Stories just like that. Pozner V.V., Kipling R.

A few years ago, it happened that I ended up in the company of quite adults and with their young children. It was on a sailboat, and I offered the children to be thrown overboard, and I suggested that I could believe in the seriousness of my intentions. The children were slightly scared, and I, using a pause, told them about the elephant. They listened without saying a word, and when I finished, they demanded more.

Then I told them about a cat that walked on its own. "More! "-they shouted, and I decided to tell them about Suleiman-Ibn-Daud and Motylka...

Then one mother said to me:" Would you like to translate these stories and write them down? " And I thought: why not?