G. Rodari «Чем пахнут ремёсла?»

Gianni Rodari (1920–1980) was an Italian writer and poet, the author of funny poems and tales for children. In «Чем пахнут ремёсла?» every trade has its own smell: the baker smells of bread, the carpenter of wood shavings, the driver of petrol. The poet says that idleness has no smell at all. So work gives a person a smell, that is, meaning and value. In Russian «ремесло» is a trade done with one's hands. When working with tools, an adult helps; petrol is dangerous, and we must not even sniff it.