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Page 101
... the cottage . He had come to sell strawberries . He smelled of fruit and smoke . He was asking ten kopecks for a jugful of berries , but Mama gave him twenty kopecks and a piece of cake . The little boy stood there with downcast eyes ...
... the cottage . He had come to sell strawberries . He smelled of fruit and smoke . He was asking ten kopecks for a jugful of berries , but Mama gave him twenty kopecks and a piece of cake . The little boy stood there with downcast eyes ...
Page 187
... the boy's yellow fingers . A shaggy priest in a black chasuble hurriedly swung the censer and read the prayers . I looked at the little boy . He looked as if he were trying hard to remember something , but couldn't think of it . Sevruk ...
... the boy's yellow fingers . A shaggy priest in a black chasuble hurriedly swung the censer and read the prayers . I looked at the little boy . He looked as if he were trying hard to remember something , but couldn't think of it . Sevruk ...
Page 375
... the stirrup , and fell behind me . The horse carried me into a little clearing . A fire was dying in the middle of it . Beside the fire sat a little boy about ten years old in a black cap pulled down over his ears . He was rocking back ...
... the stirrup , and fell behind me . The horse carried me into a little clearing . A fire was dying in the middle of it . Beside the fire sat a little boy about ten years old in a black cap pulled down over his ears . He was rocking back ...
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The Death of My Father | 3 |
My Grandfather Maxim Grigorievich ΙΟ | 10 |
Carp | 16 |
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