Ìîé ïåðåâîä ðàññêàçà " Â îêåàíå",
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In the ocean.
Ocean admired stars. Stars are admiring the ocean. It was autumn , the best time of year in these latitudes. The sun is not beating down but warms. Warm waves are calm. At night, the ocean gives back the warm to the dark blue air and swings reflection of the stars. It lies peacefully as big, dangerous, slumbering beast. Moonlit path went to the horizon.
This October night was special. Lifebuoy slept and saw the happy dreams. He dreamed that he is back on a board the schooner, called "Fortune." That small, beautiful ship long ago was his home . He has always been attached to the board, and the captain of his own hands each year painted it in red and white. Captain wrote, with the beautiful twiddles, on the Lifebuoy the word *Fortune* and fixed around strong ropes with sturdy canvas belts . Lifebuoy is smiling in his sleep because he saw the dream of happiness.
But happiness can’t be long . One day the storm crushed the schooner and it sank with the crew. Only one Lifebuoy saved himself and many years sailed alone in the ocean. Blue letters erased, leaving only the one, the most beautiful letter, F. It has three twiddles , it was a decoration of Lifebuoy, and reminded him of his happy days on the board of schooner . But the bright, red and white sides still glistened on the sun, the captain never skimp on the paint. He loved his schooner, and everything in it. But all this were in the past. A Lifebuoy was alone for many years, and swings on the waves of ocean. He survived several storms, which gave him a sprig of red coral and beautiful, pink seashell. Lifebuoy firmly secured them on the rope and admired them, They were his only riches.
At first Lifebuoy greatly suffered from loneliness, but gradually he got used. Time, if not cure, it dulls the pain of loss.
It happened on October 16, at the night when Lifebuoy saw his happy dream. He thought that crying is a part of the dream, but the dream was nice and there was no place for shouting. Then he realized that it was a cry from the reality and woke up. «Help ... help ... help». And Lifebuoy rushed to help, after all, it was just that for he was intended. He swam to Sinking, and he swam to Lifebuoy too then he lay with his weary body on Lifebuoy and instantly fell asleep. Sinking slept long, almost two days. All this time Lifebuoy regarded him. Sinking was a young sailor. He had a white skin, blond hair on his hands, wavy reddish-brown hair on his head, thin and beautiful fingers, almost childish, youthful face.
When Sinking woke up , it happened at night, he drank the fresh water that has accumulated in the pink seashell after the rain and told Lifebuoy about himself .
Sinking was mixed . He has French and Arabic (Syrian) blood. But he spoke in English because Lifebuoy understood this language. Sinking was handsome . He has flexible, proportional, young body and nice face with big brown eyes and childish, fresh lips. When he smiled, were visible his nice teeth . Two blood mixed, gave excellent result.
He found work as a seaman on a large ship, but there was a mutiny on the ship. And all the supporters of the captain was hanged from the yardarm. He miraculously survived. He jumped from the ship into the water and swam a long time, he could not say how much time , because he lost the sense of reality . He was happy that, finally, Fortune smiled him and now he does not have to swim, and could lay on the Lifebuoy and have a rest.
Lifebuoy began a new life. He cared about Sinking. He taught him how to use the filum from the rope and the earring taken from his ear for fishing , how to accumulate fresh rain water in the large pink seashell . And Sinking was learning everything very quick , he was smart and adroit. Now he does not need food and water. They were almost happy together, Sinking and Lifebuoy. Sinking lay on Lifebuoy and caressed him and whispered to him words of gratitude. He called him affectionate nicknames. Lifebuoy was in seventh heaven. He felt, Sinking need him and he was immensely happy
So together they sailed for days and months. They used to each other and they were like the whole one. Once upon a time winds formed in Lifebuoy empty cavity, then Soul settled there. And now this Soul is fully owned by Sinking. Lifebuoy had just the coral twig , pink seashell and Soul. It was the whole his riches . And he didn’t hesitate gave Sinking all he had . Sinking, it seemed, was happy too, but sometimes, when he looked at the moon tears appeared in his eyes. He missed home. Lifebuoy pitied him , wiping his tears with ropes and they again sailed on.
But, as already stated, the happiness doesn’t last long. Sinking once saw a small dot in the distance, near the horizon, and they are with Lifebuoy swam to it they wanted to understand what is it . They reached the goal at sunset and saw a beautiful boat. The new, with white boards. It was pink by the last rays of the sun. On the sides of the boat was painted blue stripe. It was empty and is swinging on the waves. Swam, Sinking moved in the boat and tied Lifebuoy with the rope to aft. Then he saw the contents of the boat. In the boat were oars, a large piece of canvas and a considerable supply of drinking water in bottles and packs with biscuits and dried fruit inside . Happy smile didn’t leave Sinking’s face . He sat on the bottom of the boat and examined packs with strange inscriptions in an unknown language. Lifebuoy silently watching him. Sinking forgot about his friend. He studied the map, which he found under the big canvas . On map was painted a starry sky, and under it was written the explanation how to use the stars for choosing the right direction.
The next day Sinking built the sail of canvas and sailed on . There was a fair wind and the boat was moving quickly through the waves. Attached Lifebuoy sailed behind the boat. Sinking after he moved in the boat stopped to talk with Lifebuoy. He spoke only with the boat. He whispered sweet words and gentle nicknames, and the boat creaked back subtly.
The Lifebuoy does not imagine a life without Sinking, and sometimes he tried to talk to Sinking , but the sailor replied indifferently, and Lifebuoy was very unhappy. Sinking didn’t need him any more. He was no longer needed.
And in those moments when Sinking was whispering with the boat, Lifebuoy struggled to untie the rope to swim away and not hear more of these words. But the rope was securely attached. And after several weeks of suffering ( because Lifebuoy had a Soul), after all he asked Sinking to let him sail away . But the sailor said that he is dear and he does not want to Lifebuoy sailed alone in the ocean. And a few more weeks Life buoy listened to the tortured him whisper in the night.
When Lifebuoy began to reproach Sinking in hard-heartedness, the sailor said that the Lifebuoy is just his past, but the boat is his future, and he must look to the future. Lifebuoy offended and told many harsh words , he said an ocean full of the Sinkings , and he will save someone again. And he's not simple lifebuoy but he has a Soul inside , and he was hurt by the fact Sinking had betrayed him. They have long argued and everything ended when sailor untied Lifebuoy and left him alone in the ocean. And Lifebuoy saw how the boat is sailing away , long ... long ... till the boat turned into a point and has disappeared.
Lifebuoy knew that Sinkings are very rare in the ocean, and maybe he is doomed to loneliness to the end of his life and he didn't want to dream someone will sink ... and feel very sad. He was swinging on the waves ... and the only colored fish swam around him, they were sympathetic him and sometimes touching him with his delicate fins.