Fairy tale on the Artful cock

The artful cock has spread wide wings, has jumped on a wattle fence and well to crow in all throat. From a near bosk the godmother a fox has run out.

— Good afternoon! — shouts. — Услыхала I as you crow, here and have come running. Well and well you sing! Here I do not know only, whether you as your father sang are able to sing.

— And how my father sang?

— Will jump, happened, on a wattle fence, and costs on one foot, and another will draw in. Will close one eye and crows. Here there was a singer so the singer!

— And I so am able!

The cock has drawn in a foot, has closed one eye and crows.

— And you can, standing on one foot to close both eyes and nevertheless to sing? — The fox asks.

— I can! — the cock has shouted.

But he has not had time to close both eyes as the fox has jumped up and — the cock suffices! Its fox in wood has carried away, has pressed down paws and was already going to eat.

— Эх, — the cock has sighed, — there was time, your mother not so did.

— And how it did? — The fox asks.

— Your mother had such custom: happened, will catch a cock yes before it to eat, will read a pray. Devout there was a fox, prayerful.

Has thought, the fox has thought and has solved: it is necessary supposedly and to me to pray. Has combined forepaws, has closed eyes, began to whisper a pray. And the cock of that also waited. As soon as the fox has drawn aside paws, it has flied up — yes скок on a near tree!

— That you a thunder has killed! — the fox has screamed. — me, a fox, has outwitted!

And, hungry, has trudged back home.