В какой книге Снусмумрик украл арбуз

Этот эпизод я видела только в книге
на английском языке.

"Comet in Moominland / Комета в Муми-стране"
CHAPTER 6

Cнусмумрик рассказывает, как сорвал дыню (не арбуз) и оказался в тюрьме.

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‘Well, it was like this,’ began Snufkin. ‘I had picked a melon for dinner. There was a whole field full of them, you see, and I thought that one more or less wouldn’t make any difference. But the moment I dug my teeth into it, a nasty ugly old man came out of a house nearby, and started to shout at me. I listened for a bit, and then I began to wonder if hearing so many bad words was doing me any good. So I started rolling the melon (which was very big and heavy) along the path in front of me, whistling so that I shouldn’t hear what the old man was saying. Then he shouted that the police would come after me, so I made a scornful noise to show that I wasn’t afraid of the police at all.’

‘How could you dare?’ whispered Sniff in deep admiration.

‘I really can’t think,’ said Snufkin. ‘But now you must listen – that ugly old man was the police! And after dashing into his house to get into his uniform, he began to follow me. I ran and ran and the melon rolled and rolled, until in the end we were going so fast that I didn’t know which was the melon and which was me.’

‘And that was how you landed in prison I suppose?’ said Moomintroll. ‘I suppose it was there you met those creatures – Snorks didn’t you call them?’

‘Don’t interrupt!’ said Snufkin. ‘I was just going to tell you how cold and horrible it was in my cell, what with the spiders and rats. I met the Snorks outside, after I had escaped one moonless night

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MELON CRIMES
Преступление с дыней.

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