Unknown words of the fairy tale snowman x k andersen. Snowman - Hans Christian Andersen. The Snowman's Tale: Why It's Dangerous to Be Naughty

Snowman, this fairy tale story is very sad at first glance, but at the same time it is filled with cheerful, lively and fantastic characters. This fairy tale carries something in its plot. What desires can be and how you really need to approach life and life situations correctly. The poet-storyteller, Andersen, who is the creator of this fairy tale, shows how fast our life is and how fleeting it can be. How important and correct it is to learn to use the time that we have. By reading this fairy tale, you will be able to teach your child, using the example of the characters, how to treat your desires correctly. Happy reading to you all.

Text of the Snowman fairy tale

It's crunching inside me! Nice frost! - said the snowman. - The wind, the wind just bites! Just love it! Why are you staring, bug-eyed? - He was talking about the sun, which was just setting. - However, go ahead, go ahead! I won't even blink! Let's resist!

Instead of eyes, two fragments of roofing tiles stuck out; instead of a mouth, there was a piece of an old rake; that means he had teeth.

He was born to the joyful “hurray” of the boys, to the ringing of bells, the creaking of runners and the cracking of cabbies’ whips.

The sun set, and the moon emerged into the blue sky, full and clear!

Look, it’s crawling on the other side! - said the snowman. He thought that the sun had appeared again. - I finally stopped him from staring at me! Let it hang and shine quietly so that I can see myself!.. Oh, how I wish I could somehow manage to move! So I would run there to skate on the ice, like the boys did earlier! Trouble is, I can’t move!

Out! Out! - barked the old chained dog; he was a little hoarse - after all, he had once been a lap dog and lay by the stove. - The sun will teach you to move! I saw what happened last year with someone like you, and the year before too! Out! Out! Everyone get out!

What are you talking about, buddy? - said the snowman. - Will that bug-eyed one teach me how to move? - The snowman talked about the moon. “She herself ran away from me just now; I looked at her so intently! And now she’s crawled out again from the other side!

You think a lot! - said the chain dog. - Well, yes, you’ve just been sculpted! The one that looks now is the moon, and the one that has gone is the sun; it will come back again tomorrow. It will push you right into the ditch! The weather will change! I feel my left leg aching! It will change, it will change!

I don't understand you! - said the snowman. - It seems like you are promising me bad things! That red-eyed thing called the sun is not my friend either, I can already smell it!

Out! Out! - the chained dog barked, turning around itself three times and laying down in its kennel to sleep.

The weather has indeed changed. By morning the entire area was shrouded in thick, viscous fog; then a sharp, freezing wind blew and the frost began to crackle. And what a beauty it is when the sun rose!

The trees and bushes in the garden were all covered with frost, like a forest of white corals! All the branches seemed to be dressed in shiny white flowers! The smallest branches, which in summer are not visible because of the dense foliage, were now clearly outlined in the finest lace pattern of dazzling whiteness; radiance seemed to flow from every branch! The weeping birch tree, swayed by the wind, seemed to come to life; its long branches with fluffy fringe moved quietly - just like in summer! That was great! The sun rose... Oh, how everything suddenly sparkled and lit up with tiny, dazzling white lights! Everything was as if sprinkled with diamond dust, and large diamonds shimmered in the snow!

What a beauty! - said a young girl who went out into the garden with a young man. They stopped right next to the snowman and looked at the sparkling trees. - You won’t see such splendor in the summer! - she said, all beaming with pleasure.

And such a good guy too! - said the young man, pointing to the snowman. - He is incomparable!

The young girl laughed, nodded her head to the snowman and started skipping through the snow with the young man, their feet crunching as if they were running on starch.

Who are these two? - the snowman asked the chained dog. - You’ve lived here longer than me; do you know them?

I know! - said the dog. - She stroked me, and he threw bones; I don't bite those.

What are they pretending to be? - asked the snowman.

A little bit! - said the chain dog. - So they will settle in the kennel and gnaw bones together! Out! Out!

Well, do they mean anything, like me and you?

Why, they are gentlemen! - said the dog. - How little does one understand who only yesterday came into the light of day! I can see it in you! I am so rich in both years and knowledge! I know everyone here! Yes, I’ve known better times!.. I didn’t freeze here in the cold on a chain! Out! Out!

Nice frost! - said the snowman. - Well, well, tell me! Just don't rattle the chain, otherwise it just irritates me!

Out! Out! - the chain dog barked. “I was a puppy, a tiny, pretty puppy, and I was lying on velvet chairs there in the house, lying on the laps of noble gentlemen!” They kissed me on the face and wiped my paws with embroidered scarves! They called me Milka, Baby!.. Then I grew up, became too big for them, and they gave me as a gift to the housekeeper, and I ended up in the basement. You can look there; You can see perfectly from your place. So, in that closet I lived like a gentleman! Even though it was lower there, it was calmer than up there: I wasn’t dragged or squeezed by children. I ate just as well, if not better! I had my own pillow, and there was also a stove, the most wonderful thing in the world in such cold weather! I even crawled under it!.. Oh, I still dream about this stove! Out! Out!

Is she really that good, the stove? - asked the snowman. - Does she look like me?

Not at all! That's what he said too! The stove is black as coal: it has a long neck and a copper belly! She just devours wood, fire comes out of her mouth! Next to her, under her - real bliss! You can see her through the window, look!

The snowman looked and, in fact, saw a black shiny thing with a copper belly; there was a fire in my belly. The snowman was suddenly seized by such a terrible desire - it was as if something was stirring in him... What came over him, he himself did not know and did not understand, although any person would understand this, unless, of course, he is not a snowman.

Why did you leave her? - the snowman asked the dog, he felt that the stove was a female creature. - how could you leave there?

I had to! - said the chain dog. “They threw me out and put me on a chain. I bit the younger barchuk on the leg - he wanted to take the bone from me! "Bone for bone!" - I think to myself... But they got angry, and I ended up on a chain! I lost my voice... Can you hear me wheezing? Out! Out! That's all you have to do!

The snowman was no longer listening; he did not take his eyes off the basement floor, from the housekeeper’s closet, where an iron stove the size of a snowman stood on four legs.

Something strange is stirring inside me! - he said. - Will I never get there? This is such an innocent wish, why shouldn’t it come true! This is my most cherished, my only desire! Where is justice if it does not come true? I need to go there, there to her... To snuggle up to her no matter what, even to break the window!

You can't get there! - said the chain dog. - And even if you got to the stove, you’d be finished! Out! Out!

I’m already nearing the end, and before I know it, I’ll fall over!

All day the snowman stood and looked out the window; at dusk the closet looked even more welcoming; the stove shone so softly, like neither the sun nor the moon shines! Where should they go? Only the stove shines like that if its belly is full. When the door was opened, a flame rushed out of the stove and sparkled with a bright reflection on the snowman’s white face. There was also a fire burning in his chest.

I can't stand it! - he said. - How cute she sticks out her tongue! How it suits her!

The night was long, long, but not for the snowman; he was completely immersed in wonderful dreams - they were crackling inside him from the frost.

By morning, all the basement windows were covered with a beautiful ice pattern and flowers; The snowman couldn't have asked for better things, but they hid the stove! The frost was crackling, the snow was crunching, the snowman should have been happy, but no! He yearned for the stove! He was positively ill.

Well, this is a dangerous disease for a snowman! - said the dog. - I suffered from this too, but I recovered. Out! Out! There will be a change in the weather!

And the weather changed, a thaw began.

Drops rang, and the snowman melted before our eyes, but he didn’t say anything, didn’t complain, and this is a bad sign. One fine morning he collapsed. In its place, only something like a bent iron stick stuck out; It was on it that the boys strengthened it.

Well, now I understand his sadness! - said the chained dog - He had a poker inside! That's what was moving inside him! Now it's all over! Out! Out!

Winter soon passed.

Out! Out! - the chained dog barked, and the girls on the street sang:

Forest flower, bloom quickly!

You, little willow, dress in soft fluff!

Cuckoos, starlings, come,

Sing the red praise of spring to us!

And we’ll tell you: ah, lyuli-lyuli,

Our red days have come again!

It's crunching inside me! Nice frost! - said the snowman. - The wind, the wind just bites! Just love it! Why are you staring, bug-eyed? - He was talking about the sun, which was just setting. - However, go ahead, go ahead! I won't even blink! Let's resist!

Instead of eyes, two fragments of roofing tiles stuck out; instead of a mouth, there was a piece of an old rake; that means he had teeth.

He was born to the joyful “hurray” of the boys, to the ringing of bells, the creaking of runners and the cracking of cabbies’ whips.

The sun set, and the moon emerged into the blue sky, full and clear!

Look, it’s crawling on the other side! - said the snowman. He thought that the sun had appeared again. - I finally stopped him from staring at me! Let it hang and shine quietly so that I can see myself!.. Oh, how I wish I could somehow manage to move! So I would run there to skate on the ice, like the boys did earlier! Trouble is, I can’t move!

Out! Out! - barked the old chained dog; he was a little hoarse - after all, he had once been a lap dog and lay by the stove. - The sun will teach you to move! I saw what happened last year with someone like you, and the year before too! Out! Out! Everyone get out!

What are you talking about, buddy? - said the snowman. - Will that bug-eyed one teach me how to move? - The snowman talked about the moon. “She herself ran away from me just now; I looked at her so intently! And now she’s crawled out again from the other side!

You think a lot! - said the chain dog. - Well, yes, you’ve just been sculpted! The one that looks now is the moon, and the one that has gone is the sun; it will come back again tomorrow. It will push you right into the ditch! The weather will change! I feel my left leg aching! It will change, it will change!

I don't understand you! - said the snowman. - It seems like you are promising me bad things! That red-eyed thing called the sun is not my friend either, I can already smell it!

Out! Out! - the chained dog barked, turning around itself three times and laying down in its kennel to sleep.

The weather has indeed changed. By morning the entire area was shrouded in thick, viscous fog; then a sharp, freezing wind blew and the frost began to crackle. And what a beauty it is when the sun rose!

The trees and bushes in the garden were all covered with frost, like a forest of white corals! All the branches seemed to be dressed in shiny white flowers! The smallest branches, which in summer are not visible because of the dense foliage, were now clearly outlined in the finest lace pattern of dazzling whiteness; radiance seemed to flow from every branch! The weeping birch tree, swayed by the wind, seemed to come to life; its long branches with fluffy fringe moved quietly - just like in summer! That was great! The sun rose... Oh, how everything suddenly sparkled and lit up with tiny, dazzling white lights! Everything was as if sprinkled with diamond dust, and large diamonds shimmered in the snow!

What a beauty! - said a young girl who went out into the garden with a young man. They stopped right next to the snowman and looked at the sparkling trees. - You won’t see such splendor in the summer! - she said, all beaming with pleasure.

And such a good guy too! - said the young man, pointing to the snowman. - He is incomparable!

The young girl laughed, nodded her head to the snowman and started skipping through the snow with the young man, their feet crunching as if they were running on starch.

Who are these two? - the snowman asked the chained dog. - You’ve lived here longer than me; do you know them?

I know! - said the dog. - She stroked me, and he threw bones; I don't bite those.

What are they pretending to be? - asked the snowman.

A little bit! - said the chain dog. - So they will settle in the kennel and gnaw bones together! Out! Out!

Well, do they mean anything, like me and you?

Why, they are gentlemen! - said the dog. - How little does one understand who only yesterday came into the light of day! I can see it in you! I am so rich in both years and knowledge! I know everyone here! Yes, I’ve known better times!.. I didn’t freeze here in the cold on a chain! Out! Out!

Nice frost! - said the snowman. - Well, well, tell me! Just don't rattle the chain, otherwise it just irritates me!

Out! Out! - the chain dog barked. “I was a puppy, a tiny, pretty puppy, and I was lying on velvet chairs there in the house, lying on the laps of noble gentlemen!” They kissed me on the face and wiped my paws with embroidered scarves! They called me Milka, Baby!.. Then I grew up, became too big for them, and they gave me as a gift to the housekeeper, and I ended up in the basement. You can look there; You can see perfectly from your place. So, in that closet I lived like a gentleman! Even though it was lower there, it was calmer than up there: I wasn’t dragged or squeezed by children. I ate just as well, if not better! I had my own pillow, and there was also a stove, the most wonderful thing in the world in such cold weather! I even crawled under it!.. Oh, I still dream about this stove! Out! Out!

Is she really that good, the stove? - asked the snowman. - Does she look like me?

Not at all! That's what he said too! The stove is black as coal: it has a long neck and a copper belly! She just devours wood, fire comes out of her mouth! Next to her, under her - real bliss! You can see her through the window, look!

The snowman looked and, in fact, saw a black shiny thing with a copper belly; there was a fire in my belly. The snowman was suddenly seized by such a terrible desire - it was as if something was stirring in him... What came over him, he himself did not know and did not understand, although any person would understand this, unless, of course, he is not a snowman.

Why did you leave her? - the snowman asked the dog, he felt that the stove was a female creature - how could you leave there?

I had to! - said the chain dog. “They threw me out and put me on a chain. I bit the younger barchuk on the leg - he wanted to take the bone from me! "Bone for bone!" - I think to myself... But they got angry, and I ended up on a chain! I lost my voice... Can you hear me wheezing? Out! Out! That's all you have to do!

The snowman was no longer listening; he did not take his eyes off the basement floor, from the housekeeper’s closet, where an iron stove the size of a snowman stood on four legs.

Something strange is stirring inside me! - he said. - Will I never get there? This is such an innocent wish, why shouldn’t it come true! This is my most cherished, my only desire! Where is justice if it does not come true? I need to go there, there to her... To snuggle up to her no matter what, even to break the window!

You can't get there! - said the chain dog. - And even if you got to the stove, you’d be finished! Out! Out!

I’m already nearing the end, and before I know it, I’ll fall over!

All day the snowman stood and looked out the window; at dusk the closet looked even more welcoming; the stove shone so softly, like neither the sun nor the moon shines! Where should they go? Only the stove shines like that if its belly is full. When the door was opened, a flame rushed out of the stove and sparkled with a bright reflection on the snowman’s white face. There was also a fire burning in his chest.

I can't stand it! - he said. - How cute she sticks out her tongue! How it suits her!

The night was long, long, but not for the snowman; he was completely immersed in wonderful dreams - they were crackling inside him from the frost.

By morning, all the basement windows were covered with a beautiful ice pattern and flowers; The snowman couldn't have asked for better things, but they hid the stove! The frost was crackling, the snow was crunching, the snowman should have been happy, but no! He yearned for the stove! He was positively ill.

Well, this is a dangerous disease for a snowman! - said the dog. - I suffered from this too, but I recovered. Out! Out! There will be a change in the weather!

And the weather changed, a thaw began.

Drops rang, and the snowman melted before our eyes, but he didn’t say anything, didn’t complain, and this is a bad sign. One fine morning he collapsed. In its place, only something like a bent iron stick stuck out; It was on it that the boys strengthened it.

Well, now I understand his sadness! - said the chained dog - He had a poker inside! That's what was moving inside him! Now it's all over! Out! Out!

Winter soon passed.

Out! Out! - the chained dog barked, and the girls on the street sang:

Forest flower, bloom quickly!

You, little willow, dress in soft fluff!

Cuckoos, starlings, come,

Sing the red praise of spring to us!

And we’ll tell you: ah, lyuli-lyuli,

Our red days have come again!

It's crunching inside me! Nice frost! - said the snowman. - The wind, the wind just bites! Just love it! And what is this goggle-eyed one staring at? - He was talking about the sun, which was just setting. - Nothing, nothing! I won’t even blink! Let's resist!

Instead of eyes, two fragments of roofing tiles stuck out, and instead of a mouth, a piece of an old rake; that means he had teeth.

He was born to the joyful “hurray” of the boys, to the ringing of bells, the creaking of runners and the cracking of cabbies’ whips.

The sun set, and the moon emerged into the blue sky, full and clear!

Look, it’s crawling on the other side! - said the snowman. He thought that the sun had appeared again. - I finally stopped her from staring at me! Let it hang and shine quietly so that I can see myself!.. Oh, if only I could somehow manage to move! So I would run there to skate on the ice, like the boys did earlier! Trouble is, I can’t move!

Out! Out! - the old chain dog barked; She was a little hoarse - ever since she was a lap dog and lay by the stove. - The sun will teach you to move! I saw what happened last year with someone like you, and the year before too! Out! Out! Everyone get out!

What are you talking about, my friend? - said the snowman. - Will that bug-eyed one teach me how to move? - Snegur spoke about the moon. “She ran away from me just now: I looked at her so intently!” And now she’s crawled out again from the other side!

You know a lot! - said the chain dog. - Well, yes, after all, you were just sculpted! The one that looks now is the moon, and the one that has gone is the sun; it will come back again tomorrow. It will already push you - right into the ditch! The weather will change! I feel my left leg aching! It will change, it will change!

I don’t understand it for some reason! - said the snowman. - And it seems that she promises me bad things! That bug-eyed one called the sun is not my friend either, I can already tell!

Out! Out! - the chained dog barked, turned around itself three times and lay down to sleep in its kennel.

The weather has indeed changed. By morning the entire area was shrouded in thick, viscous fog; then a sharp, freezing wind blew, and the frost began to crackle. And what a beauty it was when the sun rose!

The trees and bushes in the garden were all covered with frost, like a forest of white corals! All the branches seemed to be covered with shiny white flowers! The smallest branches of the branches, which in summer are not visible due to the dense foliage, were now clearly outlined in the finest lace pattern of dazzling whiteness; It was as if a radiance was pouring from every branch! The weeping birch, swayed by the wind, seemed to come to life; its long branches with fluffy fringe moved quietly - just like in summer! That was great! The sun has risen... Ah! how everything suddenly sparkled and lit up with tiny, dazzling white lights! Everything seemed to be sprinkled with diamond dust, and large diamonds shimmered in the snow!

What a beauty! - said a young girl who went out into the garden arm in arm with a young man. They stopped right next to the snowman and looked at the sparkling trees.

You won't see such splendor in summer! - she said, all beaming with pleasure.

And such a good guy too! - said the young man, pointing to the snowman. - He is incomparable!

The young girl laughed, nodded her head to the snowman and started skipping through the snow with the young man; It crunched under their feet, as if they were running on starch.

Who were these two who came? - the snowman asked the chained dog. - You, after all, have been living here longer than me; do you know them?

I know! - said the dog. - She stroked me, and he threw bones - I don’t bite people like that.

What are they pretending to be? - asked the snowman.

Parrrochka! - said the chain dog. - So they will settle in the kennel and gnaw bones together! Out! Out!

Well, do they mean anything, like me and you?

Yes, after all, they are gentlemen! - said the chain dog. - How little does one understand who only yesterday came into the light of God! I can see it in you! Look, I am so rich in both years and knowledge! I know everyone here! Yes, I have known better times!.. I didn’t freeze here in the cold on a chain! Out! Out!

Nice frost! - said the snowman. - Well, well, tell me, tell me! Just don't rattle the chain, otherwise it just irritates me!

Out! Out! - the chained dog barked. “I was a puppy, a tiny, pretty puppy, and I was lying on velvet chairs, there in the house, lying on the laps of noble gentlemen!” They kissed me on the face and wiped my paws with embroidered scarves! They called me “Milka”, “Kroshka”!.. Then I grew up, became too big for them, and they gave me to the housekeeper; I ended up in the basement. You can look there; You can see perfectly from your place. So in that little closet I began to live as a lady, yes, a lady! Even though it was lower there, it was calmer than up there: I wasn’t dragged or squeezed by children. I ate just as well, if not better! I had my own pillow and also... there was a stove, the most wonderful thing in the world in such cold weather! I completely crawled under it!.. Oh, I still dream about this stove! Out! Out!

Is she really that good, the stove? - asked the snowman. - Does she look like me?

Not at all! That's what he said too! The stove is black as coal; she has a long neck and a copper belly! She just devours wood, fire comes out of her mouth! Next to her, under her - real bliss! You can see her through the window, look!

Snegur looked and really saw a black shiny thing with a copper belly; fire glowed from it. Snegur was suddenly seized by some strange desire - it was as if something was stirring in him... What came over him, he himself did not know and did not understand, although any person would understand this, unless, of course, he was a snow gur.

Why did you leave her? - the snowman asked the dog. - How could you leave there?

I had to! - said the chain dog. “They threw me out and put me on a chain. I bit the younger barchuk on the leg - he wanted to take the bone from me! "Bone for bone!" I think to myself... But they got angry, and here I am on a chain! I lost my voice... Can you hear me wheezing? Out! Out! That's all you have to do!

Snegur was no longer listening; he did not take his eyes off the basement floor, from the housekeeper’s closet, where an iron stove the size of a snowman stood on four legs.

Something is stirring so strangely inside me! - he said. - Will I never get there? This, after all, is such an innocent desire, why shouldn’t it come true? This is my most cherished, my only desire! Where is justice if it does not come true? I need to go there, there, to her... to cling to her at all costs, even if I have to break the window!

You can't get there! - said the chain dog. - And even if you got to the stove, you’d be finished! Out! Out!

I’m already nearing the end, I’m about to fall over!

All day the snowman stood and looked out the window; at dusk the closet looked even more welcoming: the stove shone so softly that neither the sun nor the moon shines! Where should they go? Only the stove shines like that if its belly is full. When they opened it, a flame rushed out of it and sparkled with a bright reflection on the snowman’s white face and chest.

I can't stand it! - he said. - How cute she sticks out her tongue! How it suits her!

The night was long, long, but not for the snowman; He was completely immersed in wonderful dreams - they were crackling inside him from the frost.

By morning, all the basement windows were covered with a wonderful ice pattern and flowers; The best snowmen could not have asked for, but they hid the stove! The glass didn't defrost and he couldn't see the stove! The frost was crackling, the snow was crunching, the snowman should have rejoiced and rejoiced, but no! He yearned for the stove! He was positively ill.

Well, this is a dangerous disease for the snowman! - said the chain dog. - I also suffered from this, but I recovered. Out! Out! There will be a change in the weather!

And the weather changed, there was a thaw.

The thaw intensified, and the snow snow decreased, but he did not say anything, did not complain, and this is a bad sign.

One fine morning he collapsed. In its place, only something like a bent iron stick stuck out; It was on it that the boys strengthened it.

Well, now I understand his sadness! - said the chain dog. - He had a poker inside! That's what was moving inside him! Now it's all over! Out! Out!

Winter soon passed.

Out! Out! - the chained dog barked, and the girls on the street sang:

Forest flower, bloom quickly!
You, little willow, dress in soft fluff!
Cuckoos, starlings, come,
Sing the red praise of spring to us!
And we’ll tell you: ah lyuli-lyuli,
Our red days have come again!

They forgot to even think about the snowman!

Sotnikova Ruslana Nikolaevna
Tale about the Snowman.

Somehow, in a winter forest, an extremely incredible story happened... But I’ll start from the beginning. At the beginning of December, a lot, a lot of fluffy sparkling rain fell snow. Children and teachers came to the forest for an excursion from kindergarten. The children admired fabulous beauty of the forest, built snow castles, played snowballs, sculpted snowman...

When the rosy and happy guys left, a strong wind suddenly blew, howling like a wounded animal, a bright, blinding light appeared and... the Snow Queen appeared!

She approached snowman, touched him with her icy hand and said: “I need an assistant who will guard the forest all winter and warn me about uninvited guests!” And the Queen disappeared as quickly as she had appeared.

A snowman...blinked his eyes, twisted his carrot nose, began to warm up, squat... and started dancing!

The forest inhabitants came out to him, who had been watching the miracles taking place all this time. These are squirrels, badgers, hares, foxes and many others. They greeted snowman and asked, What's his name. "Just call me, Snowman, I will protect you!”.

A holiday was held in a forest clearing, everyone sang, danced, and danced in circles. So The snowman began to live in the forest.

One day, on one of the seemingly beautiful winter days, shots were heard through the forest. The trees rustled in alarm, animals and birds began to quickly hide. Snowman at that time I was repairing a bear's den, which had been blocked snow... A shot rang out again, now somewhere nearby. The snowman understood that these were hunters, the forest inhabitants told him about their invasions.

He could not inform the Snow Queen, since she had recently warned him that she had received a visa and was flying to Lapland for several weeks.

What to do, how to save your friends? He had long wanted to show his courage, dexterity and perform some heroic act, but fate still did not provide this chance, however, it seems that now he has appeared!

Snowman, without thinking for a long time, grabbed a broom and rushed into battle... When a living one came into the field of view of the hunters snowman, and even showing techniques like a ninja turtle, they were petrified, and then ran away in all directions, without looking back...

"Glory, glory To the snowman, glory to our savior!, - the animals shouted joyfully. Snowman he modestly looked away and said that it was just his duty. But everyone knew very well about his brave, kind and sympathetic heart!

But Snowman such a beautiful heart, because it was molded by sweet and kind children!

- It’s crunching inside me! Nice frost! - said the snowman. - The wind, the wind just bites! Just love it! And what is this goggle-eyed one staring at? “He was talking about the sun, which was just setting.” - Nothing, nothing! I won’t even blink! Let's resist!

Instead of eyes, two fragments of roofing tiles stuck out, and instead of a mouth, a piece of an old rake; that means he had teeth.

He was born to the joyful “hurray” of the boys, to the ringing of bells, the creaking of runners and the cracking of cabbies’ whips.

The sun set, and the moon emerged into the blue sky, full and clear!

- Look, it’s crawling on the other side! - said the snowman. He thought that the sun had appeared again. “I finally stopped her from staring at me!” Let it hang and shine quietly so that I can see myself!.. Oh, if only I could somehow manage to move! So I would run there to skate on the ice, like the boys did earlier! Trouble - I can’t move!

- Get out! Out! - the old chained dog barked; She was a little hoarse - ever since she was a lap dog and lay by the stove. - The sun will teach you to move! I saw what happened last year with someone like you, and the year before too! Out! Out! Everyone get out!

- What are you talking about, buddy? - said the snowman. — Will that bug-eyed one teach me how to move? — The snowman spoke about the moon. “She ran away from me just now: I looked at her so intently!” And now she’s crawled out again from the other side!

- You know a lot! - said the chain dog. - Well, yes, after all, you were just sculpted! The one that looks now is the moon, and the one that has gone is the sun; it will come back again tomorrow. It will already push you - right into the ditch! The weather will change! I feel my left leg aching! It will change, it will change!

- I don’t understand her for some reason! - said the snowman. - And it seems that she promises me bad things! That bug-eyed one called the sun is not my friend either, I can already tell!

- Get out! Out! - the chained dog barked, turned around itself three times and lay down in its kennel to sleep.

The weather has indeed changed. By morning the entire area was shrouded in thick, viscous fog; then a sharp, freezing wind blew, and the frost began to crackle. And what a beauty it was when the sun rose!

The trees and bushes in the garden were all covered with frost, like a forest of white corals! All the branches seemed to be covered with shiny white flowers! The smallest branches of the branches, which in summer are not visible due to the dense foliage, were now clearly outlined in the finest lace pattern of dazzling whiteness; It was as if a radiance was pouring from every branch! The weeping birch, swayed by the wind, seemed to come to life; its long branches with fluffy fringe moved quietly - just like in summer! That was great! The sun has risen... Ah! how everything suddenly sparkled and lit up with tiny, dazzling white lights! Everything seemed to be sprinkled with diamond dust, and large diamonds shimmered in the snow!

- What a beauty! - said a young girl who went out into the garden arm in arm with a young man. They stopped right next to the snowman and looked at the sparkling trees.

“You won’t see such splendor in the summer!” - she said, beaming with pleasure.

- And such a fine fellow too! - said the young man, pointing to the snowman. - He is incomparable!

The young girl laughed, nodded her head to the snowman and started skipping through the snow with the young man; It crunched under their feet, as if they were running on starch.

-Who were these two who came? - the snowman asked the chained dog. “You’ve been living here longer than me, after all; do you know them?

- I know! - said the dog. “She stroked me, and he threw bones - I don’t bite people like that.”

- What are they pretending to be? - asked the snowman.

- Parrrochka! - said the chain dog. - So they will live in a kennel and gnaw bones together! Out! Out!

- Well, do they mean anything, like me and you?

- Yes, after all, they are gentlemen! - said the chain dog. - How little does one understand who only yesterday came into the light of God! I can see it in you! Look, I am so rich in both years and knowledge! I know everyone here! Yes, I have known better times!.. I didn’t freeze here in the cold on a chain! Out! Out!

- Nice frost! - said the snowman. - Well, well, tell me, tell me! Just don't rattle the chain, otherwise it just irritates me!

- Get out! Out! - the chained dog barked. “I was a puppy, a tiny, pretty puppy, and I was lying on velvet chairs, there in the house, lying on the laps of noble gentlemen!” They kissed me on the face and wiped my paws with embroidered scarves! They called me “Milka”, “Kroshka”!.. Then I grew up, became too big for them, and they gave me to the housekeeper; I ended up in the basement. You can look there; You can see perfectly from your place. So in that little closet I began to live as a lady, yes, a lady! Even though it was lower there, it was calmer than up there: I wasn’t dragged or squeezed by children. I ate just as well, if not better! I had my own pillow and also... there was a stove, the most wonderful thing in the world in such cold weather! I completely crawled under it!.. Oh, I still dream about this stove! Out! Out!

- Is she really that good, little stove? - asked the snowman. - Does she look like me?

- Not at all! That's what he said too! The stove is black as coal; she has a long neck and a copper belly! She just devours wood, fire comes out of her mouth! Next to her, under her - real bliss! You can see her through the window, look!

Snegur looked and really saw a black shiny thing with a copper belly; fire glowed from it. Snegur was suddenly seized by some strange desire - it was as if something was stirring in him... What came over him, he himself did not know and did not understand, although any person would understand this, unless, of course, he was a snow gur.

- Why did you leave her? - the snowman asked the dog. - How could you leave there?

- I had to! - said the chain dog. “They threw me out and put me on a chain. I bit the younger barchuk on the leg - he wanted to take the bone from me! "Bone for bone!" I think to myself... But they got angry, and here I am on a chain! I lost my voice... Can you hear me wheezing? Out! Out! That's all you have to do!

Snegur was no longer listening; he did not take his eyes off the basement floor, from the housekeeper’s closet, where an iron stove the size of a snowman stood on four legs.

“Something is stirring so strangely inside me!” - he said. - Will I never get there? This, after all, is such an innocent desire, why shouldn’t it come true? This is my most cherished, my only desire! Where is justice if it does not come true? I need to go there, there, to her... to cling to her at all costs, even if I have to break the window!

- You can't get there! - said the chain dog. “And even if you got to the stove, you’d be finished!” Out! Out!

“I’m already nearing the end, I’m about to fall!”

All day the snowman stood and looked out the window; at dusk the closet looked even more welcoming: the stove shone so softly that neither the sun nor the moon shines! Where should they go? Only the stove shines like that if its belly is full. When they opened it, a flame rushed out of it and sparkled with a bright reflection on the snowman’s white face and chest.

- I can’t stand it! - he said. - How cute she sticks out her tongue! How it suits her!

The night was long, long, but not for the snowman; He was completely immersed in wonderful dreams - they were crackling inside him from the frost.

By morning, all the basement windows were covered with a wonderful ice pattern and flowers; The best snowmen could not have asked for, but they hid the stove! The glass didn't defrost and he couldn't see the stove! The frost was crackling, the snow was crunching, the snowman should have rejoiced and rejoiced, but no! He yearned for the stove! He was positively ill.

- Well, this is a dangerous disease for the snowman! - said the chain dog. “I suffered from this too, but I got better.” Out! Out! There will be a change in the weather!

And the weather changed, there was a thaw.

The thaw intensified, and the snow snow decreased, but he did not say anything, did not complain, and this is a bad sign.

One fine morning he collapsed. In its place, only something like a bent iron stick stuck out; It was on it that the boys strengthened it.

- Well, now I understand his melancholy! - said the chain dog. - He had a poker inside! That's what was moving inside him! Now it's all over! Out! Out!

Winter soon passed.

- Get out! Out! - the chained dog barked, and the girls on the street sang:

Forest flower, bloom quickly!
You, little willow, dress in soft fluff!
Cuckoos, starlings, come,
Sing the red praise of spring to us!
And we’ll tell you: ah lyuli-lyuli,
Our red days have come again!

They forgot to even think about the snowman!