Приключение в дороге - Маршак С. По мостовой,...

Adventure on the road - Marshak S.

On the pavement
Kicking up the dust
There was a freight
Car.

Children rolled on it -
Seryozha with his brother Petya.
And next, guarding the luggage,
My grandmother and mother were sitting.

Passengers watched
To the dark forest in the distance
From a city apartment
They were taken to the dacha.

To the dacha, to the dacha,
Puffing, heaving dust
On the pavement hot
The car was running.

Grandmother grumbled through her sleep,
Trying to be stricter:
- Spoil it, Petya, the gramophone!
Leave the cat, Seryozha!

The cat was sitting in a large basket,
Covered with pillows
And looked suspiciously
On a rod in Seryozha's hand.

This cat was furry and red,
Not of a simple kind.
The last time he caught a mouse
Three years ago.

But here, alarmed by the cane,
He got out of the basket
Jumped on the table, wagged his tail
And - jump overboard the car!

Nobody expected in any way
That he will go in for sports ...
Seryozha was the first to see
And he shouted: - The cat is overboard!

The grandmother cried out: - The driver! .. -
The driver drove around a puddle
Calmly turned off the engine
And looked out.

Now grandmother and mother,
Both Petya and Seryozha
They went to look for the cats.
The chauffeur trudged off too.

- Have you seen the cat? - asked
Passerby Seryozha.
- I went to Moscow! - struck
An impressive passer-by.

The schoolchildren were playing football.
One, blinking slyly,
He said: - The cat went to the left. -
Another said: - To the right.

Made my way into a suburban garden
Through the hedge Seryozha.
There he glanced at the pine
And he saw - whom?

A ginger cat was sitting on a branch.
He listened to the chirping of the bird
And waited to fall into the claws
Someday mining.

Serezha called: - Kis-kis-kis! -
But the cat did not think to climb down.

He climbed even higher,
Disturbing neighboring birds ...

And Petya thought: "The cat has disappeared ..
Now Seryozha has disappeared.

I'll go and try to find! ",
He went to look for his brother.
Wanders and sees along the way:
A furry cat creeps.

Petya chased the cat,
Yes, I was a little late:
Fluffy cat to the next house
He darted through the window.

Petya remained at the porch
And sat down on a tree stump tired
Deciding to wait for the fugitive
No matter what.

The mother complains to the driver:
- Well, Seryozha is gone,
And Petya began to look for him
And lost too!

The chauffeur went in search,
Entered the gate of the house
And by chance I got into the yard,
Where the old man lived.

The old man mowed the grass in the garden
And, trembling with coughing,
The driver asked in a whisper:
- This cat is not yours?

The chauffeur looks: hairy cat
Sits on a hill, as if waiting
And ceremoniously licks his foot.

- It must be ours! - said the driver.
And suddenly, running up the slope,
Grabbed the cat in his arm.

The chauffeur walks along the pavement,
And here comes Seryozha.
One has a cat under his arm,
And the other too.

Petya comes out of the gate,
Runs straight to the car.
In the hands of Petya is the third cat.
Mom is also carrying the cat.

Gray-haired grandmother - and that
Carries a cat under the arm.

Nice cat, fluffy cat,
Yes, unfortunately, not the same ...
And he sits in a basket
By truck.

He walked through the courtyards
I ate a frog for breakfast
And hastened to return myself
On a soft pillow.

On the pavement
Kicking up the dust
There was a freight
Car...