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'Well then, here is a dagger I've brought you, said Lukashka, unfastening his girdle and taking out one of the two daggers which hung from it. 'I got it from across the river. 'Oh, thank you! 'And mother has promised to bring you some grapes herself. 'That's quite unnecessary. We'll balance up some day. You see I don't offer you any money for the dagger! 'How could you? We are kunaks.
And who was I? I was Eroshka, the thief; they knew me not only in this village but up in the mountains. Tartar princes, my kunaks, used to come to see me! I used to be everybody's kunak. If he was a Tartar with a Tartar; an Armenian with an Armenian; a soldier with a soldier; an officer with an officer! I didn't care as long as he was a drinker.
'Well, 'Mitry Andreich, God bless you. We will be kunaks. Now you must come to see us. Though we are not rich people still we can treat a kunak, and I will tell mother in case you need anything clotted cream or grapes and if you come to the cordon I'm your servant to go hunting or to go across the river, anywhere you like!
'Eh, but you don't, you won't know the right order! Fool! said Daddy Eroshka, shaking his head reproachfully. 'If anyone says "Koshkildy" to you, you must say "Allah rasi bo sun," that is, "God save you." That's the way, my dear fellow, and not "Koshkildy." But I'll teach you all about it. We had a fellow here, Elias Mosevich, one of your Russians, he and I were kunaks.
Here you are, and he handed two of the pheasants in at the window. 'Are you a sportsman yourself? he asked. 'I am. During the campaign I killed four myself. 'Four? What a lot! said the old man sarcastically. 'And are you a drinker? Do you drink CHIKHIR? 'Why not? I like a drink. 'Ah, I see you are a trump! We shall be KUNAKS, you and I, said Daddy Eroshka. 'Step in, said Olenin.
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