After a while he again said to himself, "Time is beginning to pass heavilywith me here in the forest, I will fetch hither another companion,"and took his fiddle and again played in the forest. It was not longbefore a fox came creeping through the trees towards him. "Ah, there'sa fox coming!" said the musician. "I have no desire for him." The foxcame up to him and said, "Oh, dear musician, how beautifully thou dostplay! I should like to learn that too." "That is soon learnt," saidthe musician. "Thou hast only to do everything that I bid thee." "Oh,musician," then said the fox, "I will obey thee as a scholar obeyshis master." "Follow me," said the musician; and when they had walkeda part of the way, they came to a footpath, with high bushes on bothsides of it. There the musician stood still, and from one side bent ayoung hazel-bush down to the ground, and put his foot on the top of it,then he bent down a young tree from the other side as well, and said,"Now little fox, if thou wilt learn something, give me thy left frontpaw." The fox obeyed, and the musician fastened his paw to the leftbough. "Little fox," said he, "now reach me thy right paw" and he tied itto the right bough. When he had examined whether they were firm enough,he let go, and the bushes sprang up again, and jerked up the little fox,so that it hung struggling in the air. "Wait there till I come backagain," said the musician, and went his way.
Again he said to himself, "Time is beginning to pass heavily with me herein the forest, I will fetch hither another companion," so he took hisfiddle, and the sound echoed through the forest. Then a little hare camespringing towards him. "Why, a hare is coming," said the musician, "I donot want him." "Ah, dear musician," said the hare, "how beautifully thoudost fiddle; I too, should like to learn that." "That is soon learnt,"said the musician, "thou hast only to do everything that I bid thee."
"Oh, musician," replied the little hare, "I will obey thee as a scholarobeys his master." They went a part of the way together until they cameto an open space in the forest, where stood an aspen tree. The musiciantied a long string round the little hare's neck, the other end of which hefastened to the tree. "Now briskly, little hare, run twenty times roundthe tree!" cried the musician, and the little hare obeyed, and when ithad run round twenty times, it had twisted the string twenty times roundthe trunk of the tree, and the little hare was caught, and let it pulland tug as it liked, it only made the string cut into its tender neck."Wait there till I come back," said the musician, and went onwards.
The wolf, in the meantime, had pushed and pulled and bitten at thestone, and had worked so long that he had set his feet at liberty and haddrawn them once more out of the cleft. Full of anger and rage he hurriedafter the musician and wanted to tear him to pieces. When the fox sawhim running, he began to lament, and cried with all his might, "Brotherwolf, come to my help, the musician has betrayed me!" The wolf drewdown the little tree, bit the cord in two, and freed the fox, who wentwith him to take revenge on the musician. They found the tied-up hare,whom likewise they delivered, and then they all sought the enemy together.
The musician had once more played his fiddle as he went on his way,and this time he had been more fortunate. The sound reached the ears ofa poor wood-cutter, who instantly, whether he would or no, gave up hiswork and came with his hatchet under his arm to listen to the music. "Atlast comes the right companion," said the musician, "for I was seeking ahuman being, and no wild beast." And he began and played so beautifullyand delightfully that the poor man stood there as if bewitched, and hisheart leaped with gladness. And as he thus stood, the wolf, the fox,and the hare came up, and he saw well that they had some evil design. Sohe raised his glittering axe and placed himself before the musician,as if to say, "Whoso wishes to touch him let him beware, for he willhave to do with me!" Then the beasts were terrified and ran back intothe forest. The musician, however, played once more to the man out ofgratitude, and then went onwards.
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