ON COCKROACHES
Of all the deeds that the dudes entrusted to us pipsqueaks, the most interesting was catching cockroaches. The fact was that from time to time, the elders blew them into the crack between the door and the floor, into the office of the hated boss Toad. This partisan operation was considered to be extremely dangerous, and all the initiated specially prepared to carry it out. Our pipsqueak duty was to supply live cockroaches to the dudes, and we tried our utmost. During wartime, catching German cockroaches was an ideological activity for us, we did not capture cockroaches, but fascists, so our enthusiasm was constant. There were plenty of the whiskered bugs in the orphanage, especially around the kitchen and canteen. Hiding from the guards, we would drive them into special tra
