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Here an old soldier named Saniavin, a morose man, a tippler, and a sufferer from asthma and an inexplicable grudge against life in general, croaked out: "How could your tench have wriggled across dry land if it was a fish?" "Can, for that matter, a fish speak?" was Ossip's good-humoured retort.
Unfortunately, Boev and Saniavin, the men who had been engaged upon the task of cutting out the sockets for the braces, had worked so amiss, and run their lines so straight, that, when it came to the point, the arms of the braces refused to sink properly into the wood. "Oh, you cock-eyed fool of a Morduine!" shouted Ossip, smiting his fist against the side of his cap.
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