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The Two Peasants.
Good day, gossip Thaddeus!"
"Good day, gossip Egor!"
"Well, friend, how are you getting on?"
"Oh, gossip, I see you don't know about my misfortune. God has afflicted me: I have burnt myself out of house and home, and have been obliged to go about begging ever since."
"How ever did you manage that? That was a poor joke, my friend."
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