Travel.LovePoland December 2020

- CHRISTMAS STORIES BY KAMILA ROSIŃSKA -
"ADVENTURE IN THE ATTIC"
Everything that I am about to tell you really happened
one day...
...and it was like this... it was a grey, winter day, outside the
window you could see lazily falling snowflakes, one by one,
evenly, one on top of the other, creating a down duvet on
everything they sat on. Father Frost tried to get inside through
the cracks in the windows, but at home, the dancing sparks
from the fireplace, along with the flames of the fire, made sure
that everyone was safe, warm and cosy. As always at that time
of the day, and it was right after lunch, old Cat Theodore and
Mouse Clementine were having a little game of tag, and no one
suspected what would happen soon. Right next to the living
room with a fireplace, there was a winding, creaky staircase
that led to the attic. The Mouse Clementine, escaping from Cat
Theodore, ran up the stairs with her tiny paws, until she was in
the attic. There, she saw many things, forgotten by the
members of the household, covered with a layer of dust and a
spider's web. However, her greatest attention was drawn to
the sight of an old piano standing right under the roof hatch.
Suddenly, the Mouse heard Cat Theodore running up the stairs
and, in time to hide from him, jumped on the piano's keyboard
and onto the roof-window sill. Immediately, there was a
beautiful sound and Clementine heard the notes from the piano
whirl in the air, with grace and elegance. Surprised, Theodore
stood dumbfounded and listened as well, because the sound
was so soft and subtle that even the slightest rustle could
disturb it. The whole event was also seen by Szczepan the
Cricket who left his house, awakened by a lovely sound. The
Cricket often played the violin, but no one ever heard him,
because to hear a tiny cricket you have to be really quiet... but
what is that?!! One of the Notes hooked her foot on Szczepan's
violin and the next notes began to swirl with the sisters. They
were very tiny and very soft notes, but they sounded so
beautiful that all the animals were quiet to hear them better.
Szczepan the Cricket was very happy to have such listeners.
Cat Theodore liked this concert so much that he moved to the
rhythm of the music with his fat, shaggy tail so rhythmically
that he swept the dust and cobwebs from the entire attic.
On the other hand, Clementine the Mouse, as enchanted, stared
at Szczepan the Cricket, when he gently and gracefully played
his tiny violin and listened and listened to it until she fell asleep
and dreamed that she was a tiny note, lifted by a breeze,
dancing and swirling in the air like snowflakes, shining in the
moonlight like a star.
...since then, Theodore the Cat, together with his friend little
Clementine Mouse, often go to the attic to listen to Cricket
Szczepan's concert in silence and concentration, and Szczepan
eagerly plays for his new friends.
...who knows, dear children, whether you, being quiet, will not
hear Szczepan the Cricket's concert.
100 TRAVEL.LOVEPOLAND