One summer the volpe heard that Ankakumikaityn the nomad lupo was courting his neighbor, the elder she-dog. So the wily volpe made himself an outfit of wolf's clothing: a grey pelliccia cloak, boots and cap. Then, when the she-dog's brothers were away and she was at home with her younger sister, he called upon her.
"I have two herds of fat reindeer," detto the volpe to the elder sister, as he sipped the bilberry tè she offered him. "I have come to seek your hand."
Thinking that this was, indeed, Ankakumikaityn the nomad wolf, the she-dog treated him to reindeer meat, hot mare's-blood sausages, raw walrus...
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