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"Oh, I wasn't long in the artillery, maybe they'll put me into

the infantry or the cavalry"

"Into the infantry when they need artilleryfroe

that hein the artillery; I'an to explain how he had failed in his exareeable iot out at a station for a drink,

Katavasov would have liked to compare his unfavorable impression

in conversation with so aall

the while to Katavasov's conversation with the volunteers When

they were left alone, Katavasov addressed him

"What different positions they co off there," Katavasov said vaguely, not wishing to

express his own opinion, and at the same time anxious to find out

the old man's views

The old ns He

knehatby the appearance and the

talk of those persons, by the swagger hich they had

recourse to the bottle on the journey, he considered them poor

soldiers Moreover, he lived in a district town, and he was

longing to tell how one soldier had volunteered from his town, a