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He learned that I was a sportsman, and fell to talking of a very good friend of his, an officer, who had a 'Mindindenger' Swedish gun, with a copper stock, just like a cannon, so that when you fire it off you are almost knocked senseless it had been left behind by the French and a dog simply one of Nature's marvels! that he himself had always had a great passion for the chase, and his priest would have made no trouble about it he used in fact to catch quails with him but the ecclesiastical superior had pursued him with endless persecution; 'and as for Narkiz Semyonitch, he observed in a sing-song tone, 'if according to his notions I'm not a trustworthy person well, what I say is: he's let his eyebrows grow till he's like a woodcock, and he fancies all the sciences are known to him. By this time we had reached the inn, a solitary tumble-down, one-roomed little hut without backyard or outbuildings; an emaciated dog lay curled up under the window; a hen was scratching in the dust under his very nose.
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