A tigress cub and a goat cub met on a mountainside and played and frolicked together all day. And when evening came, they went home. The tiger cub came to his mother and said:
“I played so well with the little goat today!” We had so much fun!
Tigress said:
- How stupid you are! You are not worthy of your father! You should have killed that kid. Then we would drink his blood and eat his meat. Go to him tomorrow morning. Deceive him. Tell him: "Let's play!" - and lure him into the forest. And then strangle him and drag him here. This is how real tigers act!
“Okay,” said the tiger cub, “I’ll do that.” And the little goat also came to his mother and said:
- Mother, today I played so happily with the little tiger cub! The old goat trembled with fear.
- Woe! Woe! How stupid you are! - she said. “Doesn’t your father’s blood flow through you?” You should know that tigers are our enemies. And the tiger cub is the same tiger. If tomorrow he comes and says: “Let's go play!” - don’t go to him. He will lure you into the forest, and then he will attack you, strangle you, tear you to shreds. This is what all tigers do!
The little goat said:
- Okay, I'll remember your words.
The next day, the tiger cub approached the house where the kid lived and began calling him:
- Little goat! Baby goat! Come out to me! Let's play like yesterday!
The little goat said:
- No, I won’t come out to you!
Then the tiger cub asked:
- Why? Yesterday we played so well with you!
The little goat said:
- In your house you were given advice, and in my house I was given advice. That's why we won't play together anymore!
And the tiger cub, ashamed, left.
“My son,” the tigress asked him, “why didn’t you bring the kid?”
The tiger cub replied:
- He knows who I am. They told him everything about me.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru