:38:20
The cherries are over
early this year.
:38:23
Not only the cherries,
you know. Blackberries, too.
:38:29
l was passing under the
cherry tree yesterday..
:38:31
and a sound came from above.
-Was it a squirrel.
:38:34
l thought so too
:38:37
but it was a snake.
:38:39
-Snake? What kind of snake?
-A huge grey snake.
:38:43
What it was doing up
in the tree l can't imagine.
:38:46
Everything is
strange these days.
:38:48
Even the walnuts
don't ripen on time.
:38:52
-The cranes don't come any longer.
-Why?
:38:55
-Don't know. The
pesticides probably.
:39:00
What happened then, father?
:39:08
That damned cough. l can't
get rid of it.
:39:13
Where was l?
-You had got to Mesopotamia, Baghdad.
:39:19
Yeah. We came to that plain...
:39:21
and crossed that
long, desert-like plain...
:39:25
and reached Kutulenmare...
:39:28
near Baghdad.
We were there.
:39:32
We suddenly encountered
the British.
:39:37
We defeated them even though
we were hungry and thirsty.
:39:43
And do you know what
happened next?
:39:46
The English commander committed suicide.
-He couldn't bear the defeat.
:39:52
But when their reinforcements
arrived, they beat us.
:39:56
We could have won if
we hadn't been starved.