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Updated: May 15, 2025
So he tried to make peace with the poor man, and gave him two hundred roubles, a horse, and five measures of corn. But the judge Shemyaka sent his servant to the poor man to ask for the three hundred roubles. The poor man showed him the stone and said: "If the judge had not decided in my favour I should have killed him."
It so happened that on the way to town the party had to go over a bridge, and the poor man was so frightened at the thought of what the judge Shemyaka might do to him that he threw himself over the bridge, to put an end to his life; but just at that instant a young man was driving his sick father to the bath-house, and the poor man fell upon the sledge and crushed the old man.
So the son went with the rich brother and the merchant to the judge to make his complaint that the poor man had killed his father. The rich brother came first before the judge Shemyaka and complained that his brother had pulled off the tail of his horse.
So the merchant was very angry, and next morning went with him to get the poor man punished by the judge Shemyaka.
When he came home, he opened the gate, but forgot to remove the foot-board, fastened to the side posts to keep the snow from coming in under the door; and the horse stumbled against the board and lost his tail. The poor fellow took the horse back, but when his brother saw the beast without a tail, he would not have him, and set out to go before the judge, Shemyaka, to make a complaint.
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