, fed with meat, given tea, and the merchant fox said: “Pur-por-pur-r!” Another translated:
— The merchant gives you one bag of sugar for one deer. - Oh, very much, very good! - said the Chukchi and gave the “merchant” a large fat deer.
When everyone in the camp fell asleep, the “merchant” and the “translator” grabbed the deer and drove home as quickly as possible. In the morning the Chukchi missed the guests - there was no trace of them, and when they untied the bag, instead of sugar they found snow in the bag.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru