Vovochka’s parents sent her to stay with her aunt, who settled in the Congo. The aunt says to Vovochka: “Vovochka, take a bucket and go to the pond for water.” Vovochka goes to the pond, but when he sees a crocodile looking out from there, he throws the bucket and runs headlong back. Auntie:
– Vovochka, where is the water? Where did you put the bucket?
– There’s a crocodile sitting in the pond. He looked at me like that.
– Vovochka, this crocodile has been sitting there for 10 years and has never harmed anyone. So feel free to get water and don’t be afraid of the crocodile, he was probably even more afraid of you than you were of him. “That’s the point
– if he was even more afraid of me than I was of him, it means that the water in this pond has become undrinkable.”
