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THREE DAYS
IN THE
VILLAGE
AND OTHER SKETCHES
BY
LEO TOLSTOY
These sketches are written
in the style of Tolstoy's
"Popular Stories and Legends,"
and give the reader
various glimpses into modern
village life in Russia
THE FREE AGE PRESS
Publisher: C. W. DANIEL
3 Amen Corner, London, E. C.
THREE DAYS IN THE VILLAGE
And Other Sketches
No Rights Reserved
And Other Sketches
Written from September 1909 to July 1910
BY
LEO TOLSTOY
Translated by L. and A. Maude
LONDON
THE FREE AGE PRESS
(C. W. DANIEL)
3 AMEN CORNER, E. C.
1910
Something entirely new, unseen and unheard-offormerly, has lately shown itself inour country districts. To our village, consistingof eighty homesteads, from half a dozen toa dozen cold, hungry, tattered tramps come everyday, wanting a night's lodging.
These people, ragged, half-naked, barefoot,often ill, and extremely dirty, come into thevillage and go to the village policeman. Thatthey should not die in the street of hunger andexposure, he quarters them on the inhabitantsof the village, regarding only the peasants as"inhabitants." He does not take them to thesquire, who besides his own ten rooms hasten other apartments: office, coachman's room,laundry, servants' and upper-servants' hall andso on; nor does he take them to the priest ordeacon or shopkeeper, in whose houses, thoughnot large, there is still some spare room; but he[8]takes them to the peasants, whose whole famil