The barin and dog
In one village there was a peasant, and here nearby there lived the barin in the manor. It was possible to peasant to pass by times of a manor. And at the barin the dog was furious. The dog has attacked on it, and it has struck a dog a staff and has killed her. The barin has brought an action. Have called this peasant to have legal proceedings with the barin. And here when have come on court, judges ask the barin:
__ That you want from it , what punishment to it to give?
— And I here that wish to make — to deprive of its human rank and a voice, and let it becomes a dog, protects my manor and lives at me at a court yard.
Well, of course, the court also has solved it. Have deprived of a human rank and have forced to live at the barin, to protect lordly property.
it was necessary to come to the barin and to become instead of a dog: to bark at night and to protect its property.
And here during one fine time it has agreed to thieves:
— Come, thieves, in such night, , and there we will divide. And here in one night there have arrived thieves. When the barin has risen in the morning — sees,
That property at it have taken away much. And it brings an action against a dog, that it poorly protected: there were thieves and have plundered. When have come on court judges began to interrogate the barin:
— Well, the barin, tell, whether the dog barked at you that night?
— Very well barked, strongly barked that night when was .
Then judges answer the barin:
— So it is necessary to you from a dog? What could it make still, time it is deprived a human voice?
Also have decided judges, that a dog of the right, and have granted to it the right a human voice again to speak.
Then the barin was dissatisfied with court and has carried it in a city, on recourt. They also have gone with it together. Have called in in wood. And it was dark. The muzhik also speaks to the barin:
Look, the barin, a bear costs on road!
— Well, , frighten!
Yes is not present, I to bark now I will not begin — I have acquired the human right. Bark, the barin, itself, and that the bear can eat us.
— , a little bit though teach me. a little also speaks:
— Now bark itself, and the bear us will eat that.
And here the barin starts to bark. And the muzhik speaks to it:
— Bark, the barin, bark, a bear has more close approached!
And itself sits, does not laugh. And the barin before , that it is light. also speaks:
— Stand, the barin, stand, do not bark! It after all not a bear, it to us .
Then the barin has started talking:
— And, so you have deceived me! Now I will prosecute you.
— Well, all right, the barin, give, and I all will tell, that you all night long like a dog barked.
— Listen, , I will release you home and I will give to you of money and a cow. Go, live good luck, only tell to nobody, that I like a dog barked!
And here they have come back home. The barin has given a cow yes money, and has gone home.
Also he in what need not to know since the barin began to live has cheated.
Ruff . Russian satirical fairy tales. Moscow, the Children's literature. 1989.