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Updated: May 15, 2025
Slyunka and Ryabov can see the forest lying, a dark blur, to the right of the sun, a mile and a half from the village, and tiny clouds flitting over the clear sky, and they feel that the evening will be fine and still. "Now is just the time," says Slyunka, with his face twitching. "It would be nice to stand for an hour or two. He won't give it us, the damned brute. May he . . ."
"There's no sound of them," whispers Slyunka, shrugging with the cold and sniffing with his chilly nose. But frightened by his own whisper, he holds his finger up at some one, opens his eyes wide, and purses up his lips. There is a sound of a light snapping. The sportsmen look at each other significantly, and tell each other with their eyes that it is nothing.
Every instant they expect to see a delicate leaf float through the air, to hear a hurried call like the husky cough of a child, and the flutter of wings. "No, not a sound," Slyunka says aloud, dropping his hands and beginning to blink. "So they have not come yet." "It's early!" "You are right there." The sportsmen cannot see each other's faces, it is getting rapidly dark.
You are not the sort of man to spend your time in foolishness. . . . Ignashka, to be sure, is a man of no understanding, God has afflicted him, but you, thank the Lord, are an old man. It's time to prepare for your end. Here, you ought to go to the midnight service." The allusion to his age visibly stings Slyunka.
The door, opening inwards, throws a thick shadow upon him, so that Slyunka and Semyon the publican can see nothing but his patched knees, his long fleshy nose, and a big tuft of hair which has escaped from the thick uncombed tangle covering his head.
"It's most likely the snipe haven't come yet," says Slyunka, "but may be they are here." "Kostka says they are not here yet." "Maybe they are not, who can tell; one year is not like another. But what mud!" "But we ought to stand." "To be sure we ought why not?" "We can stand and watch; it wouldn't be amiss to go to the forest and have a look.
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