- Mamaaa! The pant leg is torn! My pant leg tore! Mother! Do you hear? Pants leg!
Out of breath, Anya hastily dragged her bicycle across the yard to her mother.
- Pants leg! - the girl panted with her last breath.
The woman looked up at the girl, squinted her eyes and, after hesitating, asked:
- Pants leg?
- Pants leg!
- What trouser leg?
- This! — the girl pointed to the torn leg of her wide jeans, but her mother didn’t look there.
- What is a trouser leg?
“Well, the one on the pants...” Anya pointed down again, but the woman ignored the gesture this time too.
- What pants? — She looked carefully into the eyes of the excited girl.
- Maam, are you kidding me? Pants, the ones I'm wearing.
“You don’t have any pants and never have.”
The girl, unable to bear it, stomped her foot:
- I don’t understand your jokes at all!
- What jokes? What are jokes?
Tears began to well up in the girl’s eyes, she clenched her fists and began to turn the bike back, but her mother shouted:
- Wait!
Anya stopped and looked into her mother’s attentive, slightly cloudy eyes.
- Girl, who are you?
- Pants leg! It's torn!
Anya burst into tears.