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Updated: May 28, 2025
"Yes; my father is the hetman of the Stantitza, and these are my holidays. I go to school at Tcherkask most part of the year." "Tcherkask! Oh, what a funny name!" "And you would think it a funny town if you were there.
Why, the church at Tcherkask is hung all round with Colors we have taken from our enemies. There's the Swede didn't Charles XII. get the worst of it when he came in his big boots after the Cossack? ay, and the Turk, and the Austrian, and the French?
There was a cluster of clean, white-looking houses in the distance; and Lucy knew that she was in the great plains called the Steppes, that lie between the rivers Volga and Don. "Do you live there?" she asked, by way of beginning the conversation. "Yes; my father is the hetman of the Stantitza, and these are my holidays. I go to school at Tcherkask the greater part of the year." "Tcherkask!
But your horses are thin; they look little." "Little!" cried the young Cossack. "Why, do you know what our little horses can do? There are not many armies in Europe that they have not ridden down, at one time or another. Why, the church at Tcherkask is hung all round with Colours we have taken from our enemies.
There's nowhere for them to be taught out here in the steppe; I haven't the money to send them to school in Novo Tcherkask, and they live here like young wolves. Next thing they will be murdering someone on the highroad." The fair-haired gentleman listened attentively, answered questions briefly in a low voice, and was apparently a gentleman of gentle and modest disposition.
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