After a while he again said to himself, "Time is beginning to pass heavily with me here in the forest, I will fetch hither another companion," and took his fiddle and again played in the forest. It was not long before a fox came creeping through the trees towards him. "Ah, there's a fox coming!" said the musician.
Prese il violino, e di nuovo si diffuse il suono nel bosco. Poco dopo, ecco venire una volpe strisciando fra gli alberi. "Ah, viene una volpe," disse il violinista, quella non la desidero proprio.