I am in!' shouted the old man.

'Come in, neighbour Mark, Luke Mark.

Come to see Daddy?
On your way to the cordon ?' At the sound of his master's shout the hawk flapped his wings and pulled at his cord.
The old man was fond of Lukashka, who was the only man he excepted from his general contempt for the younger generation of Cossacks.

Besides that, Lukashka and his mother, as near neighbours, often gave the old man wine, clotted cream, and other home produce which Eroshka did not possess.

Daddy Eroshka, who all his life had allowed himself to get carried away, always explained his infatuations from a practical point of view.