More Russian Picture Tales

TRANSLATED BY NEVILL FORBES NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1914, 1920, by Frederick A. Stokes Company All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America

He tried to swallow it, and choked himself. He choked himself and stretched himself out, and there he lay, and couldn't even breathe.
A cock was scratching one day in the earth under the wall of a cottage when he found a bean.

And his mistress saw him, ran up to him, and asked: “Mr. Cock, what makes you lie there like that, so that you can't breathe?”
“I've choked myself with a bean,” he answered. “Go and ask the cow for some butter.”

And his mistress came to the cow and said: “Mrs. Cow, give me some butter! My cock is lying there and can't even breathe, he has choked himself with a bean.”
And the cow answered: “Go and ask the hay-makers for some hay.”
And she came to the hay-makers and said: “Hay-makers, give me some hay! The hay's for the cow who will give me some butter, and the butter's for my cock who is lying there and can't breathe, he's choked himself with a bean.” And the hay-makers answered: “Go and ask the oven to give you some loaves.”