For a long time they sailed and finally reached the village of Vaitoga on the island of Tutuil *. Mother and daughter went ashore and again took the human appearance.
The Supreme Leader of Futuli was very welcoming guests. In his house, Forueau and Salof fed well, dressed. Mother and daughter as followed and gained strength. They were very grateful to flying his hospitality, and Foreua told him:
- We will return to the sea with my daughter and stay to live under the rock from your settlement. When you want, we will swim on the surface and become dancing you. And you remember the song, which can be called from the sea.
IFO Nuea sang the leader of this song. And Futuli ordered to declare all the inhabitants of the village that his guests would now become shark and a turtle and what they would live from now in the sea under the rock. And if someone dares to offend them or disrespect them, the leader will find it for the greatest crime.
And Foreua and Salof again accepted the appearance of sharks and turtles and settled in the sea under the cliff Waitoga. They lived there many, many years and always flew to the surface, having heard a song addressed to them:
Phonauea, Phonaua, climb from the sea puchin! See, the people of the leader of Futuli came to look at you, look at the funny to your game and welcome you.
It was worth a shark with a turtle to appear on the surface of the sea and start dancing, people could not hold back enthusiastic screams:
- Lales! Lales! Perfectly! Perfectly!
There are many people from all over the world. The best singers and musicians played and sang at the rock, trying to call shark and turtle, but still shark with a turtle only on the sounds of one calling song, the one that once as a sign of gratitude was complicated by the blind Foundaua for the Supreme Wish of Futuli .
In the blue-blue ocean, shark lived in his deep depth. She was black and predicted with a white belly. There was a completely lonely predator without certain classes. She did not love anyone, he was not friends with anyone, did not build anything, he did not care about whom, and it was very boring.
On the side of the shark there lived the fish adhesive. It is such a fish that is glued with his belly to a major predator, and it employs all pieces of mining and smokers, which are lying from a predator from his mouth. At the same time, the fish adhesive is in complete safety, because the predatory fish can not be erupted in such a way as to bite prily, and there is no natural enemies of such a predator as a shark. So lives adhered to her owner to old age in the coziness and satiety.
The only activity of the shark was to swim and burst fish. Moreover, she swaming without a break all the time, because sharks are arranged so that all the time, even in a dream, they should swim, otherwise they will drown. And shark everything swam and swam in the warm water of the Atlantic Ocean, and soon she was very tired of her warm water.
So when she somehow fell into the cold ocean current, he was delighted, and gladly swam with the ice flow of the flow. But soon it was tired of her, because the course carried her itself, so she did not even have to swim. And then she turned and began to float against the current. Overcome the course has already been at least some entertainment. And shark everything sailed and sailed against the current. However, it turned out that she now does not need to hunt, because the ocean is full of plump stupid fish, which flooded within. Sharul was just enough to open the mouth to meet, and the course itself entered the shark full belly of beautiful fish. Intensely feeding and constantly overcoming the current, shark rose to incredible sizes. Shark became the size of a good whale.
But such a fastened life of Akule was bored after a while. Especially tired of her permanently lying in her mouth. She tried to close her mouth, but then, first, remained hungry, and secondly, thick fish, inhabit the flow, unpleasantly clapped her nose. Once, rising very close to the surface of the ocean, the shark saw a flock of flying fish. These are fish that are able when a predator is chased, jump out of the water and fly a few meters above the water. "An interesting task ...", thought shark, and began to chase flying fish.
This occupation was carried away, she pretty quickly learned to jump out of the water no worse than fish, and for some time she was fed exclusively flying fish. While somehow in flight did not talk with one particularly talkative fish, and the bolt told her that in the Arctic, white bears live behind the polar circle. The fish told our acquaintance: "You shark such amazing sizes and abilities that could well eat not bony fish, but in greasy enormous bears." Sharley liked this idea, besides, she loved cold water, and she went on the road.
When the shark sailed to the Arctic, one white bear really sat on the ice and was going to make a divine seal.
The giant shark walked closer, as he was aimed, then sailed to overclock and jumped out of the water. She grabbed a polar bear and fell on ice, from which ice cracked, and shark with a bear fell into the ocean. At the same time, the bear seeing the fishery of incredible sizes flying directly to him, the seal was released from surprise, and it was possible to slip away. A miraculously saved seal, desperately moved by flippers, rushed to her herd.
The whole herd knew that shelling, when he was too noticed by hearing his sides in the rays of the Spring Sun, grabbed the white bear, and therefore everyone thought that the bear had already merged with seal. The appearance of the seal of the living and unavoidable was very surprised by his comrades, and they began to slip off from all the ends of the root to listen to the story of the lucky. Such huge fish, which, besides, would fly like birds and fought polar bears, no one here did not see if the saved seal was evident. The herd unanimously decided that this god of the ocean sent them the avenger shark, which should take revenge on all the seal bears burned. She decided to put a monument.
Called the sealer, who had to cut out this monument to cut out of the snow, and the saved seinus appointed it with a consultant, because he was the only one who was near the shark avenger. During the time, a monument was built, rumors came from different ends of the Arctic, about the next bears eaten by a giant flying Avenger's gigantic.
Finally, the day of the opening of the monument was occurring. The herd seal gathered around a huge boulder, slightly sipped fresh snowball. All seals scored more air in the chest and on the team they reinted on a ships. Snow shielded, and under it turned out to be an ice shark-avenger in full growth, with a smile in the whole face. Seals were abuned and went to drive a dance.
And at this time, past the ice floe on which the holiday was held, sailed, just bored, who, who, haired white bear bears, the shark. She saw on the surface exactly the same as it is an animal, only white, and thought: "A decent opponent. A good fight probably would have entertained me now. " Shark aimed, as it should be accelerated and flew out of the water. Flying over the herd of seals, she handed his head right in the mouth of the monument. From the blow, the fish adhesive spared from her sides and fell to the noses of seals. Tylena thought it was the cub of sacred fish, and with honors and chants were pulping into the water. There, she immediately stuck to the side of the milk fish and began, as nothing had happened, to eat unbr. And the giant shark, having received a concussion of the brain, frozen and forever remained tracing from his monument.
That was a long time ago. The sea was deeper then. Rocks are higher. Even the grass was greener. Only the poor lived then, like now, bad.
He lived in those times on one of the islands of the boy. Boy called Punia. He lived together with her mother in a small hut. The hut was on the seashore, not far from the reefs. Punia and his mother lived poorly. The roots of tarot and potatoes were their only food. Only in very rare days they bought themselves a little sugar cane or bananas.
Punia loved to sit on the seashore. There, in the caves between reefs, lobsters lived. They were clearly visible through transparent water.
Punia was a good swimmer, but he never dived behind the lobster. He was afraid of sharks. Sharks lived near the caves. They were nine. Each of them could swallow Punia entirely. And in the mouth of the biggest - Careaen - the whole canoe would be easily placed.
Little Puni has repeatedly thought, how to overcome sharks. And that's what he came up with.
At noon, when sharks slept at the bottom of the bay, Punia came to the sea. He sat down at the edge of the reef and began to chat in the water in the water.
Water splash woke sharks. Then Punia said loudly:
- I really want to catch lobsters. They are so tasty. Sharks sleep, and there is nothing to be afraid of them. And if they wake up, I know how to deceive them. This was taught by Ta, the clearest shark.
Punia took a big stone and threw him away from all his strength. Sharks rushed behind the stone. They thought it jumped Punia.
While the sharks were looking for Punia in the place where the stone fell, he managed to dive and catch two lobsters.
When Careaen saw Punia on the shore with lobster in his hands, she said:
- So, is it true that among us there is a traitor?
And eight big sharks immediately ate the most thin, the ninth.
The next day, Punia came to the sea again. He told his legs in the water and when sharks woke up, said loudly:
- The lobsters were very tasty. Today I will catch two more. Sharks sleep, and there is nothing to be afraid of them. And if they wake up, I know how to deceive them.
Today I taught me the zones of the same shark.
Punia again took a stone and again threw him away in the sea. And while sharks were looking for Punia where the stone fell, he again managed to dive and catch two more lobsters.
When Caeaen saw Punia on the shore with lobster in his hands, she came to a terrible rage.
- Which of us is the biggest? She asked in such a voice that the rest of the seven sharks flew back.
Then the most brave, and maybe the most stupid of them said:
- About Caaen! This is the biggest!
Here the brave shark was so afraid of his own courage, which rushed on the nurse. But it was too late: Caaena pounced on her and ruined it in half.
On the third day, Punia again came to the sea. He told his legs in the water and when sharks woke up, said loudly:
- Today I will catch two more lobsters. Sharks sleep, and there is nothing to be afraid of them. And if they wake up, I know how to deceive them. This taught me today to shark, with a broken fin.
This time, Punia did not even have to throw a stone in the sea: as soon as Caaen heard that Punia speaks about shark with a broken fin, she immediately pounced on her. And while sharks fought among themselves, Punia managed to dive and catch two more lobsters.
The day after the day came now Punia to the sea.
Every day he caught his lobsters, and every day, deceived Careaen eaten one of the sharks.
And now the ninth day came.
Going this time to the sea, Punia captured a large, pointed on both ends.
He told his legs in the water and, when Caaaen woke up, said loudly:
- Today I will catch two more lobsters. Caaaen sleeps, and I have nothing to fear it. And if she wakes up, I know how to fool it. If only she did not guessed to swallow me completely. Then I do not escape. But she is so stupid!
When Caaen heard that Punia says, she thought: "It's good that this boy is such a chatter! Now I know how I cope with him. "
Here she revealed her mouth as widely and prepared to swallow Punia entirely.
And he just needed it! He firmly pressed against himself a stick and jumped from the reef right into a large canoe, the mouth of Careaen.
And when Careaen tried to close the mouth, the sharp ends of the sticks dug into her jaw. And Punia Perezzez through the high, like reefs, teeth of Caaena and swam behind the lobster.
No matter how Caemen fought, she failed to free himself from Punia's stick. So it was swaming with a revealed mouth, until he died with hunger.
That was a long time ago. But they say that now the sharks are afraid to swim to the shores of the island, where the little Puni had ever lived.
Translated and processed L. Yuriev.
Figure O. Zotov.
He lived once in the world one old man. He had two daughters and three sons. He betrayed his daughters, they scattered from their native nest. Starbed left with sons to live. Only now the trouble: it all blind, he could not do anything without the help of sons. Once brothers in the field gathered, and the old man says:
We will plow, and you sit in the yard and wheat protects, so that the birds do not bother.
I do not undermine such work, - the old man is responsible. - I will not protect the birds for birds.
And you listen to better, "Sons are taught," you are not deaf:
birds will arrive, they score wings, you will hear.
They gave the father a long bamboo stick - birds to drive off, in the midst of the courtyard planted and away.
They returned in the evening, see: the old man sits, sticks in different directions, and the birds still be peeling.
Highed sons:
Why did we restore you? Which of you? The old man was crying, but nothing sons answered. And they are taking advantage of the Council.
From our father some losses! - Says Senior.
There is no benefit from him! - Fire medium.
Our father was lit in this world! - Given the younger. "Now, if he knew, the brothers would dream of dreaming," all his wealth would be divided into each other, they healed without hassle. " So they thought they were unkind.
Sons came somehow once in the morning to the father and say:
We decided today, Batyushka, to the far island to go, to act a little. Let's go with us. Fresh air and ear will not damage you.
An old man was delighted:
I have long wanted to eat soul ears!
They sat down into the boat and floated the rocky island. I caught fish there, a noble ear turned out. And how to think felt, the sons of the father say:
Are you tired, I suppose? Lie down, sleeping a little, and we, how to make back, you will wake up.
Believed the old man sons, lay down and fell asleep. And how the morning woke up, they became called them. But no one answered him. I understood the father that they threw his children on the wild island of hungry death wait. And then the sea boiled, the waves rose high, the wind blew cold. The waves of the cliff beat, and one to the very top of the island rose and the old man washed away in the sea.
And at the time of the city of the daughter of Starikov, they arrived - Father to spend. They brought them to the hotels of all sorts of apparently invisible. He knocked into the house - no answer. Daughters were surprised, went to the neighbor.
Didn't happen to our trouble? - Ask. - He promised to wait at home.
I shrug my shoulders:
I do not know, I do not know that your father happened to your father. Only I saw, as yesterday he was going to fish with sons, and in the evening, children returned without a father. Maybe he saw in the way?
Run daughters to the sea. They decided that their father was killed in the bunch of waters. And if so, the sea will take off his body ashore. They examined all the coastal rocks - did not find anything. They sat down at the water and cried. Suddenly see - sticks out in the sea near the island of a lonely rock, and on that rock ... Father sits, having hurt.
Battyushka, father! - shouted daughters. Live! Alive! They hired a boat and her father brought home.
How did you get on the rock? - began to ask her daughter. What happened to you?
The old man sighed and says:
I did not think that my sons would decide for my sons. They lured me to the wild island and threw me, and went home themselves. The storm rose into the sea, washed me a big wave from the cliff, I almost died.
How do you dissepass? - Daughter was surprised.
Only I fell into the sea and drowned, "the old man told," the big shark sailed to me, I planted on my back and brought to the lonely cliff.
Thank you, shark, - began to thank the daughter - that our father saved.
They came ashore, see - in the distance and really a big shark swims.
We should thank it to us, "said the old man. Brought daughters to the coast of a young bull. Sweeping shark, the bull took and disappeared in the sea buffin. And at the same moment, it was suddenly an old man and began to see no worse than the previous one. There was no end of joy! They took the daughters of the father for their arms and took home.
And the sons of the father did not think to seek, they divided the old richness and decided to celebrate an unexpected good luck. Immersed the treats all sorts of boat and floated the fish. They climbed into the open sea, but only the network was thrown, darkened around, the wind rose. I got a boat from side to the side, and then turned over. The brothers in the water flush, the name is called, but who will hear them? So the evil sons were killed in the marine puchin. And the daughters of the old man in the city of living took. And they lived together for a long time and happily.
On the island of Savai, in the village of Salega, there was once a blind old woman named Foreua, and she had the only daughter called Salof.
Once a terrible hunger has come throughout the district. In Salge, there was also nothing to eat. In one of these days, the Raiste of Foreua became the furnace of the Yams tubering, which were collected on the day before in the forest.
Being waiting until the food is ready, greedily retracting delicious smacks, the blind Foundaua sat with his daughter aside. This smoke disappeared, it means that the stones have already fucked *, and the Yams, the covering is better, put to bathe.
It took a little more time, the old woman and asks the daughter:
Look, don't we carry our share?
No, - Salof meets.
Phonauea asked many times, whether she was called her daughter to dinner, and every time the Salof answered "no".
Desperate, the blind Foundaua ordered her daughter to take her to the sea. She became on the edge of the rock, grabbed her daughter for her hand and exclaimed:
Jump with me!
They rushed into the sea waves and immediately turned one into the shark, and the other in the turtle. And floated to the east, away from greedy and evil birth.
For a long time they sailed and finally reached the village of Vaitoga on the island of Tutuil *. Mother and daughter went ashore and again took the human appearance.
The Supreme Leader of Futuli was very welcoming guests. In his house, Forueau and Salof fed well, dressed. Mother and daughter as followed and gained strength. They were very grateful to flying his hospitality, and Foreua told him:
My daughter and we will return to the sea and stay to live under the rock from your village. When you want, we will swim on the surface and become dancing you. And you remember the song, which can be called from the sea.
IFO Nuea sang the leader of this song. And Futuli ordered to declare all the inhabitants of the village that his guests would now become shark and a turtle and what they would live from now in the sea under the rock. And if someone dares to offend them or disrespect them, the leader will find it for the greatest crime.
And Foreua and Salof again accepted the appearance of sharks and turtles and settled in the sea under the cliff Waitoga. They lived there many, many years and always flew to the surface, having heard a song addressed to them:
Phonauea, Phonaua, climb from the sea puchin! See, the people of the leader of Futuli came to look at you, look at the funny to your game and welcome you.
It was worth a shark with a turtle to appear on the surface of the sea and start dancing, people could not hold back enthusiastic screams:
Lales! Lales! Perfectly! Perfectly!
There are many people from all over the world. The best singers and musicians played and sang at the rock, trying to call shark and turtle, but still shark with a turtle only on the sounds of one calling song, the one that once as a sign of gratitude was complicated by the blind Foundaua for the Supreme Wish of Futuli .
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