Englishstory12.blogspot.com - Once upon a time, there
was a man who had captured a polar bear
which he intended to present to the tsar. On the way
home, he found himself in the woods as night began to fall, and he asked a woodsman for refuge.
“Of course,
you may stay the night,” said the woodsman, “but you’ll have to make do as best
you can, because there won't be much space. This night is the feast of the trolls, the impish
spirits of the forest, and unfortunately they have a tradition of celebrating
with a banquet in my house!”
The man laid out his bed in the closet, and the bear crawled in under the
covers and soon fell asleep.
Teat
evening the trolls arrived, hundreds
of every shape and size, noisy
and cheeky like little boys. One of
them spied the white fur under the covers,
and thought a large cat was hiding
there. The troll tugged spitefully at the
fur, until the polar bear leapt out in fury. The terrified trolls fled.
The
year after, before turning up at the
house, the trolls asked the woodsman
if he still had his “big cat”.
“Oh
yes!” confirmed the woodsman, “and the seven kittens she has had in the
last twelve months are all bigger than the mother!”
Needless
to say, the trolls never returned
to the woodsman's house for their banquet.
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