Valery Carrick 
More Russian Picture Tales 
’The Bedtime Story-Books’

ONCE upon time, there was a Cock. He tried to swallow it, and choked himself. He choked himself and stretched himself out, and there he lay, and couldn’t even breathe. 
 
* THE COCK AND THE BEAN. 
* THE GOAT AND THE RAM. 
* THE HUNGRY WOLF. 
* THE PEASANT AND THE BEAR. 
* THE DOG AND THE COCK. 
* KING FROST. 
* THE BEAR’S PAW. 
* THE BEAR AND THE OLD MAN’S DAUGHTERS. 
* THE STRAW OX. 
* THE FOX AND THE BLACKBIRD. 
 
And his mistress saw him, ran up to him, and asked: “Mr. Cock, what makes you lie there like that, so that you can’t breathe?”