User:Valentyn Fedotov/Give a paw friend bear

Give a paw friend bear The story of the writer Petukhov Anatoly Vasilievich, written in 1976. A story about village children, about their struggle with poachers, about friendship with nature.

Plot. The action of the story takes place in a village, probably in one of the northern regions. An elderly villager, Makar Ivanovich, a former hunter, comes to the foreman of the collective farm and reports that a she-bear with three cubs is raiding the oat field, which is officially called Strelikha. The foreman writes a letter to the city with a request to send hunters, as he is afraid of being held accountable because of the eaten oats. The foreman's son Valerka, together with his friend Andryushka, decide to prevent the hunters from killing the bear, because if the bear is killed, the cubs will die without her. After listening to the stories of an experienced hunter Makar Ivanovich, they decide to pour tobacco along the edge of the oat field, as tobacco will become an obstacle so that the bears do not go to the oats. Unexpectedly, Valerka and Andryushka quarrel because Andryushka decided to be friends with Borka, who always bullies everyone, and whom no one in the village respected. But Borka subsequently did not let Andrey down and helped him with everything he could to protect the bear. Soon one of the hunters, Igor Makarovich, in whose car the hunters came from the city to the village, leaves for the city for reinforcements and a dog. Learning about this, Andryushka and Borka dyed the sack black, stuffed it with grass and dragged it unnoticed across the field at dusk. The hunter Georgy Dementievich, who remained further in the village, as the guys expected, shot at the bag, mistaking it for a bear. Returning to the foreman's house from the hunt, not without the help of the latter (the foreman had to come for the hunter on a motorcycle, since the hunter was sure that the bear he "shot" was wounded in the bushes and could attack), he called Igor Makarovich, and then on the next morning I returned to the village with another hunter, Slavik, and a black husky. Together they went to the field, but, of course, they did not find anything. Georgy Dementievich was put to shame, the hunters all left for the city together, having agreed with Makar Ivanovich that he would find a bear den for them in the forest, which he did in November, and then the hunters in the same composition arrived again in the village, Makar Ivanovich took them on a sleigh to the lair. And there he immediately realized that the hunters were poachers (Valerka also understood this when he accidentally overheard their conversation earlier), because they did not know how to shoot properly. They killed the bear described above and two cubs, the third bear managed to escape, although he was injured. The guys reported to the village council that the district and district rangers came to the forest for the hunters, who confiscated all three bears that had been shot illegally. Andryushka and Borka go into the forest in the footsteps of the hunters, and they manage to find a wounded third bear cub, and they brought him to Andryushka's house, where they called a veterinarian who cured the bear cub, and in the spring he was taken to the forest and released.