Sparrow and fox at the same time? were bosom friends. Where is the fox? runs, and the sparrow flies there.
“Brother Sparrow,” the fox said one day, “do you want us to sow wheat together?”
- I want it, gossip.
Wheat was sown. She has grown up and matured. It's time to harvest the harvest. The sparrow and the fox began to reap in the morning. But the sun began to get hot, and the fox? She was a lazy girl to all lazy people, and she decided to cheat.
“Brother Sparrow,” he says, “you reap, and I’ll go up that hill over there, I’ll prop up the sky - I’m afraid it might fall.” The sky will fall and break our good wheat.
“Go ahead, gossip,” says the sparrow, and he bends down again, reaping and reaping.
Has the fox come up? on the hill. And just then a cloud emerged from behind the mountains. The fox sat down and raised her paws as if propping up a cloud.
The sparrow squeezed the cornfield, removed the sheaves, swept the threshing floor and said:
- Go ahead, gossip, let's grind.
- Thrash, brother sparrow, and even now I’ll have to prop up the sky. Otherwise it will fall and destroy our good wheat.
The sparrow harnessed the oxen, threshed the wheat, winnowed it and called the fox:
“Go ahead, gossip, we’ll divide the wheat.”
- I'm coming! - the fox screams.
She came running. Did the fox take it? measure and says:
“Here is a measure for you, sparrow, and I am owed two measures.” After all, my work is harder than yours - I propped up the sky. Besides, I happen to be your older sister.
The sparrow swallowed his insult, took his grain and flew home. The dog saw him and asked:
-Are you upset?
The sparrow told her about his grief. And the dog got angry and said:
“Take me to the fox’s granary!”
The sparrow led her to the granary. The dog climbed in and buried itself in the grain.
The fox got ready the next day? to the mill - to grind wheat. She came to her granary, began to rake up the grain, and saw a dog’s ear sticking out of it. The fox thought?: This is something edible - and grab it with your teeth. How will the dog jump out and rush at the fox? - she strangled her instantly.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru