Avarian fairy tales about a cat

Brave cat

There lived-was a cat. In a youth it benefited the owners - caught mice, played with children. And when the cat has grown old, owners have decided it to kill. Having learnt it, the cat has escaped also has come to wood at night. Suddenly it has scented a pleasant smell of meat. Soon the cat has found a hole where meat laid, has regaled and has settled on a soft laying from dry leaves, purring from pleasure. It laid easy, only its moustaches terribly moved.

And it was the fox hole. When the fox has returned, she has seen a terrible unfamiliar animal. It growled and terribly moved with Moustaches.

- That for a miracle! - the fox has exclaimed. - many years I live on light, and such monster yet did not meet. It is better to leave far away from a trouble, - and the frightened fox has rushed away.

The fox on wood, and towards to it a wolf runs.

- What with you a fox?

- Yes here, the terrible animal, probably, very dangerous has got into my hole. It terribly growls and moves with moustaches. How here not to escape!

- And well we will go with me, I will kill this uninvited visitor, - the wolf has told, and they have turned back.

They have approached more close to a hole, and here the wolf has seen for the first time a cat. Eyes at a cat green fire burn, moustaches threateningly move, and it awfully growls: <mrr-mrr!>

- Well and an animal! - the wolf has exclaimed. - such I never saw. Give ive, a fox, we will escape, while are whole.

They have rushed наутек and have met a bear.

- What it with you happens? Tell to me, - the bear has important told.

The wolf and fox have told to it about a terrible animal.

- Nonsenses! - the bear has exclaimed. - I immediately will banish it. Conduct me more likely.

They have approached to the fox hole. A wolf with a fox aside press close, and the bear was put by a muzzle directly in a hole. The cat has terribly begun to roar and has seized claws to a bear a nose. The bear has cried and has rushed to run, and behind it a fox and a wolf.

Animals, and towards to them a wild wild boar run.

- What it you run? Who so has frightened you?

- The trouble has happened, a trouble. The terrible animal has lodged in the fox hole, tried it to banish, but is sick it is furious. Even on a bear has snatched.

The wild boar has looked at a blood-stained muzzle of a bear and speaks:

- Do not worry, I in a trice will banish a monster, conduct me.

And all four have turned back. Ahead the wild boar, behind it a fox, for лисою a wolf, and the last trudged a bear, winding the swelled up muzzle.

The wild boar in a hole has glanced and has seen a terrible animal: eyes burn, moustaches move and growls: <mrr-mrr!> sharp claws to a wild boar directly the cat Has seized a nose and has spitefully hissed. The wild boar has begun to squeal, as a pig, and has rushed to run, and behind it other animals.

At last they have stopped and began to think how to get rid of the awful visitor.

The fox has offered:

- Let's pretend, that we with it have reconciled. We will invite him, we will give to drink, we will feed and we will kill.

Animals have agreed, but nobody wished to go to invite the visitor. They argued, argued and have decided to send a fox - after all it most artfully on light, and to speak is able is sweet. In the meantime the wolf has extracted meal, a bear fire wood, the wild boar has started to стряпне. When all was ready, the fox has followed the visitor. Other animals were afraid meetings with a cat and have hidden who where - a wolf in bushes, a bear on a tree, and a wild boar in a warm pool.

The cat and fox have soon come and have started to feast.

Suddenly in bushes weak rustle was distributed. Whether <the mouse it?> - the cat has thought and has instantly jumped in bushes where the wolf disappeared. From unexpectedness the wolf was frightened, has cried and has rushed to run, and behind it both a bear, and a wild boar, and a fox. They and when have stopped long ran, have started to think what to do.

- Let's leave far away from this dangerous animal, - the wolf has told. - after all it will not give life to us.

- Correctly, - its bear has supported.

- Perhaps, we will visit, that it plans, - the wild boar has offered.

And they have sent a fox to look, that the awful animal does. And the cat has finished in the meantime a dinner both washed. The fox also sees - time has spent a paw on a muzzle, another. Suddenly the cat has heard, as the branch has crackled, and has looked in that party. It was enough that the fox has rushed наутёк.

In a fright it has come running to animals and has told:

- Our affairs are bad. The cat wiped a mouth, say, with two such has finished also a fate of the others will be not the best. And thus he has very expressively looked at me.

Also have run then animals, who where. And now they run, and the cat remained in a hole with a fox and lives there припеваючи.

Cat and mice

Once the cat declared, that wishes to make pilgrimage to Mecca and there to receive from the Allah absolution. And them at it to admit, was much, especially in front of mice.

The cat began to dismiss hearings, that henceforth it will not touch any mouse even if she begins to run on his back.

These hearings have reached the mouse khan. The khan - time a cat покаялся was delighted, in a kingdom will be quiet. And still the mouse khan for check has sent to a cat of two young mice.

The cat has accepted them tenderly and has told:

- I beg you, brothers, forgive my sins. Perhaps, and from your relatives somebody has found death from me. But it will not repeat any more. All of us the divine creatures, also has not stuck to us to offend each other.

For the second day to a cat the mouse khan with numerous retinue has come. The cat too has met them friendly and began to be sorry. All mice have surrounded a cat and have started to express the pleasure. Only one old mouse has climbed in the nearest mink and therefrom looked at cheerful fuss.

- You that, silly, will not approach to us? After all the cat has changed and became another, - began to call all it.

- The Cat has changed, yes moustaches remained with it the same, - the mouse has answered. She also has not had time to say these words, as a cat передушил all mice.