People say that even the fool has hay before Yury; and when the cattle spend the winter before the Annunciation, even if you take them out on a cheap cart, they won’t die.
Let me tell you.
One poor man had only one oder, and even that he barely made it to the Annunciation, and at the Annunciation he barely dragged him alive to the meadow. That’s how he started to pluck the grass and gained a little weight. As soon as he got to his feet, he walked on, staggering from the wind
As he walks along, suddenly he comes across a horse along the way, big and strong, not afraid of any beast, and he stands up and says:
- Great, comrade!
The horse looked at his comrade and thought: “This is not my comrade,” and answered:
- Good health! The well-fed one asks the thin one:
-Where are you going?
- Yes, wherever your feet go.
- And I’m there too, let’s be comrades.
- Well, come on! - said Oder. So the two of them went. They walk and talk, and the well-fed one asks:
- Tell me what is your name? Thin Man replies;
- Oder.
“And I’m a horse,” says the well-fed one. “Now let’s go to the iron current and try to see who is stronger.”
- Let's go! - Oder said in a thin voice, he was glad that he was at least alive. We came to talk. And the horse says:
- Hit, oder!
- No, hit me! - he says.
As the horse hits, the current bends, and as the oder hits, the fire breaks. The horse thought thoughtfully: “How strong he is, however, he is not my comrade! When I hit, sparks do not fall, but only the current bends, and sparks fly from him!”
And the horse didn’t even know that Oder had shod shoes: his owner had shod him for the winter, and he forgot to take off the shoes when he let him out into the meadow.
So the horse says to the bed:
- Let's go, comrade, to the sea, let's see who can blow out more water?
“Let’s go,” said the oder.
So let's go. As soon as the horse blows, he barely grabs the fish by the tails - he blows it dry. And Oder hung his head in the water, stuck out his tongue - he was barely alive, and the pike thought it was meat, and grabbed his tongue, and Oder clattered his teeth and said to the horse:
- What, comrade, did you catch anything?
- No.
- And I caught it!
The horse looked at the oder, was afraid that the oder was holding such a huge pike in its teeth, and said:
- Let's go, comrade, cook, now there's something to eat! “But he just scratched his head and looked at the bed and thought:
“What the hell did I find for my misfortune!” They made a fire to cook the fish. And the horse says:
“You, comrade, sit here by the fire, and I’ll bring some wood!”
- Well, okay! - Oder said, and he sat down, hanging his head: it was said that he was about to die. And the magpie thought that he was not alive, grabbed him by the tongue, and clicked his teeth - and kept him in his mouth. The horse comes, and the oder asks:
- Well, comrade, did you catch anything?
“No,” the horse answers.
- And I caught it! - says oder. The horse looks, and indeed holds the oder in its mouth for a magpie. The horse was surprised and said:
- Where did you get the magpie, comrade?
“Uh, comrade,” said Oder, “I was flying in the sky, so I caught it.”
The horse became very sad and said to himself:
“Eh, this is not my comrade; if he catches fish in the sea, and birds in the sky, then how can I compete with him! Even though I am strong, I uproot oak trees, but I can’t catch fish and birds in the sea!” So the horse thought to himself and began to think about how he could escape from the bed.
After thinking about it, the horse says:
“You, comrade, cook, and I’ll go, maybe I’ll bring some firewood.”
- OK! - Oder agreed.
The horse walked around, and all around, and well, he ran at full speed, he runs, looks back and says:
- May evil spirits take you away! You are beyond my strength, I wish I could get away from you as quickly as possible!
Here is a horse running, and a wolf meets him. The wolf says:
- Hello, horse!
- Hello, wolf! - the horse said in such a fearful voice. “You’d better be silent.”
“What is it, tell me?” the wolf asks the horse.
- That's what! - the horse began to talk. “I met a friend, I wanted to fraternize with him, so we went and tried our strength to see who was stronger.” So what do you think? As soon as I hit, the iron current bends, and as soon as it hits, sparks fly out. We went to the sea to blow off the water - as soon as I died, I was completely dry, and he caught a fish. Let's go cook the fish, and what do you think? While I brought firewood, he already caught a magpie! So I see that he is beyond my strength, and let me draw from him.
- What is his name? - the wolf asked the horse.
“Oder,” said the horse.
“Eh, yes, I know how to shave such and such,” said the wolf, “just show me where he is.”
- Eh, no! - said the horse. - I won’t take you there; Let's climb the oak tree, then I'll show you; over there, under the mound, in the valley, a fire is burning, it is my friend Oder who is laying it out.
The wolf looked, shook all over, and said:
“You, horse, sit here and watch, and I’ll go and get some skin for your boots, so that you won’t be afraid of anyone and trust us: we know how to shave such tramps!”
So the wolf went to the bed and grabbed him by the tail, tore off the skin up to his head and gave it to the horse.
There was only one horse left, and the Oder disappeared for no reason at all.
Here's a fairy tale for you, and I'm knitting bagels.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru