Bull, donkey and cock
Once to prophet Sulejmanu one person has come and has asked:
- Learn me to understand language of animals and birds.
- Well, - the prophet has promised. - only look, if to whom you will reveal this secret, you will die suddenly!
Prophet Sulejman of the person has learnt to language of animals and birds, and the person home has gone. Hears at night, in a shed the bull, a donkey and a cock talk.
- Tell, the good fellow how there has passed at you day? - The donkey asks a bull.
- Heavy day has stood out. As since the morning in a vehicle have harnessed, so all the day and dragged load, - the bull answers.
- And you want, I will learn you to one cunning? At once you will get rid of all these works yes efforts.
- Certainly, learn! - the bull was delighted.
- The owner will set to you a stern for the night, and you do not eat, and all here. You will see in the morning, for work you will not send. Here my council, - the donkey speaks.
- All right, - the bull has solved.
And began to eat nothing, a forage has not touched.
In the morning the person also speaks:
- The bull did not eat anything, it is visible, is unhealthy, harness a donkey instead of a bull.
All the day the donkey worked. Has returned to a shed in the evening, and the bull and asks:
- Tell, the good fellow how at you there has passed day? It seems, you and did not work at all?
- At first it was very heavy me, all the morning long drove with load. And then полегчало. People began to solve when to cut you, here I and have taken rest a little.
- How to cut? - The bull has roared.
- I do not know, - the donkey has answered. - all of them repeated among themselves: "Time the bull does not eat, it is necessary to cut it, has not died yet".
- What to me now to do? How to be rescued? - The bull has exclaimed.
- Eat it is more, - the donkey answers, - other exit is not present.
The bull to a forage has bent and well to swallow! Hurries up! "It would be necessary, - thinks, - to eat more, let the owner will see".
And the person heard all. He about what a bull with a donkey exchanged words has understood, and has laughed.
- What it you laugh? - The wife was surprised.
- Yes so, - the owner was restive.
It after all remembered, that prophet Sulejman has told to it: you will reveal to whom secret, you will die suddenly!
- No, tell, at what you laugh! Instead of you will tell, I will leave the house, and all here, - the wife has turned obstinate.
The person has understood, the wife will not lag behind. It is necessary, it is visible, to it to tell secret of prophet Sulejmana, to tell, that it is allocated now by ability to understand language of animals and birds. Yes, it is visible, its death has come.
- All right, - speaks. - wait only, I will make the will, and then I will explain you all.
The person has started to write the will. The bull and a donkey have seen it, have ceased to eat and drink from a grief. Only the cock carefree jumps yes sings.
- Our owner will soon die, and you have fun, - the bull and a donkey have reproached a cock.
- Why it he will soon die? - The cock was surprised.
- That is why that has quarrelled with the wife.
- You will think! Under my beginning twenty hens, I and that with them consult. And the owner cannot master one woman.
The person has heard these words, has become angry about the wife - that it любопытничает! - also has solved: to die to it at all to what! And молчок!