One day a rooster jumped onto the roof of a house and wanted to see the whole world from there. He craned his neck, turned his head this way and that, but saw nothing - the mountain that stood in front of the house blocked his horizon.
- Doggie-jan, do you happen to know what is there, behind the mountain? - the rooster asked the dog lying in the yard. “I don’t know,” the dog answered. “Our whole life will pass, and we will never know anything.” Let's go and see the world!
The dog agreed. They packed up and hit the road. They walked and walked and reached the forest. And by this time the sun had already set behind the tops of the trees, and dusk had fallen. A rooster and a dog settled down for the night in the forest: the dog was under a bush, and the rooster was on a branch of a large tree. When dawn came, the rooster crowed:
- Ku-ka-re-ku!
The fox heard this: “Aha! Someone is crowing here – that’s good! My breakfast must be wonderful!” - she thought and hurried to the tree on which the rooster was sitting.
- Good morning, cockerel-jan! What are you doing there so early? – asks the fox. “We are traveling.” “We want to see the world,” the rooster answers. “Oh, what a wonderful idea this is!” It’s such a smart idea to travel to see the world! – the fox exclaimed in admiration. – The fact is that I also have the same dream. But I don’t have a friend with whom I could go on a journey. Can I go with you?
“I don’t mind,” says the rooster. Just now, I’ll ask my friend what he thinks about it. Wait a minute, I'll find out now. - Where is your friend? - Yes, here he is - under a bush, near a tree.
“His buddy must be another rooster. This is good: breakfast is already there, so there will be lunch too!” – the fox thought joyfully and rushed into the bushes. Suddenly, seeing a dog there, she was so frightened that she ran away as fast as she could.
- Hey, fox-jan! Don’t rush so much, be patient a little, we’re already on our way too. Called my friend too! – a rooster cheerfully shouted after her from a tree branch.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru