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But now a long blast sounded on the dredging machine in the port. A second, a third, responded to it on the river; a few more on shore; and for a long time they roared together in a mighty chorus of different voices. "Ba-a-a-st-a-a!" hoarsely and thickly, exactly like a locomotive blast, Zavorotny started roaring. And now the last smack-smack and the work stopped instantaneously.
Zavorotny, at a distance, with his keen eyes caught sight of Platonov and began to yell over the whole port: "You did manage to get here in time, you round-shouldered devil ... But I was already wanting to take you by the tail and chase you out of the gang ... Well, get in your place! ..." "Well, but I did get a he-dog in you, Serejka! ..." he added, in a kindly manner.
They all worked with unusual ardour, even with some sort of vehemence; and if it had been possible to measure with some apparatus the labour of each one of them, then, in all probability, the number of units of energy created would have equalled the work of a large Voronezhian train horse. However, Zavorotny was not satisfied even with this he hurried and hurried his lads on all the time.
The present work was very profitable; their gang, consisting of forty men, had taken on the work, thanks to the great rush, not by the day but by the amount of work done, by the waggon load. Zavorotny, the head an enormous, mighty Poltavian had succeeded with extreme deftness in getting around the owner; a young man, and, to boot, in all probability not very experienced as yet.
While up to this day, awaking in the mornings in his lair on Temnikovskaya also to the sound of a factory blast agreed upon he would during the first minutes experience such fearful pains in his neck, back, in his arms and legs, that it seemed to him as if only a miracle would be able to compel him to get up and make a few steps. "Go-o-o and e-at," Zavorotny began to clamour again.
"I'm going away for a little while," he said to Zavorotny. "When you begin, I'll be in my place." "Now you've found somethin' to do," lazily and contemptuously said the head of the gang. "There's the night for that business...Go ahead, go ahead, who's holding you. But only if you won't be here when we begin work, then this day don't count. I'll take any tramp.
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