The whole day long she would move around like a squirrel in a wheel, cook dinner, and boil lilac-colored gelatin and glue for the proclamations.

Some people would come, leave notes with her to deliver to Pavel, and disappear, infecting her with their excitement.
The leaflets appealing to the working people to celebrate the first of May flooded the village and the factory.

Every night they were posted on the fences, even on the doors of the police station; and every day they were found in the factory.

In the mornings the police would go around, swearing, tearing down and scraping off the lilac-covered bills from the fences.

At noon, however, these bills would fly over the streets again, rolling to the feet of the passers-by.