"Or with wings! What a fine thing it would be! Make him with wings, by Jove! and let him kidnap teachers, like the condor did in 'The Children of Captain Grant.' There, of course, the condor does not kidnap a teacher, but it would be better if he did kidnap the teacher."
"Boy, you are talking nonsense, and it is sinful nonsense. Remember your prayers before and after your lessons."
But Mitya was a boy with a fertile imagination, and he became very excited.
"As the teacher is going to the gymnasium it will grab him by the collar and carry him away to somewhere in the air, it makes no difference where. The teacher will simply kick and drop all his books—I hope the books will never be found."
"Boy, have reverence for your elders."
"And the teacher shouts to his wife from above: 'Good-bye, I am going to heaven like Elijah and Enoch,' And his wife kneels in the middle of the road and whimpers: 'My school teacher! Oh, my school teacher!'"
They got quite angry with him.
"Get away, you are jabbering nonsense. There are many who can do that. You are beginning too soon."
They drove him away, but he stopped before he had gone far, thought a while, and asked:
"Do you really mean it?"