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Thirty times at least he had called the name, Antropka. When suddenly, from the farthest end of the plain, as though from another world, there floated a scarcely audible reply: 'Wha-a-t? The boy's voice shouted back at once with gleeful exasperation: 'Come here, devil! woo-od imp! 'What fo-or? replied the other, after a long interval.
'Because dad wants to thrash you! the first voice shouted back hurriedly. The second voice did not call back again, and the boy fell to shouting Antropka once more.
I walked with long strides along the road by the ravine, when all at once from somewhere far away in the plain came a boy's clear voice: 'Antropka! Antropka-a-a!... He shouted in obstinate and tearful desperation, with long, long drawing out of the last syllable. He was silent for a few instants, and started shouting again. His voice rang out clear in the still, lightly slumbering air.
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