The tailor and wolf
There was at the priest a tailor. It has gone on has got down to work, and for that time the god has not sent a stern to an unfortunate wolf. The wolf has climbed up mountain, and asks the god:
- Allow to eat, My God, and that I will die!
- Oh, go, - says, - a wolf that you will meet also you in food it will be ready. There is a wolf, the mare goes.
- Fine, a mare, and you whose?
- Oh, a wolf, I !
- Here you to me in food also are ready!
- Oh, yes look, - speaks, - a wolf! I was in a city, have brought papers.
There was a wolf, examines papers. And the mare as , has looked back - not to see already a wolf.
There is a wolf, thinks; “And the fool I however! And not the sir I and illiterate, and what for to me was any papers to examine?”
There is a wolf, and here a ram goes.
- Fine, a ram! You whose will be?
- Priests.
- Here you to me for food also are ready!
- Oh, become you, a wolf, below, and I on a hill will ascend. Open a mouth, and I to you and will fly.
The ram as has given to it in a forehead so to a wolf hardly the end has not come was dispersed.
Here there is a wolf and thinks: “And what I the fool! Yes unless I the sir what, what have wanted some easy bread?”
The wolf of pigs has met.
- Fine, pigs! You whose?
- !
- Here for food you to me also are ready.
- Oh, the brother a wolf! Permit to us though a song to sing. While pigs of a wolf attracted, peasants have noticed it and have banished.
There is a wolf, meets the tailor.
- Fine, the tailor! And you whose?
- Priests!
- so you to me for food are ready!
- O-oh, the brother a wolf! Permit to me then before death at least to wash. Allow to me to be wiped by your tail.
Here the tailor a hand the wolf tail and as poured to it in three times arshin so the wolf hardly on a place and did not remain …
The tailor has seen, has run yes on an oak and has hidden. The wolf began to think-guess, as though to it with the tailor to catch up. Has collected good fellows, has approached to the oak.
- Brothers, the tailor sits on an oak. And give ive, brothers, we will get it therefrom …
Here has laid down below, and the others and have climbed up it; already to one wolf to rise and the tailor to get.
And the tailor also speaks:
- At least to smell before death to tobacco. Has smelt:
- !.
And the wolf has thought, that that shouts: "Arshin". And as will wave therefrom, - wolves fell down, have seized that wolf both have broken off. Also was gone the poor creature.