“Conduit and Shvambrania” Kassil in brief
Main characters: mother, father, Oska – younger brother, Annushka, Marfusha, cousin Mitya, zemsky, director, Tsap-Tsarapich, inspector, Athos Recruit, Pharaoh, Joseph, Atlantis, Bindyug, Arkasha, Latin teacher – Tarakanus or Longer, the teacher of history “e-muet”, the teacher of French, the commissioner Chubarkov, three aunts, the military La Bazri de Bazan, Kirikov – the man with the toadstool, Dina.
Conduit
Oska and I lost the queen of our father’s chess, he put us in a corner. We came up with a new game: to play in the country – Shvambraniyu. Then the queen was found, but by that time my father had already cut another, and we made the old queen the guardian of the Schwambran mystery, imprisoned her in the grotto, which was taken from my mother. So we played for several years. Our country on the map was depicted in the form of a tooth, and around it were the oceans. Our Schwambrania waged wars with Balvonia and Caldonia. I
Schwambrania
Everywhere there were meetings, rallies, I also wanted to participate in them. We gathered a group of Boy Scouts and did good deeds. The end of the conduit has come: we burned it together with the diaries at the stake near the gymnasium. The summer of 1918, we spent in the village of Kvasnikovka, struck nettles and destroyed grebes, found a huge fly-agaric. For our absence, the Breshka has changed, the wine store of one rich man was defeated. Our gymnasium was united with the female. We went there ourselves and chose our girls for class. Still newcomers from the higher primary school arrived to us, but they did not like us. The girls came up with a new game – “peepers.” In the evenings, dancing was arranged and we watched that the boys from the “B” class did not dance with our girls. In the gymnasium tea was given with a refined sugar, which was a deficit. I dragged sugar home and put it as an untouchable stock. I was in the dining room distributor of sugar. Bindyug offered sugar, which remains, divided into two. I refused, he set me a footboard and I bruised my forehead. Osku was taken to school, and I taught him how not to be beaten. “Glyadelka” forgotten, all were carried away by the French struggle, and Oska, among others. We have a new teacher of history “e-muet”, we liked it. Our gymnasium began to wander around the city. We catch up with algebra, the teacher remains with us after school, parents are shocked. Our class offered class “B” to measure forces in algebra. We were preparing for this day before midnight, and we could only walk up to 11, and the patrol took us. We said that we went to the pharmacy for castor oil. Champion – Bindyug, our class won. But it turned out that Bindyug was writing off, so fame and sugar were divided into two classes. The commissioner asks us to stay after the lessons and draw posters about the syepnyak. Although there was a great desire, but we stayed. After that, the commissar got sick, he had typhus, the temperature was 41. The commissar recovered, but was still weak. They transferred him to an apartment, I brought him books. On the wall he had a poster on which the Red Army man pokes his finger. I look at him, and he looks at me, as if we are playing peeks. I brought him my sugar for tea, but before me they also “tried” and brought it. Cape Oskoy introduced mortality in Schwambrania, Oska said that on the street a soldier asked him about Schwambrania. I think that Oska believes in her true existence. At school, he told us about our country, he was assured that there was none, and the soldier did not ask about Schwambrania, but about the headquarters. Three aunts came to visit us. One does not pronounce “p”, the other – ” l. “They decided to take up our education, we moved to another house, the pope said that people are miserable slaves of things Children, learn to despise things We broke up the dish, to which the pope said we are vandals and before we despise things, you need to learn how to protect and earn them. “Mom was not at home, and at that time they took the piano.” Mom was shocked: under the lid was a valuable bundle of foreign fragrant soap, and we added Schwambran documents to it. “I’ve played for all the polka, chastushki, and my mother was an overture from” Prince Igor. “Everything was and delighted. The commissioner recovered and was settled next to us. Oska played with him in the “Lapki-Chopka”, then his father joined in. In another room was occupied the military La Bazri de Bazan, whom his aunts called the Marquis, in the third room the commission on struggle against desertion has settled down. We had a packet with soap, Papa called Cheka, found a parcel from the Marquis, and also found our maps of Schwambrania, we had to tell the boss about our country, which caused him a fit of laughter. We again moved. Our aunts took us to the theater every day. Lunacharsky. Pokrovsk seized the craze for theater. Even children’s studios opened, where they also recorded us. Dad went to the front, and I was the main man in the house. The hungry times have come. I give literacy and numeracy lessons per month for a pound of meat. Sugar from my untold stock is eaten only on weekends. Mom changed the shell grotto to a quarter of kerosene. In Schwambrania, there came a period of decline. She was placed in the palace of the Ugry. Oska and I examined the dead house and fell into the basement. Someone grabbed us. It was Kirikov – a man with a toadstool, he invented an elixir there. Dina’s cousin moved to live with us, she liked us, and she also pinched her aunt’s tails. Dean was taken as the head of the library. There we organized a literary circle. The commissar fell in love with our Dean. Dad fell ill: he had a sypnyak, Atlantis died. In Schwambrania we are already bored to play, Oska and I went to the alchemist. It turned out that he did not an elixir, but a simple moonshine. Soon came my father, yellow with a long beard and lice. Our library again wants to close, because there is no firewood. We offered to dismantle Schwambrania for firewood. So our country did not become. The commissar fell in love with our Dean. Dad fell ill: he had a sypnyak, Atlantis died. In Schwambrania we are already bored to play, Oska and I went to the alchemist. It turned out that he did not an elixir, but a simple moonshine. Soon came my father, yellow with a long beard and lice. Our library again wants to close, because there is no firewood. We offered to dismantle Schwambrania for firewood. So our country did not become. The commissar fell in love with our Dean. Dad fell ill: he had a sypnyak, Atlantis died. In Schwambrania we are already bored to play, Oska and I went to the alchemist. It turned out that he did not an elixir, but a simple moonshine. Soon came my father, yellow with a long beard and lice. Our library again wants to close, because there is no firewood. We offered to dismantle Schwambrania for firewood. So our country did not become.
The cover was renamed Engels. I was recently in Engels to congratulate Father Oske: he had a daughter. Oska still confuses the words. We read with him all about Schwambrania, remember childhood. Everything has changed in the city. Even in Schwambrania this was not.