There were a lot of geese. In the summer they all hatched chicks. Their children began to grow up very quickly. It takes a long time for a caterpillar alone to grow up. His friends have already grown big and started flying. He cannot fly, he has no feathers on his body, no wings. His mother and father are very worried, because the time is approaching to fly to warmer places. His comrades are already getting food themselves, and his father and mother are still feeding him. All the geese began to prepare to fly, but he still had no wings. One morning all the geese gathered and began to think about how best to fly. The oldest goose said:
- Everyone will fly tomorrow.
And so they did. The next day, all the geese began to get ready for the journey. Fathers and mothers gathered their children and began to teach them how to fly so as not to lag behind on the way. All the geese are cheerful, only the father and mother of the wingless gosling are crying bitterly. Their child remains, it has no wings.
“You are flying,” says the gosling, “why will you freeze here because of me?”
All the geese got up and flew away, only the parents of the wingless goose remained.
- Well, fly, don’t feel sorry for me. The geese got up. Their little gosling swims in the lake and sings:
I don't have wings, I don't have a dad, I don't have a mom.
The parents heard this song of their gosling and returned.
– Why did you come back? Fly, otherwise you will fall behind your comrades because of me.
Again they flew, and again the gosling began to sing the same song. The parents are back again. With difficulty they left their gosling. So the gosling was left alone on the lake.
He swims around the lake and sings:
I don't have wings, I don't have a mom, I don't have a dad.
The gosling sang so loudly that the fox heard him. She came up to the lake and said:
- Come to me, little gosling, I will raise you.
- No, I won’t go to you even if I’m cold. You'll eat me anyway.
“I won’t do anything to you, you’re my nephew.” No matter how much the fox tried to persuade the gosling, he did not listen to her. The fox got very angry and said:
- The lake will freeze anyway, and I will catch you and eat you. And the fox began to wait for the lake to freeze. Now the lake has become quite small. The fox is happy.
One day I heard the song of the gosling Kutkh. He came to the lake and asked:
- Why are you swimming here, why didn’t you fly away with your comrades?
The gosling told him everything: he said that he had no wings, that the fox wanted to eat him. Kuthu felt sorry for the gosling, and he took him home. And the gosling began to live with Kutkh. He began to grow very quickly. In winter his wings grew. In the spring, when it got warmer, he began to play near the house.
One morning the gosling woke up and heard his parents flying. The gosling was happy and said to Kuthu:
– I’ll fly to meet my parents.
And he flew. He met his parents and began to live with them, and they did not forget Kutkha.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru