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there's no need to bum any lookout. From the fourth floor
mustachios.
window of a large grey house
She: And what about the somebody shouted: "We are
not
element of laughter?
on fire!" ''Good boy, Prokhor·
He: There'll be laughter all chuk!" said Fire Chief Gor·
right. When do people laugh? bushin to Fireman Prokhorchuk,
When things are good for them. a middle-aged Ukrainian with
And isn't it good that there's no large black mustachios, "you're
fire? It's very good. And so following the regulations." Prok·
everybody will laugh. R ead horchuk smiled and aimed a
jet
what you have now.
of water at his mustachio. It
was
I
She: (reading) "A Noble dawning.
Deed." It was the dead of night
He: There we have a good
-three o'clock. Some people piece of writing! Now it can
be
slept while others kept a sharp published!
(Translated
by
Andrew
R.
MacAndrew)
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