╔════════════════════════ ═══════════════════ ═══════════════════╗ ║ Living corner... ║ ╙─────────────────────────────── ───────────────────────────────╜ (C) Artyom Studenikin It started on the seventeenth. I don’t remember the year and month, but that it’s September twenty-third, that’s for sure. I was nominated then yes from the enterprise to jump with a parachute for landing accuracy. I landed more accurately than everyone else, since the other participants did not managed to push him out of the plane. For this, at the meeting they presented me with a certificate and a healthy cactus. From- I couldn’t seem to, I dragged the freak home. I put it on the window and was about him. Moreover, I was instructed to focus on area for the honor of the team. And then one day, I don’t remember the year and month, but the number crashed - de- May 1969 - I woke up in a cold sweat. You won't behave Rita - a huge red bud was blazing on the cactus! Flower had such an effect on me that for the first time in many years I felt impeccable I was three minutes late for service, for which I was cut off from thirteen I give up my salary to discourage others. After a few days, the flower shriveled and fell off the cactus. The room became dark and sad. That's when I started collecting cacti. Throughtwo years I would have- about fifty pieces! Having familiarized yourself with the specialized literature, for What I had to learn the Mexican language, I managed to create at home houses for cacti have excellent conditions that are not inferior to natural nom. But it turned out that people barely survive in them. Therefore For a long time I could not adapt to the conditions that I created for cacti. But every day one of the cacti glowed red bud! I started correspondence with cactus growers from different countries and peoples, exchanged seeds with them. And then somehow, I don’t remember in what place... this year, but I remember that on the twenty-fifth of 1971, some An idiot from Brazil sent red grains. I planted it foolishly. Grew this is a mess very quickly. But when I realized what it was, - it was late! A huge baobabbishop took root in the floor and crawled out branches from the window and stuck to the glass of the neighbors above. They filed in comradely court. I was awarded a fine of twenty-five rubles and were obliged to cut branches from neighbors above each month and cut off the roots of neighbors below. They sent so many seeds! Soon I had limo- us, bananas and pineapples. Someone wrote to work that he didn't like it. It’s clear how I can afford such a table on my salary. I was invited to the local committee and tasked with collecting money for a gift. Vasiliev and check on him: “After all, the man is sick. It’s been two months already.” he doesn't walkto work. Maybe he's thirsty." I guess I'm confusing the chronology, but in the fall, after lunch, come to me a man came with a briefcase. We drank tea with banana jam, chatted, and before leaving he said: “Sorry, I feel you love- Bite the flora in general and the animal world in particular. I'm leaving sailing for a month, let Leshka stay with you during this time." He took Leshka out of his briefcase. It was a python. I am more than that person I haven’t seen it, but Leshka and I still live side by side. He really likes there are diet eggs, dumplings and a neighbor on the site, Claudia Petrovna. Soon journalists began to come to me. They photographed Lee, interviewed and pineapples. I'm afraid to make a mistake in the chronology, but in the year when I collected an unprecedented harvest of coconuts for our latitudes, young animals from the zoo They brought the little tiger cub Caesar. In the same harvest year we can The crews of the motor ship "Crimea" gave me two lion cubs as a gift. Stepan and Masha. I never thought it was possible to eat so much! All salary and ana- Nas not eaten by journalists were exchanged for meat. And also I had to mess around. But I didn’t feed in vain. A year later I had in the house two decent lions and one tiger. Or two tigers and one lion? But what does it matter? When Caesar got together with Mashka, I thought I would go crazy! Ste- Mr. made wild scenes for me. And bitten it out of griefostrich Hippolytus. But I have a free bed, because the nest, which is in Ippolit arranged for it, I threw it out as unnecessary. One morning, while taking a bath, I felt like I was taking one not alone. And exactly. Some hooligans planted a crocodile! Six months later, the crocodile brought offspring, although I still haven’t I understand where he brought it from, since he was alone. The newspapers wrote whether that this is a "rare case, because crocodiles are in captivity reproduce with difficulty." Why shouldn't he reproduce? I came with work and in this captivity I felt at home! Only once did I lose heart and, as advised, I left the door is open at night. They said maybe someone would leave. Results exceeded all expectations. Not only did no one leave, in the morning I discovered that he had three more cats, one mongrel and a neighbor, from whom whose wife left. The next morning a woman from forty roy, to whom her husband returned, and a pensioner who is very suffered from loneliness. How would you like to exhibit a pair with a one-year-old? a child? They said: “We can’t live with our mother-in-law anymore. Whatever you want, then and do it!" I allocated a place for them near the baobab tree. And the people reached out. A month later our tribe numbered together fifteen people with animals. We live together. In the evenings we collect sitting around the fire, some sing, others howl quietly, butmelody everyone is holding! Not long ago there was an excursion. People from out of town came take a look at our living corner. Everyone remained except the guide. She followed the next group. Yes, once it was anonymous. "Why is there so much unscripted life- ity lives illegally on an area of thirty-three square meters, and my husband and I are huddled together in an area of thirty-two square meters. military meters? Why are we worse than their cattle?" We know who wrote it. This is from the thirty-fourth Thin Heavy Hand. Doggystyle with mu- we fight until we get bruises, and then they say that the animals are They're getting dirty, they're hitting on strangers! Oh, I wish I could unleash Caesar and Stepan on them! Come on. Well, It turns out that if you live with wolves, everyone will howl like a wolf, or what? But what are they doing, huh? Poison is being poured on the stairs, the traps are Vyat. Sivolapov with a spear was banging on the door, shouting: “Let him go.” bear one on one, otherwise it’s boiling!” Well, savages! But here it’s quiet, peaceful: you move, I’ll sit down, I’ll get up, you la- chew. Yes, if anyone needs baobab seeds or just babies crocodile, come in. For exchange, bring... well, I don't know... beads beautiful, mirror, axes. And such sticks, you know... then- little... Rub it on the box - it turns out to be a fire. Honest words in!
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