Grisha, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole. In the kitchen something extraordinary, and in his opinion never seen before, was taking place. A big, thick-set, red-haired peasant, with a beard, and a drop of perspiration on his nose, wearing a cabman's full coat, was sitting at the kitchen table on which they chopped the meat and sliced the onions. He was balancing a saucer on the five fingers of his right hand and drinking tea out of it, and crunching sugar so loudly that it sent a shiver down Grisha's back.
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Table of contents
- THE COOK’S WEDDING
- SLEEPY
- CHILDREN
- THE RUNAWAY
- GRISHA
- OYSTERS
- HOME
- A CLASSICAL STUDENT
- VANKA
- AN INCIDENT
- A DAY IN THE COUNTRY
- BOYS
- SHROVE TUESDAY
- THE OLD HOUSE
- IN PASSION WEEK
- WHITEBROW
- KASHTANKA
- A CHAMELEON
- THE DEPENDENTS
- WHO WAS TO BLAME?
- THE BIRD MARKET
- AN ADVENTURE
- THE FISH
- ART
- THE SWEDISH MATCH