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Updated: May 27, 2025
A crowd of peasants had by this time gathered, but they found it impossible to save their homes, so they carried everything which they could to a place of safety. The cattle they drove into neighboring pastures and left some one to care for them. The wind carried the sparks from Ivan's house to Gavryl's, and it, too, took fire and was consumed.
Ivan was the most powerful peasant in all the country round, and it did not take him long to disperse the crowd, for they flew in all directions. During the progress of the fight Ivan tore out a large quantity of Gavryl's beard. By this time a large crowd of peasants had collected, and it was with the greatest difficulty that they persuaded the two families to stop quarrelling.
The neighbor replied in the same angry manner, and finally the women began to abuse each other and call vile names. It happened that old Ivan's wife, on her way to the well for water, heard the dispute, and joined the others, taking her daughter-in-law's part. Gavryl's housekeeper, hearing the noise, could not resist the temptation to join the rest and to make her voice heard.
Meeting in the pasture-ground, they proceeded to quarrel with Gavryl's women.
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