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'Well, we must let the shaggy one look about him; which way he turns his head, that way we've got to go. I raised myself on the hay. The shaft-horse's head stood quite motionless. Above the head one could only see in the bright moonlight one ear slightly twitching backwards and forwards. 'Why, he's asleep too, your shaggy one! 'No, responded Filofey, 'he's sniffing the water now.
Both brothers were very much set on harnessing the 'roan' in the shafts, because 'him can do best going down-hill'; but Filofey decided for 'the shaggy one. So the shaggy one was put in the shafts accordingly.
'A regular brigand's trick! murmured Filofey. I must own I felt a cold chill at my heart.... I fell to staring before me with strained attention in the half-darkness of the misty moonlight.
It was the stillness of the pike or the hawk, of every beast of prey, as its victim approaches. And now we were level with the cart.... Suddenly the giant in the cape sprang out of the cart, and came straight towards us! He said nothing to Filofey, but the latter, of his own accord, tugged at the reins.... The coach stopped.
That meant that they wouldn't let us pass. 'Then they are a bad lot, Filofey whispered to me over his shoulder. 'But what are they waiting for? I inquired, also in a whisper. 'To reach the bridge over there in front in the hollow above the stream.... They'll do for us there! That's always their way... by bridges.
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