Girl in hat

It turns out that the hat the girl is wearing now has a story. It was told by the wonderful children's writer Nikolai Nosov. Listen ...

The hat lay on the dresser, Vaska the kitten was sitting on the floor near the dresser, and Vovka and Vadik sat at the table and painted pictures. Suddenly, something fell behind them - fell to the floor. They turned and saw a hat on the floor near the dresser. Vovka went up to the chest of drawers, bent down, wanted to raise his hat - and suddenly he would shout:
- Ah ah ah! - and run to the side.
- What? - Vadik asks.
- She is alive!
- Who's alive?
- Hat, hat, hat.
- What are you! Are hats lively?
- Look for yourself!
Vadik came closer and began to look at the hat. Suddenly the hat crawled straight towards him. How he will scream:
- Ay! - and jumped onto the sofa. Vovka followed him.
The hat climbed out into the middle of the room and stopped. The guys look at her and shake with fear. Then the hat turned and crept over to the sofa.
- Ay! Oh! - the guys shouted.
We jumped off the sofa and ran out of the room. They ran to the kitchen and closed the door behind them.
- I u-u-ho-ho-ho - says Vovka.
- Where to?
- I'll go to my house.
- Why?
- I'm afraid of hats! This is the first time I see a hat walking around the room.
- And maybe someone is pulling her by the string?
- Well, go and see.
- Let's go together. I'll take the club. If she climbs up to us, I'll crack her with a club.
- Wait, I'll take a club too.
- Yes, we have no other club.
- Well, I'll take a ski pole.
They took a golf club and a ski pole, opened the door and looked into the room.
- Where is she? - Vadik asks.
- Over there, by the table.
- Now I will crack it with a club! - says Vadik. - Let him just creep closer, such a tramp!
But the hat lay near the table and did not move.
- Yeah, scared! - the guys were delighted. - Afraid to climb to us.
- Now I'll scare her away, - said Vadik.
He began to knock on the floor with his club and shout:
- Hey you hat!
But the hat did not move.
“Let's get some potatoes and shoot them with potatoes,” Vovka suggested.
They returned to the kitchen, picked up potatoes from a basket and began to throw them into the hat. "They threw it, threw it, finally Vadik hit. The hat will jump up!
... and then the kitten itself jumped out
- Meow! - Something screamed. Lo and behold, a gray tail stuck out from under the hat, then a paw, and then the kitten itself jumped out.
- Vaska! - the guys were delighted.
- Probably, he was sitting on the floor, and the hat fell on him from the chest of drawers, - Vovka guessed.
Vadik grabbed Vaska and let's hug him!
- Vaska, dear, how did you get under your hat?
But Vaska said nothing. He just snorted and blinked at the light.