1 what the forest sprite lost and won by playing cards.
2 one day a forest sprite went to the tavern placed in the village polom to drink spirits. 
3 first he bid (the innkeeper) to pour him spirits in a glas. 
4 he was drinking and said: "what is this! it hardly didn't moisten my mouth! pour me your spirits into a bucket!"
5 he seized the bucket full of spirits and drank it up like a glass (spirits).
6 the innkeeper started to be afraid: "for who do i cater in a similar manner? i've never saw such a drinking like this!"
7 hence (that the forest sprite drank that much) he noticed (the way he saw) and said: this isn't a great man. his body is wide, but by the way (himself) is short, his clothes are poor - so so la la. he is the forest sprite!"
8 the forest sprite said: "don't you want to come out? i'll show you something!"
9 at first the innkeeper didn't dare to go out, when he (the forest sprite) called him.
10 the forest sprite called him a second time: "you are alone, i am alone, what are you afraid of?"
11 now the inkeeper went out; he saw more than thousand rabbits lying on the ground and all of them looking at the forest sprite.
12 the forest sprite gave (the innkeeper) money for the spirits
13 thereupon he said: "i have (still) to reach today the governorate permian. this rabbits i lost by playing cards against the permian forest sprite. look! i lead them (already to him)! but i won elks from him".
14 he whistled, and all rabbits were line up like soldiers; he cracked his whip - and the rabbits were all gone goodness knows where.
15 from that time on, there are more elks in this area than before, but less rabbits.
16 he (the forest sprite by playing cards against another forest sprite) lost squirrels somewhere in (actually in the direction of) the region of kaigorod.