Varvara Krasa
from every underwater cave
they rush -
the suitors,
their own matchmakers, are here
before Chudo Yudo to appear
and ask for his daughter’s hand.
First suitor!
Ali Hussein!
Spewing water like rain!
He breathes it, he drinks it!
Ten gallons, frogs and all!
- I don’t wanna!
- What don’t you wanna?
- Neither water, nor frogs!
- I.
- What about fishes?
- Oh, papa!
Next!
This suitor can read people’s minds
at a distance of any number
of miles.
Did he drop dead?
He’s coming to. Welcome back!
All right!
Read her mind!
Why did he do that?
He did read my mind!
Next!
This suitor’s a wizard, and blond!
- Blond?
- Whatever. Who cares?
Greetings to you and bonjour!
So you’re a foreigner.
By birth, I’m from here,
by education, I’m from there.
Where did you graduate from?
From an overseas school of
prestidigitation.
What does it mean?
They call it prestidigitation,
we call it sleight of foot
and hypnosis.
How long did you study
at that overseas school?
Two years and a month.
Two years I spent learning
to say the word “prestidigitation”.
And a whole month I studied
hypnosis.
Shoot, show the thing.
Accept my Guten Morgen.
Merci.
First I’ll utter the magic words
“eins, zwei, drei”
which mean, if translated,
“one, two, three, four”.
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