As the snake has overcome
There was it or there was no, whether the truth that or not, - will listen better, that the fairy tale affects.
Well and so. The terrible-prestrashnyj dragon has arrived in one edge. Has dug to itself among wood at mountain a deep hole and has laid down to have a rest.
Whether he had long a rest, nobody remembers that but as has risen at once has loudly cried that all heard:
- Hey, people - muzhiks and women, old and small, - bring to me every day a tribute: who a cow, who a lamb, and who a pig! Who will bring, that in live remains, and who is not present, that I will swallow!
People were alarmed and have started to carry a snake that is necessary.
Carried, carried, and then see - and to carry there is nothing. Have absolutely grown poor. And the dragon was such, that without a tribute and day could not live. There was it then itself on villages to fly, people to suffice, to itself in a hole to drag.
People as restless go, cry, rescue search and do not know, how it of a fierce dragon to get rid.
In the meantime one person has called in in that place. Called him . Sees , that people having become sad go, hands break yes wail.
- What at you for a trouble? - Asks. - that you wail?
People about the trouble have told to it.
- Calm down, - began to console them , - I will try to rescue you from a fierce misfortune …
It a bludgeon took thicker and has gone to that wood, where veins of snakes.
its dragon, green also asks:
- You what for here have called in with this cudgel?
- To beat you! - speaks .
- See you! - the dragon was surprised. - Leave better from here, yet late. And that as I die, as I will whistle, you and standing will not resist, for three versts will fly away.
Has grinned and speaks:
- Be not praised you, an old scarecrow, I and not such ! Still we will look, who from us will more feasibly whistle. Well, whistle!
The dragon has whistled, yes so is strong, that already leaves with fell down, and to knees has fallen. It has risen and speaks:
- , nonsenses! Yes unless so whistle? It after all to hens on laughter! Give ive I will try, only you fasten to itself eyes, and what kind, .
The dragon of an eye a scarf has fastened, and has approached yes so has whistled its cudgel on a head, that at a dragon already sparks from eyes fell down.
- You are really stronger than me? - The dragon speaks. - Give ive still we will try. Who from us faster the stone will crush?
The dragon has seized a stone of poods in hundred, has squeezed its paws, yes so is strong, that the cloud of dust has risen.
- Anything here surprising is not present, - laughs . - Here you compress so that from a stone water has poured down.
The dragon has lifted a stone, has compressed, and water and is not present …
- Look, - speaks , - as I will compress. Imperceptibly it has got from a feed bag cheese, has compressed, water and has scattered extensively.
The dragon was frightened: sees, that is indeed stronger than it. Has looked on a cudgel and speaks:
- Ask from me that you want, I to you will make all.
- Anything it is not necessary to me, - answers , - at me all house in a prosperity, it is more than yours.
- Well! - the dragon does not trust.
- You do not trust, so we will go we will look. They have sat down in a vehicle and have gone. In the meantime to a snake is it wanted. it the herd of an oxen on an edge of wood also speaks :
- Go catch an ox, we will have a snack. Has gone to wood and has started to tear up a bast. Dragon waited, waited and at last itself to it has gone:
- You that here so long potter?
- Bast I tear up.
- And what for to you a bast?
- I wish cords to wind yes for a dinner five oxen to catch.
- What for to us five oxen? One will suffice also. The dragon of an ox has seized by a nape and has dragged to a vehicle.
- And you, - speak , - bring fire wood, an ox we will fry.
Villages Vasil in wood under an oak also sits to itself, smokes.
Waited, the dragon waited and has not sustained. Comes to :
- You that so long here potter?
- Yes here I wish to bring from tens oaks. I choose, what to thickness.
- What for to us ten oaks? One will suffice also! - the dragon has told and has pulled out at one stroke the thickest oak.
The dragon of an ox has fried and invites is.
- Eat you, - refuses , - I at home will be supported; that here in one ox to be engaged, it to me once to bite.
The dragon of an ox has eaten, was licked, and they have gone further. Approach on the house where there lived family . Children have seen have published, that the father goes, and have cried for pleasure:
- goes! goes!
And the dragon has not caught and asks:
- What there children shout?
- Yes it they rejoice, that I it for a dinner carry you. They at me have got hungry for a long time …
The dragon was frightened, has jumped off from a vehicle and has rushed . But has not made out road, and has got to a bog. And the bog was such, as a bottom not to get. The dragon on a bottom has failed, yes there and has choked.