Fairy tale on the Sparrow and fox

One time the sparrow and a fox were bosom friends. Where the fox runs, there and the sparrow flies.

— The brother a sparrow, — speaks somehow time a fox, — want, give together we will sow wheat?

— I want, the scandal-monger.

Have sown wheat. She has grown, has kept up. Has come it is time to harvest.

Sparrow with a fox have started to press since the morning. But here the sun to burn became, and the fox was to all idlers the idler, and it has decided to use cunning.

— The brother a sparrow, — speaks, — you reap, and I will go on that hill, the sky I will prop up — I am afraid, as though it has not fallen. The sky will fall — will break our good пшеничку.

— Go, the scandal-monger, — speaks a sparrow, and itself has again bent down — reaps to itself yes reaps.

There has ascended a fox on a hillock. And here just the cloud has come up because of mountains. The fox has sat down, has lifted paws — as if the cloud props up.

The sparrow has compressed a field, has cleaned sheaves, has swept a barn and speaks:

— Go, the scandal-monger, allow to thresh.

— Thresh you, a sparrow-brother, and I and can prop up now the sky. Not that it will fall, and will ruin our good пшеничку.

The sparrow of an oxen has harnessed, has threshed wheat, провеял and calls a fox:

— Go, the scandal-monger, wheat we will divide.

— I go! — the fox shouts.

Has come running. Took the fox a measure and speaks:

— Here to you, a sparrow, the measure, and is due to me two measures.

After all my work is heavier than yours — I propped up the sky. Besides I to you am lead up by elder sister.

The sparrow has swallowed insult, has taken away the grain and has departed back home.

Its dog has seen and asks:

— You that have become sad?

The sparrow about the grief has told to it. And the dog was angry and speaks:

— Conduct me in лисицыну a granary!

Its sparrow has led to a granary. The dog has got there and was buried in grain.

For other day the fox has gathered for a mill — wheat to grind. It has come to the granary, began to rake up grain, sees — the dog ear sticks out of it. The fox has thought: it something a food — and suffice an ear teeth. And the dog as will jump out, as will rush on a fox — has strangled in a moment.