Anchor In A Striped Vest

Anchor In A Striped Vest

Author: Anatoly Yeremeyev
Interpreter: Danil Solntsev

Chapter 1

  Starley spittingly sworn the all possible devils out of his mouth.
- Look here, cadet Lozhkin! - No words to express, what a sloven you are!
  Trying to be somewhat polite, starley grabbed Lozhkin for his collar.
Lozhkin frowned in a mine of a certain mean concentration, still trying not to burst out in a suffocating sarcastic laughter.
- To bring you up for our honest fleet, will surely be a problem.
  Kortikov, a senior lieutenant, had a reputation of a brilliant officer, an exemplary red-tape-monger communist. He was tall, ideally constituted, firm and exact and a mere career addict.
  Lozhkin adored him - meekly.
- I see you to our security check point all the same, -  added Kortikov.
- I still ought to be shaved, -  meakly protested cadet, 5 clampy rubles in his sweated fist.
- Hush, it is OK, no need in this, as me being happy with your appearance, - insisted the commander.
- I'll be very pleased to know: you leave the crew, and, for the entire two weeks I`m in no more obliged to remind you, that your banal presence at these walls is in fact cruelly offensive to «Its majesty» - "The Naval Service Charters". You can`t even imagine, what a wild, and the deepest pleasure gives it to me, to swipe you out of here at least for a time.
  As for Lozhkin, he lost the sence of pleasure. He just left the Seaworthy officials room. He remembered that promised Huzhel, second-year student, to share as a minimum his bloody five roubles with those lazy second-year bums, to mark his lucky navy leave. The essentials at the defined and agreed moment of all that cost were: he, a crucian, and, a sloven, namely, Lozhkin, though being the worst of the whole class, was still let on his leave, whereas they, second-year students already, would have to be nervously up to «watching a stinking service». How a company of some, though even slightly higher cadets, «watch the service», Lozhkin had already casually been faced:  outbeaten glasses, belch wommitted bunk rooms, out-and-through procrushed beds - a usual as it always were, result, - he tended but wished not to argue. Only than, having got a presentiment following availably that Huzhel 5 ruble given promise, begged:
- Oh, Senior lieutenant comrade, please!! May i visit a latrine for just a minute?!
- Go parnisha, you just go!, -  rapped him off Kortikov, You do not know that-whether, that current repairs are on, and there is no more water so far in a toilet. Urinate, or where futher your wish may go, only as you reach the station toilets.
  And so in a "friendly" manner, they did exit. Crossing a hall which here named «flax a room», Lozhkin  seen Huzhel who separated from a small crowd of cadets and steppedfowards to him. Lozhkin áåñïîìîùíî  shrugged shoulders and that  stopped.
At their bloody KPP Kortikov flaunted and officially stated out his concern:
- Wish you had a properly rest 'cause after the holiday I'll train you with a renewed strength. He smiled friendly, hinted that it was no any joke.
- Serve I my Union of Soviets! - smiled accordingly Lozhkin, in no way jokely.
  Lieuftenat face darkened: - Run! Forward! March - hissed he out.
KPP point doors slapped loudly stripping. There stood that .ucking Khoozhel. He stood understanding nothing, but swept in his rememberance was  Lozhkin's grin and back both happily disappearing.

2

  Khoozhel saw Lozhkin getting off the tram, and, understanding nothing, stood a bit at a bus stop, watching like mountain eagle, to and fro. Then followed a shed of his few tears. Last minutes after holiday, … when in a head, drunk from a station buffet bottle of beer, in and from,  persistently wheels tapping the road all, parting of your mummy words rustle insistently: «Do not? please, drink, do not drink, do not any hoolideeds do, please…!» Khoozhel  furtively brushed a tear away, and only then, as Lozhkin started passing the road, shouted  to the latter, rushing steamly out, - "Stand still!".


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 An excellent piece a tram and its most important advantage, that it can turn on only in  event that rails do a zigzag or we will tell turn but in this case neither that, nor another was not available. And Lozhkin meanwhile for a year of stay in seaworthy school  got used to obey  most different commands. Represent at it even there were commands which he with pleasure loved on business and without it ïðîîðàòü, developing a command voice, such as a company, lifting,  command to rise, or here such -  company will be constructed on To  form number six with mattresses! Last command such does not designate anything it is necessary to appear only on a gathering place in an overcoat in a winter cap with  fastened ears, and with a mattress, in îáíèìêó in ñêàòêå which, a bed-sheet, a blanket, and a pillow.
  When Lozhkin  executed, at last, a command he  decided to look round not at once on  parties to find  owner êîìàíäèðñêîãî voices and when  made it,  stared for horror directly at it, gnashing brakes,  tram … rushed
Dreamily highly throwing feet and winding between cars as a hare Lozhkin  reached a check point, and began to pull  entrance handle, it eternally confused in its what party it is necessary to pull.
- Beer - is not present, - is lazy cadet Kvasov sitting on a pedestal on whom  hall anchor towered  enormous sizes  informed it.
- In holiday I reflected … much - thoughtfully glancing at a jam formed on road, have hooted Kvass.
- Whether here this anchor can be dragged on rails?
- I was bothered with these trams … - its Lozhkin  supported
- All right, have gone to a company –  sighed Kvass.
Meanwhile  turmoil lifted by Lozhkin on road,  not resolved yet, at that time when crucians very quietly rose on  fourth floor to get into friendly embraces of crowd, Huzhelju was necessary is unsweetened. Among passengers of a tram jumped out on street there was a cadet of militia Ivanov armed with a whistle which undertook to detain  originator of road incident.
- In a state of intoxication in not put place … - it strewed scraps of  learnt phrases.
-Projdemte  cadet!
At last Huzhelja  reached that its business is bad. Last two days while gathered from holiday êàðàñíÿ, it really did not get out of wine shop which it, by  way, was opposite to crew and from which and left, before  seen Lozhkin.
- Autocratic absence … drinking of spirits … an extra duty … deduction from school-beginning to match in a head a chain of terrible word combinations. As easier it  cast away at once  first links, as soon as  felt weight of  bottle of apple wine hidden in a sleeve. It also  stuck with an end face of this bottle to  cop into a forehead.
- At me äåô÷¸íêó óôåë on dances a body ïûëî - Huzhel  feverishly shouted, to  gasped passengers trying to justify.
 cadet of militia  answered nothing bald lie, it  only reproachfully whistled also a donkey on rails, having broken with Huzhelja a uniform collar.
- It truth, I have learnt it - cried out Huzhel in  person to  indignant veteran of war, which ïåð on it with fists similar to pomegranates.
Compassionate voices were distributed: - That to  fellow stick … Having used confusion of Huzhel with shout «Pojtu I will be drowned ô to  river …» -  rushed íàóòåê.
Citizens still long time crowded and worried.
- Really indeed îòñâèñòàëñÿ? - One harmful old woman asked all.
- Cops to us not êåíòû … - áóáíèë  fellow with  tattooed rose on a hand, occasionally âñõîõàòûâàÿ.               


3


- There should arrive to seventeen zero a zero,  foreman  muttered.
- TH and wanted to make, - Lozhkin, - but then this terrible stopper near crew …  nodded
Conversation quickly passed on raised tone.
Since  morning foreman Kilkina was caught on a check point by  pregnant girl at whom he, apparently, spent  night once, then it was caused to  chief of organzatsionno-front department in so-called ÎÐÑÎ concerning yesterday's ïüÿíêè, now still this crucian  brought a company delay from holiday …
- I bet that work is necessary to you, -  foreman  declared. If certainly you do not have anything on a sign.
- While anything, - Lozhkin  sighed.
 more he would like to take offence at  foreman,  it would be desirable to burst out laughing more strongly. Therefore Lozhkin  decided to cease to pout.
- So it is better, you heard sometime about a premise under  name a latrine?
 sounded question  forced Lozhkin to be disturbed, then it  wrinkled a nose and  flaunted.
- A premise for departure of natural needs of  person!
- No, - its foreman-it  corrected a place of re-education of slovens!
- Unhealthy conditions, did not go a foot of  sloven …  beginnings áóáíèòü  Spoon … all holiday …
Êèëüêèí was perplexed. Having collected  thoughts, Lozhkin was engaged in transfer.
- Will be demanded: soap, a brush, detergent powder.
- I do not think. Even I know precisely that it is possible to manage one bleaching powder, - Kilkin  objected. Blow on street and bring a brick.
 foreman was to  core  tutor and  instructor, such it was made by service on Northern fleet.
In a court yard where Lozhkin  run out, near a summer toilet  whole heap of bricks rolled.
- Choose a brick ïîÿäð¸íåé, -  advised  Kvass, arisen in a doorway of a summer toilet.
- It still, Lozhkin what for was surprised.   
 following was found out:  brick should scatter from one blow on ìåëêå slices.
- Not at once it was possible to me, -  nodded Kvass on a heap of beaten bricks
- It does not mean that work not âûïîëíèìà, - with aplomb  declared  Spoon, having snatched out from a heap, in its opinion, a suitable brick.
Kvass with doubt  shaken a head, but after dawned by idea which  suddenly come to his head  started to rummage in pockets.
- I am better to be insured … two pieces I think, will suffice.
In his hands there were building cartridges which it  dexterously pasted to a brick torn off with a scratch on a hand a plaster.
- Two pieces I think, will suffice, - he  repeated.
Now Lozhkin  in turn begun to doubt. To expand to its doubts, thunderous roar of  foreman of a company  prevented.
- On a gangway run, - it  shouted, having looked out of a window.
-Nashlepkoj downwards, -  squeezed whisper  advised Kvass and began to blow strenuously to itself on a hand and to point a finger at it, trying to show to  foreman a scratch. But in a window already was nobody.
 person on duty on school captain-lieutenant Hans dashing springing gait came nearer to crew. Day  stood out  hard; there was some state of emergency one of which was required to disassemble now, namely incident on tram ways. Hans was  hereditary seaman, initiators of this nice dynasty served on fleet at Peter  first so that it is firm for itself  acquired: whatever happens always it is necessary to be tightened;  left hand holds êîðòèê, right gives at walking easy îòìàøêó, as though to be going to salute.
- Well, here my bearing also was useful to me, - he  with satisfaction thought.
His hand fast as a birdie ïîðõíóëà to a peak, but  cadet who  answered its greeting was apparently not  hereditary seaman. All its ancestors of lines them ïîáðàë, served, most likely, in a construction battalion in what be accessories.
- Who salutes with a brick in a hand? Where here to undertake elegance. … all these bitter thoughts in a trice have flown in a head at êàïëåÿ.
- To me  foreman of a company Kilkin  ordered to bring a brick, - Lozhkin  reported.
- So, … but I yet do not see an essence, - is inquisitive have blinked  eyes êýï.
- Will bring up …
- On a gangway run … -  far cry reminding a peal of a thunder  expanded.
Lozhkin  involuntarily shuddered and  made attempt to rush on call. At êàïëåÿ courage  sufficed to remain outwardly unperturbable though  frost  passed on its skin and it slightly ïîåæèëñÿ. It  stopped Lozhkin's gesture and  gone ahead of it.
- Yes that this such! - he thought on  move.  second case for a day!
Just today in  eighth company  fifth-year student and too, by  way,  foreman, brought up a crucian something of type: to sit down-rise, run-lie, and for process acceleration îõàæèâàë áëÿõîþ a belt.  belt was çàõëåñíóò on a hand one end represented itself  terrible weapon not to compare to  usual educational weapon in  form of a classical daddy's belt. About all it still it was necessary to write  official report to  chief of school.
-  metal plate it small, and a brick on half of face will be, -  judiciously thought êýï.
 
4

Captain-lieutenant Portvejnov high and thickset as  elevating crane in port attentively studied  person of foreman Kilkina and disapprovingly swung a head. He perfectly understood, why Lozhkin  not informed, for what  brick suddenly was necessary. According to old ó÷èëèùíûì to traditions bricks,  pictures borrowed in nearest êóáàðå, or a bucket for deck washing all it could be sold under compulsion to crucians.
Much can be learnt about  person on appearance:  foreman was  strong high guy, for strong-willed ïðèùóðîì  eye hid derisive eyes, and  big always open mouth was ready ïðîîðàòü any command. As  chief of a special department of a naval cycle Hans knew about Kilkine much: knew that he was born in small town in Ukraine that there it still had bride that it passed service on Northern fleet.  order in a company at  foreman was, it never involved for serious offences: it seems, there was one pregnant girl, a little ïüÿíîê and bad progress in several subjects. It is always interesting to see  one whom you know only under  file, under  questionnaire, official reports and explanatory notes … Hans's Obliging memory in a trice  pulled out a crushed leaf àíîíèìêè where it was informed that cadet Kilkin by means of art installation 2ì3ì and back pass shot on members of  Political bureau. Portraits of members of  Political bureau of  Central Committee of  CPSU, ðàçâåøàííûå over a board in audience where there was this art installation meant.
Drop  grinned. Êèëüêèí  shrugged shoulders.
- It is good that you do not waste time on justifications
- You are mistaken about my.
- Probably, -  agreed a drop. - here and cadet Lozhkin considers you as  good tutor.
Lozhkin though did not consider anything similar, at a stare êýïà  been compelled to shake vaguely a head with a side sideways.
Êèëüêèí  frowned and  got from a pocket a crushed pack of cigarettes Pamir.
-Dahi äàõè siga-reta Pamir a cigarette, -  started singing about itself  Spoon. In  evenings he sometimes listened to Monte-Carlo … Good all  same cigarettes, «the Beggar with mountains» fine help from a toothache …
They left office and have gone to a latrine.
- A company quietly! –  man on duty  Beloyarsk high long-legged cadet with gold foreteeth  shouted. As  Trinity  not paid to it any attention, he and followed them a ceremonial step, splashing feet, as if a heron on a bog. He wanted to make  official report.
- Kind, I congratulate on returning, -  foreman  maliciously concerned Lozhkin.
It  gallantly passed  companions forward.
- Now I will show, how it is possible to manage at cleaning of pushes without detergent powder.
He  explained that  brick powder is not worse. Hans and Lozhkin looked at it mistrustfully. Having advised to keep eyes, Kilkin with force  slapped a brick about a concrete floor.
-Zdes a strong echo, - ïðîîðàë  captain-lieutenant, a little tensely when  dust from explosion  dissipated.
Êèëüêèí  unperturbably nodded.
Having received an order to continue,  foreman quickly ñãðåá a portion of a dust on a scoop. In regular intervals strewed a yellow touch of  urine which  tightly become attached to a toilet bowl and a brick splinter  begun «to scrub on its expression a push». After it  washed off, to amazed looks something  appeared snow-white and shining. Three seamen did not reduce from this miracle of  admired eyes.  surrounding validity was lost somewhere in  distance, far street noise and  militian whistles drilling air reached, as if from other world.
- I so will not turn out, - Lozhkin  sighed and, çàñòåñíÿâøèñü  inept hands,  put them in a pocket.
- To set aside pocket billiards, -  foreman  bellowed.

  5

- Business is not necessary  eaten away egg, - Kilkin  objected, thoughtfully looking in a window
- Do not forget about left ãþéñ,  uniform collar, -  recovered a drop, - it is signed.
- Now they know a surname and group number, -  foreman  guessed, it is not good.  chief of school will ask questions.
- Questions?! Yes smaller than it can come to an end … - a drop click  shaken from an epaulet a mote, - someone's stars can depart!
It already stumbled once: during studies  pistol, and completely  disappeared.
- All life in êàïëåÿõ you will not be worn, - he  sighed.
However, sad thoughts not for long owned it.
- So, we know that  militia school is alarmed, and that they had time to surround  river Tsaryov around  bridge. It is necessary to carry out urgently  reciprocal action and to bring to nothing  negative information on our system.
Êèëüêèí  unwillingly looked away from  girl in a short skirt.
- Perhaps, but  cadet who will make  good plan is necessary to us and will manage to achieve results.
- Time for analyses is not present, - Kilkin  thoughtfully finished, having stared in a window.
-  man on duty, -  barked a drop.
To it  answered unless an echo.  girl in a short skirt  uneasily looked at windows of  fourth floor.
- Something with me is valid today not so, - Hans  murmured, cleaning a throat cough.
- Quite probably  man on duty  fallen asleep, … he at last  assumed.
But in vain he  thought on  man on duty so.  cadet Beloyarsk standing still near a bedside table stared extensively, thinking, who it, calls and whether it is necessary to run on call if in a company as in any way  person on duty on school and at any moment he can miss. That it sent away, truth, on business and  foreman could not make  official report sufficed it already.
- Can try to me? - Kilkin  offered.
Hans a head nod  expressed  consent. Êèëüêèí what for  closed a window leaf.
-  man on duty of a bough! -  foreman  shouted.
 girl, and without having waited a tram, somewhere  run. An instant later  door in office was opened and çëàòîçóáàÿ  heron called as  cadet Beloyarsk  stiffened, expecting  further orders.
- Will invite, please, cadet Kvasova, -  wearily ordered a drop.
Cadet Lozhkin, low having inclined over a push, rustled with a brick when someone  entered and, judging by a sound,  spoilt to edges in «a sparkling miracle».
- In soul íàñðàëè, with bitterness Lozhkin  thought, and hands at it were clenched in fists.
- You should get out somehow of this shit, - having hushed a spittle through clenched teeth, over a low booth,  grinned Kvass.
Lozhkin who  turned white for a rage  resolutely opened a booth door.
- Hey yes that with you? –  asked Kvass. After all it I your friend Kvass  come to help you!
Lozhkin  punched it in an eye.
- Should not sit down on this push, - Lozhkin  taken offence.
- Yes I also did not want it to do, - justified Kvass, grinning, but have then mixed. Here it is too dark.
Even for Lozhkin it seemed too: at first not to get nearly under a tram, then to catch this nasty job and, at last, to beat out a finger and all it in  first put after holiday!
- That do you want from me? To me have charged to guide here ìàðàôåò, I at all did not ask you to help.
- Not less, I know that you wish from here îòâàëèòü, - have objected Kvass, pulling a cord.  tank kept silence. That in a company drain tanks do not work for  future mechanics, seemed nobody strange. When toilet bowls were overflowed, ïîäâàõòà washed off a water bucket, fetid heaps, quite often helping itself thus a stick with  rag reeled up on  end.
- What, on yours, I can make, that îòâàëèòü from here on good ïîçäîðîâó? – Lozhkin  straight asked  friend.
- Sometime heard about a special course on ÂÌÏ? – With a question  interlocutor  answered a question to it.
Lozhkin  reflected.
- A military-registration speciality 16-46? And how it will help?
Kvass, was,  opened a mouth to object, but was not in time, as Lozhkin  incurred.
-  first-anchor buoy,  second-aerial on insulators,  third-conclusion aerials,  fourth-case, fifth-block devices of a mine,  sixth-aerial,  seventh-insulator,  eighth-minrep,  ninth-anchor,  tenth-submarine, having concerned with  aerial case, causes detonator operation …
 Lozhkin  stopped to bend fingers on hands, and in  face of Kvasova have come to be two badly smelling fist. Kvass  started back and  closed, at last, a mouth.
- Is not present is not present is not present, - it  shouted. Naval counterspionage! It  been obviously compelled to reduce an introductory part of conversation.
- TH something heard about ÊÁÃ, -  given out, obviously scoffing Lozhkin purposely muddling all a known abbreviation.
- This same  nodded to it of Kvass – it seems …
He tried to strike  right note to  friend.
- It is necessary to become to all appearances a good woodpecker and to knock not only ìîðçÿíêîé  asked  Spoon.
- I think yes though … that I precisely do not know …
- I would not like to get into it.  same shit and then to knock on  companions badly.
- Only on traitors, -  specified Kvass. Especially while it is necessary to study only. To work sometimes as practice. Well, still certainly entrance examination if you do not hand over him, all will turn back simply a joke. They have joked - you have laughed …
 small pause during which time, Lozhkin mistrustfully swung a head  followed.
- Well, you it interests?
- For  love of draws and jokes … - having grinned,  murmured  Spoon. Explain about examination.
- You should hand over it right now as other case can, it will not be presented. It will be no questions oral or written, before you  specific target will be put, and you should solve it, operating on a situation.
Lozhkin  nodded.
- We will admit, I will solve this problem and on results I will report on captain-lieutenant Portvejnovu …
- To Hans, -  corrected its Kvass, a low voice almost in a whisper.
Ëîæêêèí  frowned.
- Same  elevating crane!
- No, it is a nickname of  chief of special department ÂÌÖ. And if you agree, should go right now to office.
- Knows, what I will come? – Lozhkin  taken an interest.
- Certainly. I to it have told that  cadet capable independently to make  plan is in  present state of affairs necessary, having co-ordinated it therein with circumstances, and that you  best in this business. I have not told to it that you do not get out of a latrine.
Lozhkin  looked at it with doubt.
- Here it is correct.
- Well it  turned out? –  friendly met Lozhkin Hans, sitting behind a table of  commander of a company.
- Not absolutely.
Êýï  raised eyebrows.
- Is it  turned out, but one  then come äåðüìîâùèê and all  spoilt.
- Ah-jaj-jaj, -  shaken a head a drop. Its sympathy left unpersuasive, and he  preferred to pass directly to business.
It some time, laconically however, extended about  sad incident which  occurred near crew, and that it can cast a shade on «our school» and, how it now «inopportunely and at all to what».
Lozhkin  quite agreed with it.
- How you will operate? – It is unexpected, in a forehead,  asked a drop.
Lozhkin without reflecting on consequences,  with inspiration started to bear any àõèíåþ. To it it was not so difficult, as about what he  exorcised that, quite often occurred actually.
- To pass a cordon it is possible on a railway embankment … It high and from below me it will not be visible, - for persuasiveness  explained  Spoon.
Drop and  foreman have approvingly hooted as ïåðâîêëàñíèêè at a lesson suddenly learnt from  teacher  decision of  confused problem.
- Further I intend to make  way to wine shop and having bought binge to loaf about near it, to draw to myself attention. I will be dressed not under  form, without ìèöû, a belt and a uniform collar …
With drop and  foreman have exchanged glances.
- To what last detail? –  quickly asked a drop.
-  cadet in a kind dressed in rags, drinks beer,  militia will be obliged to interfere, - without having been confused,  explained  Spoon.
- When me will start to drag, you should appear in time in  form of patrol of  cadet of  infringer searching for that. You stop revenge-punishment, and will neutralise claims of school of militia to «our system». In a pocket I will have a medical book with  inquiry on illness of kidneys.

6
- Whence at you  inquiry? – Was surprised with a drop. Êèëüêèí  grinned.
- Was going to be late in holiday.
- That?
- It would not be pleasant to  foreman, - Lozhkin  told lies. Actually he for a month so  missed crowd that was ready to arrive ahead of time.  foreman  shrugged shoulders.
- Damned cops! – Lozhkin shouted getting away from  locomotive on vibrating cross ties. It was impossible to curtail, below there was a cordon. Hearing behind  back coming nearer roar, Lozhkin continued to run, jumping through three cross ties. Already it was time to it to roll down downwards on an embankment, but it did not have forces to jump even a rail. Sharp hooters frightened off it, and he continued to run, being loose from one rail to another. Passing an arrow, it was hooked for it by a foot. Ùåáåíêà, badly ïàõíóâøàÿ creosote sharply óäàðëà it in  person.  locomotive bulk  pulled hard on Lozhkin, something warm  spilt in pants, Lozhkin  wildly begun to squeal.
- That, -  peacefully hooted dangerous æåëåçÿêà. Ïîìîøíèê  machinist  carelessly flaunted to Lozhkin.
Making  way to shop Lozhkin  crept through a sickly garden of  switchman where it regaled time and again on apricots. It and now was not kept and  filled  pockets with them.
- For credibility! – he  solved – nobody will suspect anything bad, will decide that vitamins that's all are necessary to me.
Anybody also did not think to lift noise because of several apricots and in a witness mark of  switchman there was no it, having translated an arrow with which some minutes ago Lozhkin  faced  continued survey of ways, and  polite old woman who was passing by a front garden having wished to  cadet of kind health even  opened for it a gate.
- Still say that local cadets do not love. Here after all  taken care of me, now it is not necessary to climb through a fence, -  aloud thought  Spoon.
Truth through a gate to a fence  dog, and  old woman  got into a garden ñìåíâøàÿ politeness on quickness ïðèïóñòèëà to shop where militian peak-caps were seen äîáðîäóøíåéøåãî a kind.
Then Lozhkin, dared will go down from a tree  heard lazy growl.  big shaggy dog  thriftily settled down under its tree.
- Do not say lies, that you do not know … I at all  thief, and you not a dog of  switchman …
-R-r, -  dog  told.
- TH on important ñïåöçàäàíèè, - Lozhkin  impressively answered a dog and  tried ñëåçòü.
 dog  grinned.
- Well, here you also have annoyed me, - trying to speak, Lozhkin  clearly addressed to a dog.
- Me  order! And with it «ùàñ» it is strict with it now do not joke, - Lozhkin tried to convince a dog.
-Gav-gav, -  dog  told.
- Commands a voice were not there was a command to walk, -  reminded  Spoon, - do not pretend to be  dull.
 dog wanted to listen nothing. Time went cops could remove a cordon and leave. Lozhkin having climbed up above,  distinguished in  end of a barrack-type lane same, as well as  lop-sided drunk houses surrounding it, wine shop and small group of people in shape near it.  polite old woman gesticulated near them as a mill, in a wind, showing obviously on it. Militiamen should be helped.
- And-a-a, - Lozhkin ðàçêà÷èâàÿ a tree  wildly shouted.
 dog was frightened and  escaped.

7

-  cadet climb down, - have officially concerned Lozhkin.
- I do not play pranks, whom I do not touch, … have registered vitamins, -  unfriendly answered  Spoon.
After small ïûõòåíüÿ Lozhkin have pulled down for feet on  earth.
- No, it not it, -  released its cadet of militia with  red cone on a forehead. That with it to butt, well it, … how many at them slovens in school!
- Was afraid ìåíòþê! My girl  withdrawn, in ÄÎÔå business was! To butt it does not want, … I to you  horn was put by me and îòøèáó! – Lozhkin to cops following  shouted.
After minutes fifteen it went for a drive in a dust as a football under blows of players.  patrol led by captain-lieutenant Hans at last  seemed.
-Dezhvzvod to arrest all! – wildly and terribly ïðîîðàë  officer. While Kilkin and Bareev were at Hans accompanied looked around in search of mythical äåæâçâîäà  cadet of militia  brought a whistle, to a mouth going to cause help. Hans  dexterously beaten out a whistle fist blow in a forehead.
- Devil take it, you, what want to arrange slaughter? At me on alarm  second crew … is lifted - it pressed on become puzzled militiamen. What do you allow yourselves?
Hans  specified a hand in rolling Lozhkin. Then it  pounded óøèáëåííóþ a hand.
- To TH allow! He named us goats and wildly shouted on a tree, there are witnesses, - twice ìå÷åíûé  militiaman  torn off a hand from beginning to be shown  second cone and  specified in  old woman, become all curiosity which sharp-sightedly observed of an event, being on safe distance.
- TH was frightened, - Lozhkin  explained – and I have a witness, it is any a goat, and a dog.
Lozhkin  specified in a dog hiding in bushes.
- I have called it a goat that it  tired out me on a tree.
Dog have resulted, he çàòðàâëåííî looked around.  Captain-lieutenant  become is severe.
- Provoked to fight, for any girl in ÄÎÔå … -  cop  tried îáüÿñíèòü all and  absolutely confused  curious old woman who  twisted a finger at itself in a forehead and  spat  earth.
- Anything to itself fight one against five …
Lozhkin  sighed and, having seized for a back, began to settle at a fence.
- I sick kidneys, - were muttered by him, is … it again … - it  shown on wet trousers. Here  medical book here  inquiry, - it  dropped any papers in a dust. With  girl it  badly turned out, - he  cried out loudly for  old woman and  silently added for  others –  mistaken.
 captain  ordered to deliver Lozhkin in crew, and itself remained, with twice ìå÷åíûì, to study papers. They already quite peacefully talked.
- Now all  same will deduct, - reflected aloud a drop – it  not passed medical board.
So left that it already and so it is punished on  tomatoes as was expressed by a drop.
- To what then to make noise? – Somehow  question  arisen itself.
 question also was resolved by itself. Left so that at all it is not necessary to write  official report about beatings of babies as with that, and on  other hand that  incontience of urine and slightly rumpled kidneys not such serious diseases to address in hospital.
-  incontience of urine at us well is treated by  foreman, -  laughed a drop.
They have shaken hands and happy have dispersed.
-  cheaply managed, - thought, pounding cones  cop.
 captain-lieutenant too reflected, but its thoughts were occupied already with absolutely other scandal. In office where it  soon appeared it solemnly  shaken hands with Lozhkin.
-  cadet you are accepted on a special course, - it  a little in a complicated manner pleased  Spoon.
- I serve Soviet Union, - çàñòåñíÿâøèñü should be wet trousers, Lozhkin  modestly answered.
At once have found out that as cover for absences on ñïåöçàíÿòèÿ rehearsals of a dancing circle will serve. Without having given, Lozhkin's surprise to expand,  captain-lieutenant  knocked itself on a head, having shown, thus, where it stores duplicates of questionnaires and consequently all about all knows. That  circle is necessary for organising Lozhkin  understood itself, rising a floor above in  seventh company where Hans  charged it at  same time one small  businessman.
Cadets of hundred fifty second group Volokov and its unseparable friend Tychkov had nasty reputation. For some reason in  file of captain-lieutenant Hans they were mentioned precisely together and even their folders have been enclosed in  general cover. Well, here for example, about Volokova was, it is known that «… cadets Volokov and Tychkov have broken a nose to  man on duty …» and about Tychkova  been written down «… cadets Tychkov and Volokov have sent  man on duty behind wine thus same date, having forgotten to supply with its money and long were indignant that  been brought a little òû÷à by an end face of a 3-litre jar to  first-year student in a forehead …». A word if to call their officialese it there were quite good experts in not authorised relations. But captain-lieutenant Hans nevertheless considered it necessary to keep them for fleet in difference from officials as he named for itself(himself) persons made  way in a management of school.  experience which  been saved up by generations of military seamen, and its ancestors on a fatherly line all served Russia under  Andreevsky flag spoke to it what exactly slovens certainly under a skilful management and leave  most efficient connections.
- Whether to send us  messenger behind a wine small bottle to shop without  seller, - note merry fellows and revellers have met Lozhkin.
In a bunk room time  been smoked also whiled away behind cards and wine. First-year student Dologih told jokes if left not ridiculously, him beat a pack on a nose. Äîëîãèõ  with relief started, òû÷à in îäíîãðóïíèêà a finger, and  joyfully bleated: - Cadet Lozhkin,  arrived on change.
- A companion,  future second lieutenant, ðàçåøèòå to address, - there  vigorously begun Lozhkkin. Âîëîêîâ and Tychkov have melancholy laughed.
- If it is a ridiculous joke to you will be of nothing.
Low and thin Volokov sat opposite to dense spindle-legs Tychkova and its quick hands bothered a pack with grace of  conjurer. Ases of  lady kings a fan laid down on a table moved back in a pack and at last were distributed on four small groups on three cards.
- In bank twenty copecks, your word cadet Lozhkin.
-  orderly officer demands to specify  text of  explanatory.
- In general I am laconic in such cases, - Volokov through clenched teeth  grumbled. –  casually given in an eye a belt to cadet Zajtsevu in  course of training under  charter.
Lozhkin  explained that in that case in tomorrow's analysis at chief OrSo it is required to specify that it was training to receptions of self-defence by means of a belt.
- Around full õóëèãàíüÿ, he  asked you.
- It will confirm hares? – Volokov and Tychkov have cheered up.
- That's it, - their Lozhkin  calmed. – it is necessary for me to talk to it right now, - it  winked at Dologihu. Äîëîãèõ some more seconds senselessly smiled, have then become gloomy.
- Here is how: affairs, cares - I understand, … Volokov  concerned Lozhkin. – but small rehearsal is simply necessary …
Lozhkin íåïîíèìàþùå  stared at Volokova, all  others have made  same.
- Show, how all was, here at least on it, -  finger of Volokova  rested in Dologiha.
- Well well well, how we there trained Zajtseva? – Dragged also Tycha rubbing hands were going to look.
- Really you want to learn? – Lozhkin  asked.
Äîëîãèõ  unwillingly nodded. Lozhkin  placed feet, under sprung them, and  started to explain. It was found out that it is important to hold  left hand on a metal plate slightly resting a palm edge against a belt.
- Unbend a metal plate  left hand and then sharply strike an edge of  right palm on a belt, near to a metal plate, - Lozhkin  explained tone of  lecturer, - a belt will unbutton!
 belt a fast snake  slid off a belt and for an instant  hung in mid-air. A free right hand Lozhkin once again a palm edge  struck on a belt, and it  appeared is reliably overflowed on a hand.
- Then circular motions in  manner of that follow as Cossacks twist a draught, better to say as if drive away flies, - Lozhkin under belt whistle continued âòîëêîâûâàòü.
- In a metal plate-fly, - Volokov and Tychkov by turns admired.
- To  opponent few times  already got on hands but if it  not calmed down yet, make swing because of  left side, it is possible to cover with an elbow a head, also it will serve as distracting maneuver, - a tongue twister Lozhkin  cried out. –  opponent should be frightened, - he  prompted Dologihu.
Äîëîãèõ  jumped aside aside, but it is unsuccessfully visible incorrectly having used Lozhkin's help.  metal plate  jumped aside from his forehead with a ring as a fly from glass.
- Here so all also was on training with Zajtsevym, - Lozhkin  finished lecture.
Âîëîêîâ with doubt  shaken a head.
-  not got to it to an eye, - Tychkov  noticed.
Äîëîãèõ  convulsively sobbed.
 
  8


Having left for  period of care after all endured Lozhkin  solved will relax. In  second crew,  company of crucians  sat down at a latrine altered under ïëîòíèöêóþ and storehouse of different stuff decided to follow to Lozhkin's wise decision. Áî÷êîâàë its skilled for  sixteen years  boozer Salty. It he  advised to get that alcoholic set which now flaunted on a table. Namely:  vodka bottle adjoined to a bottle of bitter tincture dry wine with champagne, and  beer pair not to spoil mood stood near from a flank opened banks of red pepper and  crackling white loaf cut hurriedly by  big pieces.
- Whether will be on a four much? –  taken an interest  Spoon.
 salty  for some reason taken offence. Glasses have joyfully slapped, three drinks áóëüêíóëè –  fourth  had a fit of coughing.
- Bitter, - Lozhkin  complained.
Salty with a kind much  practising person  shown, as correctly it is necessary to drink. It  carefully measured a dose, that is  poured to itself in a glass on three fingers çóáðîâêè that on its assurance was just hundred gramme. Then it  a little lingered,  exhaled from itself all air and a free hand  seized  begun bottle of beer. Lozhkin looked at it sceptically, obviously without going to remember anything, Kvass and Moisov knowingly as exemplary pupils. Salty  bent over a table and small drinks  poured in in itself at first glass contents, and then  stuck to beer. It already was shaken here and there. Lozhkin together with it  taken breath and  swallowed a saliva.
-Zdorogo it  turned out, - îòðûãíóë Moisov and  hasty splashed in  glass of vodka. Kvass  validly nodded Salty, and  poured all vodka, except it. Smiles have begun to shine on persons.
- TH drank çóáðîâêó, -  noticed Salty. In its voice  bitterness comparable unless with bitterness çóáðîâêè was felt.
- TH you have washed down with its beer, - Moisov  reminded.
-  come what here to guzzle? -  in revenge asked its Salty.
Ìîèñîâ hasty ñæåâàë  big piece of bread smeared with sweet pepper, also  with insult murmured, something about demonstration correct çàêóñûâàíèÿ.
- Repin picture: «again îáîæðàëè», -  got into conversation of Kvass and  started singing, - On a galley run  come running ïàì-pam and there already  horse-radish spent  night pam-pam a spoon of  compote second a drop to all of us at times to eat hunting!
Hubbub and ring of glasses muffled its words, and listeners a lot of useful would learn that from this song, for example, that for eutrophy is necessary to go a system that together with all simultaneously to visit a galley and not to delay on a gangway carrying out not a written sea rule «on a gangway run» a word to live under  charter.
- Children I without  sea cannot …, - Moisov  floated.
Lozhkin and Kvass looked at a problem optimistically. They tapped on  shoulder of him and asserted that it is necessary to suffer very little. At last laughing loudly,  company  tumbled down on an exit where they have met Sveshnikov. Having taken an interest, whether on dances it goes and, having learnt, what not on dances have decided to find out why.
- I òåëüíèê should wash, - it is sad swinging a head, from height of  two metres Sveshnikov  explained.
Lozhkin involuntarily ïî¸æèëñÿ though there was a hot summer to it why that  winter was remembered. In áàííûé day washed òåëüíèêè dried in a bunk room on  battery and as on a six living there was exactly six segments of  battery that òåëüíèêè hanging end-to-end for a night sickly heat were dried up exactly half from that as it is necessary. In  morning they dressed crude, and ran out on street where on physical gymnastics it was necessary to wave hands especially vigorously. To take from áàòàëåðêè spare òåëüíèê and to leave äîñóøèâàòü ñòèðàííûé came to to nobody mind. After physical gymnastics followed: morning ïðèáîðêà then a breakfast and divorce on employment. It was necessary to participate in all these actions by everything, but there were slovens which ignored an established order. To leave on their care òåëüíèê was, at least, imprudently and we will directly tell silly. Civil with pleasure paid a tchervonets for a striped vest, and it agree  decent sum if to consider that  usual grant of  cadet there were nine roubles.
Sveshnikov  sprinkled in êóëà÷¸ê.  crowd which  surrounded it, endeavoured to disassemble, in what here a trick. Sveshnikov  explained that it from a company that  gone down, by  way, on dances it that and went that here it and  taken, and it  turned in a summer toilet. It  waved for dull Salty which  hastened to burst out laughing a hand aside showing a direction where as all know, and there was a popular toilet.
-Telnik long, - only Sveshnikov also  had time to tell and first of all  begun to neigh.
- You of that have burst out laughing  dolt? – Krapikova Lozhkin  asked joined crowd.
- For  company, - Krapikov  informed.
-  ass is wider than shoulders!
-CHivo? – Krapikov  terribly asked.
Lozhkin  snatched out from a pocket in advance prepared rope in  middle which imperceptibly was âøèòà an elastic band from cowards.  kvass, repeatedly seeing this trick, undertook to assist. At first have measured shoulders.
- Rights your ass are wider, -  informed Krapikova of Kvass.
Lozhkin obviously decided not to spoil mood Krapikovu before dances consoled it as could. He  declared that actually all not too terribly and to correct that äå it it is possible easily, it is enough to cease to give òåëüíèê on washing to mummy.
- All on gymnastics wave hands, and you stand as a sleepy fly …
Êðàïèêîâ  grown numb for insult with  compressed fists. Lozhkin  yawned and  turned away.
- No, we now on are waved, instead of on physical gymnastics, - Krapikov  shouted.
Lozhkin and Kvass have significantly exchanged glances.
- You want to fight? – Lozhkin  asked.
Êðàïèêîâ hasty çàêèâàë a head.
- Different weight categories! – Lozhkin was indignant.
-Zassal, - Krapikov was delighted.
- It can be corrected, - Lozhkin  muttered, - will give at dinner to me  second, for two three years I will catch up with you.
- Now I it will knock, - Krapikov  begun to yell.
- All right, be not boiled  prick, - Lozhkin peacefully  answered it. Time you insist, that is cause me on fight, means, I choose  weapon.
- What else weapon, - Krapikov  suspiciously asked, - and why you choose?
Around  drunk company approvingly hooted, and it was impossible to understand, it holds whose party. Lozhkin hiding a mean grin under a palm îêàøëÿëñÿ also  explained: - In difference from you I have read War and peace.
Êðàïèêîâ at a mention of Tolstoy's this four-volume novel  grown furious even more as that at a literature lesson  meticulous teacher trying to find out, whether he read this novel,  asked it a tricky question.
- So there became with an oak which  originally caught sight Balkonsky semidried up? – Someone  mockingly asked that question from crowd.
- Have not cut, you purposely have incorrectly prompted to me! – Krapikov  risen.
- Now not about it, - Lozhkin  unperturbably continued, in  novel is which that and it is more interesting than  cut oak, - was not kept Lozhkin and  remembered òàêè let and uninteresting, but so Krapikova easily deducing from an oak. But Krapikov already , seemingly, cooled down and  joined a general laughter. It duels did not interest any more, and rules when  weapon are chosen by  one whom have caused on a duel, it was much more interesting to laugh simply and cheerfully to walk from crew in  educational case where dances should take place. That it is possible to replace a pistol ïîäæèãîì, and armature Lozhkin  explained swords already in  street.
- That you are going to be shot because of each trifle? – Laughing, Krapikov asked.
- That to me now because of any trifle with lanterns and without teeth? – Lozhkin – I objected it, by  way, for dances  gathered! By  way as you about armature?
Êðàïèêîâ ïî¸æèëñÿ.
- Sparks will be, a ring, beautifully! –  inserted Kvass. You after all have registered in a fencing circle? – He  asked Lozhkin.
Lozhkin  in  affirmative nodded and for persuasiveness  shown some  receptions there and then thought up by it.
In school there was officer specially released from another duties who learnt itself and two more three persons to fence probably to yield martial art of slovens was considered as  wrong. Especially will study up and will receive a rank of  officer not all …
Was considered that it is enough to future defenders of  native land to spend a pair of clocks for acquaintance with a pistol of Makarova and automatic machine Kalashnkova and then to go once on range. Much more usefully drill, whitewashing of borders and filing ñîïëèâ÷èêîâ.
- Able to be at war  people it somehow too! - Lozhkin drivelled.
As he said left that  person, able to do something "in a fantastic way" copes a small group of idlers more difficultly.
- A superstructure if to remember Charles Marx, -  flaunted âû÷èòàííûì  term of Kvass.
- To throw on tanks with fists …, after all then it is possible to explain any slaughter by a national impulse and that  people have not gone mad of uncountable victims, many long years to repeat its heroism naming  next meat grinder of  Great Patriotic War, -  carried Lozhkin.
- Leave  nonsense for  wall newspaper! –  torn off its Kvass.
- With a sort to  wall newspaper did not write, - braided language Lozhkin, - unless in a toilet … declared
- TH just that wall newspaper also meant, -  explained Kvass.
Behind conversation they have lagged behind crowd.
×óôàêè you, from what company? – Their drunk undersized cadet in a dirty uniform and without ìèöû  asked.
- From  eighth company, - Lozhkin  impudently told lies.
- Be presented a companion  cadet, -  strictly asked Kvass, having hidden eyes under a peak ìèöû.
- Cadet Hushel,  sixth company, - was extended quietly Huzhel and  clicked heels.
- On what question address? – Lozhkin  asked.
- Is ïðåòëîøåíèå, - Huzhel was obsequiously bent and  explained that today dances and consequently it is necessary to shake crucians and «all as ñëåòóåò îïìûòü».
- Well, -  concerned Huzhelju of Kvass, - how many you already íàäûáàë?
Lozhkin  in a pointed manner clenched fists. Õóæåëü  emptied pockets where was about five roubles.
- In a quickly way behind a bubble, and you while on knock down on snack, - Lozhkin with Kvasovym have jumped in  flown up tram.
- TH íèêîêòà I have not a snack, -  had time to tell to  slammed doors of Huzhel.
At night when, at last, Lozhkin  fallen asleep, a door in êóáàðü have opened kicks, and have shouted in  dark. Âîëîñüåâ Bagels and Veronin îøàðàøåííî have jumped. In êóáàðå hardly keeping standing, Volokov and Tychkov were shaken,  third gatecrasher  appeared to Huzhelem, - it have thrown in bed to Volosevu where it  started up a saliva and îáîññàëñÿ.
- It they? – Have asked Huzhelja.
Õóæåëü in  answer çàìû÷àë as though intending áëåâàíóòü. At Voloseva tears were screwed.  wooden jar having  civil name a stool  scattered about a wall over Lozhkin's head.
-  command to rise! - drunk shades have shouted over  sleeping Lozhkin.
Lozhkin  innocently yawned and  put to itself under a cheek a fragment.
- p-p-p ja-ja thmine, - Veronin  explained.
Shades at which eyes ran up on walls, have suddenly decided to retire.
- TH I laugh, - Volokov  told at parting.
- TH too, - Tychkov  lowed, and  door behind them  slammed.
Âîëîñüåâ, silently,  laid down on a table and, having curtailed on it, êàëà÷èêîì  tried to fall asleep,  others have fallen down in a dream which ending was identical to all.
- A company lifting! –  man on duty  shouted.


9
- You know, what such òàðàêàíüè races? –  question of  foreman  hung in mid-air.
Âîëîñüåâ for all  shaken a head here and there. It was  originator of this question as, having fallen down from heart-rending shout of  man on duty from a table, he  tarried and was late for construction. Âîëîñüåâ behind support  turned back to  companions, but  become gloomy, having seen spiteful eyes of Veronina, gloomy Fiksenko and pork uneasy Krapikova. Âîëîñüåâ  understood that it  nothing to lose and it is unexpected for itself  blurted out: - I laugh!
From unexpectedness  foreman was not at once. It çàêèâàë a head.
- Yes-yes-yes … you can laugh … at Night under a blanket! – it  shouted, at last, on Voloseva, - can even twist thus to itself a finger in a forehead, - it  twisted a finger in  middle of  forehead should be, showing as it to do correctly.  foreman did not feel sorry for forces on education of cadets and aspired train in their all that in its opinion could to make of them  present seamen.
- You can twist a finger still here and there, but remember that it not a record player, and you not  American unless, íàêîâûðÿåøü to itself five dresses, - already  more easy finished Kilkin.
Òàðàêàíüè races represented bustle to exhaustion round school. If to consider that except  educational case, so-called ÓÊ and a galley as here named kitchen and a dining room in ó÷èëèùíûé a complex two crews divided among themselves what that substation round all these constructions fenced fences was not less than two kilometres entered. Except all listed there were still parade-grounds for front employment, accounts department, for rest and even  asphalted dance pavilion, whether it were necessary to tell benches that after several circles round all it "cockroaches" are wet from sweat and are dirty from  stuck dust. And so when in  evening  group sat on self-preparation, gloomy and tired with check  chief of a speciality of Bulyga  come.
- That it at you stinks of socks, - it  friendly taken an interest.
- Smell, smell! –  reached from a back school desk.
- TH that now I will leave, itself smell, -  unexpectedly quickly struck aside blow of Bulyga.
Hardly having made  way through his laughter a voice from a back school desk, and all now in it have learnt a voice of Voloseva,  heatedly shouted: - I ôóé will smell!
Having burst out laughing most loudly and at all without having accepted  official report at  person on duty, Bulyga left audience. Both ice  thawed and  become warmer on äóùå at all and happy foreman Kilkin  strong shaken hands with Bulyge in a corridor on  second floor ÓÊ near physics audience.


10

- A dancing circle as cover it is good, - Lozhkin argued, - but except Hans with its special course is also  chief of a speciality, he will demand results from these employment.
- You want to tell, what we should dance? – Was surprised Kvass.
Lozhkin  in turn looked at it with surprise.
- It is necessary to pick up people feeling a rhythm and able to move. You have who íèáóäü on a sign?
- Expert to you and to solve, and how about Bublikova? Plays a guitar …
- We will go, we will look at it, - they have solved.
In four hundred øåñíàäöàòîì a bunk room it  been smoked. In a smoke red singing physiognomies of Bublikova, Voloseva and Veronina floated.
- Once having drunk vodka, god  created ìîðåõîäêè, - undertook to echo Kvass. Lozhkin having shrugged shoulders,  stared at Bublikova as though saw it for  first time. It was  healthy pink-checked clodhopper under metre to eighty growth  dreamer and which odd fellow of dream however there was no further that to replace school êëèêóõó "Bagel" on more in its opinion  approaching. «Children call me  pirate» as that was asked by him having curled up and already falling asleep after a release. As they were first-year students, and to laugh loudly after a release it was not necessary, it was necessary to do it under blankets and in a whisper, paternal  bunk room  turned for  half-night to a beehive. Having remembered, as then it would be desirable to sleep on employment, Lozhkin  rejected in ñîðîíó importunate memoirs and  returned to  present.
- Not bad it a foot beats off a rhythm … äðîáóøêè, so, can beat off, - Lozhkin  solved.
They left.
- From session before session there live cadets cheerfully, - rushed it following.
- Session only two once a year, -  sighed for some reason Kvass. By  way how many we will be in a mug?
- I believe us there should be seven.
Lozhkin  explained: to make a concert of minutes on forty  reader and  leader in one person is required, will not prevent if he can sing a word Jack of all trades and also  person five ïëÿñóíîâ and  bayan player.
- What will you tell about Krivonosove? – It is inquisitive having blinked  eyes, Lozhkin  asked.
-  master you will tell nothing, ñïðûãíóü on a bet from  bridge! –  delightfully said Kvass, but then  somehow become gloomy and  unwillingly squeezed out, - it is deducted … for ìóæåëîæåñòâî.
Lozhkin  ceased to scratch a head and  stared at Kvasova.
-  victim of draw, - wanted to get off light Kvass, but to it everything, it was necessary to state business more in detail.
As he said left that children wanted to joke of drunk Krivonosovym, having stripped naked it and having organised turn.
- Tried to give out it for  drunk woman, -  specified Kvass and  for some reason asked, - after all you know Tsilindrova?
It was found out that it very much even, and in all this history.
- After all it does not pass any hole even if it in a fence! – Lozhkin  laughed.
- Therefore him also have called, -  sighed Kvass.
Further  gone somehow not so more truly to tell at Tsilindrova  not gone in any way. In áàòàëåðêå which  drunk company left to smoke, there was one Huzhel, having added itself bypassing drinking companions a wine glass, it on snack  made to itself(himself) a sandwich. Hasty çàãëîòèâ contents of a glass it with pleasure çàíþõàë drunk, and already was going to bite off a piece as from under  bottom shelf  drunk head of Krivonosova was put out.
- There  margarine pack lies, you it do not eat!
- Why?, -  asked Huzhel.
 head which  disappeared under a shelf, through a snore  muffledly murmured: - Yesterday here all night long  woman in a point tore up, directly in a pack... That with whistle... Also dipped.
From áàòàëåðêè there was obviously than that angered Huzhel and  nervously laughed: - I to it ïîëîòåí÷èêîì êîëîôó have covered Chufak, and that it terrible. For credibility it  tightened trousers. Öûëèíäðîâ only wanted to start as as he said «this moralist  rushed». This moralist  appeared  foreman of a company Kilkin who  unexpectedly appeared in a heat of draw and  declared that «is necessary to it without turn».
- Not bad, you, apparently, disliked Krivonosova and with  Cylinder were snatched …, it too is deducted?
- It is deducted, -  hopelessly given up as a bad job Kvass.
- Well it is fine, and for Rusty you do not know any talents?
- It - that I know a little, I know more about its girl …
Lozhkin  wearily sighed and with a pious expression  begun to listen to  next absolutely not necessary information.
Rzhavova had a talent for an epistolary genre, and  unique addressee it had its schoolmate who for want of something better a variant had  status of "its girl». On employment he wrote it letters, using  used up leaf as a textbook bookmark.
- Type it awfully careless, never edits letters: will sign, will stick and  run to a box … - told Kvass, - and once, I saw, it  seized any leaf full of dirty curses, however, very similar to his letter lying at it in  book in  form of a bookmark and  signed it and  sealed an envelope. I heard on a scene it is necessary to be able to smile, - have finished Kvass, - and it is painfully gloomy recently.
Lozhkin  attentively looked at Kvasova: - you visit for a long time a special course?
Kvass  timidly smiled.
- What will you tell about Fiksenko? – Lozhkin  decided not to distract.
- Will not approach, -  answered Kvass, - it in hospital.
- For a long time? – Lozhkin  for some reason specified.
- Already ïîëîðà hour as to it cut out an appendicitis, -  reported Kvass.
Without having given, to Lozhkin's curiosity will turn to  next question, it  told  next history which  happened exclusively because of misunderstanding. Left so that Fiksenko  shirked front employment, and it was urgently necessary for it îòìàçàòüñÿ.
- This directory it êëååíûé re-stuck, … it is similar, not those symptoms  learnt. … All  occurred by mistake, and after all I said to it that it is not necessary to cause first aid. And he objected me that to  inquiry from a medical unit Kilkin will not believe.
- Truly, will not believe.
- And he spoke.
- Well, -  continued  Spoon, - and to Ivolginym recently occurred nothing?
- No, and what with it?
Lozhkin it is inquisitive  peered in Kvasova. Kvass  thoughtfully clapped to itself a palm on a forehead.
- Five minutes ago with it all was everything is all right.
- It is possible to take as  compere of  story-teller and  leader, - being afraid as though of it have not interrupted a tongue twister Lozhkin  blurted out.
- All  same it is necessary to specify, whether all with it is perfectly in order …
Kvass  found in a notebook sheet where any schemes with  initials have been lined. In such affairs he did not like to rely on memory.
Lozhkin  sighed.

9

Spoon  entered in ïëîòíèöêóþ. Kvass  low dense robust fellow with a square jaw and a good-natured smile on a sex of person was by  window in cowards and ironed trousers.
- For  present  pair of minutes is, - he  assured  friend.
It was  ordinary change house altered in ïëîòíèöêóþ. In a company constantly there was a repair, eternally something broke, and was why. Doors in bunk rooms opened a kick of a foot, paternal jambs did not maintain, window leaves came off and somewhere vanished, all time it was necessary to insert glasses.  cadet Half-Jansky managed this áèíäþæêîé,  big work it was necessary to elicit at it a key, therefore Kvass and leant on  iron, trying to use  moment as much as possible. It was a unique premise in a company, except office which was locked and where it was possible to carry out such confidential action easy. Someone  knocked.
It should be somebody from ours …, - clasping ñâåæåâûãëàæåííûå trousers ascertained Kvass.
 cadet with a short hairstyle and áîëøèì a fleshy nose  entered. Kvass in a notebook against a surname Ivolgin  put a fat bird. Further Zverev which  taken seat on a workbench  received  same tick on õîçÿéñêè,  high thin guy was hardly guessed in a flabby body of this pimply youth. Near to it ðàññåëñÿ Dronov to whom Kvasova on understanding would approach a surname Dubinin is better. Bunchuk and Sveshnikov have come also.  last was áîÿíèñò Goloduhin.
- All in gathering, - Lozhkin  told and  addressed to Kvasovu, - pour!
- Why I? –  protested Kvass.
Lozhkin  not been adjusted on altercations on trifles therefore it, silently,  taken from under a workbench a wine 3-litre jar.
- Who wants to drink?
All have lifted hands and have looked at Zvereva, that  tarried.
When to school there  arrived  hypnotist on a scene among several cadets over whom put experiences, there was also Zverev. On a question who likes to drink, as  fair person it  raised a hand though in a hall  heads sat. Then he  drunk from an imagined glass. Then  maestro long shouted to it in an ear that vodka smells as kerosene.
- Yes does not smell, does not smell! I after a session have checked up at once.  first glass like bleaching powder gave, - Zverev  remembered.
- Still, where I to you from under kerosene will find a glass! -  grinned Kvass.
All have cheerfully laughed.  glass  gone on a spree on a circle, and everyone considered as  debt before to drink carefully, to sniff to a glass. Çâåðåâ did not take offence, and even when bank  come to an end,  remembered that at it  respectable piece of a balyk "was overlooked". That binge  ended to complain long did not become, descended and have brought still pair áàíîê. A balyk sawed íîæîâêîé on metal.
- Well, now, when we were a little warmed up, - Lozhkin  told – can be, we will start business?
- No, no, no! –  waved hands of Kvass. It is necessary to make secure …
It  pulled out a leaf from  notebook,  written on it «not to enter, there are work photos». It  attached it a spittle on an underside ùåëÿâîé a shaky door, trying to distract probably attention possible checking from drunk hubbub and sounds of a bayan roaring in all basses.
- Now it is possible, -  told  Spoon, carefully having checked up  lock. In brief he  told to crowd all. Questions fell down.
- TH time of rehearsals we will be released from front employment? – Ivolgin  thought.
- Still!
- Having three, it will be possible to go in çàãðàíêó on practice? – Zverev  asked.
- A drop spoke about one three, -  specified  Spoon.
    • In that case what for rehearsals, time cover all it only for ñïåöçàíÿòèé in general are necessary to us? – Dronov  made a helpless gesture.
- It will not proceed more semestre, after  chief of a speciality of Bulyga will demand results. I nevertheless prefer to prepare a concert of minutes on thirty – forty, or it to us will suit him.
- You want to try right now? –  interrupted Lozhkin Kvasov.
- What to pull that, - he  had a look at Goloduhina who  jerked a bayan as seamen before attack tear a stripped vest.
- Sailor's dance an apple, - declared Ivolgin. He  had a look at last thin to bank of Apple wine.
Ãîëîäóõèí  given a whistle,  torn apart bellows and  burst. Lozhkin òîïî÷à and swinging hands,  walked on áèíäþæêå from a window to a door.
- So that and I can, - Dronov  not sustained and too  broken into a dance. Behind it çàïëÿñàëà all crowd. Bunchuk danced, clapping itself on thighs, jumped up, kicking feet in  parties Sveshnikov, Ivolgin twirled by a bum, crashed âïðèñÿäêó Bagels. Walls came õîäóíîì. When at Goloduhina çàíåìåëè fingers, and he  ceased to play, they have caught knock at a door.
- Lozhkin open it I Half-Jansky, I know that you here have reached  excited crowd a constrained voice from a door crack.
- We continue a concert under demands of listeners, - a bad gravelly voice Ivolgin towards a door just as ðàçäîëáàíîå radio in flax to a room, - and now will sound a melody from a film  Godfather at  desire of workers of village  creaked.
Ãîëîäóõèí  played. Half-Jansky, endeavouring to understand that actually occurs in entrusted to it áèíäþæêå,  leant an ear to a crack. Kvass in  meantime  on tiptoe crept to a door with a glass piece in size with a window leaf and that there are forces, æàõíóë it flatwise on a door. Behind a door hasty footfall was distributed.
- Now he will not soon get out of a latrine. Lozhkin  led round all gathered an inquisitive sight. – nobody  changed  mind? We disperse on one …
    
 
10
At night  street opposite to crew was deserted, only sometimes with a ring trams were carried by.  black high sky was full of stars. Õóæåëü  stealthily made  way in crew. In a company on a deck it was silent and it is deserted.  lonely crucian rubbed a rag a deck.  man on duty, having stood at a bedside table, scaredly stared. Õóæåëü  stopped near Dologiha puffing on all fours and it  started to be shaken with a heel on a sock, it liked to pretend to be drunk.
-CHufak, ïàëóïó not  NATO to wash. Ïàëóïó  NATO to pull, - he  moralizingly declared. A kick, having overturned a bucket of dirty water on a deck, it  begun çàñó÷èâàòü sleeves ôëàíêè. Äîëîãèõ  grown numb in on standing at attention, in  middle of  big pool. Having spread a rag on a floor, Huzhel  pulled it on itself. Having bent and tripping feet, it dragged behind itself(himself) a pool on all corridor.
- It should be bent by a letter çþ and move a cancer, - it taught Dologiha – and not çàïûâàé from time to time to wring out a rag.
- TH all  understood, -  mumbled Dologih, - allow to try to me.
- Only do not hurry up, - Huzhel, - not on ñóïîòíèêå  told.
Now  turn of  man on duty  come, before it Huzhel  blinked  eyes: - you Lozhkin know Chufak? It held  left hand on a metal plate, and with an edge of a palm of  right hand tapped itself on a foot. Obviously, he too owned which, what secrets hand-to-hand Times New Romanáîÿ. Man on duty Sveshnikov  hopelessly shrugged shoulders.
- ñíàåøü, … in what êóáàðå he lives?
Sveshnikov in horror was silent.
- Well ÷óôàê, how in Gestapo? –  asked its Huzhel, and  slowly put on hands thin leather gloves of black colour. In  right  in a pointed manner put ñâèí÷àòêó. He  threatened left and when  man on duty  tried to take away a head cut õóêîì on  right. Sveshnikov  jumped up and øë¸ïíóë back a bedside table.
- Good blow, - its Volokov which  unexpectedly appeared in a company  praised, - I see, you here do not sit, ñëîæà hands. It  tenderly clapped Sveshnikov on a cheek.  man on duty did not understand, why it praised, after all he at all under  charter sat on a bedside table and started up bubbles. - to light is? –  remembered, Volokov what for  come to a company to crucians.
-Partagas, -  servilely offered Huzhel to  fifth-year student.
- What for rubbish you smoke?
- I âàïùå itself  such do not smoke that, - Huzhel justified, - I òðóêèå smoke, - at them still ïóìàøêà ñëàòêàÿ.
- To me, what you put? – Volokov  carped, - in fifteen minutes … will bring to me in êóáàðü!
In half an hour foamy Huzhel run all over in search of a good cigarette almost all company quietly bothered fallen asleep Volokova. That without tearing off a head from a pillow, something  lowed and ëÿãíóë Huzhelja in a stomach.
- TH, - Huzhel  told and  developed half-and-half.

11
On ñëåäóùåå morning Lozhkin  not gone for a breakfast.
- Will drag Huzhel me to search on a galley, - he  reasonably assumed, - I will buy in shop «breakfast of  degenerate», - he  solved.
 breakfast of  degenerate represented to bank of a sprat with vegetables for thirty seven copecks, white loaf half-loaves for thirteen copecks and a bottle of  Bulgarian juice for forty copecks. On all left so ninety copecks, but business was not in money.
Degenerates, in understanding of  Spoon were  stirred up, not collected, lazy cadets which it was difficult to descend for a breakfast and they powerlessly ate  grant and transfers of parents in shop opposite.
- Villains, degenerates, onanists! – Lozhkin with taste was indignant covering itself "table" on a stool. It  cut bread with thick pieces,  opened with a knife a can and  uncorked a juice bottle, preliminary having shaken up settled pulp.
- They drink áîðìîòóõó and mutter over snack as turkey-cocks, - he aloud reflected.
- At-bu-bu, - Lozhkin over  covered stool  begun to squeal a turkey-cock, winding a head and lips.
- That? –  head of Bunchuka  risen from under pillows. It had a pressed through bed and if it, without straightening it in  evening, carefully got under a blanket, it it was not visible at all. It was possible not to go on physical gymnastics and for a breakfast. He did not consider itself(himself) as  degenerate.
- Anything, anything … -  calmed its Spoon. It already mentally halved viands lying before it, and it fine spoilt to it appetite
- It will be necessary to enclose in  evening a cellophane package with water to it in bed …
 Áóí÷óê it is sweet  breathed heavily. But all  same  breakfast  been crumpled, it was not necessary to swear and shout aloud a turkey-cock any more. Wishing to correct somehow to itself mood, Lozhkin before to leave on employment  wrapped presented Kvasovym a building cartridge in cotton wool impregnated with cologne,  put a shell in become empty and licked to bank,  set fire and left, having bellowed "air-raid warning". This improvised mine, it  thrust under a bed of Bunchuka. Face to face, leaving a bunk room, it  faced  commander of a company.
- Something  told? – Kortikov  had a look at it with suspicion, - why not on study?
-  forgotten  abstract, -  justified  Spoon.
Behind a door  quietly slapped, and then  roared. Someone  shouted.
- That you shout, as if you in a bum tear up! -  in turn shouted Kortikov.
- TH did not sleep, … I did not sleep! – Bunchuk  forgotten that  cot at it is filled, and it is actually adhered by a blanket to a bed. Jumping, it  disorganised a bed.
- TH bed I repair, - at last  thought up from dab of Bunchuk.
 commander, choking with furiousness,  expelled  sloven from a bunk room a kick.
- It is good that I have gone to bed dressed, - have mentally praised myself Bunchuk.
In some minutes friends sat on employment on naval preparation, something writing down in  strung together and numbered writing-books.  captain of  third rank Brednev learnt them to understand diesel engines. Lozhkin after yesterday's "rehearsal" òîøíèëî. On change to it  approached Kvass: - Take a tablet and do not suffer …, - ïðî÷óâñòâåííî he  advised. When Lozhkin  swallowed it, Kvass  advised: - Descend in a latrine and properly ïðîáëþéñÿ. During this moment  call so council in itself as it was found out there and then very good  rung out, was late as to be late on «âìï» it was not accepted. All  same forty five minutes of a lesson have expired. Lozhkin  jumped out of Audience together with a call. A boot it  blocked a door,  struck çàìî÷êîì folders and  poured out stomach contents directly on textbooks and abstracts. At a door already someone òîðêàëñÿ, it  cleaned a boot and  clasped a folder.
 input in a basement where there was a naval cycle, had a post ñåêðåò÷èêà. Now it should let out groups as  next pair  terminated.  group approached to an exit, having constructed in a column on two. As  admission handed over writing-books served, sometimes it checked contents of folders, records and drawings were resolved only in ñïåö writing-books. Checks have become tougher after cadet Sveshnikov  drawn from nature àðò installation 2ì-3ì and  hung up it in a bunk room and it is unimportant that it reminded a standing penis with square eggs which at a prototype were called as  protective reservation more likely infringement on which was available followed react. For  sake of justice it is necessary to tell that as artist Sveshnikov  become famous at all for this is frank a sloven workmanship. It was known as  author of a scale cloth «Fight with ðå÷íèêàìè» where it  with skill represented just like a panorama of  Borodino fight fight with river school. Or still it was known as  author of a sketch «you Have gone on õåð» where it  drawn  maiden expelled from a company on morning by means of a kick, and in a raincoat on a naked body and with a brassiere in hands. - but try, explain all it ñåêðåò÷èêó, - with bitterness Lozhkin thought, expecting examination.
- No, -  shouted about itself  Spoon.
- Open a folder, -  aloud objected ñåêðåò÷èê.
At  last minute, before pulling  lock of a folder Lozhkin  suspiciously had a look at Kvasova: is you  spoilt air? – He  asked.
- Well and a stench! –  frowned checking, - pass both.
In a summer toilet that was in a court yard of  educational case near to a shooting gallery, Lozhkin long growled over badly smelling aperture. Kvass looked around, on noise  heads could run together.

12

Captain-lieutenant Portvejnov, it Hans, sat at a desk and thoughtfully looked through  file on Baranova Leonid Jakovlevicha, fifty five years old,  lecturer of a society "Knowledge". Baranova as it recommended to  file, had a fine legend for  scout: from a birth in deaf Belarus small town where in war have burnt down all archives to îòñèäêè in Stalin camps after which in police station where  passport  been given out, inquiries on clearing have not kept even.
- A cult of personality hid? – Hans  assumed, - or someone removed  traces …
Rams married for some reason Kapustin's inhabitant ÿðà and as that  suspiciously quickly become a widow/widower. Apartment listening  yielded rather poor results. It was found out: in free from work air liked to spoil time of Rams, to read technical journals and to be engaged in a photo business.  As soon as it became known to bodies, he  hastily got over in a city and was arranged with  lecturer in a society "Knowledge" Cooperated with technical journals as  press photographer, gave lectures about scientifically technical progress, went on  country.
-Negusto have dug out, allies I wave âàòü! –  walked to ãåáåøíèêîâ address a drop.
In an office have knocked.
- Allow to enter?
Hans  hasty hidden a folder in  safe and  seen cadets of Kvasova entering by front splashing gait and Lozhkin.
- Cadet Kvasov on - to your order  arrived.
- Cadet Lozhkin your way to an order  arrived.
- I hear, - Ports  looked at boots of  entered.
Memory  obligingly given out memoirs: «to  Command it will be constructed on physical gymnastics.  clothes form òðóõàíû, ïðîãàðû! – ship loud-speaking communication  shouted in a head at êàïëåÿ. Then noisy footfall of boots on a gangway …» was distributed.
Ports looked on entered as at ghosts ….


13

 commander was not in a company, it had a day off, therefore in a company was quiet – neither shouts, nor turmoil. Everyone  been engaged in by  business.
Near a check point, about  Hall anchor on êîðòî÷êàõ sat Kvass and Lozhkin. In hands they had  flat file, one for two. They sharpened an anchor. In general to sharpen an anchor was considered as destiny of  latest crucians … to sharpen an anchor employment useless and even harmful as which black paint it flew away  been accurately painted but this action allowed an excellent occasion to be filled in with bad laughter to all passing cadets considering in difference from puffing blunderers  present seamen.
 laughter sometimes passing in a horse neighing, at all did not prevent to talk quietly to two friends, discussing Hans's new task. That a laughter! Behind their this employment precisely will not disturb: will not send to wash a latrine, to scrub a deck and undergraduates will not force to carry out what íèáóäü small commissions. Whether a joke: it was necessary to take part as a part of a concert command in a campaign of  Caspian flotilla. With ñïåö  task!
- What do you think to undertake first of all? –  asked Kvass.
Lozhkin  frowned as from a toothache: - Teeth I think to treat, fine distract.
- Zubihi tomorrow professional meeting, do not write down, - askance having looked on ceased to neigh, and Huzhelja which have pricked up ears, Maslov, - That else  informed?.
- It is necessary to banish just once a concert, that's all.
- Not, not everything, -  disappointed its Kvass.
It  pulled out from a breast pocket an edge ðóáëåâêè and  shown to its Spoon. Lozhkin  sighed: yesterday to all have given out from ñòèïóõè on rouble on a hairstyle.
- Me too have written down, - he  complained.
Õóæåëþ  bothered to overhear: - Chufaki, -  told it, - someone from you wants to ÒÐÇ about to be thrown …
Õóæåëü  put to Lozhkin ðóáë¸âêó and  ordered on «ôñ¸» "Apple".
- At  same time I will have hair cut, -  thought  Spoon standing at a tram stop.
Õóæåëü for laughter undertook to help Kvasovu. At last having recovered  breath from laughter, he  asked: - Who  ploughed?
-Volokov and Tychkov, -  told lies Kvass. Õóæåëü began to pull more vigorously a file on itself.
 Till a supper there was a whole hour, and cadets vigorously loafed on a company. In  four hundred sixteenth bunk room there was a card play. Played a quarrel with "ceiling" in twenty copecks that meant: for one course it was impossible to put above  marked sum. It protected game from a stupid bluff. At cards sat in pairs: Êðóòüÿíîâ and Sechkin, Dologih and Rusty. Êðóòüÿíîâ when to it last card came, submitted prearranged signals of Sechkinu: bent towards companies, rolled eyes, scratched in a nape. Sitting at some distance on a bed at it absent-mindedly Lozhkin observed. Soon it  bored it, and it  gone to a washstand, what on to rehearse before a mirror «colour with øàõîþ and with an as» for this purpose it was necessary to pull a corner of a mouth and eyes aside. After at it it  turned out it left on a deck and  seen Zvereva studying parachute business.
- That? – Its Zverev  asked. ìîðçå I have already learnt  alphabet. ôëàæêîâûé a semaphore too … I think that to us and with parachutes will not prevent to understand!
It  conspiratorially winked at Lozhkin. In hands it had a cat adhered by ropes to a bed-sheet scrap. In a hall  window in which it also  thrown out an animal clinging to it  been opened.  cat  landed successfully. When out of breath Zverev in  third time  brought a cat back, it did not look frightened.
- With a parachute and  fool can, - Lozhkin to a cat  told, having pulled about it for a nape, - you try without a parachute. Çâåðåâ, accepted Lozhkin's words into  account  untied ropes and spent a cat an inquisitive glance. Lozhkin  looked at Zvereva similarly.
- Look, - Fiksenko, - sideways  laughed, sideways … He for some reason hated cats and at any opportunity tried to kick them. After its kicks they always tried to bolt for some reason sideways.
- They steal pigeons on an attic, - he  suddenly explained, - and to ourselves already soon it will nothing to catch!
Discussing advantages of pigeon soup,  crowd  heard a long-awaited command «a company to be constructed for a supper».
After a supper under  schedule there was a self-preparation, for  first and  second year necessarily in audiences where cadets dozed, wrote letters, quietly talked. Some sat, having buried in textbooks, especially on  eve of session. Cadet Labutin, having closed ears fingers, sat, having goggled in  textbook, trying to remember at least  most simple things. Thus it periodically, having extended lips, inflated cheeks. It seemed to it that he on rehearsal and blows  trumpet. Kvass and Lozhkin sitting on a back school desk, too practised music – studied notes. For this purpose they had to whistle quietly.
- Notes too will be useful? – Zverev which  approached to them  asked. It  winked aside both eyes and  twisted a mouth corner. Lozhkin  given a whistle.
On  second number from a window cadet Bunchuk with a sour physiognomy sat. Its head was similar to a billiard sphere. Lozhkin with pleasure blinked on it.
At êîììàíäèðà  sixth company there was a habit to give  cadets caught in a self-wolf a crew cut. Thus it still ripped out êëèíû and gave four extra duties. It was usual practice, it not seemed to it superfluous to punish three times for one sin. «However, it how to count», - reflected  Spoon. Infringement of  form of clothes was punished âûïàðûâàíèåì wedges, autocratically âøèòûõ in uniform trousers, autocratic absence – four dresses.  hairstyle bare, turns out, was not punishment, and only preventive maintenance - in such kind to go to a self-feed it was inconvenient. Thus, all logically spoke and it not seemed any atrocity.
- Try to explain this Bunchuku, -  advised Kvass.
- Yes what here to interpret …, - Lozhkin  told in a fit of temper. It  given Bunche êëåøè in a self-feed, it turned out that it  been once punished.  meeting in assembly hall with a rear admiral, front trousers at it óìûêíóëè for a long time already, and now tomorrow was coming and êëèíû which in crowd would descend for front, have been spoilt irrevocably. It was necessary to rely on destiny, that is not to go on a meeting, but it was  most unprofitable variant. At êîìðîòû Kortikova was very sharp eye.
At ten o'clock in  evening self-preparation  ended, and  group  left in a company. Was coming evening ïðèáîðêà after of which was waited by a release - in eleven evenings.
After, îðãàíèçîâàííî,  group run  risen in a company, Lozhkin  gone down back from  fourth floor and he  thrown in a mail box  letter which  had time to write on self-preparation, in it he informed parents that everything is all right and feed them well. In  letter also there was a bunk room plan from which it was clear where there are beds, a table, ðóíäóê and a dagger  bed on which he sleeps that it was visible to parents  been marked that to it does not blow from a window as he sleeps near to a door. But was not, words that recently this door was open a rough kick of  foreman of a company, and it could not be closed plainly, yes a barrel from it ïîõëåùå, than from a window but to what about it to worry to parents when it is possible to go to bed in clothes to that, having taken cover an overcoat.
When Lozhkin's eyes already stuck together, Bagels which for fun named a bagel, ñïðîñîíîê  pensively said - Children call me  pirate …
Lozhkin under a blanket silently,  burst out laughing. Still it would like to twist at itself a finger in a forehead, but he  counted it excessive.

14

- A company lifting! - heart-rending shout of  man on duty  got into consciousness. In four minutes other command  reached.
-  company will be constructed on physical gymnastics. In a minute  company should stand, having constructed on a deck «the form of clothes  worker, òåëüíèê» when  foreman of a company Kilkin looking in a stop watch,  informed that they were late for thirty seconds, cadet Dologih was indignant
- It is not fair!
On what Kilkin  reacted not in an original way. It  shown two fingers a letter of V Dologihu and  asked
- It how many?
Äîëîãèõ it was invigorated:
- Two
- It five. Five dresses all turns!
Unexpectedly  foreman of group Moisov  interfered with business, wishing to show awareness, he  informed all constructed
- More than four dresses for once it is not necessary to give.
At it it  turned out solidly. Êèëüêèí it  supported.
- On four both! Dologih takes up, its Moisov replaces, Moisov is replaced – Dologih takes up.
- Questions are? - He  asked group.
Lozhkin  drowsily yawned and  stuck sideways Kvasova.
- If only «Tarakanih of races»  done without. Òàðàêàíüè races which sometimes declared  foreman of a company, included some slightly tiring elements, namely run to ïîñèíåíèÿ round school and then lifting and release trainings for a while.
Though Lozhkin also was pleasant «like a command a company under  form number six with mattresses», all  same, there was a spring, and in  street was hot, and he, was delighted that  this time carried by, and  anger of  foreman  fallen not upon all. Having constructed on a parade-ground,  sixth company vigorously swung hands and squatted. Then  run around warmly knot. Cadets of other companies, it is lazy stretching, looked at them bewildered. Lozhkin in addition to all  hung on a horizontal bar.
- Hung you fulfil? -  asked Kvass.
After physical gymnastics still it was necessary to wash and clean teeth, to rustle on ïðèáîðêå and only then is under construction for a breakfast. For a breakfast was ñå÷êà, bread and butter and tea.
Divorce on employment occurred on a parade-ground before a galley opposite to  first crew.  person on duty on school made today divorce on employment without  report to  heads.  heads have not deigned to come on divorce, it  not suffered from it at all. Also devoutly inflated cheeks cadets of muses of a platoon, blowing in pipes, also it is diligent cadets led by commanders of companies beat a parade-ground boots. Going at  head of a company, whether it be  commander or  foreman of a company, did turn on  right and having greeted  officer on duty on school flaunted to  company received a command «quietly, an alignment to  right»
  On  first pair  chief of a speciality of Bulyga conducted history. Studied Political bureau decisions, reading from  newspaper  report on plenum of  Central Committee of  CPSU.  cadet Rusty áóáíèë as  sexton: - There were members of  Political bureau: Tambourines, Voronin … Artfully having had a look on reflected ñïåöà  continued: Áîéòåíêî, Sechkin, Dologih, - it øïàðèë directly under  list of  group which everyone knew by heart and as in group there were many namesakes of listed kingpins ñïåö, lulled by monotonous transfer did not notice some discrepancies. Unexpectedly  audience which, by  way, settled down on  ground floor near buffet, included  chief of school of Moustaches. Áóëûãà quickly nashyolsja: - Group to rise, - he  ordered.  cadets lulled after a breakfast dissonantly have risen.
- I did not sleep, I did not sleep, - cadet Draznetsov what for justified. It  been rumpled on  person and tousled on hair.  chief of school to it  not believed.
Is a lesson or a quiet time? - He  asked. Áóëûãà  reddened.  sleepy look was replaced with  spiteful.  chief hasty left. From  slapped door tasty smells of buffet have reached. Smelt as pies with jam, cigarettes of "Morflot" and cutlets in  test. Lozhkin  convulsively counted copper coins.
- Anything till a dinner two and a half pair, -  consoled its Kvass. In recalculation for a while it made two hundred twenty five minutes without changes.

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