Book: Hedgehog in the fog

- Yes, what I pay you back?
- And nothing. It would be nice if you helped my advice.

And the day was hot, and tall, slender autumn staggered pines and swirled hollow sheet.

- Duty work - said the Ant is pressed against a hot stove. - Every day...
"Luck, thought the Bear. - Well, as he does not understand that it is summer, it's short that it's over..."

If you fall in the forest comes the heat, many go mad.

When do you prefer morning or evening? <...>
- I - in the morning, ' said the Bear.
- Why?
- Then a full day ahead...

It was so beautiful that he from time to time trembled: not a dream it to him?

- You who are friends with me or with the Hare?
- With you, - said the Hedgehog. And with the Hare.
And I'm friends with you, okay?
- And me without a Hare can not be friends. Understand?

- I love cloudy autumn days, - said the Hedgehog. The sun shines dimly, and so foggy-hazy...
- Quietly, - said Bear.
Yeah. If everyone stopped and worth it.

- I was going to go to you, - said Bear. - And then he ran to the Rabbit and says I'm the best.
"Right," said the Hedgehog. - And you didn't know?

Half asleep, Bear, you can imagine all you want, and everything you can imagine is like live.

- Look! - said the Hedgehog and showed the Bear mushroom-the Fox. Small Golden mushroom, turn the knees, in the twilight, was sitting in the moss.
- See? - said the Hedgehog. - He has neither father nor mother, neither a Hedgehog nor a Bear, he's all alone and not crying.

- If I came to the Wolf and said, Hedgehog, I'll make you wolf?, - I'd tell her: No! And you?
- I'd tell her: "try it!"
And she would say: "come on, Bear, we're going to eat horses!"
- I would she said, "And who will Bear?"
And she would say: "And Bear will not. The dark brown cub Thumper".
And who will Bear?!
- I told you, ' said the Hedgehog, the Bear will be brown cub Thumper.
- Get away! - roared the Bear. Or I don't know what I'll do to you.
So it's not me, it's a Wolf, ' said the Hedgehog.
- Still! - said Bear.
And began to cry.

"Sometimes same - stoked the stove, staring at the fire and think: that's what it is, a big winter!
And suddenly Wake up at night from unexplained noise. Wind, I think, a raging Blizzard, but no, the sound is not like this, and far some, a very familiar sound. What is it? And fall asleep again. And in the morning out on the porch - forest in the fog and no island no snow to be seen anywhere. Where did it go, winter? Then run away from the porch and saw a puddle.
A real puddle in the middle of winter. And all of the trees are pairs. What is it? And this night, it was raining. Big, heavy rain. And washed away the snow. And chased away the cold. And in the forest was warm, as it happens only in early autumn".
That's how I thought the Bear quiet warm morning in the middle of winter.

- When you were gone, where have you ever been?
- Yeah.
- Where?
- There, - said the Hedgehog and waved a paw.
- Far?
The hedgehog cringed and closed his eyes.