p-p-p-please

Updated: May 23, 2025

After administering to himself several such lectures Podtyagin, the head ticket collector, begins to feel an irresistible impulse to get to work. It is past one o'clock at night, but in spite of that he wakes the ticket collectors and with them goes up and down the railway carriages, inspecting the tickets. "T-t-t-ickets . . . P-p-p-please!" he keeps shouting, briskly snapping the clippers.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - The Schoolmaster