the child screaming ‘Ba, ba’. Kirillov caught the ‘ba’ and handed it to the child, who now threw it with its own clumsy hands, and Kirillov ran to pick it up again. Finally, the ‘ba’ rolled under the wardrobe. ‘Ba, ba,’ the child shrieked. Kirillov lay flat on the floor, and stretched his hand in an attempt to retrieve the ‘ba’ from beneath the wardrobe.