Хотим послать в подарок друзьям иностранным Елку - старинную забаву. По русски они не понимают. Попыталась перевести на английский как могла. Оцените, плиз, может что исправить?
Hello, dear friends!
Merry Christmas! We send you a little present for your family. :-)
In the package there is a Christmas tree on a cardboard (which is actually an old-fashioned game, similar to lotto game) and a little Russian Christmas book. They took 100-year old game and book and publish them again. The game is played up to 8 people. Before the game cardboard Christmas decorations are distributed equally, one player can not have two identical decorations. Star set aside. Leader takes cards, calling out the name and number. As all the decorations meet twice, a figure on the tree is hanged by the first one who says, "I have!" If late, wait this number reaches again. The winner is the one who first manages to hang on the tree all the ornaments. He has the right to hang the star at the top, but not before the tree will be dressed up.
In the book there is a Russian old poem. Actually even for us there are a lot of difficult old words, which we never use now. But we try to translate it somehow :)
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Branches of trees are heavy of snow and lay to the ground. There are high snowdrifts in the woods. In this high snow you can see barely visible entrance ... Here Father Christmas lives with his wife, an old woman.
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In their house they sing a song while making decorations to Christmas trees, squirrels and hares help them to paint toys with their fur legs... Time passes by.
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Christmas time starts. Grandfather takes his ax, dresses warmly, and goes to the forest to cut down Christmas trees... He first chooses one tree, and cut it just near the root. Then he goes to another tree. They fall in the snow...
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At cloudless night, while people are sleeping and gold, emerald stars are shining in the sky, grandfather walks around the city, bringing the Christmas trees in houses.
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He then looks through the glass of windows and admires how beautiful are trees with flashing lights and how happy are kids, dancing around the trees. For him it is happiness.
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Winter sky is beautiful and blue. The sun is shining. Snow is falling from the sky like a road. Grandfather returns to the distant white forest.
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Pines are sleepy in the snow forest. It is night when grandfather returns to his hut. White frozen window shines dimly... Grandfather gets stuck in the snow. Finally he comes onto the porch. Squeaky door opens.
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There is a steam following the Grandfather like a yarn. His wife waits for him. They say hello to each other and talk till the morning.