Russian Fable
Krylov and his fables
Russian Literature – Children Books – Russian Poetry – Ivan. A. Krylov – Contents
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The Pike And The Cat
A CONCEITED Pike took it into its head to exercise the functions of a cat. I do not know whether the Evil One had plagued it with envy, or whether, perhaps, it had grown tired of fishy fare ; but, at all events, it thought fit to ask the Cat to take it out to the chase, with the intention of catching a few mice in the warehouse.
” But, my dear friend,” Vaska says to the Pike, ” do you understand that kind of work ? Take care, gossip, that you don’t incur disgrace. It isn’t without reason that they say, ‘The work ought to be in the master’s power.’ ”
” Why really, gossip, what a tremendous affair it is ! Mice, indeed ! Why, I have been in the habit of catching perches ! ”
” Oh, very’ well. Come along ! ”
They went ; they lay each in ambush. The Cat thoroughly enjoyed itself; made a hearty meal; then went to look after its comrade. Alas ! the Pike, almost destitute of life, lay there gasping, its tail nibbled away by the mice. So the Cat, seeing that its comrade had undertaken a task quite beyond its strength, dragged it back, half dead, to its pond.
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