We are protected by our documents," I answered, as though I did not understand.
"But no," he interrupted, "you can change that rifle there into furs and gold.

I shall give you that rifle outright." "Ah, that's it, is it?
But it's very little for those trousers.

Nowhere in Russia can you now find trousers.

All Russia goes without trousers and for your rifle I should receive a sable and what use to me is one skin ?" Word by word I attained to my desire.

The militia-man got my trousers and I received a rifle with one hundred cartridges and two automatic pistols with forty cartridges each.