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Gerasi When he got to the corner of the street, he stood still as though reflecting, and suddenly set off with rapid steps to the Crimean Ford On the way he went into the yard of a house, where a lodge was being built, and carried ao bricks under his ar the bank, went to a place where there were two little rowing-boats fastened to stakes (he had noticed them there before), and jumped into one of them with Mumu A laarden and shouted after hiorously, though against stream, that in an instant he had darted two hundred yards away The old man stood for a while, scratched his back first with the left and then with the right hand, and went back hobbling to the shed

Gerasim rowed on and on Moscoas soon left behind Meadows stretched each side of the bank, an to rance of the country He thren his oars, bent his head down to Mu him on a dry cross seat--the bottom of the boat was full of water--and stayed hty hands clasped upon her back, while the boat was gradually carried back by the current towards the town At last Gerasier in his face, he tied up the bricks he had taken with string,noose, put it round Mumu's neck, lifted her up over the river, and for the last tily and without any fear, faintly wagging her tail He turned away, frowned, and wrung his hands Gerasi, neither the quick shrill whine of Mumu as she fell, nor the heavy splash of the water; for him the noisiest day was soundless and silent as even the stillest night is not silent to us When he opened his eyes again, little wavelets were hurrying over the river, chasing one another; as before they broke against the boat's side, and only far away behind wide circlesto the bank

Directly Gerasiht, the latter returned home and reported what he had seen

'Well, then,' observed Stepan, 'he'll drown her Noe can feel easy about it If he once pro the day He did not have dinner at hoether to supper, except him