When the bear and the fox were threshing (kūlė) together

In the old days when animals could speak, the fox and the bear were very good friends. They were sowing, harvesting, threshing and eating together. But the fox was lazy and would rather not do anything. So he managed to lure the bear to cultivate the field, pull the plow and harvest grain. Now remained threshing and they would help each other with it.
After the fox was threshing for an hour or so he stopped and listened.
- What are you doing? - Asked the bear.
- Do not you hear how it's cracking in the barn roof, - replied the fox.
- No, - said the bear, and so they continued to thrash.
After a while, the fox repeated his question, and the bear said that perhaps it was best if the fox climbed up and hold fast the roof. Fox did not wait for this to be said twice. He climbed on the roof and lay there, where it was mostly sunny. There he lay while the bear was both threshing and corn tossing. Now he climbed down and pretended to be sore in all his body and said:
- I must have overworked myself when I held up the roof. I'm all in pane because it took so long for you to thresh the grain.
Now they had to divide the grain. The fox told the bear that it was only right that the bear took the biggest pile. He had worked most. Bear thanked and so they began to eat. Fox ate from the smaller pile with just the grain and bear right out of the big pile with the chaff. After a while the bear began to suspect that the fox fooled him, it did not taste so good. He said:
- How is it that it sounds so different in your mouth when you chew?
- It's because I have so much sand and gravel in my pile, - replied the fox.
But the bear still was not satisfied with his pile and tasted from the foxes. When he found out that the fox has fooled him, he wanted to kill him. But the fox ran away and hid under a tree. The bear ran after, digging and biting at everything he saw. And when he bit into roots and stones cried the fox:
- Oh, oh, you have bitten my foot!
But when the bear really got hold of the fox's feet he screamed:
- Ha, ha, you just bite into the roots!