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One day the hare did something wrong to the wolf. He ran, you see,
not far from the wolf’s lair, and the wolf saw him and shouted: “Zainka! stop, honey! But the hare not only did not stop, but even accelerated his pace. So the wolf caught him in three leaps, and said: “Because you didn’t stop at my first word, here’s my decision for you: I sentence you to be deprived of your belly by being torn to pieces. And since now I’m full, and my wolf is full, and we have enough reserves for another five days, then sit under this bush and wait in line. Or maybe... ha-ha... I’ll have mercy on you!”

The hare sits on its hind legs under a bush and does not move. He thinks about only one thing: “In so many days and hours, death must come.” He will look in the direction where the wolf’s lair is located, and from there the luminous wolf’s eye looks at him. And another time it’s even worse: a wolf and a she-wolf will come out and start walking past him in the clearing. They will look at him, and the wolf will say something to the wolf, and both will burst into tears: “Ha-ha!” And the wolf cubs will immediately follow them; playfully, they will run up to him, caress him, chatter their teeth... And his, the hare’s, heart will just skip a beat! He had never loved life as much as he did now. He was a thoughtful hare, he looked for a daughter from a widow, a hare, and wanted to get married. It was to her, to his bride, that he ran at that moment when the wolf grabbed him by the collar. Waiting for tea, his now bride thinks: “He cheated on me with his scythe!” Or maybe she waited and waited, and with someone else... she fell in love... Or maybe it was like this: she was playing, poor thing, in the bushes, and then a wolf... and gobbled her up!..

The poor guy thinks this and chokes on his tears. Here they are, bunny dreams! He planned to get married, bought a samovar, dreamed of drinking tea and sugar with a young hare, and instead of everything - where did he end up! How many hours, I mean, are there left until death?
And so he sits one night and dozes. He dreams that the wolf has made him an official on special assignments, and while he is running around on audits, he is visiting his hare... Suddenly he hears as if someone had pushed him in the side. He looks around and it’s his fiancée’s brother.

“Your bride is dying,” he says. “I heard what trouble had befallen you, and suddenly withered away.” Now he thinks only about one thing: “Am I really going to die without saying goodbye to my beloved!”

The condemned man listened to these words, and his heart was torn to pieces. For what? what did he do to deserve his bitter fate? He lived openly, did not start revolutions, did not go out with weapons in his hands, ran according to his needs - is this really what death is for? Death! Think about it, what a word! And it’s not just him who will die, but also her, the little gray bunny, whose only fault is that she loved him, the crooked one, with all her heart! So he would fly to her, take her, a little gray bunny, by the ears with his front paws, and would still be kind to her and stroke her head.

- Let's run! - the messenger was saying meanwhile.

Hearing this word, the condemned man seemed to be transformed for a moment. He completely gathered himself into a ball and laid his ears on his back. Just about to hide - and the trace is gone. He shouldn’t have looked at the wolf’s den at that moment, but he did. And the hare's heart began to sink.

“I can’t,” he says, “the wolf didn’t order.”

Meanwhile, the wolf sees and hears everything, and quietly whispers to the wolf: the hare must be praised for his nobility.

- Let's run! - the messenger says again.

- I can not! - repeats the convict.

– What are you whispering there, plotting? - how a wolf suddenly barks.

Both hares died. The messenger has also been caught!

The Selfless Hare Read the Tale of Saltykov-Shchedrin

One day the hare did something wrong to the wolf. He was running, you see, not far from the wolf’s den, and the wolf saw him and shouted: “Bunny! Stop, dear!” But the hare not only did not stop, but even accelerated his pace. So the wolf caught him in three leaps, and said: “Because you didn’t stop at my first word, here’s my decision for you: I sentence you to deprivation of your belly by being torn to pieces. And since now I’m full, and my wolf "If you're full, and we have enough reserves for another five days, then sit under this bush and wait in line. Or maybe... ha-ha... I'll have mercy on you!"

He had never loved life as much as he did now. He was a thoughtful hare, he looked for a daughter from a widow, a hare, and wanted to get married. It was to her, to his bride, that he ran at that moment when the wolf grabbed him by the collar. Waiting for tea, his now fiancée, thinking: “He cheated on me with his scythe!” Or maybe she waited and waited, and with someone else... she fell in love... Or maybe it was like this: she was playing, poor thing, in the bushes, and then a wolf... and gobbled her up!...

The poor guy thinks this and chokes on his tears. Here they are, a hare's dreams! He planned to get married, bought a samovar, dreamed of drinking tea and sugar with a young hare, and instead of everything - where did he end up! How many, I mean, hours are left until death?

And so he sits one night and dozes. He dreams that the wolf has made him an official on special assignments, and while he is running around on audits, he is visiting his hare... Suddenly he hears as if someone had pushed him in the side. He looks around and it’s his fiancée’s brother.

The condemned man listened to these words, and his heart was torn to pieces. For what? what did he do to deserve his bitter fate? He lived openly, did not start revolutions, did not go out with weapons in his hands, ran according to his needs - is this really death for this? Death! Think about it, what a word! And it’s not just him who will die, but also her, the little gray bunny, whose only fault is that she loved him, the crooked one, with all her heart! So he would fly to her, take her, a little gray bunny, by the ears with his front paws, and would still be kind to her and stroke her head.

Let's run! - the messenger was saying meanwhile. Hearing this word, the condemned man seemed to be transformed for a moment. He completely gathered himself into a ball and laid his ears on his back. Just about to hide - and the trace is gone. He shouldn’t have looked at the wolf’s den at that moment, but he did. And the hare's heart began to sink.

“I can’t,” he says, “the wolf didn’t tell me.”

Meanwhile, the wolf sees and hears everything, and quietly whispers with the wolf like a wolf: the hare must be praised for his nobility.

Let's run! - the messenger says again.

I can not! - repeats the condemned man,

What are you whispering and plotting there? - how a wolf suddenly barks.

Both hares died. The messenger has also been caught! Convincing the guards to escape - what, I mean, is the penalty for this according to the rules? Oh, to be a gray bunny without a groom and without a brother - the wolf and the wolf will eat both of them!

The obliques came to their senses - and in front of them both the wolf and the she-wolf were chattering their teeth, and in the darkness of the night both of their eyes were glowing like lanterns.

We, your honor, nothing... so, between ourselves... a fellow countryman came to visit me! - the condemned man babbles, and he himself dies of fear.

That's "nothing"! I know you! Don't put your finger in your mouth either! Tell me, what's the matter?

“So and so, your honor,” the fiancée’s brother interceded here, “my sister, and his fiancée is dying, so she asks, is it possible to let him say goodbye to her?”

Hm... it’s good that the bride loves the groom,” says the wolf. - This means that they will have a lot of hares, and there will be more food for the wolves. The wolf and I love each other, and we have a lot of wolf cubs. How many of them go by their own free will, and four of them still live with us. Wolf, oh wolf! should I let the groom go and say goodbye to the bride?

But it’s scheduled for the day after tomorrow...

I, your honor, will come running... I’ll turn around in an instant... I have this... that’s how holy I’ll come running! - the condemned man hurried, and so that the wolf had no doubt that he could turn around in an instant, he suddenly pretended to be such a fine fellow that the wolf himself fell in love with him and thought: “If only I had soldiers like that!”

And the wolf became sad and said:

Here you go! the hare loves his hare so much!

There is nothing to be done, the wolf agreed to let the oblique go on leave, but so that he would turn around just in time. And his fiancée kept his brother as an amanat.

“If you don’t come back in two days by six o’clock in the morning,” he said, “I’ll eat it instead of you; and if you come back, I’ll eat them both, and maybe... ha-ha... and have mercy!

The scythe shot out like an arrow from a bow. He runs, the earth trembles. If he encounters a mountain on the way, he will take it with a bang; the river - he doesn’t even look for a ford, he just swims and scratches; swamp - he jumps from the fifth bump to the tenth. Is it a joke? I need to get to the distant kingdom in time, go to the bathhouse, get married (“I’ll definitely get married!” he repeated to himself every minute), and back so that he can get to the wolf for breakfast...

Even the birds were surprised at his speed - they said: “In the Moskovskie Vedomosti they write that hares have not a soul, but steam - and look how... he runs away!”

Finally came running. How much joy there was here - this cannot be said in a fairy tale, nor can it be described with a pen. The little gray bunny, as soon as she saw her beloved, forgot about the illness. She stood on her hind legs, put a drum on herself, and, well, beat out the “cavalry trot” with her paws - she prepared a surprise for the groom! And the widow-hare just got involved completely: she doesn’t know where to seat her betrothed son-in-law, what to feed. Aunties came running from all sides, godmothers, and sisters - everyone was flattered to look at the groom, and maybe even taste a tasty morsel at a party.

One groom seems to be out of his mind. Before he had time to make amends with the bride, he already stated:

I wish I could go to the bathhouse and get married as soon as possible!

What pain was needed in a hurry? - the mother hare makes fun of him.

We need to run back. The wolf let go only for one day.

He told here how and what. He talks, and he bursts into bitter tears. And he doesn’t want to go back, and he can’t help but go back. You see, he gave his word, but the hare is master of his word. The aunts and sisters judged here - and they unanimously said: “You said the truth, oblique: if you don’t give a word, be strong, and if you give, hold on! Never in all our hare family has it happened that hares deceive!”

Soon the fairy tale will be told, and the matter between the hares will be done even faster. By morning the oblique man had been wounded, and before evening he was saying goodbye to his young wife.

The wolf will certainly eat me,” he said, “so be faithful to me.” And if you have children, then raise them strictly. The best thing is to send them to the circus: there they will not only be taught how to beat a drum, but also how to shoot peas into a cannon,

And suddenly, as if in oblivion (again, therefore, he remembered about the wolf), he added:

Or maybe the wolf... ha ha... will have mercy on me!

They only saw him.

Meanwhile, while the scythe was chewing and celebrating the wedding, in the space that separated the distant kingdom from the wolf’s lair, great troubles happened. In one place the rains poured, so that the river, which the hare had jokingly swam across a day earlier, swelled and overflowed ten miles. In another place, King Andron declared war on King Nikita, and on the very hare’s path the battle was in full swing. In the third place, cholera appeared - it was necessary to go around the whole quarantine chain for a hundred miles... And besides, wolves, foxes, owls - they were guarding at every step.

He was smart with a scythe; He had calculated in advance that he would have three hours left, but as obstacles came one after another, his heart grew cold. He runs in the evening, runs at midnight; His legs are cut by stones, his fur hangs in tufts on his sides from the thorny branches, his eyes are clouded, bloody foam is oozing from his mouth, and he still has a long way to go! And yet his friend Amanat seems to him as if alive. Now he stands guard by the wolf and thinks: “In so many hours, my dear son-in-law will come running to the rescue!” He will remember this and let it go even more violently. Neither mountains, nor valleys, nor forests, nor swamps - he doesn’t care about everything! How many times his heart wanted to burst, he took power over his heart so that fruitless worries would not distract him from the main goal. There is no time for grief now, no time for tears; let all feelings be silent, just to snatch a friend from the wolf’s mouth!

Now the day has begun to study. Owls, owls, and bats came to roost for the night; there was a chill in the air. And suddenly everything around became quiet, as if dead. And the scythe keeps running and keeps thinking: “Can’t I really help my friend out!”

The east turned red; At first, on the distant horizon, fire splashed lightly onto the clouds, then more and more, and suddenly - flame! The dew on the grass caught fire; the birds of the day woke up, ants, worms, and boogers crawled; there was smoke coming from somewhere; in the rye and oats it was as if a whisper was going on, more audibly, more audibly... But the scythe does not see anything, does not hear, only one thing repeats: “I have destroyed my friend, I have destroyed!”

But here, finally, is the mountain. Behind this mountain is a swamp and in it is a wolf's lair... I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!

He strains his last strength to jump to the top of the mountain... jumped up! But he can no longer run, he falls from exhaustion... will he really never make it?

The wolf's lair is in front of him as if on a silver platter. Somewhere in the distance, in a bell tower, six o'clock is striking, and each strike of the bell strikes like a hammer into the heart of the tormented beast. With the last blow, the wolf rose from the lair, stretched and waved its tail with pleasure. So he approached the amanat, grabbed it in his paws and plunged his claws into the stomach to tear it into two halves: one for himself, the other for the wolf. And the wolf cubs are here; They settled around their father and mother, clicking their teeth, studying.

Here am I! Here! - the scythe shouted, like a hundred thousand hares together. And he rolled head over heels down the mountain into the swamp.

And the wolf praised him.

“I see,” he said, “that you can trust hares.” And here is my resolution for you: sit, for the time being, both under this bush, and later I will... ha ha... have mercy on you!

The fairy tale is based on a revolutionary idea, which ridicules ordinary people who put their personal well-being above all else. What does the summary say? “The Selfless Hare” is a tale about enslavers with the habits of predators and about their victims, blind in their submission. The selfless hare obsequiously gives himself up to be torn to pieces by the wolf. So Saltykov-Shchedrin ridicules the “well-intentioned” intelligentsia, which, having abandoned active methods of struggle, hopes for a peaceful agreement with the autocracy, where the “hare” is the main character and not a noble idealist, relying on the kindness of the insidious predators “wolves”.

Saltykov - Shchedrin: “Selfless Hare”, summary

Once a hare was guilty of a wolf because he ran past the wolf's lair. The wolf shouted at him and forced him to stop, but he did not listen and, with all his strength, ran even faster. But the predator caught him in three leaps and sentenced him to death by tearing his belly apart. However, since he and the wolf and the cubs were full, and they still had some supplies, the wolf decided to postpone the meal for five days. He ordered the hare to sit in the bushes and wait for his turn to come, and if he behaves quietly, he can have mercy on him (after such words the wolf grinned).

A brief summary tells only a little about these events. “Selfless Hare” further tells how the poor hare sits in the bushes, fear is present in his soul like never before, and life becomes more and more expensive.

Bride

But the plot of the fairy tale “The Selfless Hare” did not end there. The summary tells how he ran to his bride, whom he spotted from a hare widow, and then the wolf grabbed him by the collar. The hare thought that now she was sitting and thinking that, probably, her fiancé had cheated on her, since he did not come, or maybe she had found another scythe, or even worse - the wolf had devoured her.

He thinks about all this, and he bursts into tears from grief. He had his own hare dreams, he wanted to marry a young hare and even bought a samovar so that he could drink tea with sugar with her in the evenings, but instead... At this point the hare dozed off, and he saw a most unpleasant dream that the wolf made him important official, and he began to visit his hare. And suddenly someone pushed the poor hare hard in the side, he jumped off and saw the bride’s brother next to him, who told him that his bride was dying of melancholy, completely weakened, and only dreamed of saying goodbye to her groom before her death.

"Earth"

The summary describes further events in a very interesting way. “The selfless hare” in the plot reveals the honest and humble heart of the hare, which was literally torn to pieces. He thought about how he could have deserved such a fate, because he lived openly, did not want revolutions, did not hold a weapon in his hands, and now, on you - now death for him could come at any moment. Death - what a word! And he himself will die, and his little bunny will die because she loved him with all her heart. How he could caress and kiss her now...

Suddenly his relative suggested that he run away. But he did not want to disobey the wolf’s orders. Meanwhile, the wolf and she-wolf hear this whole conversation and are touched by the loyalty and nobility of the hare. The wolf thought: “If only I had such soldiers...”. Well, the wolf admired the hare’s love for his hare.

Wedding

In general, the wolf pardoned him for this, allowed him to visit his bride, and gave him two days to say goodbye, but kept his relative as a pledge. And he promised that if he did everything, then the countrywoman would let him go, and she would eat him or have mercy on both; at these words, the wolf again grinned slyly.

When the little bunny came running to his family, there was no limit to joy. The bride immediately forgot about the illness, there was a house full of relatives, they didn’t know where to put her son-in-law, but he was neither alive nor dead. He told them his story about how he urgently needed to go back. His aunts and sisters sympathized with him, but told him to keep his word, because in their family the hares never deceive.

Execute or pardon

And now, the summary is coming to an end. “The Selfless Hare” describes how the wedding was played. In the morning, after saying goodbye to his young wife and giving her instructions on raising children in case he was eaten, he set off on his way.

But it was as if all nature was against him, and therefore all sorts of disasters interfered with his journey, so he was almost late. Having barely reached the place, he rushed down the hill head over heels towards the wolf, who was about to tear apart the belly of his fellow countryman. The wolf was happy, praised him and said that hares can be trusted. And he decided that they both would sit under the bush for the time being, and then, maybe, he would have mercy on them. And then he laughed cheerfully and playfully.

This is how the great writer Saltykov finished his work. “The Selfless Hare” ends its summary with an ellipsis, because this is not just a fairy tale, but a whole philosophy, and sometimes, just think, it becomes unclear what is better for a person - submission or irreconcilable struggle?

One day the hare did something wrong to the wolf. He was running, you see, not far from the wolf’s den, and the wolf saw him and shouted: “Bunny! stop, honey! But the hare not only did not stop, but even accelerated his pace. So the wolf caught him in three leaps, and said: “Because you didn’t stop at my first word, here’s my decision for you: I sentence you to be deprived of your belly by being torn to pieces. And since now I’m full, and my wolf is full, and we have enough reserves for another five days, then sit under this bush and wait in line. Or maybe... ha ha... I’ll have mercy on you!”

He had never loved life as much as he did now. He was a thoughtful hare, he looked for a daughter from a widow, a hare, and wanted to get married. It was to her, to his bride, that he ran at that moment when the wolf grabbed him by the collar. Waiting for tea, his now bride thinks: “He cheated on me with his scythe!” Or maybe she waited and waited, and then fell in love with someone else... Or maybe it was like this: she was playing, poor thing, in the bushes, and then a wolf... and gobbled her up!..

The condemned man listened to these words, and his heart was torn to pieces. For what? what did he do to deserve his bitter fate? He lived openly, did not start revolutions, did not go out with a weapon in his hands, ran according to his needs - is this really death for this? Death! Think about it, what a word! And it’s not just him who will die, but also her, the little gray bunny, whose only fault is that she loved him, the crooked one, with all her heart! So he would fly to her, take her, a little gray bunny, by the ears with his front paws, and would still be kind to her and stroke her head.

- Let's run! - the messenger was saying meanwhile. Hearing this word, the condemned man seemed to be transformed for a moment. He completely gathered himself into a ball and laid his ears on his back. Just about to hide - and the trace is gone. He shouldn’t have looked at the wolf’s den at that moment, but he did. And the hare's heart began to sink.

“I can’t,” he says, “the wolf didn’t order.”

Meanwhile, the wolf sees and hears everything, and quietly whispers with the wolf like a wolf: the hare must be praised for his nobility.

- Let's run! - the messenger says again.

- I can not! - repeats the condemned man,

- What are you whispering there, plotting? - how a wolf suddenly barks.

Both hares died. The messenger has also been caught! Conspiracy of the guards to escape - what, I mean, is the punishment for this according to the rules? Oh, to be a gray bunny without a groom and without a brother - the wolf and the wolf will eat both of them!

The obliques came to their senses - and in front of them both the wolf and the she-wolf were chattering their teeth, and in the darkness of the night both of their eyes were glowing like lanterns.

- We, your honor, nothing... so, between ourselves... a fellow countryman came to visit me! - the condemned man babbles, and he himself is dying of fear.

- That’s “nothing”! I know you! Don't put your finger in your mouth either! Tell me, what's the matter?

“So and so, your honor,” the fiancée’s brother interceded here, “my sister, and his fiancée is dying, so she asks, is it possible to let him say goodbye to her?”

“Hm... it’s good that the bride loves the groom,” says the wolf. “This means that they will have a lot of hares and more food for the wolves.” The wolf and I love each other, and we have a lot of wolf cubs. How many of them go by their own free will, and four of them still live with us. Wolf, oh wolf! should I let the groom go and say goodbye to the bride?

- But it’s scheduled for the day after tomorrow...

“I, your honor, will come running... I’ll turn around in an instant... I have this... that’s how holy I’ll come running!” - the condemned man hurried, and so that the wolf had no doubt that he could turn around in an instant, he suddenly pretended to be such a fine fellow that the wolf himself fell in love with him and thought: “If only I had soldiers like that!”

And the wolf became sad and said:

- Here you go! the hare loves his hare so much!

There is nothing to be done, the wolf agreed to let the oblique go on leave, but so that he would turn around just in time. And his fiancée kept his brother as an amanat.

“If you don’t come back in two days by six o’clock in the morning,” he said, “I’ll eat it instead of you; and if you come back, I’ll eat them both, and maybe... ha-ha... and have mercy!

Even the birds were surprised at his speed - they said: “In the Moskovskie Vedomosti they write that hares have not a soul, but steam - and how... he runs away!”

One groom seems to be out of his mind. Before he had time to make amends with the bride, he already stated:

“I wish I could go to the bathhouse and get married as soon as possible!”

- What was the need for such a hurry? - the mother hare makes fun of him.

- We need to run back. The wolf let go only for one day.

He told here how and what. He talks, and he bursts into bitter tears. And he doesn’t want to go back, and he can’t help but go back. You see, he gave his word, but the hare is master of his word. The aunts and sisters judged here - and they unanimously said: “You, scythe, said the truth: if you don’t give a word, be strong, and if you give, hold on! Never in our entire hare family has it happened that hares deceive!”

Soon the fairy tale will be told, and the matter between the hares will be done even faster. By morning the oblique man had been wounded, and before evening he was saying goodbye to his young wife.

“The wolf will certainly eat me,” he said, “so be faithful to me.” And if you have children, then raise them strictly. The best thing is to send them to the circus: there they will not only be taught how to beat a drum, but also how to shoot peas into a cannon,

And suddenly, as if in oblivion (again, therefore, he remembered about the wolf), he added:

- Or maybe the wolf... ha ha... will have mercy on me!

They only saw him.

Meanwhile, while the scythe was chewing and celebrating the wedding, in the space that separated the distant kingdom from the wolf’s lair, great troubles happened. In one place the rains poured, so that the river, which the hare had jokingly swam across a day earlier, swelled and overflowed ten miles. In another place, King Andron declared war on King Nikita, and on the very hare’s path the battle was in full swing. In the third place, cholera appeared - it was necessary to go around the whole quarantine chain a hundred miles... And besides, wolves, foxes, owls - they were guarding at every step.

He was smart with a scythe; He had calculated in advance that he would have three hours left, but as obstacles came one after another, his heart grew cold. He runs in the evening, runs at midnight; His legs are cut by stones, his fur hangs in tufts on his sides from the thorny branches, his eyes are clouded, bloody foam is oozing from his mouth, and he still has a long way to go! And yet his friend Amanat seems to him as if alive. Now he stands on guard by the wolf and thinks: “In so many hours, my dear son-in-law will come running to the rescue!” He will remember this and let it go even more violently. Neither mountains, nor valleys, nor forests, nor swamps - he doesn’t care about everything! How many times his heart wanted to burst, he took power over his heart so that fruitless worries would not distract him from the main goal. There is no time for grief now, no time for tears; let all feelings be silent, just to snatch a friend from the wolf’s mouth!

The east turned red; At first, on the distant horizon there was a light splash of fire on the clouds, then more and more, and suddenly - flame! The dew on the grass caught fire; the birds of the day woke up, ants, worms, and boogers crawled; there was smoke coming from somewhere; in the rye and oats it was as if a whisper was going on, more audibly, more audibly... But the scythe does not see anything, does not hear, only one thing repeats: “I have destroyed my friend, I have destroyed!”

But here, finally, is the mountain. Behind this mountain is a swamp and in it is a wolf’s lair... I’m late, I’m late, I’m late!

He strains his last strength to jump to the top of the mountain... jumped up! But he can no longer run, he falls from exhaustion... will he really never make it?

- Here am I! Here! - shouted the scythe, like a hundred thousand hares together. And he rolled head over heels down the mountain into the swamp.

And the wolf praised him.

“I see,” he said, “that you can trust hares.” And here is my resolution for you: sit, for the time being, both under this bush, and later I will... ha ha... have mercy on you!

Saltykov-Shchedrin

In the image of a hare, the Russian people are conveyed, who are devoted to the last to their royal masters - the wolves. Wolves, like true predators, mock and eat hares. The hare is in a hurry to get engaged to the hare and does not stop in front of the wolf when he asks. For this, the wolf punishes him to sit under a bush and await his fate, and subsequently imprisons his matchmaker too. The fairy tale shows as much tyranny of the kings as possible.

The main idea of the fairy tale Selfless Hare. Saltykov-Shchedrin:

The tale shows the relationship between the hare slave and the wolf king.

Summary Saltykov-Shchedrin Selfless Hare

The fairy tale is a direct indicator of how the people lived during the revolution (the image of a hare). The cold and mocking attitude of the royal family in the form of wolves who played with him and punished him. The fairy tale begins with a hare running through the forest, hurrying to a wedding and running past a wolf's den. The wolf shouts at him to stop, but the hare speeds up even more. Then the wolf catches up with him and grabs him. According to the decision of the she-wolf and the wolf, the hare must sit under a bush and wait for his death, because now the wolves are full and do not want to eat.

The hare is shaking with fear, but he is unable to escape, since the wolf will catch up with him in a couple of jumps. All this time, the wolf and she-wolf joke and mock him, walking imposingly past him and discussing what they will do with him. One night, his godfather comes running to the bunny and persuades him to run away, but the hare gave his word that he will not run away. The wolf hears all this and grabs them both. He decides to eat them, but his godfather told him that his daughter-in-law is waiting for the hare and he needs it for the wedding. The she-wolf persuades the wolf to let the scythe go for a couple of days, and he agrees, leaving his godfather as collateral. The hare rushes to the bride and upon arrival they immediately celebrate the wedding. They beg him to stay, but the hare refuses, because he gave his word to return and save his godfather. On his way back, he encounters many obstacles that delay him and force him to make a long detour to get back to the swamp.

With the last of his strength, the hare runs to the wolf's den, where he left his godfather and sees how they are about to kill him. Then the hare shouts at the top of his lungs that he has come. The wolf laughs at them and leaves them both sitting under a bush. According to him, they say, sit here, and maybe I’ll let you go later. The author wants to tell how difficult the life of a revolutionary is, and that the tsarist regime mocks the common people with its decisions and sentences. In the form of a wolf there is a king, and in the form of a hare there are people. Despite all their fears, the people are honest and true to their word. Even when under oppression, he is slavishly devoted to his master.