A. Paraphrase the following excerpt taken from the text:

This, too, happened as the fox said; they carried off the bird, the princess mounted again, and they rode on to a great wood. Then the fox came, and said, 'Pray kill me, and cut off my head and my feet.' But the young man refused to do it: so the fox said, 'I will, at any rate, give you good counsel: beware of two things: ransom no one from the gallows, and sit down by the side of no river.' Then away he went 'Well,' thought the young man, 'it is no hard matter to keep that advice.'​