Poems for Little Ones

Tonio, she called me (Тонио звала она меня). And she would sit in the car (сядет, бывало, в машину; would зд. выражает часто повторяющееся или привычное действие: бывало, как правило) and pretend to hold the wheel (и делает вид, что держит руль = ведет машину; to pretend притворяться, делать вид; играть, делать понарошку /в детских играх и т.п./; wheel колесо, колесико; рулевое колесо). All the household worshipped her (все домашние обожали ее; to worship поклоняться, почитать; обожать, боготворить)! Even the police came to understand that (даже полиция поняла это; to come to do smth. начинать делать что-либо). Ah, the beautiful little one (ах, прелесть, что за малышка)! conspiracy [k@n'spIr@sI] infamy ['Inf@mI] delight [dI'laIt] worship ['w@:SIp] It is a conspiracy. You are going to frame me? All for a pig of a man who should have gone to the chair! It was an infamy that he did not. If it had been me if I had been arrested But it was not you. You had nothing to do with the kidnapping of the child. What is that you are saying? Why, that little one she was the delight of the house. Tonio, she called me ...»