Language of animals

One person had a shepherd, many years served it to the owner faithfully.

Somehow time it grazed sheep and услыхал in wood any strange hissing. It wanted to it to learn, in what business, and it has gone to that party. And suddenly sees, wood burns, and on fire fire the dragon hisses. The shepherd has stopped. The flame approached to a dragon all more close.

- The shepherd! For God's sake, rescue me from fire! - the dragon has cried.

The shepherd has stretched a stick, and the dragon on it has reached a hand, and from a hand on a neck, and was twisted round it. The shepherd was frightened and speaks a snake:

- Grief to me! I have rescued You, and myself have ruined!

- Be not afraid, - the dragon answers, - carry me to the father, the snake tsar.

The shepherd does not go, refuses.

- I can not, - speaks, - sheep to throw.

- About sheep do not worry, with them happens nothing, go only somewhat quicker.

Long there was a shepherd with a dragon on a neck on wood and has reached at last the gate weaved from live snakes. They have approached to collars, the dragon has whistled, and gate there and then расплелись. The dragon also speaks to the shepherd:

- As we will come in a palace, the father will offer you both silver, and gold, and jewels. But you all refuse, and ask only that he has allowed to you gift to understand language of animals. He will agree not at once, but eventually will give.

Only they have entered into a palace as the snake tsar has begun to cry and the snake has asked:

- Where you were, my son?

The dragon has told to the father all one after another: as it was surrounded with a flame and as it was rescued by the shepherd. Then the snake tsar has told to the shepherd:

- Than to award you?

- Anything it is not necessary to me, allow to me only gift to understand language of animals, - the shepherd has answered.

- No, such gift will not bring to you happiness. After all if you receive it yes to somebody about that will tell, so there and then and will die. Ask something another, - the snake tsar has told.

- If you wish me to thank, make so that I understood language of animals, instead of want, so be healthy, anything else it is not necessary to me. - With these words the shepherd has turned and has gone away.

The tsar has called to him.

- Погоди! Go go here. Time so would be desirable it you, open a mouth.

The shepherd has obeyed, and the snake tsar has spat to it in a mouth.

- And now you to me spit in a mouth, - he has told.

The shepherd has spat, and then - the tsar has spat; and so three times, and at last the snake tsar has told:

- Well here, you have received gift to understand language of animals. Go to itself with the world, but if to you a life road - look to anybody words. As you will tell - here to you and death.

The shepherd has left. There is it on wood and hears and understands everything, that speak birds, animals and an other wood creature. It has come to the sheep, has counted them and, seeing, that they lay easy, itself has lain down to have a rest. He as two ravens have arrived has not had time to lay down, have sat down on a tree and have led conversation in the language:

- If only the shepherd knew, that there where the black lamb lays, in the earth the cellar, and in a cellar gold and silver is dug!

Услыхал it is the shepherd, has gone to the owner and has told to it. That has given a cart, they have together dug out an input in a cellar and have brought a treasure home. The owner was the person fair and has given all treasure to the shepherd.

- Take, the sonny, all treasure, - has told it. - construct the house, marry and live happily.

The shepherd took a treasure, has constructed the house, married and has begun to live in it. Soon it became the richest person not only in the village, but also in all district. Shepherds grazed its sheep, cows and pigs, grooms looked after for лошадьми.

Once, for Christmas, he has told to the wife:

- Prepare e wines, ракии and snack, we will bring tomorrow to shepherds, let and they will have fun.

The wife has prepared all. In the morning they have gone on farm, and towards evening the owner and speaks to shepherds:

- Eat, drink, have fun, and I will watch for herd all night long.

Here at midnight wolves have raised a howl, dogs have begun a bark.

- It is possible for us to come to regale? - Wolves asked. - we and to you will give meat!

- Come, we too wish to regale, - dogs answered. Only one dog, such old, that in a mouth at it remains only two teeth, пролаял:

- In vain tell lies. While I in a mouth have two more teeth, I will not allow to make harm to my mister.

Hardly it is light, the owner ordered to interrupt all dogs, except an old dog.

Shepherds began to speak:

- The god with you, the owner! It is a pity them!

But the owner has answered:

- Do, as I have ordered! - also has gone with the wife home.

They went top: the husband on a game, and the wife on a mare. The horse has skipped away forward, and the mare has lagged behind. The horse has begun to neigh and speaks to a mare:

- Move! That have you lagged behind?

- Yes, to you it is good, - the mare answers, - you carry one owner, and I a three: the mistress, in it of the child yes in itself of a foal.

As услыхал it is the husband, has turned back and has laughed, and the wife, having seen, that it laughs, has adjusted a mare, has overtaken the husband and asks, to that he laughs. The husband has answered:

- Anything, it is simple so.

But the wife has not believed also all stuck to the husband that he has told to it.

- The god with you, the wife! What it you? Yes I and itself, the right, do not know, to that laughed, - the husband speaks.

But the more he refused, the the wife more strongly stuck. At last the husband has told:

- If I to you tell, at once I will die.

But she has not believed to it and all asked - tell yes tell! With that also have arrived home. The husband has there and then ordered a coffin and when it was ready, has put it before the house.

- Now I will lay down in a coffin, - he has told to the wife, - I will tell to you to that I laughed, and at once I will die.

Here it has laid down in a coffin and last time has looked around. And at this time from herd the old true dog has come running, villages in heads of the owner and has begun to cry. The husband has seen it and has told to the wife:

- Bring a piece of bread and give to a dog.

The wife has brought and has thrown to a dog a bread piece, but that at all has not looked at it.

Here the cock has jumped up and allow to peck bread. The dog also speaks to a cock:

- Damned the glutton! To you only is, you do not see, that the owner to die has gathered.

- Well and let dies, fools rush in where angels fear to tread, - the cock answers. - at me hundred wives, and I with all consult. And the owner has absolutely blundered: with one cannot consult.

Услыхал it is the husband, has risen from a coffin, took in hands a stick and has called the wife in the house:

- Let's go, I will tell all to you, - he has told and give its stick охаживать.

- Here to you, here to you!

The wife has become silent and never already any more did not ask, to that he laughed.