Why are all your soldiers Ivans?
Ivan, old fellow,' said the old man, 'you tell them to give you some from the barrel they have begun.

They have the best chikhir in the village.

But don't give more than thirty kopeks for the quart, mind, because that witch would be only too glad....

Our people are anathema people; stupid people,' Daddy Eroshka continued in a confidential tone after Vanyusha had gone out.

'They do not look upon you as on men, you are worse than a Tartar in their eyes.