Месть Нгиди
The Honeyguide's revenge
A greedy young man takes a honeyguide bird's honey and leaves it nothing, so the bird leads him next time to a sleeping leopard. A Zulu folktale, the longest after Simbegwire.
The opening
Он остановился и внимательно прислушался, выискивая птицу в ветках над головой. "Чирик-чирик-чирик," пела птица, перелетая с дерева на дерево. "Чирик-чирик-чирик," звал Нгиде и останавливался время от времени, чтобы убедиться, что Гингиле шёл за ним.
He stopped and listened carefully, searching until he saw the bird in the branches above his head. "Chitik-chitik-chitik," the little bird rattled, as he flew to the next tree, and the next. "Chitik, chitik, chitik," he called, stopping from time to time to be sure that Gingile followed.
Через полчаса они подошли к большому дикому инжировому дереву.
After half an hour, they reached a huge wild fig tree.
Translation
- The Honeyguide's revengeStorybooks Canada, Global StorybooksThe English retelling the Russian was translated from.CC BY 3.0
551 words, about 4 minutes of reading.
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