Already an adult tells his childhood memories.

The hero meets Little Flour as a child. “At that time, Little Muck was already an old man, but he was tiny. He looked rather ridiculous: a huge head was hanging on a small, skinny little body, much more than that of other people. ” The dwarf lived all alone in a huge house. He went out into the street once a week, but the neighbors every evening saw him walking on the flat roof of his home.

Children often teased the dwarf, stepped on huge shoes, pulled on a dressing gown and shouted offensive rhymes in the wake.

Once the storyteller greatly offended Muk, he complained to the boy's father. The son was punished, but he learned the story of Little Flour.

“Father Muka (in fact, his name was not Muk, but Mukra) lived in Nicaea and was a respectable man, but not rich. Like Mook, he always sat at home and rarely went outside. He really did not like Muk because he was a dwarf, and did not teach him anything. ” When Muku was 16, his father died, and his house and all things were taken away by those to whom the family owed. Mook took only his father’s clothes, shortening them, and set off to seek his happiness.

It was hard for flour to go, mirages appeared to him, he was tormented by hunger, but two days later he entered the city. There he saw an old woman who was inviting everyone to come to eat. Only cats and dogs ran to her, but Little Mook came too. He told the old woman about his story, she offered to stay with her to work. Mook looked after cats and dogs living with an old woman. Soon, the pets were spoiled and began to smash the house, as soon as the hostess left. Naturally, the old woman believed her favorites, not Muku. Once the dwarf managed to get into the old woman’s room, the cat broke a very expensive vase there. Mook decided to run away, grabbing shoes from the room (his old ones were completely worn out) and a wand - the old woman still did not pay him the promised salary.

Shoes and a stick turned out to be magical. “He saw in a dream that the little dog that led him into the secret room approached him and said:“ Dear Muk, you still don’t know what wonderful shoes you have. Once you turn on your heel three times, they will take you wherever you want. A cane will help you look for treasures. Where gold is buried, it will strike the ground three times, and where silver is buried, it will strike twice. ""

So Muk got to the nearest big city and hired a walker to the king. At first everyone made fun of him, but after he won the contest with the first walker in the city, they began to respect him. All close king hated the dwarf. The same wanted to get their love through money. With the help of his wand, he found a treasure and began to distribute gold coins to everyone. But he was slandered in theft from the royal treasury and sent to prison. To avoid execution, Little Muck revealed to the king the secret of his shoes and wands. The dwarf was released, but deprived of magical things.

Little Muck hit the road again. He found two trees with ripe dates, although it was not the season yet. Donkey ears and nose grew from the fruits of one tree, and disappeared from the fruits of another. Mook changed clothes and went back to the city to trade in fruits from the first tree. The head chef was very pleased with his purchase, everyone praised him until they became ugly. Not a single doctor could restore the former appearance to the court and to the king himself. Then Little Muk changed into a scientist and went back to the palace. He healed one of the mutilated fruits from the second tree. The king, in the hope of an amendment, opened his treasury to Muku: he could take anything. Little Mook went around the treasury several times, examining wealth, but chose his shoes and wand. After that, he tore off the scientist’s clothes. "The king nearly fell in surprise when he saw the familiar face of his main walker." Little Muck did not give the king the healing dates, and he forever remained a freak.

Little Muk settled in another city, where he lives now. He is poor and alone: ​​now he despises people. But he became very wise.

The hero told this story to other boys. Now no one dared to insult Little Flour, on the contrary, the boys began to bow to him with respect.