About what larks sing

There lived-was once the king, and there was at the king an one and only son. Happens so, that the successor was ill. The king of doctors from all kingdom has called and has ordered to them to cure the son.

Doctors of the patient began to look, began to confer, than it to treat. Cannot define illness, cannot appoint a medicine. With that also have left.

The king then has thrown a call on all earth - who will cure the king's son, that will receive gifts expensive, riches infinite.

And here the aged man-vedun has come to a palace. Has examined the king's son and has told: "the king's son when will eat language of a bird-neptitsy which will be killed by the person-nechelovek a gun-neruzhem made of a tree-nedereva" Will recover. The aged man these words has told and has left a palace, not demanding a gift.

The king of the boyars has called, has informed them старцевы words and has asked council: that it for a bird-neptitsa, who that person-nechelovek, that it for a gun-neruzhe made of a tree-nedereva.

Boyars began to think, a royal riddle to solve.

Have thought and have told unanimously:

- The bird-neptitsa is, of course, a lark. It, though flies, yes more by the ground goes. He, though sings, yes only in the sky, not as other birds. А having sung, on the earth falls, well precisely stone.

- And the person-nechelovek, - boyars have told, is, to - нечно, the shepherd. He lives not in village, as all people, and in кодрах, as a wild animal. Not with people time spends, and with sheep - what it the present person?

- And a tree-nederevo, - boyars have solved, is, truly, a linden. Wood at a linden soft, fragile - where to it to be equaled with the present tree!

And the gun-neruzhe - that here to guess! Is after all onions with arrows. These onions are made entirely of a linden, a bowstring from a bast.

The king of boyars has obeyed. Boyars have made onions and have ordered to result the shepherd.

- Here to you lime onions, - boyars have told. - go and shoot to us a bird - нептицу a lark. We will pull out at it language, we will give to the royal son, and he will recover.

Took the shepherd onions and has gone to hunt on a lark.

Lark that is direct to the sun flied up and was filled in there with a sonorous song a stone downwards rushed - teased the hunter. The shepherd already tired to chase it as suddenly the lark has sat down on the earth and has asked a human voice:

- Why you pursue me, really to kill want? After all we with you old acquaintances, before you anybody йа the hill does not climb up - and I a song begin to sing the first, when you I will see. The friend I to you, and you on me has aimed an arrow.

Also the shepherd has opened to a lark.

- Not I wish to kill you - boyars. So they have settled upon royal council. They have counted me as the person-nechelovekom, and about you have told, that you a bird-neptitsa. They have yielded to me a gun-neruzhe - onions lime, a bowstring лыковая - all from a tree-nedereva. Have ordered to kill you to deprive of you your language; and this language will cure the royal son.

The lark has burst out laughing here.

- Boyars have deceived you! A bird I, present, genuine. Wings I will wave - I will fly up highly. A beak I will open - the song will pour down. And baby birds I deduce, as other birds. And the winter will come - with a blizzard-mete - lycée I struggle, on native places I remain, in another's earths I do not treat. Well tell - whether many such birds on light? And about itself think: what you the person-nechelovek if both during a rain, and in a cold a flock you protect, about each lamb care, the forces do not regret for the sake of people. You also are present человек1 And a linden - a tree, - the lark spoke. - Well; recollect, from what a rafter over your roof, beams on your attic! And than you sup a Russian cabbage soup - unless your spoon is cut out from an oak? Present вто a tree - a linden. And your onions with arrows - the kind weapon. How many enemies have driven away from the native centres this weapon! If you wish to know, that such gun-neruzhe, - so it is a tubule from an elder, иа which boy peas shoot. The elder also is a tree-nederevo, because almost blowing as it from pulp, only a tube firm. And here people-bad people are those who you to kill me has sent: boyars чужеспинники, a bar-parasites. Here it is exact - people-bad people they, because not a head at them on shoulders, and lime чурбак!

At the boyar under a cap
It is not enough mind,
Well, and can be, and сроду
It did not happen!

Having sung this song, the lark has flied up highly in the sky, to the sun.

All larks, hardly having caught sight of the shepherd fly up highly-highly fall a stone downwards and вее time. Sing:

At the boyar under a cap
It is not enough mind,
Well, and can be, and сроду
It did not happen!

This larks sing a song and to this day.