Rile-Yepurile and golden-winged beetle Print

Rile-Yepurile and golden-winged beetle. Romanian folk tale The sun warmed every day more and more. The snow has melted. Silver streams hummed funny songs, nimbly running through the forest. Suddenly a blade of grass reached for the sun, followed by another, very thin, and another, and yet - there were more and more of them. A snowdrop appeared. When the breeze blew, the flower joyfully shook its head. Then, many more flowers grew near the snowdrop. Spring came. The little bunny Yepurile looked with admiration at the flowers and thought: “Ege, the wintry winter has gone, ... gone!” - and nodded his head joyfully. Yepurile was amused and, boastfully humming, jumped in a clearing: I am Rile-Yepurile Who is equal in strength to me? I’m not afraid of any enemy Get out on the battle! The Little Bug, who was quietly sitting on a flower, called to him: - Yepurile! Yepurile! How are you? “Who's calling me?” Yepurile looked to the right, looked to the left, looked forward, looked back, but did not see anyone. - Here am I! Here! On the flower! - buzzed buzz. “So you call me, baby?” Yepurile asked, looking at the Bug, whose wings shone like gold. “What do you want?” - Let's be friends! I am a bug with golden wings. Do you want to play together? And they began to play hide and seek. And Rile-Yepurile sang everything: I am Rile-Iepurile Who is equal in strength to me? I’m not afraid of any enemy Get out on the battle! His song reached the Bear's den. The bear woke up. Stretching sleepily, he emerged from the den in which he slept all winter, and then he saw Yepurile. The bear was old, big, very big. He was hungry and clicked his teeth. - Pestilence ... I’m an old Bear. I slept all winter and now I’m hungry ... I’ll eat you, Yepurile! - And the Bear licked .- Mop-pestilence. Wow, how hungry I am! No matter how brave Yepurile was, his heart sank into a lump and pounded fast and fast. “What should I do? What should I do?” He thought. “Now he will seize me!” And the Bear grabbed his ears, lifted him up above the ground and looked at him contentedly. - Very tasty hare! Pestilence ... But suddenly Yepurile heard a buzzing sound. It was a bug with golden wings, who saw that Yepurile was in trouble. The bug boldly flew up to the Bear. And ... what would you think? At first he began to walk around the nose of the Bear, and then he began to tickle his ear. - Pestilence ...- grumbled the Bear, angry at the Bug .- Leave me alone! - Byz-byz! - Bug buzzed louder. "Well, wait, I'll show you!" thought the Bear. Having completely forgotten about Yepuril, he released him, raised his paw and hit himself in the ear. - So I caught you, Bug! The Bear struck with all his might, even in his ears rang. But the Bug flew away a long time ago and now in a hurry, together with Yepurile, to escape from the Bear. Buzz, top-top! - two friends ran. - Byzz, top-top! .. When the Bear came to his senses, Yepurile and the Bug with the golden wings already ran far away. The bear never caught up with them. And friends began to play again. They played until the evening rejoicing that they had escaped from the terrible Bear.