When the children and animals opened the door of the shed, they stopped speechless with delight.
In the shed there were several wickers chairs, a tableand a lamp. And there were piles of old books around, there were a lot of them.
Everyone made themselves comfortable in the shed. The children began to look trough the books and animals fell asleep at their feet. They weren’t hungry, earlier ate sandwiches, drank water and juice that they had in backpacks. Children gave animals dry food and clean water.
Owl told them that willfly to monastery to inform Mr. Joseph that he have a guests.
Children looked into the books with great curiosity. Many of the books were written in unknown languages. Some had decoratie letters, that children had never seen before.
Elon mused : I’m sure it’s in Chinese or Indian, or Arabic. or maybe Rusian.
Trolly asked : Is there a handwriting of dogs or pigs ? We could learn to read.
Reni laughed : Animals don’t have their own writing. So you don’t have to learn to read. We’ll read to you when we find something about animals here.
Oh, I’m looking at beatiful book with colorful illustrations of dinosaurs. I’ll show you. -Elon said and lay down on the floor, so that Trolly and Fyfy could peep in. Reni crouched down too, curious.
Elon said : They lived a long, long time ago and they were big as buses, some of them could fly.
Reni said : They were winged dragons. I’ve seen in cinema. They’re going to eat uns.
Trolly growled : I’d defend you and bite their legs.
Fyfy squealed : I’d hide and scare them by roaring like a wild boar, because one day I’ll grow up to be a wild boar anyway.
Reni said : And in the video I saw the Gods flying on wiinged dragons and they have a blue bodies and golden robes.
There weren’t any dogs or wild boars either. .- Elon explained. Reni surmised : We were all not born then, we slept in cibs in heaven.
Trolly asked : And where are the dinosaurs now ? Elon said : Their bodies and skeletons are in the ground. Their souls maybe in hell, maybe in purgatory.
Fyfy asked : And what the soul, what does it look like, where is it now ? Elon replied : It’s a long story, you’ll find out from the priest in religion class when you go to animal school.
Oh, look what interesting book I have . It is old framed fabric, the photos in it are black and white, and there are maps in it, This is a book about an aviator’s trip to Asia almost 100 years ago. – Elon said encouragigly.
The animals complained : We don’t know what Asia is and what maps are. Reni didn’t know either, but she kept silent, pretending to know.
Elon said : Asia is huge landmass, much larger than our Europe. But it is connected to Europe by mountains called the Urals. Here you can see on the map. A map is a shortened little picture of the world.
Reni said : I have a globe at home. The Eart is round and the globe is like the Earth, and there are maps of countries, seas, rivers and mountains on it. I’ll show it you when you come to me. Animals were delighted.
Elon said : I’ts a beatiful thing, We’re going to see the whole Earth ! Now look where those old airmen flew on their own, swhere they stopped. Their plane looked comletely different than our. Look at the pictures,
Trolly barked : But what beatiful churches and sculptures,,allower grown tree roots ?
Elon read in the book :This country where is it has a dificult name Anghor Wat.
At this moment it smeiled good, andtwo young gentelman in hoods and long dresses girded with ropes entered the shed. They were monks and were carrying lunch in a basked.
They put a white tablecloth on the cable, put out plates and cutlery, put very tasty dishes for the children ang gave the animals food on thr floor in nice clay bows. The four of them ate with gusto.
The friars went to see the birds in conservatory. When they come back, one of them said : You should go home now because your’s parents must be worried. Come here next week in the morning. Abbot Joseph wants to get to knowyou personally and he will show you Mr, John’s treasures.
The other monk searches among the books and pulled out one of them .He said : :This is a gift for you. This book called “One Thousand and One Nights”. When you read it, you’re going to give it back here. Now you will go with uns to the car and we will drive you home . We’ll pick up you on Saturday morning.
They all gotintoblack Ford car. The children said their adderesses. The monks frirst took her home to Reni’s house, then they took Fyfy to Mrs. Susy. And the end Elon and Trolly drove them in. Elon had a borrowed book ” One Thousand and One Nights”.
Reni and Elon told their parents where they had been and what they were doing. Their parents were very pleased and proud of what their kids had seen and whom they had meet.
Elon parents looked with delight at the book that Abbot Joseph had lent Elon.
Elon’s dad said : I had such a book as child. But during the war our house nwas burned down by the enemy.
‘[
‘
