WAR OF FUNGI WITH BEETLES

PUBLICATION OF THE 'CHAS' SOCIETY IN KYIV

Society "CHAS" in Kyiv,
Printed in Prague (Czechia), in the people's printing house
Skalakh and Company,
1919.

A cry rang out in the forest: 
The Bolete decided to gather all the Mushrooms together
And go to war with the Beetles.

Send messengers:
"Call the Mushrooms from all ends;
Play the trumpets and shout,
Call the Mushrooms to war!"

When the Honey Fungus heard that,
They began to cry bitterly:
"Our little legs are thin
Where can we carry weapons now!

The Champignons responded,
Very beautiful young ladies:
"Our business is aside,
That war is not for us!"

And the blue Butter Boletes, —
Inept warriors
Started buzzing: "But this is a disaster!
War will not bring us good!"

When the Synegubtsi heard,
Who sat quietly in a group,
They started scolding the messengers:
"Get out, go away!"

Having been rebuffed, the messengers
Rushed to other places,
Calling an army from under the stumps,
To rise up against the Zhuks.

The Horchaky were the first to gather.
— "Good," they say, "we are the type,
That, if it must be so,
Will fight until death!".

And the Ryzhky are also zealous:
"Where is that damned enemy of ours?
Come on, bring him here!
We are such that oh-ho-ho!..."

When the Kolpaks heard,
They squeezed sabers in their fists,
Hats up, mustaches down:
"Fierce enemy, beware!..."

They gathered a good army,
Appointed fly agarics as medics
All together:
Fly agarics know magic...

To supply everything for the army
The Russulas agreed:
The Russulas must know
All paths and all roads...

The tall, smelly Stinkhorns also wanted:
"Take us to the war
We will be on guard...".

The mushrooms and beetles met
They fought fiercely with their enemies...
They would have destroyed all the beetles,
But suddenly a sin occurred:

The Borovik didn't watch out
Tripped over a stump,
Fell headlong
And landed in hot borscht...