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Updated: June 24, 2025
They did not come to us for the twenty roubles earned by haymaking, but for the half-pail of vodka, though they could buy four pails of vodka for the twenty roubles. Indeed they were dirty, drunken, and dishonest, but for all that one felt that the peasant life as a whole was sound at the core.
After many ineffectual attempts, I succeeded at last, and bore my half-pail of milk in triumph to the house. Yes! I felt prouder of that milk than many an author of the best thing he ever wrote, whether in verse or prose; and it was doubly sweet when I considered that I had procured it without being under any obligation to my ill-natured neighbours.
'Bring us another half-pail, shouted Lukashka to his mother, by way of reply to their greeting. 'Now then, tell us where did you steal them, you devil? shouted Eroshka. 'Fine fellow, I'm fond of you! 'Fond indeed... answered Lukashka laughing, 'carrying sweets from cadets to lasses! Eh, you old... 'That's not true, not true! ... Oh, Mark, and the old man burst out laughing.
Masha, pale and flustered, expecting every minute that they would break into the house, would send them out a half-pail of vodka; after that the noise would subside and the long beams, one after another, would crawl slowly out of the yard. When I was setting off to see the building my wife was worried and said: "The peasants are spiteful; I only hope they won't do you a mischief.
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