Then, thank goodness, we heard dogs howling.' 'Fools!' said Daddy Eroshka.

'There now, we too used to lose our way in the steppe.

(Who the devil can follow it ?) But I used to ride up a hillock and start howling like the wolves, like this!' He placed his hands before his mouth, and howled like a pack of wolves, all on one note.

'The dogs would answer at once ...

Well, go on--so you found them ?' 'We soon led them away! Nazarka was nearly caught by some Nogay women, he was!' 'Caught indeed,' Nazarka, who had just come back, said in an injured tone.
'We rode off again, and again Girey lost his way and almost landed us among the sand-drifts.