Easy bread
Mowed on a meadow . Has got tired also villages under a bush to have a rest. Has got a sack, has untied and has started bread to chew.
There is from wood a hungry wolf. Sees - under a bush sits and eats something. The wolf has approached to it and asks:
- You that eat, ?
- Bread, - answers .
- And it tasty?
- Moreover what tasty!
- Allow to me to try.
- Well, try.
Has broken off a piece of bread and has given to a wolf.
Bread has liked a wolf. He also speaks:
- I would like every day bread is, but where to me it to get? Prompt, !
- All right, - speaks , - I will learn you, where and as bread to get.
Also it has started a wolf to teach:
- First of all it is necessary to plough the earth …
- Then also bread will be?
- No, the brother, . Then it is necessary to harrow the earth …
- Also it is possible to eat bread? - The wolf has waved a tail.
- That you, . Before it is necessary to sow a rye …
- Then also bread will be? - The wolf was licked.
- Is not present still. Wait, while the rye will ascend, cold winter will winter, will grow in the spring, then will blossom, then will start to ear, then to ripen …
- Oh, - the wolf, - long has sighed, however, it is necessary to wait! But then I breads in plenty!.
- Where there ! - has interrupted him . - Early still. At first it is necessary to compress a ripe rye, then in sheaves to connect, sheaves in shocks to put. Their wind , will dry the sun, then carry on a current …
- And bread I will is?
- , what impatient! It is necessary to thresh at first sheaves, grain in bags to pour, bags on a mill to bring and torments thresh …
- And all?
- No, not all. It is necessary a flour in and to wait, while the dough will ascend. Then in the hot furnace to sit down.
- And bread?
- Yes, bread. Here then you and it, - have finished .
The wolf has reflected, has scratched a paw a nape and speaks:
- No! This work painfully long yes the heavy. Advise to me is better, as I go is easier to extract.
- Well, - speaks , - times you do not want heavy bread is, you sing the easy. Go into pasture, there the horse is grazed.
The wolf on pasture has come. Has seen a horse.
- Horse, horse! I will eat you.
- Well, - the horse speaks, - eat. Only at first remove from my feet of a horseshoe not to break to you a teeth about them.
- And that the truth, - the wolf has agreed. It has bent down horseshoes to remove, and the horse as will strike its hoof in a teeth … a wolf - and to run.
Has come running to the river. Sees - ashore geese are grazed. “Instead of whether to eat to me them?”-Thinks. Then speaks:
- Geese, geese! I will eat you.
- Well, - geese answer, - eat. But at first render us before death one service.
- What?
- Sing to us, and we will listen.
- It is possible. To sing I the master.
The wolf on a hummock has sat down, has lifted up a head and allow to howl. And geese wings crack, crack - have risen and have departed.
Tears the wolf from a hummock, has had a look after geese and has gone with what.
Goes and abuses last words: “Well and the simpleton I! What for has agreed to sing? Well, now whom a meeting - I will eat!”
Only he so has thought, lo and behold - there is on road an old grandfather. The wolf has run up to it:
- The grandfather, the grandfather, I will eat you!
- And what for so to hasten? - Speaks affairs. - give at first we will smell.
- And it tasty?
- Try - you learn.
- Give.
The grandfather has got from a pocket a tobacco pouch with tobacco, itself has smelt also to a wolf has given. As a wolf at full speed so all tobacco pouch to tobacco also has inhaled. And then as has started to sneeze on all wood … Anything from tears does not see, all sneezes. So sneezed for about one hour, while all tobacco not . Has looked round, and the grandfather and the trace has caught a cold.
The wolf has gone further. There is it, goes, sees - in the field the herd of sheep is grazed, and the shepherd sleeps. The wolf in herd of the best ram has noticed, has seized it and speaks:
- Ram, ram, I will eat you!
- Well, - the ram speaks, - my share is that. But that long to you not to suffer yes not to break a teeth about my old bones, become better in that depression in the ground and open a mouth, and I on a hill, will be dispersed also itself I will fly to you in a mouth.
- Thanks for council, - the wolf speaks. - so we also will make.
There was it in a depression in the ground, has opened a mouth and waits. And the ram on a hill, was dispersed and by horns of a wolf on a head. So sparks from eyes at grey also fell down, all light before it has begun to spin!
the wolf, has twisted a head and argues with itself:
- I have eaten it or not?
And in the meantime has finished work and goes home. he also speaks the wolf words:
- To eat has not eaten, yes but easy bread has tried.