Kolobok
Russian folk tale.
There were lived old man and old woman. And one day the old man said to the old woman:
"Grandma, bake for me a kolobok".
''Old, what I will bake you a kolobok? We have no flour''.
"Sweep in the barn and scrape in the bins, maybe you will find something".
Old woman swept in the barn scraped in the bins and she found two handfuls of flour. She kneaded the dough and made a kolobok, baked it in the stove and put it on the windowsill to chill.
Kolobok sat for an awhile on the sill and suddenly rolled. He jumped from the windowsill on the bench, from the bench on the grass and rolled away across the yard on the road.
Kolobok was rolling on the road and met The Hare.
''Hello, Kolobok, I will eat you" - said Hare.
"You will not eat me, Little Hare," - answered Kolobok, - "I will sing you my song:
I am Kolobok, Kolobok,
I was baked in the stove, I was chilled on the sill,
I left grandpa, I left grandma,
And from you, slant, even more, I will leave".
And Kolobok was rolling on,
Hare has seen him only.
Then Kolobok met The Wolf.
"Hello, Kolobok, I will eat you" - said Wolf.
"You will not eat me, Gray Wolf," - answered Kolobok, - "I will sing you my song:
I am Kolobok, Kolobok,
I was baked in the stove, I was chilled on the sill,
I left grandpa, I left grandma,
I left Hare.
And from you, Gray, even more, I will leave".
And Kolobok was rolling on,
Wolf has seen him only.
Kolobok rolled on down the road and he met The Bear.
"Hello, Kolobok, I will eat you" - said Bear.
"You will not eat me, Bear," - answered Kolobok, - "I will sing you my song:
I am Kolobok, Kolobok,
I was baked in the stove, I was chilled on the sill,
I left grandpa, I left grandma,
I left Hare, I left Wolf,
And from you, Clumsy, even more, I will leave".
And Kolobok was rolling on,
Bear has seen him only.
And then Kolobok met The Fox.
"Hello, sweetie little Kolobok, I glad to see you," - said Fox in a sweet voice.
"Hello, Fox, you will not eat me," - said Kolobok, - I will sing you my song".
"Oh, no, I am not going to eat you, I only want to hear your wonderful song" - said Fox even more gently, - "But I am very old, and became deaf. If you jump on my nose and sing your song, so will I hear you?"
Kolobok Jumpen on Fox's nose, and sang:
"I am Kolobok, Kolobok,
I was baked in the stove, I was chilled on the sill,
I left grandpa, I left grandma,
I left Hare, I left Wolf, I left Bear,
And from you, Red, even more, I will leave".
But Fox open her mouth and "Yum!", and ate Kolobok.
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