Nasrudding :the series

Nastradin Khodzha and Clever Peter in the Cherry Orchard

One day the Hodja and Clever Peter went out to pick cherries. They climbed up the cherry tree, looking for the best fruit. The Hodja was bigger and stronger than Clever Peter, so he was able to reach the ripest cherries. At one point, he noticed that the cherries Clever Peter was eating were not quite ripe. "Peter, why are you eating those green cherries? Come on up here, they're better." "No thanks, these are pretty good." "Here, I'll bend a branch down to you so you can get some of the good ones." So the Hodja bent a big branch down toward Clever Peter, who took hold of it and began to eat the ripe cherries. Suddenly, the Hodja let go of the branch and Clever Peter was flung out of the tree into some thorns. He landed right next to a rabbit. Clever Peter jumped up and deftly caught the rabbit by the back legs. "Peter, why are you leaping around down there?" "Oh, I saw a rabbit in the thorns, so I jumped down to catch it before it got away."