The very next day the fox went out hunting for food and the cat stayed at home. She ran all round the forest until at last she caught a duck. She was carrying the duck home when she met a wolf.
"Hi, fox, give me that duck!"
"I won't!"
"Then I'll take it!"
"And I'll tell Felix Ivanovich, he'll send you to the scaffold."
"Who's Felix Ivanovich?"
"Haven't you heard of Felix Ivanovich? He was sent from the Siberian woods to be governor over us. I used to be Miss Fox, now I'm Lizbeth Ivanovna, the governor's wife."
"That's the first I've heard of it, Lizbeth Ivanovna. How can I get to see him?"
"My Felix Ivanovich is so bad tempered, he eats anybody he doesn't take a liking to! You kill a sheep and bring it to him as a present. Put it where he can see it and then go and hide in some place so that he can't see you; you'll be in trouble if you don't do as I tell you!"
The wolf went to look for a sheep and the fox went on home.
