Zhizn' byla by absolyutno presnoj, esli by ryadom s nami ne bylo malen'kikh i bol'shikh, kosmatykh i pushistykh, teplykh i rodnykh, igruchikh i veselykh... znaete kogo? Nu, konechno zhe, sobak i koshek, ptichek i cherepakh, i dazhe rybok... domashnikh. U starushki iz stikhotvoreniya S.Marshaka byl takoj druzhok - kosmatye ushi i strizhenyj nos. Ne daval on etoj babushke pokoya. I pravil'no delal: a to prosidela by tselyj den' u televizora...
Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (Russian: Самуил Маршак; 3 November 1887 – 4 June 1964) was a Russian and Soviet writer, translator and children's poet. Among his Russian translations are William Shakespeare's sonnets, poems by William Blake and Robert Burns, and Rudyard Kipling's stories. Maxim Gorky proclaimed Marshak to be "the founder of Russia's (Soviet) children's literature."