Think #26 10 апреля 1999

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Tale - The Tale of a crocodile and a fish-lantern.

   Tale of the Crocodile and fish-LANTERN


                        Nahl Podolsky



   There once was a river crocodile. When he saw
something alive, whether fish or little animals, he would say, 
"eat you!" opened mouth and actually eat, and if he saw 
something inedible, I said "Um" and turned away. About the 
crocodile to swim fish and fish-stuck-sang. Fish-sticking is 
usually hung, stuck to armor of a crocodile at his left ear, 
and fish-sang was kept in the right ear of the crocodile and 
reported to him what was going around (I forgot to say that the 
crocodile was old and could not see). Both fish eat up

crumbs from the dinner of crocodile and thought
that settled in life is very bad.

   Happy crocodile crawled onto the sand and dozed under the 
hot sun, at night the same hunt. A hunt crocodiles here's how: 
In the evening, only the sun hidden behind the mountain and 
becomes dark, the crocodile in the river, beast watering hole 
dug in the mud, opens the mouth wide enough in advance and 
waits until someone not come to drink water. As soon as the 
unhappy zverushka have time to bow down to the river, the 
crocodile quickly says, "I shall eat" and slams fall, and this 
actually hunt ends. All the animals - and the zebra, and 
antelope, and monkeys, and even cunning prehitrye jackals

going to drink water, do not know can
Do they come back, and agree that such a life can not be called 
gay. 

   But once found a clever
monkey, which figured out how to get rid of the trouble. She 
persuaded her friends, and they arranged for a crocodile 
performance. 

   One morning, the crocodile swam to the shore and
kept going, it's time to get out to bask in the
sun or not it time, and suddenly the trees began to rush the 
monkey and screaming so loudly that even the crocodile could 
not hear them (and I forgot to say that the crocodile Not only 
was sighted, but also heard it does not matter). 

   - You have heard, heard what was being done? -
chirp with all his might monkey. - Did you hear what the 
neighbors crocodile in the river for mountain? Here there is a 
real crocodile, not that we have! He swam in the evening - so 
one feast for the eyes, left him three remora,

right three podpevaly, but ahead of the nose, the fish-lantern 
lit! 

   - Ay-ay-ay! - Podtyavkivali monkeys
jackals. - And our something, our alligator in the dark
live like a frog! Sorry, sorry for our
crocodile!

   - Oh, how we feel sorry for our crocodile! -
howled all the other animals.

   - Rent, - said offended the crocodile and
released from the eye of crocodile tears, so
he felt sorry for myself. Then he lightly
cracked mouth, again said, "I shall eat and squinted his left 
eye on the fish, remora, and Right - on the fish-podpevalu.


   Nothing to do, had to either fry
go look for fish-lantern. They
asked about it all - and eels at the bottom
dark whirlpool, and the behemoth that splashed and
sniffed at the shallows, and even black ibises, although small 
fish are not safe - ask questions about anything ibis. Finally,

they are completely knocked down (so to
talking about fish) and would not know what to do if from a 
branch above them did not hung the monkey.


   - Hey you, crocodiles, suckers! Fish-lantern lives in the 
sea at a depth that There's even a dark day. Float down the 
river, Let not get caught by fishermen in the net!


   The fish swam to the sea. They passed safely nets, after 
nearly ate the evil predatory moray eels, and when the water

around has become transparent and greenish, they
realized that fell into the sea.

   Range of coral trees grew and were huge sponge. Fish parrot 
chews corals, and our fish swam to one of them.


   - You do not know the fish-lantern? - Asked yes-man. - Do 
not bother - grumbled parrot fish, not even glancing at the 
fish, and so dolbanula beak on a branch of coral that

on all sides poured the crumbs. Fish
become their habit to pick, but the crumbs
were hard, salty and taste good.

   - I do not understand - wailed fish-sang - as you can live 
here! 

   Swam past a flock of silvery herring,
but they are in such a hurry that they could not catch up, and 
for herring with frightening speed swept swordfish. Then slowly 
floated rybaluna. She was obviously not in a hurry, and the 
fish decided to talk to her. 

   - Tell me where the fish live-lantern! Sunfish for a long 
time opening mouth, and finally said: - I do not know. - It's 
amazing - indignant fish-sang, - We in the river all know each 
other, but here anyone before the rest do not care. We even

If anyone who eats and, it is still coming out as a soul, at 
home, and here You can drive you mad, what all the heartless!


   Fish down deeper, the water was
dark green, and fish all around did not exist,
and suddenly they saw a very beautiful fish,
that slowly swam towards them and all
glowed like a lantern.

   - Say, you're not a fish-lantern! - Asked the fish-sang. - 
Yes - answer a fish - how do you know me? - Oh, we're 
everywhere only about you and heard! Oh, how beautiful you are, 
how wonderful shine! - Sang rybkapodpevala and fish-stuck here 
also tried to cling to the fish-lantern. 

   - Oh, how tickled, - said the fish-lantern - please do not 
do it. 

   - Oh you speak so much - has continued to sing 
rybkapodpevala - even the crocodile said: I'd like to look at 
this Flashlight!


   - And who he is, the crocodile?

   - Incredible! She does not know a crocodile!
He was in the river is the main, and generally the most
chief.

   - In the river?

   - What is a river?

   - Oh, poor thing! How do I feel sorry for you! Live
here in this bottomless hole, and do not know
Who is the crocodile, and that such a river! Floated soon with 
us, I will not survive if you stay here in the dark!


   And three of them swam to the river, and in the evening, 
after working pretty fins and tails, got to the crocodile. 
Fish-sticking immediately attached myself to a crocodile armor 
the left ear, and fish-sang won its place at the right ear 
crocodile. He also became a peer and to sniff

Fish-lantern.

   - I shall eat! - Said the crocodile, and snapped his jaws. 
Rybkufonarik drifted in water 1 side like a ball.


   - Hmm? - Surprised crocodile. - His Excellency the crocodile 
asked why The light, - explained the fish-sang.


   - I do not know - laughing fish-lantern, I've always 
gleamed. Perhaps, so cheerfully. - She said - screamed fish-sang

crocodile in the ear - that is lit for the amusement of your 
excellency! - Um, um, - Said the crocodile. - His Excellency 
takes you to the service - announced Goldfish sang. - What 
should I do? 

   - Every night the lights under the nose of his
Excellencies,

   - But I'll be there? Because I live
in the sea and feed on plankton.

   - Every day, from dawn to dusk,
You'll get a vacation and be able to swim to feed their 
plankton. 

   - I have not the strength each day
far to swim.

   - Ashamed! - Troubled fish-sang.

   - Do you want to upset this
His Excellency the venerable crocodile?

   - Okay, I'll try, - has agreed to
Fish-lantern. From that day, every night.

  alligator floated triumphantly on the hunt.
Wet his armor gleamed brightly, with the tail
was boiling water on his left rybkaprilipala floated to the 
right - the fish echoes, and in front of the fish-beamed 
flashlight. 

   - Our crocodile floats on the hunt! - Gleefully shouted 
animals along the banks. - Look! Look! What a beautiful sight! 
Our crocodile is the most important, the most important of 
crocodiles! Look! Look! - And scream enough, the animals fled 
to drink water away from the crocodile.


   The first two days of the crocodile was happy
the fact that he was now more important than the crocodile from
nearby river, but then things got worse.
Because of the fish-lantern, no animal is not caught in the 
teeth of a crocodile, so it is through several days of hunger 
became furious-prezlyuschim, and even tried to eat frogs. 
Stuck, and sang very emaciated and became too 
zlyuschimiprezlyuschimi. But heavier all probably lived 
rybkefonariku. Every morning she went to the sea, and hardly 
sailed home from the office and not having time to eat 
properly, was to sail again service. Of this life, it also 
emaciated, and every day is dimly. But all

animals in the forest were happy-predovolny.

   Soon the fish-sang decided it was time
act.

   - I am in despair - she squealed in his ear
crocodile - that because of this useless
floating lantern excellency
may starve to death! Is not it time you
eat it?

   - I shall eat! - Angrily said the crocodile and
clanged jaws. Stuck and sang
terribly happy: as soon sail
Fish-lantern, its crocodile eats one-hour,
and they begin again well-fed life. So would
it happened, if the conversation sang along with the crocodile 
did not overhear the monkey. 

   When the fish swam in the evening, a flashlight, and
crocodile was trying on, as if it comfortably eat on the shore 
up a terrible hullabaloo. 

   - Have you heard? Heard the news? At a neighbor's crocodile 
for five and stuck five sang, and three rybkifonarika!

That's because they have crocodile crocodile! And our
so krokodilishka! Sorry, sorry for our
krokodilishku!

   - GM - said the crocodile and released from
both eyes by a huge crocodile tears.

   On this night, crocodile hunting as usual, that is, with a 
fish-lantern, and again stay hungry. And when he turned away,

to swallow the unwary frog
yes-man hissed at the fish-lantern:

   - You, luminescent parshivka, what do you - want me to His 
Excellency podohlo from hunger? But who you rotten sea,

called here, in our river? Moving fins
here, but as soon as possible, while His Excellency, you are 
not biting! 

   - Well, I still rude - insulted
Fish-lantern. - Good-bye, I do not need any
you nor your river, or your crocodile!

   And she swam to the sea. But at the turn of the river, the 
shallow water, waiting for her animals. 

   - Do not leave us, the fish-lantern -
they asked. - Without you, we all devour
crocodile - Due antelope and zebra. A
Mom and Dad-monkeys-the webmaster
fish to their young and lamented:

   - Can you afford to let them eat
crocodile?

   - Okay, I'll be back, "said the sad-lantern fish - but I do 
not know what this succeed. She had no strength to swim

to sea and back, and she went straight to the crocodile.

   - How things are bad - I think the way a fish
- Crocodile or eat me or myself
perish from hunger, and still no one
I can help, because I'm just a little
Fish.

   Here I must say that the situation
really happened hazards,
sense that this tale can leave a sad end. But we should not 
forget that even the bad stories sometimes end well.


   Sailed up the crocodile, the fish-lantern she saw that he 
eats with great appetite juicy green algae and not paying any 
attention to the monkeys, who gathered to look at the amazing 
sight. At the fish-lantern crocodile did not even look.


   A few days later alligator so priohotilsya to algae, which 
in the river was by the thousand, I lost all interest in 
animals. Of plant food, he put on weight, and when sailing on 
the river, away dispersed wave, as if from the steamer. AND

animals on the shores of shouting:

   - Look, look how beautiful swimming crocodile! Our crocodile 
is the most important, the wisest of the crocodiles!


   A fish-lantern waved goodbye to all their shining fins and 
swam in the sea. There she ate plenty of plankton glowing in 
the pleasure and never hired to serve.


   As for the fish-and remora fish
podpevaly, then their destiny I'm interested in
did not - it's something they never lost.



   PREDICANT SONG OF THE OLD MONKEY

                         Little grandson:

   If suddenly a crocodile

   You invited to visit,

   Cheese it, but it can not escape trouble.

   Even if the crocodile

   A good fellow to be decided

   Anyway stay away from water!


   If suddenly a crocodile

   Restructure agreed

   He did not have to be jaws.

   Those same teeth, same power,

   Just loves to eat, he had a good -

   Try him in the belly does not get!


   Friendship with him Vod

   And the service does not go -

   He will devour you as a reward for their labors.

   Even if the crocodile

   Herbivore be decided

   Anyway stay away from water.