I had recently gone to the explorers' party. I was wearing a waterproof jacket made of sailcloth, rattlesnake leather boots, and a long red scarf.

- Strange scarf, a mermaid told me as we were dancing and I was stepping on her tail. What is it made of, dear? Wild goat wool?

- No, I replied. Would I, a serious explorer, wear a scarf made of wild goat wool? It's made from the genuine beard of a shipwrecked sailor! I bought it two years ago in the Ocean of the Seven Waves.

The mermaid didn't seem to believe me too much, and I had to explain to her. Perhaps you would like to learn the story of the amazing red scarves as well. And first of all, here’s how I came to learn it myself. One day, my friend Captain Bartholomew Borfin, the whale rescuer, and I were sitting in my garden on the Fireworks Island, watching the fireworks, eating apple pies, drinking cherry soda with ice cubes made of dew drops, and chatting...

One stormy night, a ship sinks in the Ocean of the Seven Waves! The lucky Count Kounkoun grabs onto a matchstick, and the waves wash him up on a deserted island along with a saxophone, a net, an alarm clock, and two knitting needles... Thus begins the strange, the incredible adventure of the shipwrecked sailor with the red scarves...