Old storyteller

At one time, the sparrows and foxes were friends of the past. Wherever a fox runs, a sparrow flies there. - You want to sow wheat together," says the fox once. - I want to, kumushka. We sowed wheat. She grew up, she had time for it. It's time to harvest. Sparrow and fox began to reap in the morning. But it became sunny, and the fox was a lazy lazy lazy woman, and she thought to trick her. - Brother of sparrows," she said, "you reap, and I'll go down that hill and support the sky. If the sky falls, it will break our good wheat...

A young man loved one girl very much and wanted to marry her. But here, they take him to war, and he says to his beloved: - Don't marry someone else, I'll be back soon, and we'll get married. And so that no one would know about their love, the young man called the girl Coconut Palm, and she called him Coconut Nut. They said goodbye to each other, crying bitterly, and the young man went to war. A lot of bridegrooms were married to the girl, but she refused everything, waiting for her loved one. So passed a few years, and her father tells her to get married: stop, they say, picky enough...

One day, a man named Zowa took a bag and went to work. He walked, and suddenly it sounded as if a child was crying somewhere near him. Zova stopped, listened and went where the crying came from, and when he came to see that it was a crocodile crying under a black currant bush at the edge of the road. When he saw Zowa near him, the crocodile said: - Hayo, man, if you have a good heart, feel sorry for me! I am dying of fatigue and thirst, and I have no more strength to go. Put me in the bag behind you, take me to the river and throw me in the water...