Pencil drawing lesson for children in interesting ways. Drawing with kids

The circus is a territory of humor, beauty, and mystery. And this is also the territory of dexterous and brave people, such as, for example, a girl performing on a ball. The main character of Dragunsky’s story “The Girl on the Ball” really liked this girl. This young lady was school age, but already a real artist; she is graceful, determined, energetic, and simply adorable. The main character of the story really wanted to meet her in person, but life had other plans...

Quiz based on Dragunsky's story "The Girl on the Ball"

1. Which guys Deniska is with? main character Dragunsky's story "The Girl on the Ball", went to the circus?
Answer: with the guys from the class

2. How many times has Deniska’s sister, Alyonka, visited the circus?
Answer: three times

3. For what purpose did the adult guys climb on top of each other, one climbing on the head of the other (according to Denis)?
Answer: for fun

4. What type of ice cream did the spectators who came to the circus buy?
Answer: popsicle

5. Who caught the ball thrown by the juggler?
Answer: Deniska

6. What color was the ball on which the circus girl performed?
Answer: blue

7. Which one fairy tale character did the little girl look like?
Answer: Thumbelina

8. Why did Deniska decide that the girl on the ball was extraordinary and special?
Answer: because everything she did “was like in a fairy tale”

9. What animal did the clown perform with?
Answer: with a rooster

10. What drink did the audience drink at the buffet during intermission?
Answer: citro

11. What animals did the tamer walk on like a carpet?
Answer: by lions

12. What gift did the main character of Dragunsky’s story “The Girl on the Ball” plan to give to a girl from the circus if she came to visit him?
Answer: a Browning pistol and a drawing of a ship with all sails

13. Why didn’t Deniska and dad go to the circus on Sunday? next week after attending a performance by Deniska’s class?
Answer: because workmates came to see dad

14. In what row was Deniska sitting at the circus when he went there with his dad?
Answer: in the second

15. What words did Deniska constantly say when the next circus act began, but it was not the girl on the ball who took part in it?
Answer: vegetable oil nonsense

16. What sweets were sold in the corridor during intermission?
Answer: candies and waffles

17. What was the name of the tightrope walker, the girl on the ball?
Answer: Tanechka Vorontsova

18. What city did Tanechka go to with her parents?
Answer: to Vladivostok

19. Why didn’t Deniska and dad stay for the second part of the circus performance?
Answer: because the girl on the ball did not take part in it

20. Why did dad walk very quickly on the way home and tightly squeeze his son’s hand?
Answer: because he was excited, serious and sad

And so we came as a whole class to the circus. I immediately liked that it smelled something special, and that there were bright pictures, and there is light all around, and in the middle there is a beautiful carpet, and the ceiling is high, and there are various shiny swings tied there. And at that time the music started playing, and everyone rushed to sit down, and then they bought a popsicle and began to eat. And suddenly, from behind the red curtain, a whole detachment of some people came out, dressed very beautifully - in red suits with yellow stripes. They stood on either side of the curtain, and their boss in a black suit walked between them. He shouted something loudly and a little incomprehensibly, and the music began to play quickly, quickly and loudly, and the juggler jumped into the arena, and the fun began. He threw balls, ten or a hundred at a time, and caught them back. And then he grabbed a striped ball and began to play with it... He bounced it with his head, and with the back of his head, and with his forehead, and rolled it on his back, and pushed it with his heel, and the ball rolled all over his body as if magnetized. It was very beautiful. And suddenly the juggler threw this ball into our audience, and then a real commotion began, because I caught this ball and threw it at Valerka, and Valerka threw it at Mishka, and Mishka suddenly took aim and, for no apparent reason, shined it right at conductor, but didn’t hit him, but hit the drum! Bamm! The drummer got angry and threw the ball back to the juggler, but the ball didn’t get there, it just hit one beautiful woman in her hair, and she didn’t end up with a hairstyle, but a fringe. And we all laughed so hard that we almost died.

And when the juggler ran behind the curtain, we couldn’t calm down for a long time. But then a huge blue ball was rolled out into the arena, and the guy who was announcing came to the middle and shouted something in an unintelligible voice. It was impossible to understand anything, and the orchestra again started playing something very cheerful, only not as fast as before.

And suddenly a little girl ran into the arena. I have never seen such small and beautiful ones. She had blue-blue eyes, and around them were long eyelashes. She was wearing a silver dress with an airy cloak, and she had Long hands; she flapped them like a bird and jumped onto this huge blue ball that was rolled out for her. She stood on the ball. And then she suddenly ran, as if she wanted to jump off it, but the ball spun under her feet, and she rode it like she was running, but in fact she was riding around the arena. I have never seen such girls. They were all ordinary, but this one was something special. She ran around the ball with her little legs, as if on a flat floor, and the blue ball carried her on itself: she could ride on it straight, and backward, and to the left, and wherever you wanted! She laughed merrily when she ran as if she were swimming, and I thought that she was probably Thumbelina, she was so small, sweet and extraordinary. At this time she stopped, and someone handed her various bell-shaped bracelets, and she put them on her shoes and hands and again began to slowly spin around on the ball, as if dancing. And the orchestra began to play quiet music, and one could hear the golden bells on the girls’ long arms ringing subtly. And it was all like in a fairy tale. And then they turned off the light, and it turned out that the girl, in addition, could glow in the dark, and she slowly floated in a circle, and glowed, and rang, and it was amazing - I have never seen anything like that in my entire life.

And when the lights came on, everyone clapped and shouted “bravo”, and I also shouted “bravo”. And the girl jumped off her ball and ran forward, closer to us, and suddenly, as she ran, she turned over her head like lightning, and again, and again, and forward and forward. And it seemed to me that she was about to break against the barrier, and I suddenly got very scared, and jumped to my feet, and wanted to run to her to pick her up and save her, but the girl suddenly stopped dead in her tracks, spread out her long arms, the orchestra fell silent, and she stood and smiled. And everyone clapped with all their might and even stamped their feet. And at that moment this girl looked at me, and I saw that she saw that I saw her and that I also saw that she saw me, and she waved her hand at me and smiled. She waved and smiled at me alone. And again I wanted to run up to her, and I stretched out my hands to her. And she suddenly blew a kiss to everyone and ran away behind the red curtain, where all the artists were running away. And a clown with his rooster entered the arena and began to sneeze and fall, but I had no time for him. I kept thinking about the girl on the ball, how amazing she was and how she waved her hand and smiled at me, and I didn’t want to look at anything else. On the contrary, I closed my eyes tightly so as not to see this stupid clown with his red nose, because he was spoiling my girl for me: she still seemed to me on her blue ball.

And then they announced an intermission, and everyone ran to the buffet to drink lemonade, and I quietly went downstairs and approached the curtain from where the artists were coming out.

I wanted to look at this girl again, and I stood by the curtain and looked - what if she came out? But she didn't come out.

And after the intermission, the lions performed, and I didn’t like that the tamer kept dragging them by their tails, as if they were not lions, but dead cats. He forced them to move from place to place or laid them on the floor in a row and walked over the lions with his feet, as if on a carpet, and they looked as if they were not allowed to lie down quietly. This was not interesting, because the lion had to hunt and chase the bison in the endless pampas and announce the surroundings with a menacing roar, terrifying the native population. And so it turns out not a lion, but I just don’t know what.

And when it was over and we went home, I kept thinking about the girl on the ball.

And in the evening dad asked:

- Well, how? Did you like the circus?

I said:

- Dad! There's a girl at the circus. She is dancing on a blue ball. So nice, the best! She smiled at me and waved her hand! I'm alone honestly! Do you understand, dad? Let's go to the circus next Sunday! I'll show it to you!

Dad said:

- We'll definitely go. I love the circus!

And mom looked at both of us as if she was seeing us for the first time.

... And a long week began, and I ate, studied, got up and went to bed, played and even fought, and still every day I thought when Sunday would come, and my dad and I would go to the circus, and I would see the girl in the ball again, and I’ll show her to dad, and maybe dad will invite her to visit us, and I’ll give her a Browning pistol and draw a ship with full sails.

But on Sunday dad couldn't go. His comrades came to him, they delved into some drawings, and shouted, and smoked, and drank tea, and sat until late, and after them my mother had a headache, and my father said to me:

– Next Sunday... I take an oath of Loyalty and Honor.

And I looked forward to the next Sunday so much that I don’t even remember how I lived another week. And dad kept his word: he went with me to the circus and bought tickets to the second row, and I was glad that we were sitting so close, and the performance began, and I began to wait for the girl to appear on the ball. But the person who announces kept announcing various other artists, and they came out and performed in different ways, but the girl still did not appear. And I was literally trembling with impatience, I really wanted dad to see how extraordinary she was in her silver suit with an airy cape and how deftly she ran around the blue ball. And every time the announcer came out, I whispered to dad:

- Now he will announce it!

But, as luck would have it, he announced someone else, and I even began to hate him, and I kept telling dad:

- Come on! This is nonsense on vegetable oil! This is not it!

And dad said, without looking at me:

- Don't interfere, please. It is very interesting! That's it!

I thought that dad apparently doesn’t know much about the circus, since it’s interesting to him. Let's see what he sings when he sees the girl on the ball. Probably he will jump two meters in height in his chair...

But then the announcer came out and shouted in his deaf-mute voice:

- Ant-rra-kt!

I just couldn’t believe my ears! Intermission? And why? After all, in the second section there will only be lions! Where is my girl on the ball? Where is she? Why doesn't she perform? Maybe she got sick? Maybe she fell and had a concussion?

I said:

- Dad, let's go quickly and find out where the girl is on the ball!

Dad replied:

- Yes Yes! Where is your tightrope walker? Something is missing! Let's go buy some software!..

He was cheerful and happy. He looked around, laughed and said:

- Oh, I love... I love the circus! This very smell... It makes my head spin...

And we went into the corridor. There were a lot of people milling around there, and they were selling candies and waffles, and there were photographs of different tiger faces on the walls, and we wandered around a little and finally found the controller with the programs. Dad bought one from her and started looking through it. But I couldn’t stand it and asked the controller:

– Tell me, please, when will the girl perform in the ball?

- Which girl?

Dad said:

– The program shows tightrope walker T. Vorontsova. Where is she?

I stood and was silent. The controller said:

- Oh, are you talking about Tanechka Vorontsova? She left. She left. Why are you late?

I stood and was silent.

Dad said:

“We haven’t known peace for two weeks now.” We want to see tightrope walker T. Vorontsova, but she’s not there.

The controller said:

- Yes, she left... Together with her parents... Her parents are “Bronze People - Two-Yavors”. Maybe you've heard? It's a pity. We just left yesterday.

I said:

- You see, dad...

“I didn’t know she would leave.” What a pity... Oh my God!.. Well... Nothing can be done...

I asked the controller:

- Does this mean it’s true?

She said:

I said:

- Where, no one knows?

She said:

- To Vladivostok.

There you go. Far. Vladivostok. I know it is located at the very end of the map, from Moscow to the right.

I said:

- What a distance.

The controller suddenly hurried:

- Well, go, go to your seats, the lights are already turning off! Dad picked up:

- Let's go, Deniska! Now there will be lions! Shaggy, growling - horror! Let's run and watch!

I said:

- Let's go home, dad.

He said:

- Just like that...

The controller laughed. But we went to the wardrobe, and I handed over the number, and we got dressed and left the circus. We walked along the boulevard and walked like this for quite a long time, then I said:

– Vladivostok is at the very end of the map. If you travel there by train, it will take you a whole month...

Dad was silent. Apparently he had no time for me. We walked a little more, and I suddenly remembered about the planes and said:

- And on the TU-104 in three hours - and there!

But dad still didn’t answer. He held my hand tightly. When we went out onto Gorky Street, he said:

- Let's go to an ice cream parlor. Let's make two servings each, shall we?

I said:

- I don’t want something, dad.

– They serve water there, it’s called “Kakhetinskaya”. I have never drank better water anywhere in the world.

I said:

- I don’t want to, dad.

He didn't try to persuade me. He quickened his pace and squeezed my hand tightly. It even hurt me. He walked very quickly, and I could barely keep up with him. Why was he walking so fast? Why didn't he talk to me? I wanted to look at him. I raised my head. He had a very serious and sad face.

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GIRL ON THE BALL

Once we went to the circus as a whole class. I was very happy when I went there, because I was almost eight years old, and I had only been to the circus once, and that was a very long time ago. The main thing is that Alenka is only six years old, but she has already managed to visit the circus three times. This is very disappointing. And now the whole class went to the circus, and I thought how good it was that I was already big and that now, this time, I would see everything properly. And at that time I was little, I did not understand what a circus was. That time, when the acrobats entered the arena and one climbed on the head of the other, I laughed terribly, because I thought that they were doing this on purpose, for laughs, because at home I had never seen grown men climbing on each other. And this didn’t happen on the street either. So I laughed out loud. I didn’t understand that these were artists showing their dexterity. And at that time I looked more and more at the orchestra, how they played - some on the drum, some on the trumpet - and the conductor waves his baton, and no one looks at him, but everyone plays as they want. I really liked it, but while I was looking at these musicians, there were artists performing in the middle of the arena. And I didn’t see them and missed the most interesting thing. Of course, I was still completely stupid that time.
And so we came as a whole class to the circus. I immediately liked that it smelled like something special, and that there were bright paintings hanging on the walls, and there was light all around, and in the middle there was a beautiful carpet, and the ceiling was high, and there were various shiny swings tied there. And at that time the music started playing, and everyone rushed to sit down, and then they bought a popsicle and began to eat. And suddenly, from behind the red curtain, a whole squad of people came out, dressed very beautifully - in red suits with yellow stripes. They stood on either side of the curtain, and their boss in a black suit walked between them. He shouted something loudly and a little incomprehensibly, and the music began to play quickly, quickly and loudly, and the juggler jumped into the arena, and the fun began. He threw balls, ten or a hundred at a time, and caught them back. And then he grabbed a striped ball and began to play with it... He bounced it with his head, and with the back of his head, and with his forehead, and rolled it on his back, and pushed it with his heel, and the ball rolled all over his body as if magnetized. It was very beautiful. And suddenly the juggler threw this ball towards us in the audience, and then a real commotion began, because I caught this ball and threw it at Valerka, and Valerka - at Mishka, and Mishka suddenly took aim and, for no apparent reason, flashed it right at conductor, but didn’t hit him, but hit the drum! Bamm! The drummer got angry and threw the ball back to the juggler, but the ball didn’t get there, it just hit one beautiful woman in her hair, and she didn’t end up with a hairstyle, but a fringe. And we all laughed so hard that we almost died.
And when the juggler ran behind the curtain, we couldn’t calm down for a long time. But then a huge blue ball was rolled out into the arena, and the guy who was announcing came to the middle and shouted something in an unintelligible voice. It was impossible to understand anything, and the orchestra again started playing something very cheerful, only not as fast as before.
And suddenly a little girl ran into the arena. I have never seen such small and beautiful ones. She had blue, blue eyes and long eyelashes around them. She wore a silver dress with an airy cloak, and she had long arms; she flapped them like a bird and jumped onto this huge blue ball that was rolled out for her. She stood on the ball. And then she suddenly ran, as if she wanted to jump off it, but the ball spun under her feet, and she rode it like she was running, but in fact she was riding around the arena. I have never seen such girls. They were all ordinary, but this one was something special. She ran around the ball with her little legs, as if on a flat floor, and the blue ball carried her on itself: she could ride on it straight, and backward, and to the left, and wherever you wanted! She laughed merrily when she ran as if she were swimming, and I thought that she was probably Thumbelina, she was so small, sweet and extraordinary. At this time she stopped, and someone handed her various bell-shaped bracelets, and she put them on her shoes and hands and again began to slowly spin around on the ball, as if dancing. And the orchestra began to play quiet music, and one could hear the golden bells on the girls’ long arms ringing subtly. And it was all like in a fairy tale. And then they turned off the light, and it turned out that the girl, in addition, could glow in the dark, and she slowly floated in a circle, and glowed, and rang, and it was amazing - I have never seen anything like that in my entire life.
And when the lights came on, everyone clapped and shouted “bravo”, and I also shouted “bravo”. And the girl jumped off her ball and ran forward, closer to us, and suddenly, as she ran, she turned over her head like lightning, and again, and again, and forward and forward. And it seemed to me that she was about to break against the barrier, and I suddenly got very scared, and jumped to my feet, and wanted to run to her to pick her up and save her, but the girl suddenly stopped dead in her tracks, spread out her long arms, the orchestra fell silent, and she stood and smiled. And everyone clapped with all their might and even stamped their feet. And at that moment this girl looked at me, and I saw that she saw that I saw her and that I also saw that she saw me, and she waved her hand at me and smiled. She waved and smiled at me alone. And again I wanted to run up to her, and I stretched out my hands to her. And she suddenly blew a kiss to everyone and ran away behind the red curtain, where all the artists were running away. And a clown with his rooster entered the arena and began to sneeze and fall, but I had no time for him. I kept thinking about the girl on the ball, how amazing she was and how she waved her hand and smiled at me, and I didn’t want to look at anything else. On the contrary, I closed my eyes tightly so as not to see this stupid clown with his red nose, because he was spoiling my girl for me: she still seemed to me on her blue ball.
And then they announced an intermission, and everyone ran to the buffet to drink lemonade, and I quietly went downstairs and approached the curtain from where the artists were coming out.
I wanted to look at this girl again, and I stood by the curtain and looked - what if she came out? But she didn't come out.
And after the intermission, the lions performed, and I didn’t like that the tamer kept dragging them by their tails, as if they were not lions, but dead cats. He forced them to move from place to place or laid them on the floor in a row and walked over the lions with his feet, as if on a carpet, and they looked as if they were not allowed to lie down quietly. This was not interesting, because the lion had to hunt and chase the bison in the endless pampas and announce the surroundings with a menacing roar, terrifying the native population. And so it turns out not a lion, but I just don’t know what.
And when it was over and we went home, I kept thinking about the girl on the ball.
And in the evening dad asked:
- Well, how? Did you like the circus?
I said:
- Dad! There's a girl at the circus. She is dancing on a blue ball. So nice, the best! She smiled at me and waved her hand! To me alone, honestly! Do you understand, dad? Let's go to the circus next Sunday! I'll show it to you!
Dad said:
- We'll definitely go. I love the circus!
And mom looked at both of us as if she was seeing us for the first time.
...And a long week began, and I ate, studied, got up and went to bed, played and even fought, and still every day I thought when Sunday would come, and my dad and I would go to the circus, and I would see the girl again at balloon, and I’ll show her to dad, and maybe dad will invite her to visit us, and I’ll give her a Browning pistol and draw a ship with full sails.
But on Sunday dad couldn't go. His comrades came to him, they delved into some drawings, and shouted, and smoked, and drank tea, and sat until late, and after them my mother had a headache, and my father said to me:
- Next Sunday... I take an oath of Fidelity and Honor.
And I looked forward to the next Sunday so much that I don’t even remember how I lived another week. And dad kept his word: he went with me to the circus and bought tickets to the second row, and I was glad that we were sitting so close, and the performance began, and I began to wait for the girl to appear on the ball. But the person who announces kept announcing various other artists, and they came out and performed in different ways, but the girl still did not appear. And I was literally trembling with impatience, I really wanted dad to see how extraordinary she was in her silver suit with an airy cape and how deftly she ran around the blue ball. And every time the announcer came out, I whispered to dad:
- Now he will announce it!
But, as luck would have it, he announced someone else, and I even began to hate him, and I kept telling dad:
- Come on! This is nonsense on vegetable oil! This is not it!
And dad said, without looking at me:
- Don't interfere, please. It is very interesting! That's it!
I thought that dad apparently doesn’t know much about the circus, since it’s interesting to him. Let's see what he sings when he sees the girl on the ball. He'll probably jump two meters high in his chair...
But then the announcer came out and shouted in his deaf-mute voice:
- Ant-rra-kt!
I just couldn’t believe my ears! Intermission? And why? After all, in the second section there will only be lions! Where is my girl on the ball? Where is she? Why doesn't she perform? Maybe she got sick? Maybe she fell and had a concussion?
I said:
- Dad, let's go quickly and find out where the girl is on the ball!
Dad replied:
- Yes Yes! Where is your tightrope walker? Something is missing! Let's go buy some software!..
He was cheerful and happy. He looked around, laughed and said:
- Oh, I love... I love the circus! This very smell... It makes my head spin...
And we went into the corridor. There were a lot of people milling around there, and they were selling candies and waffles, and there were photographs of different tiger faces on the walls, and we wandered around a little and finally found the controller with the programs. Dad bought one from her and started looking through it. But I couldn’t stand it and asked the controller:
- Tell me, please, when will the girl perform in the ball?
- Which girl?
Dad said:
- The program shows T. Vorontsova, a tightrope walker on the ball. Where is she?
I stood and was silent. The controller said:
- Oh, are you talking about Tanechka Vorontsova? She left. She left. Why are you late?
I stood and was silent.
Dad said:
“We haven’t known peace for two weeks now.” We want to see tightrope walker T. Vorontsova, but she’s not there.
The controller said:
- Yes, she left... Together with her parents... Her parents are “Bronze People - Two-Yavors”. Maybe you've heard? It's a pity. We just left yesterday.
I said:
- You see, dad...
- I didn't know that she would leave. What a pity... Oh, my God!.. Well... Nothing can be done...
I asked the controller:
- Does this mean it’s true?
She said:
- Exactly.
I said:
- Where, no one knows?
She said:
- To Vladivostok.
There you go. Far. Vladivostok. I know it is located at the very end of the map, from Moscow to the right.
I said:
- What a distance.
The controller suddenly hurried:
- Well, go, go to your seats, the lights are already turning off! Dad picked up:
- Let's go, Deniska! Now there will be lions! Shaggy, growling - horror! Let's run and watch!
I said:
- Let's go home, dad.
He said:
- Just like that...
The controller laughed. But we went to the wardrobe, and I handed over the number, and we got dressed and left the circus. We walked along the boulevard and walked like this for quite a long time, then I said:
- Vladivostok is at the very end of the map. If you travel there by train, it will take you a whole month...
Dad was silent. Apparently he had no time for me. We walked a little more, and I suddenly remembered about the planes and said:
- And on the TU-104 in three hours - and there!
But dad still didn’t answer. He held my hand tightly. When we went out onto Gorky Street, he said:
- Let's go to an ice cream parlor. Let's make two servings each, shall we?
I said:
- I don’t want something, dad.
- They serve water there, it’s called “Kakheti”. I have never drank better water anywhere in the world.
I said:
- I don’t want to, dad.
He didn't try to persuade me. He quickened his pace and squeezed my hand tightly. It even hurt me. He walked very quickly, and I could barely keep up with him. Why was he walking so fast? Why didn't he talk to me? I wanted to look at him. I raised my head. He had a very serious and sad face.

Once we went to the circus as a whole class. I was very happy when I went there, because I was almost eight years old, and I had only been to the circus once, and that was a very long time ago. The main thing is that Alenka is only six years old, but she has already managed to visit the circus three times. This is very disappointing. And now the whole class went to the circus, and I thought how good it was that I was already big and that now, this time, I would see everything properly. And at that time I was little, I did not understand what a circus was. That time, when the acrobats entered the arena and one climbed on the head of the other, I laughed terribly, because I thought that they were doing this on purpose, for laughs, because at home I had never seen grown men climbing on each other. And this didn’t happen on the street either. So I laughed out loud. I didn’t understand that these were artists showing their dexterity. And at that time I looked more and more at the orchestra, how they played - some on the drum, some on the trumpet - and the conductor waves his baton, and no one looks at him, but everyone plays as they want. I really liked it, but while I was looking at these musicians, there were artists performing in the middle of the arena. And I didn’t see them and missed the most interesting thing. Of course, I was still completely stupid that time.
And so we came as a whole class to the circus. I immediately liked that it smelled like something special, and that there were bright paintings hanging on the walls, and there was light all around, and in the middle there was a beautiful carpet, and the ceiling was high, and there were various shiny swings tied there. And at that time the music started playing, and everyone rushed to sit down, and then they bought a popsicle and began to eat. And suddenly, from behind the red curtain, a whole squad of people came out, dressed very beautifully - in red suits with yellow stripes. They stood on either side of the curtain, and their boss in a black suit walked between them. He shouted something loudly and a little incomprehensibly, and the music began to play quickly, quickly and loudly, and the juggler jumped into the arena, and the fun began. He threw balls, ten or a hundred at a time, and caught them back. And then he grabbed a striped ball and began to play with it... He bounced it with his head, and with the back of his head, and with his forehead, and rolled it on his back, and pushed it with his heel, and the ball rolled all over his body as if magnetized. It was very beautiful. And suddenly the juggler threw this ball into our audience, and then a real commotion began, because I caught this ball and threw it at Valerka, and Valerka threw it at Mishka, and Mishka suddenly took aim and, for no apparent reason, shined it right at conductor, but didn’t hit him, but hit the drum! Bamm! The drummer got angry and threw the ball back to the juggler, but the ball didn’t get there, it just hit one beautiful woman in her hair, and she didn’t end up with a hairstyle, but a fringe. And we all laughed so hard that we almost died.
And when the juggler ran behind the curtain, we couldn’t calm down for a long time. But then a huge blue ball was rolled out into the arena, and the guy who was announcing came to the middle and shouted something in an unintelligible voice. It was impossible to understand anything, and the orchestra again started playing something very cheerful, only not as fast as before.
And suddenly a little girl ran into the arena. I have never seen such small and beautiful ones. She had blue, blue eyes and long eyelashes around them. She wore a silver dress with an airy cloak, and she had long arms; she flapped them like a bird and jumped onto this huge blue ball that was rolled out for her. She stood on the ball. And then she suddenly ran, as if she wanted to jump off it, but the ball spun under her feet, and she rode it like she was running, but in fact she was riding around the arena. I have never seen such girls. They were all ordinary, but this one was something special. She ran around the ball with her little legs, as if on a flat floor, and the blue ball carried her on itself: she could ride on it straight, and backward, and to the left, and wherever you wanted! She laughed merrily when she ran as if she were swimming, and I thought that she was probably Thumbelina, she was so small, sweet and extraordinary. At this time she stopped, and someone handed her various bell-shaped bracelets, and she put them on her shoes and hands and again began to slowly spin around on the ball, as if dancing. And the orchestra began to play quiet music, and one could hear the golden bells on the girls’ long arms ringing subtly. And it was all like in a fairy tale. And then they turned off the light, and it turned out that the girl, in addition, could glow in the dark, and she slowly floated in a circle, and glowed, and rang, and it was amazing - I have never seen anything like that in my entire life.
And when the lights came on, everyone clapped and shouted “bravo”, and I also shouted “bravo”. And the girl jumped off her ball and ran forward, closer to us, and suddenly, as she ran, she turned over her head like lightning, and again, and again, and forward and forward. And it seemed to me that she was about to break against the barrier, and I suddenly got very scared, and jumped to my feet, and wanted to run to her to pick her up and save her, but the girl suddenly stopped dead in her tracks, spread out her long arms, the orchestra fell silent, and she stood and smiled. And everyone clapped with all their might and even stamped their feet. And at that moment this girl looked at me, and I saw that she saw that I saw her and that I also saw that she saw me, and she waved her hand at me and smiled. She waved and smiled at me alone. And again I wanted to run up to her, and I stretched out my hands to her. And she suddenly blew a kiss to everyone and ran away behind the red curtain, where all the artists were running away. And a clown with his rooster entered the arena and began to sneeze and fall, but I had no time for him. I kept thinking about the girl on the ball, how amazing she was and how she waved her hand and smiled at me, and I didn’t want to look at anything else. On the contrary, I closed my eyes tightly so as not to see this stupid clown with his red nose, because he was spoiling my girl for me: she still seemed to me on her blue ball.
And then they announced an intermission, and everyone ran to the buffet to drink lemonade, and I quietly went downstairs and approached the curtain from where the artists were coming out.
I wanted to look at this girl again, and I stood by the curtain and looked - what if she came out? But she didn't come out.
And after the intermission, the lions performed, and I didn’t like that the tamer kept dragging them by their tails, as if they were not lions, but dead cats. He forced them to move from place to place or laid them on the floor in a row and walked over the lions with his feet, as if on a carpet, and they looked as if they were not allowed to lie down quietly. This was not interesting, because the lion had to hunt and chase the bison in the endless pampas and announce the surroundings with a menacing roar, terrifying the native population. And so it turns out not a lion, but I just don’t know what.
And when it was over and we went home, I kept thinking about the girl on the ball.
And in the evening dad asked:
- Well, how? Did you like the circus?
I said:
- Dad! There's a girl at the circus. She is dancing on a blue ball. So nice, the best! She smiled at me and waved her hand! To me alone, honestly! Do you understand, dad? Let's go to the circus next Sunday! I'll show it to you!
Dad said:
- We'll definitely go. I love the circus!
And mom looked at both of us as if she was seeing us for the first time.
... And a long week began, and I ate, studied, got up and went to bed, played and even fought, and still every day I thought when Sunday would come, and my dad and I would go to the circus, and I would see the girl in the ball again, and I’ll show her to dad, and maybe dad will invite her to visit us, and I’ll give her a Browning pistol and draw a ship with full sails.
But on Sunday dad couldn't go. His comrades came to him, they delved into some drawings, and shouted, and smoked, and drank tea, and sat until late, and after them my mother had a headache, and my father said to me:
– Next Sunday... I take an oath of Loyalty and Honor.
And I looked forward to the next Sunday so much that I don’t even remember how I lived another week. And dad kept his word: he went with me to the circus and bought tickets to the second row, and I was glad that we were sitting so close, and the performance began, and I began to wait for the girl to appear on the ball. But the person who announces kept announcing various other artists, and they came out and performed in different ways, but the girl still did not appear. And I was literally trembling with impatience, I really wanted dad to see how extraordinary she was in her silver suit with an airy cape and how deftly she ran around the blue ball. And every time the announcer came out, I whispered to dad:
- Now he will announce it!
But, as luck would have it, he announced someone else, and I even began to hate him, and I kept telling dad:
- Come on! This is nonsense on vegetable oil! This is not it!
And dad said, without looking at me:
- Don't interfere, please. It is very interesting! That's it!
I thought that dad apparently doesn’t know much about the circus, since it’s interesting to him. Let's see what he sings when he sees the girl on the ball. Probably he will jump two meters in height in his chair...
But then the announcer came out and shouted in his deaf-mute voice:
- Ant-rra-kt!
I just couldn’t believe my ears! Intermission? And why? After all, in the second section there will only be lions! Where is my girl on the ball? Where is she? Why doesn't she perform? Maybe she got sick? Maybe she fell and had a concussion?
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I said:
- Dad, let's go quickly and find out where the girl is on the ball!
Dad replied:
- Yes Yes! Where is your tightrope walker? Something is missing! Let's go buy some software!..
He was cheerful and happy. He looked around, laughed and said:
- Oh, I love... I love the circus! This very smell... It makes my head spin...
And we went into the corridor. There were a lot of people milling around there, and they were selling candies and waffles, and there were photographs of different tiger faces on the walls, and we wandered around a little and finally found the controller with the programs. Dad bought one from her and started looking through it. But I couldn’t stand it and asked the controller:
– Tell me, please, when will the girl perform in the ball?
- Which girl?
Dad said:
– The program shows tightrope walker T. Vorontsova. Where is she?
I stood and was silent. The controller said:
- Oh, are you talking about Tanechka Vorontsova? She left. She left. Why are you late?
I stood and was silent.
Dad said:
“We haven’t known peace for two weeks now.” We want to see tightrope walker T. Vorontsova, but she’s not there.
The controller said:
- Yes, she left... Together with her parents... Her parents are “Bronze People - Two-Yavors”. Maybe you've heard? It's a pity. We just left yesterday.
I said:
- You see, dad...
“I didn’t know she would leave.” What a pity... Oh my God!.. Well... Nothing can be done...
I asked the controller:
- Does this mean it’s true?
She said:
- Exactly.
I said:
- Where, no one knows?
She said:
- To Vladivostok.
There you go. Far. Vladivostok. I know it is located at the very end of the map, from Moscow to the right.
I said:
- What a distance.
The controller suddenly hurried:
- Well, go, go to your seats, the lights are already turning off! Dad picked up:
- Let's go, Deniska! Now there will be lions! Shaggy, growling - horror! Let's run and watch!
I said:
- Let's go home, dad.
He said:
- Just like that...
The controller laughed. But we went to the wardrobe, and I handed over the number, and we got dressed and left the circus. We walked along the boulevard and walked like this for quite a long time, then I said:
– Vladivostok is at the very end of the map. If you travel there by train, it will take you a whole month...
Dad was silent. Apparently he had no time for me. We walked a little more, and I suddenly remembered about the planes and said:
- And on the TU-104 in three hours - and there!
But dad still didn’t answer. He held my hand tightly. When we went out onto Gorky Street, he said:
- Let's go to an ice cream parlor. Let's make two servings each, shall we?
I said:
- I don’t want something, dad.
– They serve water there, it’s called “Kakhetinskaya”. I have never drank better water anywhere in the world.
I said:
- I don’t want to, dad.
He didn't try to persuade me. He quickened his pace and squeezed my hand tightly. It even hurt me. He walked very quickly, and I could barely keep up with him. Why was he walking so fast? Why didn't he talk to me? I wanted to look at him. I raised my head. He had a very serious and sad face.

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