Once upon a time there were people in the city of Cardamom, and next to them lived three robbers: Esper, Casper and Jonathan, and their big domestic lion …
During the Summer and Sun Festival, they robbed the city in the middle of the day, even stole a tram — they really wanted to ride. For this, policeman Bastian put them in jail. They were treated politely there, they did everything to make them have a good life. They learned to wash themselves and became very kind, even saved the main Tower in the city from a fire, and Bastian let them go: “You can do everything!” — “Everything, everything, everything ?!” — «Everything, everything, everything!» And they began to work in the city: Casper in the circus with a lion, Jonathan as a fireman, and Esper as a baker.
If I had been brought up like that too — only affectionately and politely — I would clean the room every time! Nothing that I already tell about myself? I would do my homework … But what, I’m already a schoolboy. And I wouldn’t be distracted while eating. If I was allowed to do everything, everything, everything, I would not agree to everything. But in the morning I would have eaten myself, packed my bag and gone to school! Sometimes his mother collects, but I want to — always myself …
Written by Elena Pestereva.
Translated from Norwegian by Tatiana Velichko and Yuri Vronsky.
White Crow, 146 p.