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You'll have to stand me a pailful!" 'Well, but did it hurt? Olenin asked again, scarcely listening to the tale. 'Let me finish. He stood a pailful, and we drank it, but the blood went on flowing. The whole room was drenched and covered with blood. Grandad Burlak, he says, "The lad will give up the ghost. Stand a bottle of the sweet sort, or we shall have you taken up!"
'Uncle Burlak has been and Fomushkin too, said he, not quite confidently. 'You two had better go, you and Nazarka, he went on, addressing Lukashka. 'And Ergushov must go too; surely he has slept it off? 'You don't sleep it off yourself so why should he? said Nazarka in a subdued voice. The Cossacks laughed. Ergushov was the Cossack who had been lying drunk and asleep near the hut.
'Your health! said Lukashka, taking from his mother's hands a cup filled to the brim with chikhir and carefully raising it to his bowed head. 'A bad business! said Nazarka. 'You heard how Daddy Burlak said, "Have you stolen many horses?" He seems to know! 'A regular wizard! Lukashka replied shortly. 'But what of it! he added, tossing his head. 'They are across the river by now.
But what can one man do amid a throng which does not agree with him? There is no argument which could more clearly demonstrate the terror of those who make use of it than this. The burlaki drag their bark against the current. There cannot be found a burlak so stupid that he will refuse to pull away at his towing-rope because he alone is not able to drag the bark against the current.
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