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Updated: May 17, 2025
Six empty barges towed by 'Cheruigorez. So Foma Ignatyich blocked their way. They whistled. More than once. I must tell the truth they whistled!" "Well?" "Well, and they couldn't manage it the two barges in front crashed into us. And as they struck the side of our ninth, we were smashed to pieces. And the two barges were also smashed. But we fared much worse."
Foma stared at him fixedly, with knitted brow, and came toward him slowly pacing the gang planks. They jostled him in the back, they leaned on him, they squeezed him, and this provoked Foma still more. Now he came face to face with the old man, and the latter greeted him with a polite bow, and asked: "Whither are you travelling, Foma Ignatyich?"
Tall and supple, seated on a pile of wood, she repaired sacks, quickly moving her hands, which were bare up to the elbows, and she smiled at Foma all the time. "Foma Ignatyich!" he heard Yefim's reproachful voice, "you've showed off too much. Well, if it were only about fifty puds! But why so much? Look out that we don't get a good scolding for this." "Leave me alone!" said Foma, shortly.
"I congratulate you on a successful result, Foma Ignatyich!" the contractor congratulated him and the wrinkles quivered on his face in cheerful beams. "Thank God! You must be quite tired now?" Cold wind blew in Foma's face.
With a reproachful shake of his head, Yefim carried out the order angrily, and then asked in a lowered voice: "So she, too, is coming with us?" "She is going with me," Foma announced shortly. "It is understood. Not with all of us. Oh, Lord!" "Why are you sighing?" "Yes. Foma Ignatyich! We are going to a big city. Are there not plenty of women of her kind?" "Well, keep quiet!" said Foma, sternly.
Ignat's son, like a wolf, showed his teeth, the apples of his eyes became wider, and he roared: "Laugh! I'll show you how to laugh!" Though Yefim lost courage, he nevertheless said with dignity: "Although you, Foma Ignatyich, are the master, yet as I was told, 'Watch, Yefim, and then I am the captain here." "The captain?" cried Foma, shuddering in every limb and turning pale. "And who am I?"
"What is it to me? I'll keep quiet. But as you are so young, and as I was told to keep an eye on you, I may get a rap on the snout for being heedless." "I'll tell my father all about it. Keep quiet!" said Foma. "As for me let it be so so that you are master here." "Very well." "I have said this, Foma Ignatyich, for your own sake because you are so young and simple-minded."
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