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Updated: July 2, 2025
I know it for a fact, he chimed in. We must have gone too much to the right. I believe we wandered about well nigh till midnight. Then, thank goodness, we heard dogs howling. 'Fools! said Daddy Eroshka. 'There now, we too used to lose our way in the steppe. 'The dogs would answer at once ... Well, go on so you found them? 'We soon led them away!
Lukashka recognized the dog as one belonging to his neighbour, Uncle Eroshka, a hunter, and saw, following it through the thicket, the approaching figure of the hunter himself.
These shouts were addressed to Daddy Eroshka, who with his gun on his shoulder and some pheasants hanging at his girdle was returning from his shooting expedition. 'I have done wrong, lads, I have! he said, vigorously swinging his arms and looking up at the windows on both sides of the street. 'I have drunk the bitch; it was wrong, he repeated, evidently vexed but pretending not to care.
Eroshka moved aside and let him pass. Gerasim went to the gates. All the small boys in the yard stared at him in silence. He did not even turn round; he only put his cap on in the street. Gavrila sent the same Eroshka to follow him and keep watch on him as a spy. Eroshka, seeing from a distance that he had gone into a cookshop with his dog, waited for him to come out again.
"Not the same sort of men!" retorted the old man, mimicking the Cossack lad. 'I was not that sort of Cossack at your age. 'How's that? asked Lukashka. The old man shook his head contemptuously. 'Daddy Eroshka was simple; he did not grudge anything! That's why I was kunak with all Chechnya.
Here you are, and he handed two of the pheasants in at the window. 'Are you a sportsman yourself? he asked. 'I am. During the campaign I killed four myself. 'Four? What a lot! said the old man sarcastically. 'And are you a drinker? Do you drink CHIKHIR? 'Why not? I like a drink. 'Ah, I see you are a trump! We shall be KUNAKS, you and I, said Daddy Eroshka. 'Step in, said Olenin.
Mumu ate up half the plateful, and came away from it, licking her lips. Gerasim got up, paid for the soup, and went out, followed by the rather perplexed glances of the waiter. Eroshka, seeing Gerasim, hid round a corner, and letting him get in front, followed him again. Gerasim walked without haste, still holding Mumu by a string.
The girls laughed at Daddy Eroshka, and it was past ten when they all went out into the porch. The old men invited themselves to finish their merry-making at Olenin's. Ustenka ran off home and Eroshka led the old Cossack to Vanyusha. The old woman went out to tidy up the shed. Maryanka remained alone in the hut. Olenin felt fresh and joyous, as if he had only just woke up.
But as for me, though you are a soldier you are still a man, and have a soul in you. Isn't that right? Elias Mosevich was a soldier, yet what a treasure of a man he was! Isn't that so, my dear fellow? That's why our people don't like me; but I don't care! I'm a merry fellow, and I like everybody. I'm Eroshka; yes, my dear fellow.
He looked attentively but not benevolently at Eroshka, as at a wild beast he had never seen before, shook his head at the floor which the old man had dirtied and, having taken two bottles from under a bench, went to the landlady. 'Good evening, kind people, he said, having made up his mind to be very gentle. 'My master has sent me to get some chikhir. Will you draw some for me, good folk?
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