: Grandfather cured and left a hare with burnt paws, which saved his life - he led out of a terrible forest fire.
Once in August, grandfather Larion Malyavin went hunting. There was an unprecedented heat, and the forests were "dry as gunpowder."
Grandfather tried to shoot the bunny, but missed, and he fled. Suddenly, a burnt pulled from the south, and my grandfather realized that a forest fire had begun. A gale-force wind drove fire at the speed of a train.
Grandfather ran over the bumps, stumbling and falling, the smoke ate his eyes, and behind him the flame was already roaring. Suddenly, the same hare jumped out from under his feet, whom he nearly shot. Grandfather ran after him.
Animals are much better than a person who smells where the fire comes from, and are always saved. They perish only in those rare cases when fire surrounds them.
The hare led his grandfather to the lake, on the shore of which both fell from fatigue. The hare had burnt hind legs and stomach. Grandfather picked up his savior and carried him home.
Vanya Malyavin, the grandson of Larion’s grandfather, brought a hare crying and moaning from pain to a village veterinarian. The boy explained that the hare was special, and his grandfather ordered him to be treated, but the veterinarian did not listen to Vanya and pushed him out of the room.
In the hallway, the boy leaned against the wall and cried from resentment and pity for the hare. There he was seen by the compassionate grandmother Anisya, who brought her only goat to the veterinarian.Upon learning of Vanino Mountain, she advised to take the hare to the city to a certain Karl Petrovich.
The next morning, grandfather Larion put on new bast shoes and, together with his grandson, went to the city. Grandfather found out the address of Karl Petrovich from an angry pharmacist.
Karl Petrovich turned out to be not a veterinarian, but a specialist in childhood diseases, and at first he also refused to treat a hare, but when he found out how he saved his grandfather's life, he agreed. Vanya stayed with the doctor to care for the animal.
The next day, the whole street knew about the “special” hare, which had burned during a forest fire and saved an old man. Then the whole small town found out about this, and a journalist came to Karl Petrovich who wished to write about a hare in a Moscow newspaper.
Soon the hare was cured. Vanya returned home, and they forgot about this story, only some Moscow professor asked his grandfather for a long time to sell him a hare, but Larion flatly refused.
Note. The original narration is from an anonymous eyewitness to the events. He learns the story of a forest fire at the end of the story from his grandfather.
