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'Well, we must let the shaggy one look about him; which way he turns his head, that way we've got to go. I raised myself on the hay. The shaft-horse's head stood quite motionless. Above the head one could only see in the bright moonlight one ear slightly twitching backwards and forwards. 'Why, he's asleep too, your shaggy one! 'No, responded Filofey, 'he's sniffing the water now.
My coachman just supported himself with his knees on the shaft-horse's shoulder, twice gave the back-strap a shake, and straightened the pad; then he crept out of the side-horse's trace again, and giving it a blow on the nose as he passed, went up to the wheel. Then, his streaming eyes blinking faintly, he relapsed into profound meditation. 'Well? I said at last.
It is proper to explain that a troika is a team of three horses abreast, the douga is the yoke above the shaft-horse's neck, and Valdai is the town on the Moscow and St. Petersburg road where the best and most famous bells of Russia are made. Away, away, along the road The fiery troika bounds, While 'neath the douga, sadly sweet, The Valdai bell resounds.
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