Bull's Winter House
My reading of a short story - Bull's Winter House - from the children's anthology "A Book of Magic Animals" by Ruth Manning-Sanders (1974). This is the tenth story in the collection. It is a Russian tale, I am not sure of the vintage but feel it reflects a certain Communist sentiment about selfish freeloaders not pulling together to help the worthy bull - an appropriate animal for a culture fixated on the image of the noble peasant labourer. The ending though does not seem to carry the sanctimonious schadenfreude I would expect of a Communist country so perhaps the outcome reflects the views of Manning-Sanders herself or whoever she initially heard the story from.