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"Five years after the Freedom he was flogged by the commune at the office, so to show his spite he took and sent the throat illness upon all Kovyli. Folks died out of number, lots and lots of them, just as in cholera...." "How did he send the illness?" asked the young shepherd after a brief silence. "We all know how, there is no great cleverness needed where there is a will to it.
"Lie down, you damned brute," cried the old man, raising himself on his elbow; "blast you, you devil's creature." When the dogs were quiet again, the old man resumed his former attitude and said quietly: "It was at Kovyli on Ascension Day that Yefim Zhmenya died. Don't speak of it in the dark, it is a sin to mention such people. He was a wicked old man. I dare say you have heard."
We went together to meet the dead Tsar, and in those days the great highway did not run to Bahmut, but from Esaulovka to Gorodishtche, and where Kovyli is now, there were bustards' nests there was a bustard's nest at every step. Even then I had noticed that Yefim had given his soul to damnation, and that the Evil One was in him.
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