– Hello to you! My barin for the apartment sent money.
– There were bars and all left! – Zhukov told.
– Well, owner, perhaps, Wagner.
– And here she will tell us!.
– Tell us, Fima what your «barin» with dogs does.
Fima hopelessly waved a hand.
– It is a lot of dogs at it? Tell the truth!
– How many at it dogs, I cannot tell: it does not let me in the second room where they at it. And dogs are. It is heard as bark. At the night of times I spotted in a shchelochka. Well? The dog attached on a short collar sits. Cannot lay down. To sleep it, it is visible, death as there is a wish. The head and hangs. And he sits near yes it so tenderly under a neck tickles: does not allow to sleep. And he does not sleep. He never sleeps!
– How so does not sleep? The person cannot but sleep.
– I do not know as but only does not sleep at all. And long ago threw out a bed. «That it – says – and the rank was not! A bed – says – only to patients it is necessary».
Zhukov and Krotov bewildered looked at each other.
– There is a madman!
– Not otherwise, as the madman – Fima willingly agreed. – Only my habit: fifteen years live I at it, and that would leave him long ago… There was a person as the person, and already for about a year absolutely to himself is not similar. Just like not in.
– What it began at it with?
– Who knows it? Perhaps to a malefice?. He started it seems anew as to do gymnastics. You will come to it to the room, he as if dances: the right leg it seems as the Pole, and left – it seems as a waltz. And hands differently beats off. And then began to mow with eyes. Sits in front of the mirror and mows with eyes. Once I look at it, and at it one eye in a ceiling looks, and another – on a floor. I so also banged all ware on a floor – was stupefied.
– The doggie shmemansky is known by you? Dez klinut.
– White, kudlastenky such? How not to know!
– And so, whether your owner and this doggie dragged off?
– To see did not see, and everything can be. I was chattered, and there the iron will cool down… There is money!.
– What so it is not enough?
– The barin speaks, my owner that he in TsIKAPU is written down and has the right for the additional area.
– What such TsIKAPU? – asked Moles.
– TsEKUBU! – Zhukov guessed.
– Let the certificate will present for now still has to pay. And report.
– All right! – And, outdoing edge of an apron, red-cheeked Fima ran out from the room.
– It is necessary to report to militia. This madman still will set fire to the house or will bump off whom!
Case on charge of professor Wagner of theft of dogs collected a packed house of public. Acquaintances, meeting each other, asked:
– You too on «dog business»?. According to the agenda?
– No, out of curiosity!. Professor – and suddenly steals dogs!. What he, eats them?.
– And I according to the agenda. Witness. And my Jolly-boat was gone! Good dog. I think to make the civil suit…
– I ask to get up!.
Judges enter the hall.
– Case on charge of the citizen Ivan Stepanovich Wagner of theft is heard…
Professor Wagner approached a table. By sight it could give no more than forty years.
In his nutbrown hair, in a broad fair-haired beard and the hung moustaches it was possible to notice only a few silvery hairs. Fresh complexion, rosy cheeks and shining eyes breathed by force and health.
«And about this person said that he does not sleep at all!» – the judge thought, bewildered inspecting the defendant. He expected to meet the emaciated old man. And already with a keen interest the judge began to ask formal questions.
