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Take care of the scorpions: feuilletons, humorous stories.

Author: Ilya Mironovich Shatunovsky

Artist: Vladimir Dobrovolsky

In Ilya Shatunovsky's book "Take care of the scorpions!" included the best feuilletons and humorous stories from his previous books "The conditional head", "Altyn behind the cheek" and "The autograph of the empress", directed against bureaucracy, routine, scourging the townspeople, money-grubbers, opportunists, grabbers. Along with them, the book includes notes in which the author reveals the secrets of his creative satirist laboratory.

A few excerpts from "Correspondence with readers":
"I didn't get married for love, but because I wanted to see Moscow and all that. I didn't know then that he had a whole woman in his heart hostel."
"In the list of things to be divided, my ex-wife included my hearing aid, although we did not acquire it together."
"During the elections for people's judges, pioneers were brought to polling station No. 5. And when the voters dropped their ballots into the ballot box, the pioneers saluted. Are these actions of the pioneers a gag?"