Milutkalik said to his grandmother and sisters:
- Give me a belt for the load, grandma. I'll go get some tree bark.
The grandmother is afraid to let her grandson go:
- Enough, don’t go get the bark, otherwise your liver will hurt.
- No, your liver won’t hurt. Hurry up, give me the belt, you're holding me back.
- No, I won’t. Your guts will hurt.
- Your intestines won't hurt. Hurry up, give me the belt, I’ll go get the bark.
- No, you won’t go for the bark. The liver will hurt.
- Your liver won't hurt.
- Your intestines and kidneys will hurt.
“No, the intestines won’t hurt,” Milutkalik persists. - Something’s wrong, grandma, you say. Sister, then give me the belt.
The sister gave the younger hare brother a belt. Fuck him. Milutkalik saw the devil’s dwelling, came up and began to tear off the old bark from the logs. He rips it off and says: “Oh, I’ll give this to my grandmother, it’s a little bitter, but just right for the teeth.” He tore off another piece of bark: “I’ll give this to sister Lylyachaka. The bark is sweet and strong.”
He peels off the bark of Milutkalik and puts it in a pile so that it is easier to tie it with a belt.
“Oh, I’ll give this to my elder sister,” cried Milutkalik, “but it’s a little dry and bitter!”
The devil's house is located on the shore, right next to the sea. A young bearded seal, Upapil, emerged and began to tease Milutkalik:
- What the hell!
- Hut! Get out, girlfriend! - Milutkalik could not stand it.
So Upapil wants to challenge Milutkalik to a quarrel, he emerges from the water and sings:
- What the hell!
Milutkalik could not stand it:
“The ice floes are clean, but you always leave dirt behind.” Here!
- No, my poop is thick and greasy, but yours is dry and hard, like white pebbles.
- So you’re fat, thick, that’s why your poop is like that!
-And you are skinny, skinny!..
- Wait, and I’ll be just as fat. You can't compare me to yourself.
- You're lying!
- Look! Hut, get out!
“Why are you teasing,” Upapil was offended, “my grandfather will kill you.”
- Well, so be it, so be it, so be it!
- Oh so! Wait, I'll go tell grandpa.
- Well, so be it, so be it, so be it! - Milutkalik shouts, and he himself prepared to wait: what if the bearded seal really comes swimming. He has prepared his hoe, which he used to strip off the bark, and holds it at the ready.
Upapil dived and swam away.
- Grandfather, grandfather! Milutkalik offends me, teases me,” Upapil complained.
Grandfather the bearded seal swam to the shore, and there was already ice near the shore.
He began to surface at the edge.
- Why are you teasing my granddaughter? - he surfaced and asked Milutkalik.
- Well, so be it, so be it, so be it! - Milutkalik shouts. - Swim to the shore. I can’t approach you by water. You’d better go ashore, and we’ll talk here on dry ground!
Grandfather the bearded seal dived and dived and finally crawled ashore.
The hare grabbed a hoe and hit him.
- Oh, why did you kill my grandfather! - Upapil cried.
- No, I didn’t kill him. He came to visit. You see, grandpa is waving his flippers at you, swim to the shore!
- You're lying, I saw you hit him. “I’ll go tell my grandmother,” and Upapil dived into the depths.
- Grandma, grandma, wake up! - Upapil cries. - Our grandfather is gone. Milutkalik hit him.
- Apa-pa-pa! - grandma woke up and trembled her teeth, - it’s not for nothing that my back froze, my dream friend left.
Upapil swam away again, surfaced and shouted to Milutkalik:
- Wait, grandma is swimming towards you. It will hit you too.
- Well, so be it, so be it, so be it! - Milutkalik shouts, and he himself prepares a hoe to meet the bearded seal grandmother.
Grandma bearded seal has arrived and surfaces at the edge of the ice.
“Come here, look, your husband is waiting for you,” Milutkalik calls her. “I’m not able to swim on water.” Go, go ashore.
Granny bearded seal swims near the shore and surfaces often.
“We can’t meet you on the water,” Milutkalik continues. - Yes, and you won’t be able to hit me.
The bearded grandmother made up her mind and crawled ashore. Before she had time to get comfortable on the shore, the hare hit her with a hoe.
“Oh, now he hit my grandmother,” Upapil cried.
Milutkalik did not pay attention to Upapil and began to butcher the dead. Killed two bearded seals. He skinned it and tied his burden. “That’s enough, I’ll go home. The booty is rich,” Milutkalik decided.
Two sisters live at home with their grandmother.
- Grandmother! - they shouted. - Your Milutkalik is coming.
“Ah, let him come, we’ll wait for him in the dugout.”
- Why is he walking so quietly? - the sisters are surprised. They don't see what he's talking about. The sisters entered the dugout.
- Sisters, come out, take the burden! Your little brother has arrived.
The sisters came out and were surprised:
- Where is the burden with the bark? - and immediately tried to bring in what Milutkalik had brought. But the burden was heavy for them; they could not lift it.
The elder sister said:
- No, it's not bark. The bark is never that heavy.
- Well, that's enough, bring it in. Grandma is also interested.
“But we can’t bring it in.”
- Okay, I'll bring it myself.
Milutkalik brought in what he had obtained.
- Ahh, Milutkalik has finally arrived! - his grandmother met him.
- Yes, here he is.
- Where is the burden with the bark?
- Untie it. This burden is not with bark.
- What is this? Something very soft? - Grandma was surprised.
“Then untie it,” Milutkalik could not resist and untied it himself. “Here’s some pieces of fat I brought, bearded seal meat.”
- Where did you find carrion on the seashore?
- Yes, I didn’t find carrion, I killed two bearded seals. Let's eat here and go get the leftover meat.
“Oh, I’ll cook the food now,” said the grandmother...
Meanwhile, in another dwelling, the fox Yayuchannakut was getting ready somewhere.
- Imynna! - she says to her daughter. -Give me the braided rope!
-Where are you going? - asks Iminna.
- Let me go and wander along the seashore. Maybe something was thrown out.
- Well, go, go. You'll hardly find anything.
- Let's see...
Meanwhile, the hares came to the place where the meat had been left. Before they had time to do anything, they saw the fox running.
“Oh, look,” says Milutkalik, “our aunt is running.” And how does she know everything so well, as if someone told her that Milutkalik got two animals.
The fox ran up.
- Oh, nephew, you really got the bearded seal?! — the fox was surprised.
- Yes, that’s right, I killed a bearded seal. And you came on time, you know everything, as if you were told that your nephew got the animal.
“Yes, I decided to wander along the shore, the wind is blowing from the sea, it carries a pleasant smell.”
And the fox has a good sense of smell.
“Okay, add as much as you need,” says Milutkalik.
- Yes, I would love to, but how much should I take?
- Yes, add as much as you can carry. You're strong.
The fox gave herself as much as she could and tied it with a braided rope.
“So, we’re leaving,” said Milutkalik, “but we can’t take everything away.” And it’s so hard, resting on the way, we’ll walk.
The hares went home. The fox also ran to her home.
The youngest son of the fox, Lymnoynyntkin, is walking near the dugout. Suddenly he sees a fox running.
“Here comes mom,” he says. “Imynna, I’ll run and meet her.”
Lymnoynyntkin ran towards his mother:
- Oh, mom, why are you talking so much?
- Yes, this is sealed meat.
- How did you kill the bearded seal?
- It’s not me, Milutkalik killed the bearded seal. Let's go home quickly.
Tomorrow all three of us will go and pick up the rest of the meat.
Meanwhile, the hares spent the night at home. The next day, just before dawn, we went to get the rest of the meat. They are afraid - the fox Yayuchannakut is cunning. She probably went with all her children. Surely nothing will be left. But the hares are not stupid either: all three of them set off together. They run and hurry, lest the fox overtake them.
And it’s true that the fox also left early. Following her is Imynna, and behind is Lymnoynyntkyn.
- Oh, you came! - Milutkalik greeted them.
- Yes, we have arrived.
“Take these leftovers, we’re already loaded.”
The foxes went back. Ahead is the Fox, then Imynna and after Lymnoynyntkin trudges along. Lymnoynyntkin is weak and carries nothing.
The hare and his sisters also went to their home.
But the bunny grandmother can’t wait, she goes out and looks to see when the hares will show up. Finally I saw my children. “I’ll run and cook some food,” she decided.
The children have arrived.
- Here, grandma, they brought it.
“Oh, they’ve finally arrived,” said the grandmother.
- Yes, they came.
- Where is the fox?
“I also went out to buy meat with my children.” This time I didn't tell her that take as much as you want. Only the remains were picked up.
“Well, it’s good that Auntie had enough, I treated them to fat,” the grandmother was delighted.
The hares slept through the night, and in the morning the grandmother said:
- Enough, we're full. We need to thank our friends. Prepare different things for them: wild deer meat, shiksha berry and palkumyat roots. Friends need to go home, granddaughter Upapil is waiting for them. Go take them gifts.
The hares went to the seashore and captured every single bone of the bearded seals along with the gifts. They buried the bones on the shore and left gifts. And they immediately went home.
Granddaughter Upapil saw that her grandparents were walking. I was happy. Father is already home. He began to scold his daughter, why she allowed her grandfather and grandmother to be killed. And at this time the grandparents came home. They brought gifts.
- Look what the hares treated us to: berries, roots, and wild deer meat.
“Oh, it’s not in vain, grandmother, you went to buy gifts,” said Father Upapil.
So the dead returned home. That's all. The end of the fairy tale.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru