Then the Pig said, “I do not mind any frost whatsoever: I will burrow into the ground and do without any izbá .”

Then the Goose said, “I will sit in the middle of this spruce, lie on one wing, and cover myself over with the other, and the cold cannot touch me. That is how I shall pass the winter.”

Then the Cock said, “I shall do the same.”

Then the Ox saw he could not do any good: every man must do as he likes. “Well,” he said, “as you wish. I am going to build an izbá .”

So he built himself an izbá , and he lived in it.