Teddy bear and Stasik were sitting in the garden on a bench and talking. Only they talked not just like the other guys, but told each other different tall tales, as if they were arguing about who would fool around.
- How old are you? - asks Mischutka.
- Ninety-five. And you?
- And I'm a hundred and forty. You know," says Mischutka, "I used to be big, big, like Uncle Boris, and then I was little.
- And I, - says Stasik - was small at first, and then grew big, and then became small again, and now again soon will be big.
Fantasist's story by the author Noses
- And I, when I was a big one, could cross the whole river," says Mischutka.
- У! And I could swim across the sea!
- What do you mean, the sea! I was crossing the ocean!
A boy in the sea
- I used to fly!
- Come on, fly!
- Now I can't: I forgot.
The boy flies the story of Fantasists
- And I once bathed in the sea," says Mishuka, "and I was attacked by a shark. I bang her with my fist and she bit me off.
A shark is a Fantasist's story
- You're lying!
- No, really!
- Why didn't you die?
- Why should I die? I swam ashore and went home.
- Without my head?
- Of course, without a head. Why would I need a head?
- How did you go without a head?
- So he went. It was as if you couldn't walk without a head.
- Why are you now with your head?
- The other one grew up.
"Cleverly invented! - jealous of Stasik. He wanted to lie better than Mishuki.
- Well, what is it? - he said. - I was in Africa once, and I was eaten by a crocodile there.
- That's how he lied! - Teddy Bear laughed.
- Not at all.
- Why are you alive now?
- So he spit me out later.
Teddy bear thought about it. He wanted to turn Stasik. He thought, thought, finally said:
- Once I was walking down the street. There were trams, cars, trucks around...
- I know, I know! - Stasik shouted. - Now you will tell us how the tram ran over you. You already lied about it.
- Nothing like that. I'm not talking about that.
- Well, okay. Lie on.
- So I'm going, I don't touch anybody. Suddenly, I meet a bus. I didn't notice it, I stepped on it with my foot - one time! - and crushed him into a cake.
- Ha-ha-ha-ha! These are the enemies!
- Well, here are no enemies!
- How could you crush the bus?
- So it was very small, toy. His boy was dragging him on a rope.
- Well, it's not surprising," said Stasik. - And I flew to the moon once.
- Eva, where did you go? - Mishuk laughed.
- You don't believe me? Honestly!
- What were you flying on?
- On a rocket. What else do they fly to the moon? As if you don't know!
- What did you see on the Moon?
- Well, what ..." Stasik said. - What did I see there? I did not see anything.
- Ha-ha-ha-ha! - Mishuk laughed. - And he said he flew to the moon!
- Of course, I flew.
- Why didn't you see anything?
- And it was dark. I flew at night. In a dream. I sat down on a rocket and how I would fly to outer space. Ooh! And then I'll fly back... I flew, flew, and then I woke up...
- Ah," Teddy Bear said. - I would say so at once. I didn't know that you were in a dream.
Here Igor from the neighborhood came and sat down next to him on a bench. He listened, listened to Mischutka and Stasik, and then said:
- That's a lie! And you are not ashamed?
- And why is it a shame? We do not deceive anyone," said Stasik. - We just make it up as if we're telling fairy tales.
- Tales! - Igor snorted with contempt. - Found a lesson!
- And you think it's easy to invent!
- What is easier!
- Well, invent something.
- Now..." said Igor. - Please.
Teddy bear and Stasik were happy and prepared to listen.
- Now, - Igor repeated. - Er...um...um...
- Well, that you're all "a" and "a" and "a"!
- Now! Let me think about it.
- Well, think, think!
- Uh," Igor said again and looked at the sky. - Now, now... uh...
- Well, why aren't you making this up? I told you what was easier!
- Now... Here! Once I teased a dog, and it bit my leg with a trunk and bit me. Even the scar was left.
- Well, what are you thinking here? - Stasik asked.
- Nothing. As it was, so did I.
- And he said - to invent a master!
- I am a master, but not like you. You're all lying, but it's no use, and I lied yesterday, it's good for me.
- What is the use?
- But here. Last night Mom and Dad left, and I stayed home with Ira. Ira went to bed, and I climbed into the buffet and ate half a jar of jam. Then I think: no matter how hard I got. I took Irke's lips with jam.
Mom came: "Who ate the jam? I said: "Ira. My mother looked, and she had all her lips in jam. This morning she got it from her mother, and my mother gave me more jam. That's the use.
- So, because of you, someone else got hurt, and you are glad! - Mischutka said.
- And what about you?
- I got nothing. But you are this one, as it is called... Brechun! Here!
- You are the bullies!
- Go away! We don't want to sit on the bench with you.
- I will not sit with you myself.
Igor got up and left. Teddy bear and Stasik also went home. On the way they got a tent with ice cream. They stopped, started digging through their pockets and counting how much money they had. They both had only one portion of ice cream.
- We will buy a portion and divide it in half," Igor suggested.
The saleswoman gave them ice cream on a stick.
Let's go home, - says Mishutika, - we'll cut the knife to be exact.
- Let's go.
They met Ira on the stairs. Her eyes were crying.
- What were you crying about? - asks Mishuka.
- My mother wouldn't let me go for a walk.
- For what?
- For jam. And I didn't eat it. Igor said that to me. Probably ate it myself, but blamed it on me.
- Of course, Igor ate it. He bragged about us himself. You don't cry. Come on, I'll give you my half of the ladies' ice cream," Mishuka said.
- And I'll give you my half of the ice cream, but I'll try it once and give it to you," Stasik promised.
- Don't you want to give it to yourself?
- We don't want to. We already ate ten servings today," said Stasik.
- Let's split this ice cream into three," Ira suggested.
- That's right! - Stasik said. - It will hurt your throat if you eat the entire portion alone.
They went home and divided the ice cream into three parts.
- Tasty thing! - said Mishuka. - I really like ice cream. Once I ate a whole bucket of ice cream.
- Well, you're making it all up! - Ira laughed. - Who's to believe you ate an ice cream bucket?
- So it was very small, a bucket! It was so paper, no more than a glass...