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Updated: May 11, 2025
My hostess continued to talk to me of the fortunes of her property. "Twenty years ago," she said, "I was sitting on a log in a field one summer afternoon, when up comes an old peasant woman leaning on a stick and speaks to me in an ancient, squeaky voice: "'Good-day, barinya! "'Good-day! I said. "'Would you like to buy a little wooden hut and some land? "'Eh, Gospody!
What should I want with a little wooden hut? said I. 'What do you ask for it? "'Fifty roubles, she squeaked. 'My son has written to me from Poltava. He says, "Sell the hut and come and live with me," so I'm just looking for a buyer. "'What did you say? I asked. 'Fifty roubles? "'Fifty roubles, barinya. Is it too much? "I was astonished. A house and land for fifty roubles.
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