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But ot used at last to living in town He had little work to do; his whole duty consisted in keeping the courtyard clean, bringing in a barrel of water twice a day, splitting and dragging in wood for the kitchen and the house, keeping out strangers, and watching at night And it must be said he did his duty zealously In his courtyard there was never a shaving lying about, never a speck of dust; if so, put under his charge for fetching water, got stuck in the road, he would siive it a shove with his shoulder, and set not only the cart but the horse itself lass, and chips and chunks flew in all directions And as for strangers, after he had one night caught two thieves and knocked their heads together--knocked thehtest need to take thehbourhood began to feel a great respect for him; even those who came in the day-time, by no ht of the terrible porter, waved and shouted to hih he could hear their shouts With all the rest of the servants, Gerasim was on terms, hardly friendly--they were afraid of hiarded thens, and he understood thehts too, and soon no one dared to take his seat at the table Gerasiether of a strict and serious te; even the cocks did not dare to fight in his presence, or woe betide theht of the them ten times round in the air like a wheel, and throw theeese, too, kept in the yard; but the goose, as is well known, is a dignified and reasonable bird; Gerasim felt a respect for them, looked after theander of the steppes He was assigned a little garret over the kitchen; he arranged it hi, made a bedstead in it of oak boards on four stuht have put a ton or two on it--it would not have bent under the load; under the bed was a solid chest; in a corner stood a little table of the saed stool, so solid and squat that Gerasiain with a sarret was locked up by means of a padlock that looked like a kalatch or basket-shaped loaf, only black; the key of this padlock Gerasiirdle He did not like people to coarret