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"очень много" - "a great many"
"богатый" - "rich"
"наклоняться" - "to lean"
"мельник" - "miller"
"букет цветов" - "nosegay"
"горсть" - "handful"
"трава" - "herb"
"карман" - "pocket"
"слива" - "plum"
"вишня" - "cherry"
"общий" - "common"
"кивнуть головой" - "to nod"
"улыбаться" - "to smile"
"гордый" - "proud"
"сосед" - "neighbour"
"странный" - "strange"
"мешок" - "sack"
"мука" - "flour"
"хранить" - "to store"
"корова" - "cow"
"стадо" - "flock"
"овца" - "sheep"
"беспокоиться" - "to trouble"
"удовольствие" - "pleasure"
"доброжелательность" - "unselfishness"
"рынок" - "market"
"страдать" - "to suffer"
"голод" - "hunger"
"груша" - "pear"
"орех" - "nut"
"одинокий" - "lonely"
"чрезвычайно" - "extremely"

Oscar Wilde

THE DEVOTED FRIEND

Part 3

‘Little Hans had a great many friends, but the most devoted friend of all was big Hugh the Miller. Indeed, so devoted was the rich Miller to little Hans, that he would never go by his garden without leaning over the wall and plucking (книжное: срывать, собирать) a large nosegay, or a handful of sweet herbs, or filling his pockets with plums and cherries if it was the fruit season.

‘Real friends should have everything in common,’ the Miller used to say, and little Hans nodded and smiled, and felt very proud of having a friend with such noble ideas.

 ‘Sometimes, indeed, the neighbours thought it strange that the rich Miller never gave little Hans anything in return, though he had a hundred sacks of flour stored away in his mill, and six milch cows, and a large flock of woolly sheep; but Hans never troubled his head about these things, and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to listen to all the wonderful things the Miller used to say about the unselfishness of true friendship.

So little Hans worked away in his garden. During the spring, the summer, and the autumn he was very happy, but when the winter came, and he had no fruit or flowers to bring to the market, he suffered a good deal from cold and hunger, and often had to go to bed without any supper but a few dried pears or some hard nuts. In the winter, also, he was extremely lonely, as the Miller never came to see him then.