The mouse ran and ran along the shore and found glue. She dug and dug and found the glue stick.
People:
- Why do you need a glue bottle?
Mouse:
- For the boat.
People:
- Mouse, what river is this mouth?
Mouse:
- This is the mouth of the glue river.
She swam and found the place where the tent stood. I dug and dug and found a whole needle.
People:
- Mouse, what river is this mouth?
Mouse:
- This is the mouth of the needle river.
People:
- Why do you need a needle?
Mouse:
- So that you can push off with it, like a pole, while standing.
The mouse swam and swam and found half the needle.
People:
- Mouse, what river is this mouth?
Mouse:
- The mouth of a needle river.
People:
- Why do you need half a needle?
Mouse:
- So that you can push off with it, like a pole, while sitting.
She floats, she floats, she found a thimble.
People:
- Why do you need a thimble?
Mouse:
- To serve as a rain cap for me.
Once a bridge was made by a mouse and a merganser. The bridge is made, the merganser says to the mouse:
- Cross the bridge!
Mouse:
- No, merganser, move!
Krokhal tells her:
- No, move on!
The mouse went and fell into the water. And the merganser began to laugh, and his bubble burst. The mouse ate it.
She runs and runs - people live in the plague, their old woman is sick. The mouse says to people:
- I'll cure her. Put the old lady in the bag and let me in the bag!
The bag was tied. The mouse gouged out the old woman’s eyes, bit off her ears and said:
- Let me out.
They let her out and she ran away and people say:
- The mouse killed the old lady!
And the mouse says to the mice:
- Don’t walk during the day, walk at night!
Now mice only walk at night.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru