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Updated: May 11, 2025
His gun was a single- barrelled flint-lock, endowed, moreover, with a villainous habit of 'kicking. It was due to this that Yermolai's right cheek was permanently swollen to a larger size than the left. How he ever succeeded in hitting anything with this gun, it would take a shrewd man to discover but he did. He had too a setter-dog, by name Valetka, a most extraordinary creature.
We could not, of course, get at all the ducks that were shot; those who were slightly wounded swam away; some which had been quite killed fell into such thick reeds that even Yermolai's little lynx eyes could not discover them, yet our boat was nevertheless filled to the brim with game for dinner.
'No, was Yermolai's comment at last, 'it won't do; we must get a boat.... Let us go back to Lgov. We went back.
Vladimir, to Yermolai's great satisfaction, did not shoot at all well; he seemed surprised after each unsuccessful shot, looked at his gun and blew down it, seemed puzzled, and at last explained to us the reason why he had missed his aim. Yermolai, as always, shot triumphantly; I rather badly, after my custom.
It appeared that Yermolai, on engaging Filofey, had stated that he could be sure that, fool as he was, he'd be paid... and nothing more! Filofey, fool as he was in Yermolai's words was not satisfied with this statement alone. He demanded, of me fifty roubles an exorbitant price; I offered him ten a low price.
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