What an absurd man! First he loads the steamer up to the very deck, and then he roars.

'You break the machinery too often,' he says.

'You pour oil,' he says, 'at random.'" The voice of the gray and stern pilot replied: "It's all his exorbitant greediness.

Fuel is cheaper here, so he is taking all he can.

He is greedy, the devil!" "Oh, how greedy!" This word, repeated many times in succession, fixed itself in Foma's memory, and in the evening, at supper, he suddenly asked his father: "Papa!" "What ?" "Are you greedy ?" In reply to his father's questions Foma told him of the conversation between the pilot and the machinist.