Once upon a time there was a cunning and tricky fox. She was looking all night for something to eat, but she wasn’t lucky enough to find a single thing. When the light of the day came, being very tired of his unlucky search ,she got some rest in the  tall grass, trying to find a way to get some food.

Laying on the ground, suddenly she felt some nice smell of food, something like fish .

Looking around,she saw a cart coming. What do you think she thought ? She thought that it would be better to lay in the middle of the road and see what will happen next! When the peasant who,slowly drove the cart approached and saw the fox, he stopped the bulls and congratulated himself on being so  lucky to find a dead fox in the middle of the road, because now he would be able to offer a nice coat to his wife!

The man threw the fox in the cart over the fish and continued his way back home. Being hungry, the fox started throwing the fish down from the cart ,on the road. When the fox considered that it was enough fish to have a good provision, she jumped down from the cart to take all the fish. Then she took all the fish into her earth and had a delicious meal.

While she was eating the fish, a bear just passed near his earth and asked :

"What are you eating there?! Wow! Fish!!! Yummy…and you have a lot! Please , give me some, please ,I am so hungry too!"

The greedy fox answered then:

"Don’t you even think about it, bear!  I took a big risk to get this fish and I don't take risks for anybody but myself,  If you are so hungry ,go to the pond and try to catch with your tail as many fish as you want!’’

The naïve bear listened to this piece of advice and asked the fox to teach him how to do it.That was all the fox was waiting for!

"You go in the evening to the pond , in the woods ,and you put your tail into the water and  wait until the day comes. Then you give a pull on it and see how many fish you got!"

Very happy and confident, the bear went in the woods to the pond and put his tail in the cold water. It was a very cold night and the wind was blowing even colder.The water froze over and caught the bear’s tail in ice.

After a few hours of waiting, the poor bear was almost frozen and tried to pull his tail out from the cold water.

Poor bear!, instead of fish, he lost his tail! Screaming in pain, the bear went to catch the fox to get his revenge but, the tricky fox was hiding in the hollow of a tree and started laughing at the naïve bear.

‘Hey, bear! You wanted to catch all the fish from the pond and the fish ate your tail!!"

Angry, the bear found a branch and started searching the fox in the hole. The fox cried then:

’Stop pushing so hard, ’cause you are breaking my legs, was pretending the tricky fox!"

In vain the poor bear tried to pull out the fox from the hole, and, tired and angry, he abandoned the idea…