""I, Baron Munchhausen, an ordinary man..." Sounds like the beginning of a romance song. "I didn't fly to the moon." All right, I didn't. But... If you only knew, my dears, how beautiful moon is... White mountains and red stones at sunset... All right! I've never ridden on a cannonball... In that terrible battle with the Turks, when half of my regiment perished. They drove us into that damn swamp, but we held out! We held out and struck from the flank! But then my horse stumbled and began to sink. And then I grabbed my hair and pulled... and we rose above the sedge... I'll sign it... I'll sign... why tease the geese."