One weak against the strong is like a mouse against a bear: he covers it with a paw - and it’s gone! And two weak ones against a strong one - we still have to see whose will win!
One bear completely forgot the law: he began to play mischief and began to offend small animals. Neither the mice, nor the Europeans, nor the ferrets survived from it. And the tarbagans, and the jerboas, and the weasels died from it. Who would blame him if a bear was hungry for them? Otherwise the bear is well-fed and fat! He doesn't eat as much as he crushes. He liked to chase the kids. And you can’t hide from it anywhere: in a hollow you can get it, in a hole you can get it, on a branch you can get it, and in water you can get it!
The animals cried, but endured. And then the bear began to harass their cubs. This is the last thing, a worthless thing - you can’t imagine anything worse than this! The bear began to destroy birds' nests, began to destroy cubs in their burrows...
The little mouse crushed everyone. Once I stepped foot, not a single one was left alive. The mouse is crying and rushing about. What can she do alone against a bear?
A bear destroyed a tit bird's nest and ate all the eggs. The titmouse cries and flies around the nest. What can she do alone against a bear?
And the bear laughs at them.
The mouse runs to look for protection. He hears a titmouse crying. The mouse asks:
- Hey neighbor, what happened? Why are you crying?
Titmouse says:
“It was already time for my babies to hatch from their testicles!” They knocked on the shell with their beaks. The bear ate them! Where can I find protection? What can I do alone?
The mouse also cried:
“My children are already covered in black fur!” They have already begun to open their eyes! And the bear also killed everyone!
Where to find protection, how to save children from it? It’s a long way to go to the Taiga Master. To punish the bear yourself - everyone has little strength. We thought and thought and came up with an idea. “What to be afraid of? - they say. - Now there are two of us!”
They went to the bear. And the bear comes towards you. He walks, shifts from foot to foot. Out of habit, he had already raised his paw to slam the mouse and the titmouse, crushing both neighbors with one blow.
And the titmouse shouts to him:
- Hey, neighbor, wait! I have good news!
- What news? - the bear growls. - Speak quickly!
The titmouse answers him:
— I saw a swarm of bees in a neighboring grove. I flew there and looked - a whole deck of honey, full to the brim, honey dripping onto the ground. Let me tell the bear, I think...
When the bear heard about honey, he immediately forgot about everything and started drooling.
-Where is that deck? - he asks the titmouse.
“We’ll see you off, neighbor,” the mouse tells him.
Here they go.
The titmouse flies ahead, shows the way, and leads the bear along the long road. And the mouse ran straight to that grove.
She ran up to the log and shouted to the bees:
- Hey, neighbors, I have a big business for you!
The bees flocked to her. The mouse told him what his business was.
The bees tell her:
- How can you not help in this matter! Let's help! This bear also did a lot of bad things to us - how many logs he crushed!
The titmouse brought the bear to the grove. She showed me where the deck was. And the bear already saw her himself, rushed to the log, licking his lips, puffing... As soon as he approached the log, the bees swooped down on him in a swarm. They began to press from all sides! The bear waves his paw at them, drives them aside, and the bees attack him! The bear roared and rushed back. And his eyes were swollen from bee stings and closed completely. The bear does not see the road. It climbs straight through all the gullies, all the fallen trees and snags. He falls, stumbles, and is bleeding. And the bees are behind him!
The bear's only salvation is to rush into the water and sit in the water until the bees fly back. And the bear’s eyes are swollen, he can’t see where he’s running. He remembered here about the mouse and the titmouse. He shouted with all his might:
- Hey, neighbors, where are you?
- Here we are! - the mouse and titmouse respond. - The bees are biting us, we are dying!
- Take me to the water! - the bear screams.
The titmouse sat on one shoulder of the bear, and the mouse jumped on the other. The bear roars. And the neighbors tell him where to turn, where to run, and where to climb over the dead wood.
The titmouse tells him:
“You can already see the river, neighbor.”
The mouse tells him:
“It’s very close now, neighbor.”
- That's good! - says the bear. “The damned bees really stung me!” The further you go, the more painful they sting!
He doesn’t see that the bees have lagged behind for a long time.
Here the neighbors shout to him:
- Jump into the water, neighbor, and sit at the bottom, it’s shallow here!
The bear thinks to himself: “If only I could get rid of the bees, I’ll leave you a wet spot!”
The bear jumped with all his might. He thought he was jumping into the river, but ended up in a gorge where a mouse and a titmouse led him. The bear flies into the abyss, then hits one cliff, then another... Fur flies in all directions.
A titmouse flies next to the bear:
“I thought you were strong, bear, and there wouldn’t be any other strength for you?” He ate my kids!
A mouse sits on a bear, buries itself in the fur, and says:
“I thought you were strong, bear, and there wouldn’t be any other strength for you?” He crushed my children!
The bear crashed to the ground. Crashed.
Serves him right! Why did you kill the cubs?
Animals and small birds came running from everywhere. They bowed to the mouse and the titmouse and said thank you.
One weak against a strong can do what!
Two weak people against a strong one - we still have to see who will win!
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru