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He was waiting long and hard.




And I ought to answer on these letters.

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The point is, that I hadnt knew any Serge with the surname Kahovsky.

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Some of readers might feel agrived:We were cheated! No, guys. Books arent similar to real life. Even a painter, drawing a picture, doesnt make it similar to photo.

Serge Kahovsky does not exist. The Espada team does not exist too. But all the time I had been writing The boy with the spade I had been accompanied by guys very like Serge.The pioneer pack- a team of young seamen, junkers and foilsmen, just like Espada, accompanied me, growing and working, overcoming failures and rejoiced with me.

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Im definitely sure: without these guys there will be no The Boy with the spade.

 

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Thats why I dedicate this book to best friends of mine:

 

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seamen, skippers assistants and field musicians, navigators and captains,

 

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flag captains and flagships of Caravelle squad.

 

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Vladislav Krapivin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

First chapter

Horsemen on the Mildew station.

 

 

 

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It was such a good name for the station. Appropriate one. A boy came here in the early morning and, during the time he was strolling from the road to the cottage, his pants came wet till his knees because of mildew. The reason was, that there was tallgrass everywhere, and huge water balls were trembling on it. Little lights were starting to glow inside them: purple, golden and blue ones.

 

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A boy came to bench, put his suitcase on, covered it by worn-out ginger jacket, sat down and started waiting a train to come.

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He was waiting long and hard.

 

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Lights in the grass had gone out long ago and a July serene afternoon came.

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A station cottage was situated in the surrounding of beggars-buttons and tall crops of fescue. It was small, light-brown, with white lacy mouldings. Tin rooster was merrily sticking up on the pointed tower. He seemed to be looking for any train, hurrying to move here from the far away forest. But trains arrives very seldom, because the station was situated not on the main line, but on the side one.

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There was a gypsum statue in the palisade, near the staircase: a boy with a foal. A low base was hidden in the grass and it was possible to suppose, that they stay right on the earth. It seemed like they had been playing on the nearby meadow and dropped in for a minute to glance on the round clock: isnt it a dinner time? Probably it wasnt, because they undertook a new game. A boy hugged a foals neck by his right hand and bent a bit, like he wanted to whisper a thing into foals ear. A foal stand gentle, but was fulfilled by hurry till his last straw. He looked like he was saying: I like you and obey you, but lets stop chatting and come ride a bit more.

 

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At least, it was like the little passenger saw it. He liked a gypsum boy with a foal, which were something similar to each other- both thin-legged, adroit and, of course, funny, and he saw them as his friends. And he even was a bit jealous to them. But, all in all, they werent alive.

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