Gnomes

Once I had to hear about the existence of little dwarf men. It seemed to me that these are empty fairy tales to amuse people, or to give a child a fairy tale, until I myself was convinced of their existence. Somehow, on a quiet, sunny morning, I went out as always I suddenly saw that a flock of cats was running fast towards the forest, I wondered what the reason was. I quietly followed these cats, trying to do it noiselessly, in order to still find the answer to my questions. The cats ran swiftly into the forest, I crept behind them. When I was in the middle of the forest, I heard a giggle behind my back, turned around, but there was no one there, and suddenly I felt that the ground was leaving from under my feet. I was wandering ... What happened next, I don't remember, I hit my head hard, but opening my eyes I saw an immeasurable amount of stones: diamonds, emeralds, rubies. Is it really all a dream ?! everything was so beautiful that I was speechless for a moment, until it appeared in front of me a little man with a gray beard. my horror knew no bounds, is it really true that what the adults were saying, do gnomes really exist? they spoke their own language, one by one came up to me, examined, climbed into my pockets and took out the sweets from there that I wanted to eat. some time later, as I understood, the chief dwarf-king came out. and began to speak in my language. that there is no place for people in the kingdom of the gnomes, that people should not know about them, since they used to be caught, kept at home, after that they were nicknamed brownies, the poor brothers tried to escape, but that was not the case, the domestic cats were closely guarded by them. His story touched me, and I decided to help them, namely to free the unwilling ones, although I myself did not know how yet. The dwarf said that you need to take a gold thing and glass, put it on a sunbeam at exactly 12 o'clock in the afternoon and wait until everyone leaves, the cat lock him in the room. Only then will the gnome get up from his daytime sleep and go into the light, he will be sleepy, so he will not have time to understand what I was planning, and at that time I have to throw a dark blanket over him and catch him. Then take him outside and let him go. in fact, I did so, and told my friends in secret, they did the same, for which the gnomes were grateful, and even gave them for gems. Since that time, I also believed in a fairy tale, and I wish you this.