/How the Cunning Beast Deceived the Eight Hunters/
And so the long-awaited winter has arrived.
Palych, on wide hunting skis, hurriedly walks around a small forest. The huntsman has a strange thing: he glances at the trail and puts a stick in his pocket. The entry trail is the stick in the left pocket, the exit trail is in the right. He runs around the forest, shakes out the sticks. Everyone gathers in a circle, waiting - "even" or "odd"? Palych breathes on his hands, carefully counts... There are exactly nineteen sticks, which means "odd!" Then, without delay, someone grabs a spool of flags and runs off along the ski trail.
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Author Vasily Peskov