Real book of a red-skined man. V. Chizhov

and secret currency. Lie down where it is convenient for you. Don’t you dare lick me anymore. You are already a big dog»! – said Mamuka.

      The four-legged companion stuck out his tongue, licked his lips and wandered off to his favorite place.

      «I’m listening to you attentively», – Hanukkah muttered barely audibly.

      As in every country, we had money. We kept them in a bank. For this, the most courageous, namely Mamuka, that is, I, crept into Giant and quietly took the glass jar. The giants were furious. They shouted after them when the Indian ran away with the right thing to his home. Now that we are at peace with Giant and its inhabitants, we can simply ask for this thing, promising to return the jar closer to winter.

      Hunting in Komaria can be incredibly rich! The main thing is to get hold of a large glass jar at the beginning of summer!

      – «And will it make me rich?»? – asked Hanukkah.

      – «Yes! Exactly»! – answered the reader Mamuka.

      You have already noticed how the annoying squeak of a mosquito begins at night. Having caught a bloodthirsty creature, you must put it in a jar. By the fall, you will already have a huge capital by the standards of Komaria. One rich man had three full cans of mosquitoes. We called him: – «Great Khantman the hunter of bloodsuckers». He had no equal in catching these insects!

      – «And if I slam him. Inadvertently. What will happen»? – asked the formidable dog Hanukkah.

      – «This is exactly what you need to do! Otherwise, they will break free and eat you»! – Mamuka explained.

      A long time ago when the first Indian walked under that sun. A squeaky tribe hunted him. The leader of the mosquitoes Iramok ordered to bite the Indian so that he quickly left this place. The brave progenitor of Mamuka fought with flying insects for a long time. His hands were bitten so that they were all covered with pimples. The battle for a place under the sun lasted for three days and three nights.

      And when the stars and the moon were darkened a rooster sang. The exhausted Indian slapped the leader of the mosquitoes Iramoka. However, he collapsed to the ground from fatigue. For five days and ten nights, he slept peacefully until a new leader of the mosquitoes appeared.

      Iramok II gathered an army and again wanted to bite the Indian. The clever ancestor of Mamuka decapitated the army with one blow. The insects folded their wings and promised to serve the winner until the end of spring. The first Indian proclaimed this country Komaria.

      As time went. Summer has come. The vile Iramok the Third again gathered an army and attacked the king of Komaria. So these wars went on and on.

      There is a legend that there is a brave mosquito hunter. The earth will get rid of bloodthirsty creatures and peace will come. The Chosen One will be able to find the most important leader of «Iramoka some there» and will be able to rid the land of this tribe.

      – «It will be me»! – said the dog Hanukkah.

      – «My dear friend, I will only be glad, then you will become the leader of the tribe».

      Now it is no longer known what summer, but the clouds of mosquitoes do not stop in Komaria. Year after year, they make peace, but as soon as the sun’s rays warm up, these flying creatures begin to squeak and bite. No one knows where Chief Iramoka’s lair is. He constantly sends his scouts to interfere with sleep. Using the cover of darkness, they attack and disappear into the darkness. There are also huge scouts!

      – «Huge»? – asked Hanukkah in surprise.

      – «Yes! The size of a dozen small mosquitoes! Their wings can break a light bulb»!

      – «A light bulb»?

      – «Once a huge mosquito Rokiy broke a light bulb and disintegrated into ten mosquitoes. They immediately took advantage of the darkness and bit one Indian of the Mamuka tribe».

      – «Ten mosquitoes»? – Hanukkah was surprised.

      – «You listen, listen. Rocky, though large, but slow. It’s easy to spot. He doesn’t bite. Its purpose is to distract and disturb. It can bang out the window or fly next to a light bulb, but it only attracts your attention. All so that small mosquitoes take advantage of your panic over Rokia and bite you».

      – «And they are cunning! The dog barked».

      – «Yes! And fast, and sometimes invisible»!

      Mosquitoes are very afraid of the smell of tomato plants and valerian. There is a magical squad of alchemists in Giantania. They mixed magic ingredients and got ointments and perfumes to become invisible to mosquitoes.

      – «Hanukkah! You have to go to Giant and ask for a large three-liter jar».

      Any Indian knows the habits of a four-legged companion in advance. If you have to go to the kitchen, then your faithful friend will rush there. Carefully observing Hanukkah, one could notice a strange feature: when Mamuka turned away, Hanukkah raised his ears, but as soon as the Indian turned sharply, he immediately turned away.

      Any dog can learn to speak. The main thing is to read books aloud to him. The more Hanukkah remembers the words, the better. At the end of one of the books he had read, the dog gave a voice. It’s hard to get Hanukkah to sit in one place and listen to the reading. Only the wisest or cunning Indians can achieve this result.

      Quest from Mamuka: Komaria Bank

      «The Great Khantman the hunter of bloodsuckers» was constantly on the hunt. When everyone was sitting on a bench with friends, he collected his prey in a matchbox. Then he came to his secret place and poured the booty into a jar. He himself hid her away from everyone so that no one would rob him. He collected three cans over the summer! And then he exchanged it for a real Indian hut!

      Ask the giants for a three-liter jar. Hide the jar itself in a dry place so that adults cannot see it. Find a secret place for the can. Better if it is somewhere on the street. During the day, it is better to expose the jar to the sun so that the mosquitoes dry out. Be sure to hide the can from the rain. Find an empty matchbox to use as a wallet and stack your loot in a day. In the evening, having counted their number, shake it out into the jar. Keep a record of mosquitoes. If on the first day there were 10 of them, and then 5, then the bank will be 15. Accounting should be kept in order to know how many of them you have. Now what needs to be done:

      – ask for a three-liter jar;

      – hide in a secret place;

      – find an empty matchbox;

      If a three-liter can is not available, a large cardboard box will do.

      Feathers

      After the bank has been tucked away in a secluded place, we can proceed to a very important task. First you have to explain that the Indians collected bird feathers for various purposes. Think you only have a feather in an Indian headdress? You will need them for other things too! We will create with you: a roach – a hat with feathers, amulets, dream catchers and even learn how to make tattoos!

      – «But what about the arrows»? – asked Hanukkah.

      – «We will make arrows without feathers, because we live in the world. Many feathers cannot be collected over the summer, they are worth the weight of three hundred dried mosquitoes»!

      – «How much weight»? – the dog asked Mamuka.

      – «When we gather the tribe, we will have our own currency. For three hundred mosquitoes, you can exchange a real bird feather»!

      – «Wise Indian»»! – Hanukkah growled, looking sullenly at the man with the book.

      – «Of course, because mosquitoes are caught in fair battles», – Mamuka replied.

      There is