Myths and Tales form Greece and Romania May 2012 | Page 127

But fox started to push the fish off the cart with her legs. The peasant was
prodding, the cart was squeaking on, and the fish was falling off the cart.
After she pushed off a lot of fish, she jumped out and hurried to gather the
fish off the road. After gathering it in a pile, she took it to her den and started eating
it, for she was sooooo veery hungry.
Hardly had she eaten anything when the bear came to visit her. Seeing the
feast, he asked for some fish, because he was starving. But she told him she
wouldn’t give him any. Instead, she sold him a story about how she had dipped her
tail in the pond and gotten all that fish.