Two friends - the Rabbit and the Monkey

The monkey has met the friend to the Rabbit and has told to it:

- Listen, at the grandmother of the Lioness recently were born внучата. You after all know, it the skilled worker to kill, but hardly will manage well to bring up children. Give we will go to it and we will offer themselves in the nurse. She, probably, will agree. And then we as soon as possibility will be presented, will kill all cubs and we will eat. At the same time and a Lioness.

The rabbit has, of course, agreed. But when two friends were to the grandmother to the Lioness, it has lifted at once a paw and wished them to kill.

- Ah-ah-ah, the grandmother! - both have cried. - do not eat us, we still the small! Unless our meat will suffice you to satisfy hunger? Release us. If you make it, we will lead to you of our adults, such enormous, as grandmother Pakasa, aunt Zhavali!

The lioness has agreed.

- But only you know that, the grandmother that they have come, you should settle there, in a high grass, and to pretend to be dead, - the Monkey has demanded.

And the Lioness has hidden in a high grass, was stretched on one side just as dead, and the Monkey and its friend the Rabbit have risen in doors of its house, have hammered into drums and have started singing:

The grandmother the Lioness has died, We are free! The grandmother the Lioness has died, We are free!

All animals, both small and big so were delighted, that have run together from the nearest woods and fields and began to dance round the Lioness. Really she has died? What pleasure! It is simply impossible to believe in it! Drums rattled - thoughts-thoughts-thoughts, thoughts-thoughts-thoughts, thoughts-thoughts-thoughts! - and animals danced and danced out of itself with happiness.

The friend the Rabbit and the friend the Monkey when dancing was in the heat, have thrown drums and too have broken into a dance. But here the house door has slammed. The lioness has immediately jumped out of a grass and all who was fallen to it into clutches began to suffice. After all animals had no place to hide. It has seized and two friends - the Rabbit and the Monkey, has clicked a teeth: now them will eat.

- Ah-ah-ah, the grandmother! Do not kill us! - the Monkey has begged. - unless you do not want, that we have brought to you of brushwood? You that, will not fry all this meat? Ah-ah-ah, really you do not want?

The lioness has thought, has thought and has agreed. Really, it is a lot of meat, to fry it it is necessary, and to brushwood at it is not present! And it has released the Rabbit and the Monkey behind brushwood.

Run they have rushed off in wood. But here suddenly they were met by huge boa Китаселе. It has put out the doubled language and was going to swallow both.

- Аи, grandfather Kitasele, do not kill us, wait a little bit, here you will see, we will result to you a pas a dinner the same vast object, as you! And we after all still small, a pas also meat are not present us any! - the Monkey has begged.

Then boa Китаселе has released them. Friends to the Lioness have rushed.

- Oh-oh th, the grandmother, we have not brought some brushwood! We were swallowed nearly by grandfather Kitasele. We will go together with us. He will be frightened of you. After all all are afraid of you. You are the strongest! - the Monkey has told.

And the Lioness has gone together with them to wood.

The monkey has imperceptibly run forward and has warned grandfather Kitasele:

- Vast object, same, as you, already here!

Boa Китаселе has crept out of the refuge and has killed the Lioness.

- Grandfather Kitasele, you see, we have not deceived you! And if you knew, how many meat still lays at it in the house! We will go we will fry it! - the Monkey has offered a boa.

All three together have gone, have incurred brushwood who as could: the Monkey - in paws, the Rabbit - in a teeth, and the boa has grasped boughs and a tail and a head.

- You, the grandfather, wait here a little, and we will go now we will bring fire. Here you see: people work in the fields, we and take fire from them.

And people have published already have seen a huge snake and have rushed to run. People have run up, and the Monkey has snatched out a burning piece of coal from a fire and has joyfully cried:

- Well, grandfather Kitasele, now we will go to fry meat!

The huge Boa from greed has forgotten that holds brushwood and a tail and a head. And the Monkey has brought a piece of coal both to a tail and to a head of a snake. Dry brushwood has flashed at once, and the Boa has burnt down. And all meat has got to the Monkey and its friend to the Rabbit. They Here feasted!