Bulgarian folk tale

This will make a great fur collar for my wifes coat thought the old man. He picked up the lying Fox, threw him at the back of the sled and sat at the front.

He ran ahead quickly and played dead in the middle One day the Fox was walking down the road when he of the road. The old man saw the Fox, approached saw an old man dragging a sled full of fish. The Fox him carefully and pushed him with the lash the Fox felt so much like eating fish! wouldnt move.

Thats what the Fox had been waiting for. He looked around and quietly began throwing fish out of the sled. A piece by piece - all of the fish was thrown out. Then the Fox ran away.

After that, the Fox gathered all the scattered fish from the road, came back home and sat down to eat.

Come on! I fished all of it myself ! Go to the river, slip your tail into the whole on the surface,you! Go Look at stay The Fox plucked the and knocked on the door it fish some yourself Along came the there headrepeat: Come here big to Wolf. He of a fish and threw and fish, come hereand eatfish. The as thenhim. in small as much came Mmmyummy Hey, Fox, give fish will pile up onto your tail. you want to! .Fox, can I have But I fish! he us somecant some more? begged.

Come here big fish, come here small fish.

The Wolf rushed to the river, slipped his tail into the whole and started repeating:

The Fox came along, began could be. The Wolf s tail It was as freezing cold as it circling around the Wolf The Wolf pulled up his tail but couldnt pull it out. was badly frozen. The Fox then shouted: and saying: Oh, Wolf, I am helping you out Now pull, Wolf ! here! I am chasing Pull! Freeze tail, freeze the fish to your tail, freeze tail Wow, I have tail. What much fish caught so are you saying, Fox? that I cant take it out! he thought.

The Wolf spent the whole night at the river. He was freezing and desperately trying to pull his tail out but his efforts were unsuccessful.

At dawn some women from the village approached the river in order to get some water. The y saw the Wolf and immediately started beating him with their yokes and buckets. The Wolf pulled back and back until his tail tore out and fled.

During this time the Fox ate all the fish but still he felt like eating something else. He sneaked into a house where the housekeeper was kneading bread. The Fox ate some bread and then stuck his head into the bread-through. The dough stuck on his eyes and ears. Then he made off straight into the forest. There she ran across the Wolf.

Oh, Wolfoh, Wolf ! the Fox moaned. They only plucked your Fox come up my Hey, tail but they also broke my head! I will help you get back! Look my brain is coming out. I am home. barely standing on my feet!

The sick one carries the healthy one! The sick one Oh, I am only carries the healthy one! mumbling so that my head gets well soon!

What are you saying, Fox?

The Fox jumped onto the Wolf s back. On they went and the Fox quietly talked:

They got to the hole where the Fox lived. The Fox jumped down, hurried in, locked the door behind his back and began mocking the wolf:

Ha-ha-ha! The sick one carries the healthy one! You wolf are so stupid!

Translation: S. Tanova

Presentation: Desislava Milenkova

Drawing: Yana Mihailova