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Chukcha Stories
Animal Stories Of The North
Translated by Fainna Solasko
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Illustrated by Y.Rachov
Vixen The Merchant
They say this all happened very long ago. One day in winter when the cold winds swept through the tundra, covering over the tracks of every animal, hungry Vixen said to her sister,
"We and our children will starve to death if we don't think of something soon." And they did.
One of the sisters dressed up tike a merchant. The other dressed up like a guide and interpreter. Towards evening they came to a camp of reindeer herders. The people welcomed them and gave them meat and tea. Afterwards Vixen the Merchant said,
"Pyr-por-pur!"
Her sister translated this as follows:
"The merchant is offering you a sack of sugar in exchange for a reindeer."
"Oh, that's a fine bargain!" the Chukcha herders said and gave the false merchant a large, fat reindeer.
When everyone was asleep the two vixens harnessed the reindeer to their sled and sped off. By the time their hosts started looking for them the next morning they were far, far away. Then the herders untied the sack of sugar and found that it was chock-full of packed snow.
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