When dinner time came Budulinek hadn’t anything to eat.
In the evening when Granny came home she said:
“Budulinek, did you open the door and let any one in?”
Budulinek was crying again because he was so hungry, and he said:
“Yes, I let in Lishka, the old mother fox, and she ate up all my porridge, too!”
“Budulinek, you’re a bad boy!” Granny said. “If you open the door again, I’ll have to spank you! Do you hear?”
The next morning before she went to work, Granny cooked some peas for Budulinek’s dinner.
As soon as Granny was gone he began eating the peas, they were so good.
Presently Lishka, the fox, came and knocked on the door.
“Budulinek!” she called. “Open the door! I want to come in!”
But Budulinek wouldn’t open the door. He took his bowl of peas and went to the window and ate them there where Lishka could see him.
“Oh, Budulinek!” Lishka begged. “You know
