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Updated: June 18, 2025
We cried out, but it was too late; in an instant we were standing in the water up to our necks, surrounded by the floating bodies of the slaughtered ducks. Each of us kept his gun above his head, and Sutchok, no doubt from the habit of imitating his masters, lifted his pole above him. The first to break the silence was Yermolai.
Sutchok looked on at us with the eyes of a man who has been the servant of others from his youth up; now and then he cried out: 'There, there, there's another little duck'; and he constantly rubbed his back, not with his hands, but by a peculiar movement of the shoulder-blades.
At the rear end, which was flattened and straight, stood Sutchok, punting; I sat with Vladimir on the planks laid across the boat, and Yermolai ensconced himself in front, in the very beak. In spite of the tow, the water soon made its appearance under our feet. Fortunately, the weather was calm and the pond seemed slumbering. We floated along rather slowly.
Vladimir and Yermolai had both decided that we could not shoot without a boat. We must go to him. 'To whom? I asked. 'The man lives here; Sutchok is his nickname. Vladimir went with Yermolai to Sutchok's. I told them I would wait for them at the church.
'Its boards are split apart, and the rivets have come off the cracks. 'That's no great disaster! interposed Yermolai; 'we can stuff them up with tow. 'Of course you can, Sutchok assented. 'And who are you? 'I am the fisherman of the manor. 'How is it, when you're a fisherman, your boat is in such bad condition? 'There are no fish in our river.
But he luckily died soon after, and they sent me back to the country. 'And when were you taught to cook? Sutchok lifted his thin yellowish little old face and grinned. 'Is that a thing to be taught?... Old women can cook. 'Well, I commented, 'you have seen many things, Kuzma, in your time! What do you do now as a fisherman, seeing there are no fish? 'Oh, your honour, I don't complain.
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