Literary pause.

SPYGLASS

I sat on the windowsill with my shirt pulled over my knees because my pants

Were at my mother's.

No, - said my mother and pushed aside the thread and the needle. - I do not

I can do more with this boy!

Yes, - said Dad and folded the newspaper. - They tear the devils on him, he climbs on

Fences, he jumps over trees and rushes over rooftops. You can't get enough of it!

Dad paused, looked at me ominously, and finally announced decisively:

But I finally came up with a remedy that will once and for all rid us of

This disaster.

I didn't mean it, ”I said. - What am I, on purpose, or what, yes? It is itself.

Of course, it’s itself, ”Mom said venomously. - Your pants have such

Bad temper, that they deliberately lie in wait for everyone all day

Carnation, cling to it and then torn specifically in order to

To piss off your mom. These are the insidious pants! It itself! It itself!

Mom could scream "it by itself" until the morning, because she already

Nerves were playing out, it could be seen with the naked eye. So I said

So what did you come up with?

Dad made a stern face and said to mom:

You need to strain all your abilities and invent an apparatus that

I would provide you with supervision of your son during his absence. To me

Today there is no time, today "Spartak" - "Torpedo", and you, you sit down at the table and,

Wasting no time, invent a telescope now. You have it very

It will turn out well, I know that you are a person in this respect very

Talented.

Dad got up, rummaged in his desk and put a small

A mirror with a broken corner, a rather large magnet and several different

Nails, a button and something else.

Here, ”he said,“ these are the materials you need. In search, brave and

Curious!

Mom accompanied him to the door, then came back and let me go into the yard

Take a walk. And when we all got together for dinner in the evening, my mother had

Fingers were stained with glue, and on the table lay a pretty pretty little blue

And a thick pipe. Mom took it, showed it to me from afar and said:

Well, Denis, look carefully!

What's this? I asked.

It's a spyglass! My invention! - answered my mother.

I said:

Surrounding the surroundings?

She smiled:

No neighborhood! And look after you.

I said:

It's very simple! - said mom. - I have invented and designed

A spyglass for parents, like a spyglass for sailors, only

Much better.

Dad said:

Can you explain, please, popularly, what is the matter here, what are the principles

The invention is based on what problems it solves, well, and so on.

Mom stood at the table, like a teacher at the blackboard, and began to speak

Now when I leave home I will always see you

Denis. I can go five to eight from home

Kilometers, but as soon as I feel that I haven't seen you for a long time and that I

I wonder what you are doing now, I immediately - chick! Direct my pipe in

The side of our house - I'm done! - I see you at full height.

Dad said:

Fine! The Schnitzel-Ptutser effect!

Then I was a little taken aback. I never thought that mom could invent

Such a thing. After all, she looks so thin, but look! Effect

Schnitzel-Ptutser!

I said:

But how, mom, will you know where our home is?

She replied without thinking at all:

And I have a compass magnet in my pipe. He always points to our

The reaction of Babkin-Nyansky, - said dad.

Quite right, my mother continued. - Thus, if you, Denis,

If you climb the fence or somewhere else, I will immediately see it.

I said:

What have you got there? Screen, or what?

She answered:

Sure. Do you remember the mirror? It casts your image straight

Inside my head. I can immediately see if you are shooting with a slingshot or just like that

You chase the ball without any sense.

Ordinary Kranz-Nichihanz law. Nothing special, - grumbled

Dad and suddenly, brightening up, asked: - I'm sorry, I'm sorry, please, I will

You. Can I have one question?

Yes, ask, ”Mom said.

Is your spyglass powered by electricity or

Semiconductors?

On electricity, ”Mom said.

Oh, then I warn you, - said Dad, - you watch out for closures.

Otherwise, it will close somewhere, and a flash will occur in your brain.

It won't happen, ”Mom said. - And what about the fuse?

Well, that’s another matter, ”Dad said. - But you still look, and

Then, you know, I'll worry.

I said:

Well, can you do such a thing for me? So that I can follow you

Look after?

What is this for? Mom smiled again. - I certainly won't climb

On the fence!

It’s not yet known, ”I said,“ maybe you’re not on the fence.

You will start to climb, but maybe you are clinging to cars? Or you ride

In front of them, like a goat?

Or are you fighting with the janitors? And you get into an argument with the police? -

Dad supported me and sighed: - Yes, it's a pity, we don't have such a machine,

So that we can watch you ...

But mom showed us her tongue:

Invented and executed in a single copy, what did they take? - It

She turned to me: - So know, now I keep you under

With your vigilant control!

And I thought that with such an invention, I started to get pretty

Sour life. But he didn't say anything, but nodded and then went to bed. And when

I woke up and began to live, then I realized that dark days had come for me. When

Mom's invention turned out that my life turns into a continuous

Torment. For example, you will realize that Kostya has been very

He got angry and it's time for him to properly poke him on the neck, but not

You make up your mind, it seems that your mother's spyglass is staring straight at you

In the back. And it is simply impossible to kick Kostya properly in such

Conditions. I'm not even talking about the fact that I completely stopped going to the Clean

Ponds to catch tadpoles there are full of pockets. And all mine

The happy, cheerful old life has now become forbidden to me. So

My days dragged on drearily, that I was melting like a candle, and I could not find a place for myself.

And the matter, probably, was just approaching a sad end, when suddenly

One day, when my mother left, I started looking for my old football camera, and in

The drawer where I keep all the waste khurda-burda, I suddenly saw ...

Mom's spyglass! Yes, she was lying among other rubbish, some

Orphaned, peeling, dull. It was obvious from everything that my mother had been

She does not use it, that she forgot to think about it. I grabbed her and

I opened it as soon as possible to see what was inside her, how she

It was arranged, but honestly, it was empty, there was nothing in it. Empty,

At least roll a ball!

Only then did I realize that these people deceived me and that my mother was nothing

Invented, but just like that, scared me with her fake pipe, and I, like

Gullible fool, he believed her and was afraid, and behaved like a decent excellent student.

And from all this I was so offended by the whole world, and by mom, and dad, and

All these things that I immediately ran out into the yard like crazy and started there

A great urgent fight with Kostya, and Andryushka, and with Alenka. And although they

The three of us beat me perfectly, all the same I was in a great mood,

And after the fight, the four of us climbed to the attic and to the roof, and then

They climbed the trees, and then went down to the basement, to the boiler room, to the very

Coal, and they were transported there just to the point of madness. And all this time I

I felt like a stone fell from my soul. And it was good, and

Free at heart, and easy, and fun, like on May Day.