Brownie. United States

The story began in 1948. in liberty, Missouri.

Dan Bortko was very young when his family moved here from Kansas. The house where they lived, was built in 20 years, the last time it was empty. The house was located on top of a hill, there was an old barn...

It took four years, five years and one day Dan happened what is called a miracle. The boy slept in the room with two younger brothers. The middle of the night it woke something up. Dan opened his eyes in the foot of the bed stood a man very small in stature. He had a big nose and long white beard. The old man looked like a dwarf with holiday cards. It was, for example, the leather shorts in the German manner. In the hands of a man holding a Smoking pipe. Dan was so surprised that even I was not scared and soon all eyes were looking at his guest. Gnome also silently looked at the boy, then smiled, winked and disappeared into the wardrobe.

After this Dan, looking out the bedroom window, often seen the little men, and always near an old barn. Once he even painted a gnome, who visited him in the night. When the figure saw the younger brother of Dan, bill, he got very scared and started to cry.

And whenever the unfortunate figure caught bill's eye, the kid burst into tears. As you can see, one brother dwarves amused, and the other frightened – perhaps because he was a capricious child and a tattletale. As for parents, they remained in ignorance and believed that Dan was some kind of imaginary friend, with whom the boy often says...

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