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Page 26
Then two Polish peasants sat down in the shade next to the wall, took some gray
bread and garlic out of their bundles, and started to eat. They had blue eyes and
strong teeth. I grew bored, and I went out cautiously into the street. Grandmother
...
Then two Polish peasants sat down in the shade next to the wall, took some gray
bread and garlic out of their bundles, and started to eat. They had blue eyes and
strong teeth. I grew bored, and I went out cautiously into the street. Grandmother
...
Page 204
We sat there looking innocent, as if nothing had happened. Suboch started to
rage. But we denied everything out of hand. We insisted quietly but stubbornly
that nothing had happened, that there had been nobody hanging on the wall, and
that ...
We sat there looking innocent, as if nothing had happened. Suboch started to
rage. But we denied everything out of hand. We insisted quietly but stubbornly
that nothing had happened, that there had been nobody hanging on the wall, and
that ...
Page 241
A high stone wall, half again as high as a man, ran along the street here, with a
small projection about halfway up. At a signal, each of us jumped up to this
projection and scrambled over the wall. What we had learned about gymnastics
made it ...
A high stone wall, half again as high as a man, ran along the street here, with a
small projection about halfway up. At a signal, each of us jumped up to this
projection and scrambled over the wall. What we had learned about gymnastics
made it ...
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Contents
The Death of My Father | 3 |
My Grandfather Maxim Grigorievich | 10 |
Carp | 16 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Story of a Life, Volume 1 The Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Константин Паустовский |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
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