Russian fairy tale
Leo Tolstoy's fairy tale "The Hedgehog and the Hare"
Children, to whom the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy dedicated many instructive stories, fables and short fairy tales, are always interested in reading about the world around them, about familiar animals. Every child knows from famous Russian folk tales and cartoons about the hare and the prickly hedgehog. Namely, it is about them that the story is told in the work “The Hedgehog and the Hare”.
What is the fairy tale about?
A hedgehog and a hare met. The oblique bully decided to hurt the harmless hedgehog with his remark. For some reason, it seemed to him that the prickly interlocutor had crooked legs, which is why they were constantly getting tangled. Of course, this angered the hedgehog, but he was cunning and decided to teach the hare a lesson. The hedgehog challenged the enemy to a competition to see who could catch up with whom. The hedgehog just asked him to wait while he went home.
And the hedgehog asked his wife for help, telling her about his argument with the hare. I decided that I could win with my flexible mind. We decided to run to a field that had just been plowed. The hedgehog planted his wife in the furrow at one end, and began to wait for the hare at the other end. When the hare has to reach the end of the furrow, the hedgehog's wife will have to come out and say that she has been waiting for the hare here for a long time. After the start, the hedgehog pretended to run and came back. Only the hare reached the finish line, and the hedgehog’s wife came forward and spoke as the hedgehog had taught her. The hare didn’t believe it, asked to run again, and when he ran to the beginning of the furrow, he saw a hedgehog there. Again the hare ran along the furrow. So I ran while I had the strength. After that, the hare swore that he would never argue with anyone again.
Author's instructions to children
What is the main thing in any dispute and competition? It is important to use your ingenuity and intelligence. All readers understood perfectly well from the very beginning of the tale that the hedgehog will never outrun the nimble runner and jumper of the hare. But what interesting content Tolstoy came up with! The text of the fairy tale is dynamic, it is so alive, as if you were imagining how a competing hedgehog and a hare were running. Let us remember what the hedgehog said about the hopeless outcome of the dispute, but the hedgehog did not despair, he came up with a reliable way to outwit the hare. And the cunning, side-eyed, eared hare forever abandoned the desire to argue with anyone. And the most important thing is that the hare will now not offend anyone with insults. So what if a hedgehog has crooked legs - why laugh at it? Well-mannered animals and people do not behave this way. The author talks about such moments in his book of fairy tales.
Folk wisdom
As always, Lev Nikolaevich wrote based on proverbs, which he did not mention, since there are too many of them. Children will find them themselves. Just a few of them can be cited as examples. Here they are: “Resourcefulness and intelligence are friends” and “Where you can’t take it by force, you need to grab it.”
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The Hare and the Hedgehog: a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm
For some reason this story is considered fiction, but yet everything in it is the true truth. My grandfather, telling it to me, said every time:
- Of course, it really happened, otherwise would I talk about it?
And here's the story.
It was one Sunday morning in the summer, just when the buckwheat was blooming. The sun was shining brightly in a clear sky, a warm morning breeze was blowing over the fields. The larks rang in the heights, the bees buzzed in the buckwheat. All living things were happy, and so was the hedgehog.
The hedgehog stood at the door of his house, arms crossed over his chest. He exposed his muzzle to the warm breeze and hummed a song - neither bad nor good, but exactly the way hedgehogs usually hum on a fine Sunday morning.
He stood there and hummed in an undertone and suddenly thought: “While my wife is washing and dressing up, I could walk across the field and watch how my rutabaga is growing.”
And rutabaga was planted right there, near his house. The hedgehog and his family willingly feasted on it and therefore considered it their property.
No sooner said than done. The hedgehog closed the door and went into the field.
He was still very close to the house and was just about to go around the thorn bush and turn towards the rutabaga field, when suddenly he met a hare. The hare was also in a hurry on business - to inspect his cabbage.
The hedgehog greeted the hare warmly and wished him good morning.
But the hare considered himself a noble master and was terribly arrogant. He did not answer the hedgehog’s bow, but said to him with the most contemptuous look:
“How did you end up here in the field so early?”
“I went out for a walk,” answered the hedgehog.
- Go for a walk? - the hare laughed. “I don’t think your legs are very suitable for walking.”
This answer angered the hedgehog. He could endure a lot, but he did not allow anything to be said about his legs, because he had them crooked.
“Do you imagine,” said the hedgehog, “that your legs are more useful?”
“I think,” answered the hare.
“This still needs to be checked,” said the hedgehog. “I bet if we race, I’ll beat you.”
- This is a joke for the chickens! - the hare shouted. - You - with your crooked legs! Well, okay, have it your way: if you really want to, let’s run now.
“No, we don’t need to rush so much,” answered the hedgehog. - I haven't eaten anything yet. I’ll go home, have a little snack and in half an hour I’ll be here again, in this very place.
The hare agreed, and the hedgehog left.
On the way, he reasoned: “The hare relies on his long legs, but I will lead him through. Although he is a noble gentleman, he is a total fool.”
The hedgehog came home and said to his wife:
“Get ready quickly, wife, and let’s go with me to the field.”
- And what happened? - asked the wife.
“I made a bet with the hare and will run a race with him, and you must be a witness.”
- Oh, my God, are you completely crazy, hubby? - the hedgehog screamed at him. -Are you out of your mind? How can you compete with a hare?
- Shut up! - said the hedgehog. - This doesn’t concern you, don’t interfere in men’s affairs. Get ready and let's go.
What was the hedgehog to do? Willy-nilly she had to obey.
On the way, the hedgehog said to his wife:
- Well, listen carefully. We will run in that field over there. The hare is in one furrow, and I am in the other. We will run from that end. You just need to stand here in the furrow, and when the hare comes running, shout to him: “And I’m already here!”
When they arrived at the arable land, the hedgehog showed his wife her place and hurried to the other end of the field. The hare was already there.
- Can we start? - he asked.
“Of course,” answered the hedgehog.
Here they each stood in their own furrow. The hare counted: “One, two, three!” - and rushed like a whirlwind across the arable land.
And the hedgehog ran three steps, and then curled up into a ball and calmly lay down in the furrow.
When the hare ran at full speed to the other end of the arable land, the hedgehog’s faithful wife shouted to him:
- And I’m already here!
The hare was dumbfounded with amazement - he thought, of course, that he was seeing the hedgehog himself. After all, everyone knows that the hedgehog’s wife looks exactly like her husband.
“Something is unclean here!” - thought the hare and shouted:
- Shall we run again? Turn! - and again he rushed off like a whirlwind - so that his ears almost came off his head.
And the hedgehog’s wife calmly remained in her place. When the hare rushed back, the hedgehog shouted to him:
- And I’m already here!
The hare got angry and shouted:
- Let's run again! Turn!
“It doesn’t cost me anything,” answered the hedgehog. - Please, as much as you like.
The hare ran like this another seventy-three times. And every time he ran to the other end of the arable land, the hedgehog or his wife said to him:
- And I’m already here!
On the seventy-fourth time the hare did not reach the end and fell in the middle of the field.
And the hedgehog called his wife, and they, satisfied with each other, went home. And if they didn’t die, they still live.
It so happened that one day the hedgehog completely drove the hare. And since then, not a single hare agrees to run a race with a hedgehog.
Retelling from German by A. Vvedensky, edited by S. Marshak
You probably won't believe this tale.
However, when telling it, my grandfather always said: “Not everything in this fairy tale is fiction.” There is truth in it. Why would people start telling it?
This fairy tale began like this.
One day, on a clear sunny day, a hedgehog stood at the door of his house, with his hands folded on his stomach, and hummed a song.
He sang his song and sang and suddenly decided: “I’ll go to the field and look at my rutabaga. While,” he thinks, “my hedgehog wife washes and dresses the children, I will have time to visit the field and return home.”
The hedgehog went and met along the road a hare, who was also going into the field to look at his cabbage.
The hedgehog saw the hare, bowed to him and said friendly:
- Hello, dear hare. How are you?
And the hare was very important and proud. He just nodded his head and said roughly:
- Why are you, hedgehog, scouring the field so early?
“I went out for a walk,” says the hedgehog.
“A walk?” asked the hare mockingly. “But in my opinion, you can’t get far on such short legs.”
The hedgehog was offended by these words. He didn’t like it when people talked about his legs, which were indeed short and crooked.
“Don’t you think,” he asked the hare, “that your hare legs run faster and better?”
“Of course,” says the hare.
“Would you like to run a race with me?” asks the hedgehog.
“Racing with you?” says the hare.
- Don't make me laugh, please. Are you really going to overtake me on your crooked legs?
“But you’ll see,” the hedgehog answers. “You’ll see that I’ll overtake.”
“Well, let’s run,” says the hare.
“Wait,” says the hedgehog. “First I’ll go home, have breakfast, and in half an hour I’ll return to this place.” Then we'll run.
“Okay,” said the hare.
The hedgehog went home.
He walks and thinks: “The hare, of course, runs faster than me. But he is stupid and I am smart. I'll outsmart him."
The hedgehog came home and said to his wife:
“Wife, get ready quickly, you’ll have to go to the field with me.” The hare and I argued about who runs faster - me or him. I have to outrun the hare, and you will help me in this matter.
-Are you crazy? - the hedgehog was surprised.
- How can you compete with the hare? He will immediately overtake you.
“It’s none of your business, wife,” said the hedgehog. “Get ready and let’s go.” I know what I do.
The hedgehog went with the hedgehog to the field. On the way, the hedgehog says to his wife:
- We will run with the hare across this long field. The hare will run along one furrow, and I will run along the other. And you, wife, stand at the end of the field near my furrow. As soon as the hare runs up to you, you shout: “I’m already here!” Understood?
So they did. The hedgehog took the hedgehog to the end of his furrow, and he himself returned to the place where he left the hare.
“Well,” says the hare, “shall we run?”
“Let’s run,” says the hedgehog.
They each stood at the beginning of their own furrow.
- One two Three! - shouted the hare. And they both ran as fast as they could.
The hedgehog ran three or four steps, and then quietly returned to his place and sat down. Sits and rests. And the hare keeps running and running. He reached the end of his furrow, and then the hedgehog shouted to him:
I'm already here!
And I must say that the hedgehog and the hedgehog are very similar to each other. The hare was surprised that the hedgehog had overtaken him.
“Now let’s run back,” he says to the hedgehog. “One, two, three!”
And the hare ran back faster than before. And the hedgehog remained sitting in her place.
The hare reached the beginning of the furrow, and the hedgehog shouted to him:
- I'm already here!
The hare was even more surprised.
“Let’s run again,” he says to the hedgehog.
“Okay,” the hedgehog answers. “If you want, we’ll run again.”
We ran again and again.
So the hare ran back and forth seventy-three times. And the hedgehog kept overtaking him.
The hare will run to the beginning of the furrow, and the hedgehog will shout to him: “I’m already here!”»
The hare will run back to the end of the furrow, and the hedgehog shouts to him: “I’m already here!”
On the seventy-fourth time the hare ran to the middle of the field and fell to the ground.
“I’m tired,” he says, “I can’t run anymore.”
“You see now,” the hedgehog tells him, “who has the faster legs?”
The hare did not answer anything and left the field - he could barely trudge from fatigue. And the hedgehog and his wife called their children and went for a walk with them.
Magic tales written by famous storytellers - brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Rice. G. Dmitrieva
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Kesha went into the forest again to pick mushrooms... The forest path winds through, Like a painted picture...
Flowers grow nearby, Red berries, mushrooms... Kesha happily picks them, And throws them into a basket!
Just looking, in the clearing, - The redhead is coming from the party... Well, of course - Fox, Something, very cheerful...
The Wolf is in a hurry after the Fox, And he’s shouting at her for something... The Fox looked back - She suddenly grinned! —
The wolf held the hare in his hand... It was as if he was walking lightly. The Bunny cried and screamed, Only the Wolf did not let go.
Hedgehog Kesha saw: “Yes!”... He said alarmedly. “We need to help out the Hare, distract the Wolf, somehow!”
The Red Fox is cunning - She approached the Wolf herself, and began to say to the Wolf:
“Wolf, you have to give me a hare right now, Otherwise, not even an hour will break out of my hands with a scythe, And run to his home.
Better give it, I’ll hold it... And I’ll put it in the knapsack!”
The wolf began to object to her, and hinted at cunning: -
“I know you, Fox, and I understand your hint, Only, the Bunny will be mine! I’m taking him home!”
Squirrel was running in the forest... And while she was collecting mushrooms, she tripped over the Hedgehog and stretched out near her legs.-
“Why are you walking here, Hedgehog? Do you also pick mushrooms? Let me help you - I’ll show you a lot of mushrooms...
I know mushroom places, I quickly pick mushrooms... I can see everything from the trees: Here’s a mushroom... And here’s another!” —
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They can’t see the road, But they have to run... Suddenly there’s a cliff... the river below is wide and deep...
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Brothers GrimmHare and hedgehog
This story looks like a fable, guys, but still there is truth in it; That’s why my grandfather, from whom I heard it, used to add to his story: “There must still be truth in it, child, because otherwise why would it be told?”
And this is how it was.
One Sunday at the end of summer, just as the buckwheat was blooming, turned out to be a good day. The bright sun rose in the sky, blew a warm breeze through the stubble, the songs of larks filled the air, bees buzzed among the buckwheat, and good people in festive clothes went to church, and all of God's creation was happy, and the hedgehog too.
The hedgehog stood at his door, arms folded, inhaling the morning air and humming a simple song to himself as best he could. And while he was humming in a low voice, it suddenly occurred to him that he would have time, while his wife was washing and dressing the children, to take a walk in the field and look at his rutabaga. But rutabaga grew in the field closest to his house, and he loved to eat it in his family, and therefore considered it his own.
No sooner said than done. He locked the door behind him and walked along the road into the field. He was not particularly far from home and was about to turn off the road when he met a hare, who, for the same purpose, went out into the field to look at his cabbage.
When the hedgehog saw the hare, he immediately greeted him very politely. The hare (in his way a noble gentleman and, moreover, a very arrogant one) did not even think of answering the hedgehog’s bow, but on the contrary, said to him, making a mocking face: “What does it mean that you are prowling around the field here so early in the morning?” “I want to take a walk,” said the hedgehog. “Go for a walk? - the hare laughed. “It seems to me that you could find another, better activity for your legs.” This answer touched a nerve with the hedgehog; he was able to endure anything, but he did not allow anyone to talk about his legs, since they were naturally crooked. “Don’t you imagine,” said the hedgehog to the hare, “that you can do more with your legs?” “Of course,” said the hare. “Don’t you want to try it? - said the hedgehog. “I bet that if we start running, I’ll overtake you.” - “You make me laugh!” You and your crooked legs will overtake me! - exclaimed the hare. - However, I’m ready if you’re interested in such a hunt. What are we going to argue about? “For a golden louis d’or and a bottle of wine,” said the hedgehog. “I accept,” said the hare, “let’s run now!” - "No! Where should we rush? - the hedgehog responded. — I haven’t eaten anything today; first I’ll go home and have some breakfast; in half an hour I’ll be here again, on the spot.”
With that, the hedgehog left with the consent of the hare. Along the way, the hedgehog began to think: “The hare relies on his long legs, but I can handle him. Although he is a noble gentleman, he is also stupid, and he, of course, will have to lose the bet.”
Arriving home, the hedgehog said to his wife: “Wife, get dressed quickly, you will have to go with me to the field.” - “What’s the matter?” - said his wife. “I bet the hare a gold louis d’or and a bottle of wine that I would run with him in a race, and you should be there.” - "Oh my god! - the hedgehog’s wife began to shout at her husband. -Are you out of your mind? Or have you gone completely crazy? Well, how can you run around with a hare?” - “Well, be quiet, wife! - said the hedgehog. - It's my business; and you are not a judge in our men's affairs. March! Get dressed and let's go." So what could the hedgehog’s wife do? She had to follow her husband, willy-nilly.
On the way to the field, the hedgehog said to his wife: “Well, now listen to what I tell you. You see, we'll run a race across this long field. The hare will run along one furrow, and I will run along the other, from top to bottom. You have only one thing to do: stand here below on the furrow, and when the hare reaches the end of his furrow, you shout to him: “I’m already here!”
So they reached the field; The hedgehog showed his wife her place, and he himself walked up the field. When he arrived at the appointed place, the hare was already there. “Can we start?” - he asked. “Of course,” answered the hedgehog. And immediately everyone stood in his own furrow. The hare counted: “One, two, three!” - and they rushed down the field. But the hedgehog ran only three steps, then sat down in the furrow and sat calmly.
When the hare ran to the end of the field at full gallop, the hedgehog’s wife shouted to him: “I’m already here!” The hare paused and was quite surprised: he was sure that the hedgehog himself was shouting to him (it is already known that a hedgehog cannot be distinguished from a hedgehog by its appearance). The hare thought: “Something is wrong here!” - and shouted: “We’ll run back again!” And again he rushed off like a whirlwind, throwing his ears back. And the hedgehog’s wife calmly remained in place.
When the hare reached the top of the field, the hedgehog shouted to him: “I’m already here.” The hare, extremely annoyed, shouted: “Let's run back again!” “Perhaps,” answered the hedgehog. “For me, as much as you want!”
So the hare ran back and forth seventy-three times, and the hedgehog kept overtaking him; every time he ran to some end of the field, either the hedgehog or his wife shouted to him: “I’m already here!” The seventy-fourth time the hare couldn’t even run; He fell to the ground in the middle of the field, blood started pouring down his throat, and he could not move. And the hedgehog took the golden louis d'or he had won and a bottle of wine, called his wife, and both spouses, very pleased with each other, went home.
And if death has not yet befallen them, then they are probably still alive. That's how it happened, that the hedgehog overtook the hare, and from that time not a single hare dared to run head-to-head with the hedgehog.
And the lesson from this incident is this: firstly, no one, no matter how noble he considers himself, should make fun of someone who is lower than him, even if he is a simple hedgehog. And secondly, here the following advice is given to everyone: if you decide to get married, then take yourself a wife from your class and one who would be your equal in everything. This means that whoever was born a hedgehog must take a hedgehog as his wife. So that!
