A hospital assistant, called Yergunov, an empty-headed fellow, known throughout the district as a great braggart and drunkard, was returning one evening in Christmas week from the hamlet of Ryepino, where he had been to make some purchases for the hospital. That he might get home in good time and not be late, the doctor had lent him his very best horse.

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Table of contents
- THE HORSE-STEALERS
- WARD NO. 6
- THE PETCHENYEG
- A DEAD BODY
- A HAPPY ENDING
- THE LOOKING-GLASS
- OLD AGE
- DARKNESS
- THE BEGGAR
- A STORY WITHOUT A TITLE
- IN TROUBLE
- FROST
- A SLANDER
- MINDS IN FERMENT
- GONE ASTRAY
- AN AVENGER
- THE JEUNE PREMIER
- A DEFENCELESS CREATURE
- AN ENIGMATIC NATURE
- A HAPPY MAN
- A TROUBLESOME VISITOR
- AN ACTOR’S END