They seated Big John, brought another bench and settled on it in a green and white swarm. And thoughts, eyes, and ears were now tensely occupied only with Big John, whose head peeked out comically from behind the white wall of white capes and green dresses. Big John, not at all suspecting the commotion that had been caused by his grace, at the request of his new forty friends, was already telling them various incidents from his recent trip around the world. In the heat of the story, the young man did not even notice that the number of his listeners was increasing every minute. The little ones climbed onto the benches and, in order to see better, lifted each other up... Artists Oleg Oreshkin, Elena Frolova