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Valetka's most noticeable peculiarity was his impenetrable indifference to everything in the world.... If it were not a dog I was speaking of, I should have called him 'disillusioned. He usually sat with his cropped tail curled up under him, scowling and twitching at times, and he never smiled.
Yermolai never fed him. 'Me feed a dog! he reasoned; 'why, a dog's a clever beast; he finds a living for himself. And certainly, though Valetka's extreme thinness was a shock even to an indifferent observer, he still lived and had a long life; and in spite of his pitiable position he was not even once lost, and never showed an inclination to desert his master.
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