– With cones, – grumbled Vaska.
– What?
– With cones, downy and big, – lisped younger brother strictly specifying the necessary qualities for the tree.
Aloshka stopped near a tall tree and raised her head up.
– So, commander. Be here, I’m going to get a tree with cones. Look, this one is good? – Alochka asked Vasya pointing at the very top of the huge, old, branchy spruce that was full of cones.
– Yes! – brother cried joyfully.
Determined Alochka climbed up. Soon, Vasya lost sight of her. He had fun walking in the forest, but it was getting colder and colder to stand and to wait for sister.
– Ala, you finif soon? – younger brother started whimpering. – I am cold…what are you doing there for such a long time?
– I am sawing. I am also cold, but I stay patient. Isn’t that you who want to have a beautiful Christmas tree with cones at the top? – he heard the sister’s voice from somewhere above.
After a while a plaintive voice of the operation commander peeped.
– Galka, get down, I don’t want these curfed cones, I hear wolves earn… it’s getting dark, I’m so cold… I’m scared…
– Do five steps back from the tree! Do you hear me, Vasya? – cried Alochka with all her strength.
Only the fact that the sawn top of the tree drooped over a big lower twig saved him, terribly frozen, from being hit. Alla jumped off and only then she realized how she risked after having thrown the tree.
– Alochka, you are here, hullay! Let’s go home! – Vasiliy threw himself in his sister’s warm arms.
–Well, pal, we’vefoundthemostbeautiful Christmas tree in the village! I’ll carry you! – commanded sister for whom Vaska’s life was more important that the trophy recovered from the nature.
– Okay… – said brother with chattering teeth.
Vaska climbed up the tree, and Alla pulled it jerkily as she could, she had put the tree on Vasya’s skis.
The adventurers saw clearly the house over the forest gap and the field, but now they were exhausted and with the huge load they had an impression that there are thousands of kilometers to it.
Perhaps, they would have frozen there if their father hadn’t found them who was back from work.
– Hello, children! Where have you found such a tree with cones? – he was surprised and out of breath after a run through snowbanks.
– W-w-we have sa-a-a-wn the top of the tree there… – reported the commander of the operation with the frozen lips.