THE WOLF’S NOBLE PEDIGREE

VILKO BAJORYSTE

Vilkas gyresi jog jisai kiles iš bajorų, o šuo jį vis vadina mužiku….

English Translation by GLORIA O’BRIEN

The wolf always boasted that he was descended from nobility, but the dog kept calling him a peasant.

One day, the wolf brought documents to prove that he was not a peasant, and told the dog to read them.

The dog, being uneducated, brought the papers to the cat.

The cat had no time at the moment for reading, and put them down on the cabinet.

The documents were greasy, and the mice found them, and gnawed them into shreds.

The wolf came back to the dog and demanded the return of his documents. The dog went back to the cat. The cat, leaping up to the cabinet, caught the mice in the act, tearing up the papers.

The cat ran after the mice, the dog ran after the cat, and the wolf followed the dog, always demanding the return of his pedigree documents. Even until this day, the cat will chase a mouse, and catching it, will eat it, and the dog is angry with the cat. Whenever the dog sees a cat, he will chase it, and the cat, being chased, will run and run, always looking for the wolf’s documents.

Source:

From “Lietuvių Liaudės Pasakos”

Audiocasette produced by UAB “Plokštelės”

This article was printed in Bridges Jan 2008

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