: The wolf catches a hare and decides to eat, but then lets go to say goodbye to the bride, leaving the rabbit friend hostage. Instead of fleeing, the hare dutifully returns to wolf captivity.

Once a hare was guilty before a wolf. He ran past the wolf den, the wolf saw him and ordered him to stop, and the hare disobeyed and let it go faster than before. The wolf caught him and decided to devour him for disobedience. But now he was full, and his family was full, and there was a supply of food, so he ordered the wolf to sit under the bush and wait for his turn. When the line comes up, the wolf, perhaps, haha, will have mercy.

A hare sits under a bush and thinks about his imminent death, and from the side of the lair "a luminous wolf eye looks at him." Sometimes a wolf and a she-wolf will go for a walk near it, or even the wolf cubs will surround the poor hare and snap their teeth. The hare’s heart freezes. Never scythe did not like life as it is now.

The hare was a thorough creature, he wanted to marry a hare - the daughter of a hare widow. When the wolf grabbed him, he just ran to his bride, and now he was very worried: he waited for his bunny or fell in love with another, or maybe she, poor thing, also ate the wolf.

Here they are, hare dreams! He hoped to get married, he bought a samovar, dreamed of drinking tea-sugar with a young hare, and instead of everything he got it!

At night, the hare dreamed that the wolf made him an official of special assignments. In the meantime, the hare ran on errands, the wolf went to his hare. The brother woke the hare of brides and told that the bride had heard about the trouble that had happened to the groom and was now dying of grief.

The hare listened to this and couldn’t understand “why he deserved his bitter fate”, because he lived honestly, did not participate in revolutions, did not take arms in his paws, but simply ran about his business. And now he will have to die not only, but also his cute bunny.

Meanwhile, the brother began to beat up the bride hare. And he was absolutely ready to give a scythe by chirping, but inadvertently looked at the wolf's den. The hare's heart contracted with fear, and he hesitated to flee.

It was then that the wolf caught them - he immediately realized that the hares were malicious against him. He told the oblique wolf that the bunny was dying. The she-wolf was softened and asked her husband to let the rabbit and her bride say goodbye. A rabbit was assigned two days later. By this time, the scythe was supposed to return and replace the brother-in-law, whom the wolf left hostage. If he returns to the deadline, the wolf, maybe both of them - ha ha - will have mercy.

He started to run scythe, so fast that the birds of his speed were surprised. Is it a joke - to run from the wolf den to the distant kingdom, get married and have time to be in time.

Seeing the narrowed, the hare immediately got to her feet. The hare said that he only had a day left.

And he doesn’t want to go back and you can’t go back. The word, you see, gave, and the hare to his word - master.

They also played a wedding. Having said goodbye to the young wife, the hare went back.During this time, between the distant kingdom and the wolf den many obstacles arose. In one place the river overflowed the banks, in another - the war began, and in the third - cholera appeared.

A hare runs away with all his strength and thinks of a wolf hostage: if he does not keep up, he will eat a wolf of his brother-in-law. And finally, the wolf den. The wolf had already woken up and was about to break the hostage in half. Then the scythe appeared. The wolf liked such honesty, and he ordered both hares to sit under the bush, and later he - ha ha - have mercy on them.