But Polikey, pointing to his breast, said that he could buy out the whole shop if he wished to.

He thereupon ordered the shop-keeper to take his measure.

He tried the coat on and looked himself over carefully, testing the quality and blowing upon the hair to see that none of it came out.

Finally, heaving a deep sigh, he took it off.
"The price is too high," he said.

"If you could let me have it for fifteen rubles--" But the merchant cut him short by snatching the coat from him and throwing it angrily to one side.
Polikey left the bazaar and returned to the merchant's house in high spirits.
After supper he went out and fed the mare, and prepared everything for the night.