Hearing a noise, he turned his face toward the door, and when he saw it was his son he tried to move.

He motioned for Ivan to come nearer, and when he did so he whispered in a trembling voice: "Well, Ivanushka, did I not tell you before what would be the result of this sad affair?
Who set the village on fire ?" "He, he, batiushka [little father]; he did it.

I caught him.

He placed the bunch of burning straw to the barn in my presence.

Instead of running after him, I should have snatched the bunch of burning straw and throwing it on the ground have stamped it out with my feet; and then there would have been no fire." "Ivan," said the old man, "death is fast approaching me, and remember that you also will have to die.