In a fairy-tale village there lived a little puppy named Tuzik. He was cheerful and sociable, had many friends, but they found it uninteresting to play with a small puppy and constantly ran away from him, hiding.
Tuzik kept pestering them with questions: why, where were they running to, but his friends always joked it off, saying he was still too small. One day, hearing those same words again, the little dog felt hurt, cried, and decided to leave home forever.
Tuzik took a bag, packed his favourite toys, took a book from the shelf that he never parted with—these were his favourite fairy tales, he knew them all by heart—and went off into the world.
The puppy wandered around the area for a long time until one day he stumbled into a village. Running past a beautiful building, Tuzik heard children's voices and became curious. He decided to pop in for a visit.
The children, seeing a little puppy with a book in his paws, ran up to him, started petting him and asking about the bright book. The puppy was so happy that they were interested in him that he was ready to share all the knowledge he had.
The children, in turn, gave him a tour of the grounds. Tuzik understood that he had nowhere to go, so he decided to ask the children to let him stay with them. He really wanted attention and care.
From that time on, the children often visited the puppy, played with him, and he would take the book out of his bag and tell them his favourite fairy tales.
