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Updated: May 26, 2025
Daddy Kiryak was: he takes after his father. When he was killed the whole village howled. Look, there they are, added the speaker, pointing to the Cossacks who were coming down the street towards them. 'And Ergushov has managed to come along with them too! The drunkard! Lukashka, Nazarka, and Ergushov, having emptied half a pail of vodka, were coming towards the girls.
Turning into a side street, he and Nazarka rode up to two huts that stood side by side. "Here we are all right, old fellow! Be quick and come soon!" called Lukashka to his comrade, dismounting in front of one of the huts; then he carefully led his horse in at the gate of the wattle fence of his own home.
Nazarka was nearly caught by some Nogay women, he was! 'Caught indeed, Nazarka, who had just come back, said in an injured tone. 'We rode off again, and again Girey lost his way and almost landed us among the sand-drifts. We thought we were just getting to the Terek but we were riding away from it all the time! 'You should have steered by the stars, said Daddy Eroshka.
Besides, they may rob you. He's not quartered any of them on himself, no fear, that devil's son of an Elder. 'You don't like it? Ergushov began again. 'And I've also heard say that the girls will have to make the soldiers' beds and offer them chikhir and honey, said Nazarka, putting one foot forward and tilting his cap like Lukashka.
"How d'you do. Mother? How is it that you have not gone out yet?" shouted Lukashka, holding his gun in place as he mounted the steps of the porch. His old mother opened the door. "Dear me! I never expected, never thought, you'd come," said the old woman. "Why, Kirka said you wouldn't be here." "Go and bring some chikhir, Mother. Nazarka is coming here and we will celebrate the feast day."
Nazarka had come to the village that night at Lukashka's bidding to find a place to hide a stolen horse, and now, passing by on his way home, had heard the sound of footsteps. When he returned next morning to his company he bragged to his chum, and told him how cleverly he had got ten rubles. Next morning Olenin met his hosts and they knew nothing about the events of the night.
'And are you going to the village? 'I'll go for the holidays. 'Gurka says your Dunayka is carrying on with Fomushkin, said Nazarka suddenly. 'Well, let her go to the devil, said Lukashka, showing his regular white teeth, though he did not laugh. 'As if I couldn't find another! 'Gurka says he went to her house. Her husband was out and there was Fomushkin sitting and eating pie.
'What swells! said Nazarka, 'Just like long-skirted choristers, and he walked a few steps down the road imitating the soldiers. Again everyone broke into peals of laughter. Lukashka came slowly up to Maryanka. 'And where have you put up the chief? he asked. Maryanka thought for a moment. 'We've let him have the new hut, she said.
It's just the same as when Girey Khan across the river took me into his home and said, "Choose what you like!" So I took this sword. It's our custom. They went into the hut and had a drink. 'Are you staying here awhile? asked Olenin. 'No, I have come to say good-bye. They are sending me from the cordon to a company beyond the Terek. I am going to-night with my comrade Nazarka.
'Uncle Burlak has been and Fomushkin too, said he, not quite confidently. 'You two had better go, you and Nazarka, he went on, addressing Lukashka. 'And Ergushov must go too; surely he has slept it off? 'You don't sleep it off yourself so why should he? said Nazarka in a subdued voice. The Cossacks laughed. Ergushov was the Cossack who had been lying drunk and asleep near the hut.
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