Аннотация: Delicious walnuts, a smart crow and a right behaviour. A moral story.
Delicious walnuts, a smart crow and a right behaviour. A moral story.
It's a late autumn. The sky is overcast. A barely noticeable rain. About two o'clock in the afternoon. But the street is deserted. Not a single passer-by is visible. Not a single car is visible.
Trees are without leaves. But in some places there are walnut trees, on such trees - the remains of dried leaves. And among the leaves - lonely nuts and bunches of nuts - in a half-opened peel.
Walnuts are a favorite treat for birds. But not all birds are able to break the shell of a nut with their beak and get to the filling.
Some crows are testing the shell of nuts, using beaks. Crows, birds with powerful beaks, take an interest in nuts.
I continued my way, looking around, observing the trees freed from the foliage, and a birds flying, sitting on the branches.
Ahead I saw excellent nuts lying on the ground. I came up, picked up a one nut for a testing. With the help of improvised means, I broke it and took out the core. Great delicious white walnut!
Another nut fell next to me. Perfectly!
I raised my head. I saw directly above me on a branch a crow. She was observing me.
Seeing that I was staring at her, the crow struck with her beak another nut in a half-opened peel. The nut jumped out of the peel, flew down and was at my feet.
The smart bird, as I understand, decided to breaking the nuts not with the help of her beak, but with the help of her mind.
It so happened by chance that not a standard person with a standard modern Russial upbringing was walking along the street ("A good nuts! The bird - aside"), not an effective manager of a modern spill ("how, using the situation, to entangle the bird with something - if not by debts, then by some snares? "), not a representative of a Russial collectivos (" where is my pistol, and if there is no pistol, then where is a good stone - I will show my abilities - either I will shoot a bird or I'll hit it with a stone; nuts are my prey ") , but a person with residual elements of the gone into the past (after 1917) European decent upbringing.
I felt respect for a clever bird.
I mentally divided the excellent nuts lying in front of me into two approximately equal parts, groups. I broke nuts (from one group), completely or partially freeing the kernels from the shell - so that the crow could easily enjoy the delicious dish.
I put the other group of nuts in a plastic bag, which I took out of my pocket.
While I was doing all this, the crow knocked off a few more nuts, and they fell right at my feet.
I also split them. I broke the shell of part of the nuts, scattering their inner filling in the most convenient way (for the crow). I put the other half in a plastic bag.
Perhaps the crow was waiting for any car that could crush several walnuts with its wheels. But when would it appear, this car? And how many nuts from among the knocked down and chaotically lying on the ground, a car will crush?
After completing my actions with the nuts, I looked at the crow with respect and decided to continue on my way.
A time came for the crow to eat delicious kernels on a deserted street.
I started to move on, when suddenly a telepathic message came to me.
"The man!" - I heard an approving opinion.
I looked at the crow again. She looked at me.
I walked a little surprised by the crow's assessment. "What it mean "The man!" ?" A little strange opinion from the crow.
What else could the crow say to express her approval? "You have a good upbringing"?
A good mind, on the one hand, and a good education, a good vocabulary, on the other hand, it's a different things. An smart person is not always an educated person. Moreover, a good mind and extrasensory (psychic) abilities are useful for a crow. Does she need (with her lifestyle) an education and a large vocabulary? ..
Maybe a crow somewhere heard, that someone used the exclamation "The man!" as an endorsement?
In the asset of my balance were several tasty walnuts (which I already picked up, broke and eate), a pleasant communication with the crow and a feeling of correct behavior.
I breathed in the fresh cool air of a late autumn, I looked at the gloomy sky and continued on my way in a good mood.
It's nice to meet, if not a smart person, then a smart crow! And to gain 250-500 grams of excellent nuts!
September 23, 2020 15:01
Translation from Russian into English: September 24, 2020 01:37.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Вкусные орехи, умная ворона и правильный поступок. Моральный рассказ'.