Konstantin Ananin

Home’s a place where
Your parents take care
Of you, and any time
You want, you easily find
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You left me! The only friend
That could always help me to stand
Any sorrow or pain.
How could you break the chain
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Brother Rabbit and Brother Terrapin wanted to run round a tree.
They went to Brother Bear and asked him to be the referee.
He said to Brother Terrapin, “You win if you’re the first to take the stone! ”
Brother Rabbit ran and won as Brother Terrapin could only go,
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- Art! Why are getting
This enormous pig in?
Your Ellen is known as
A woman who hates a mess.
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- You need some more stamps.
___________________________- Why?
I’ve already put on five.
- You see, your letter is too
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Starfish? Are they the creatures
That are covered with small stars?
Are their typical features
Rather unusual? Are
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- Hey, you! Bird! Sing!
- Impossible, I mean
You should first pay.
- Aha! OK!
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Let me touch you –
I’ll become a gentle wind.

Let me kiss you –
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I feel Nan’s and Mummy’s hands
Far away, in distant lands.
Eagles are soaring in the sky.
Ermines always try to hide.
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Once Little Teddy was near a tree.
He heard the noise that he knew. “A bee?
No! Many bees! Much honey!
With it the day’s always sunny! ”
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Starfish live in salty water.
To have a starfish you ought to
Anchor in a calm place and find
Red ones as they’re the best kind.
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- I don’t want to fly
To that distant Milky Way!
- Don’t be so shy,
Everything's OK!
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- A star has fallen. Ah!
- I haven’t seen, but the star
Rain has begun. We can see
Stars fall at any time.
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- One, two, three…
- What shall we play?
- Hide-and-seek,
Six, seven, eight,
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- I’m going to give you some
Books for your birthday.
- Never mind, I’ve read the one
You gave me on New Year’s Day.
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First come, first served. (Proverb) .
When angry, count a hundred. (Proverb) .

- It’s dinner-time! Come on in!
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When a boy, I knew everything,
But now I know nothing.
It is known education
Helps us to get information.
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- When will you think of cutting
The hedge?
___________- When I’ve finished thinking.
- What of?
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- “What a lean Billy-goat! ” said
Wolf hiccupping when he’d had
The poor goat for lunch.
- You haven’t said if he munched
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(First read “Is it… happiness? ”)

But I’ll fill the silence
With nice new sounds.
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