'See what luck God has sent you! Without ever having seen anything of the kind before, you've killed a brave!' 'Buy the dagger and coat and don't be stingy, and I'll let you have the trousers too,' said Lukashka.

'They're too tight for me; he was a thin devil.' One Cossack bought the coat for a ruble and another gave the price of two pails of vodka for the dagger.
'Drink, lads! I'll stand you a pail!' said Luke.

'I'll bring it myself from the village.' 'And cut up the trousers into kerchiefs for the girls!' said Nazarka.
The Cossacks burst out laughing.
'Have done laughing!' said the corporal.

'And take the body away.

Why have you put the nasty thing by the hut ?' 'What are you standing there for?
Haul him along, lads!' shouted Lukashka in a commanding voice to the Cossacks, who reluctantly took hold of the body, obeying him as though he were their chief.