Once upon a time, a poor family had a bull. Once in the forest, seven wolves attacked him. The bull, defending himself, backed away and backed away and thus reached the barn, which stood nearby. And then it happened that he opened the door with his hind legs and found himself in the barn. Greedy wolves are behind him. During a terrible fight between a bull and seven wolves, one of them pushed the barn door and it closed.
The next day, the poor man, looking for his bull, saw its tracks next to the tracks of seven wolves and became very worried. What to do? I decided to find at least the bones of a bull. The tracks led to the barn.
The bull heard his owner and mooed. The poor man was glad that his only bull was alive, he opened the door and saw; A bull with red eyes stands in the corner of the barn, putting his horns forward. Five wolves are lying on the ground near him, and two are sitting in another corner and licking their wounds. The poor man finished off the predators.
On the way back, the poor man met a rich man who lived in the same village. He asked arrogantly:
-Where are you coming from, poor man, with your only bull? Where did you find so many wolf skins? You should sell them to me for dead!
The poor man shifted from foot to foot and answered:
“My bull gored seven wolves in the forest.” If you let your oxen go into the forest, wouldn't there be free wolf skins for your oxen?
The rich man ran home in a hurry and ordered the workers to drive the bulls into the forest, putting sharp steel tips on their horns. The rich man thought: “My bulls will get me wolf skins. I will become even richer.”
Indeed, his bulls met a pack of wolves in the forest. But the greedy rich man overdid it. When the bulls roared at the wolves, they jumped back behind the pine trees. Trying to gore predators, bulls stuck their horns with sharp steel tips into trees. At this time, the wolves rushed at them and knocked them down one by one.
Three days later, the rich man followed the bull's tracks into the forest. He took workers with him to skin the wolves. We arrived in the forest and found bull heads stuck with horns into the pine trees, and legs lying on the ground.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru