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"Thumbling" is a German fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. There was once a poor peasant who sat in the evening by the hearth and poked the fire, and his wife sat and span. Then said he, "How sad it is that we have no children! With us all is so quiet, and in other houses it is noisy and lively.

U odnogo portnogo rodilsja kroshechnyj syn, ne bol'she mizinca, a potomu ego i nazvali Mal'chiks-c-pal'chik. No pri malom roste u nego ne bylo nedostatka v muzhestve, i on skazal svoemu otcu: "Otec, ja dolzhen nepremenno videt' svet." - "Eto verno, syn moj! - skazal starik, vzjal dlinnuju shtopal'nuju igolku i na svechke priladil k nej sharik iz surgucha. - Vot tebe i mech na dorogu."

Zhil kogda-to na svete krest'janin-bednjak. Sidel on raz vecherom u pechki i razgrebal zhar, a zhena sidela i prjala. Vot i govorit on zhene: "Kak zhal', chto net u nas detej. Uzh tak u nas tiho, a von v drugih domah, pogljadi, kak shumno da veselo." "Da," - otvetila zhena i vzdohnula, - "esli by byl u nas hot' odin, dazhe takoj malen'kij, kak mizinec, i to ja byla by dovol'na."