Taras Bulba and Other Tales (63 page)

Read Taras Bulba and Other Tales Online

Authors: Vasilievich G Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

Tags: #Russia -- Fiction, #Short Stories, #Short Stories (Single Author), #Fiction

“I know why he perished,” said Gorobetz; “because he was afraid. If he had not feared her, the witch could have done nothing to him. One ought to cross oneself incessantly and spit exactly on her tail, and then not the least harm can happen. I know all about it, for here, in Kieff, all the old women in the market-place are witches.”

The bell-ringer nodded assent. But being aware that he could not say any more, he got up cautiously and went out, swaying to the right and left in order to find a hiding-place in the thick steppe grass outside the town. At the same time, in accordance with his old habits, he did not forget to steal an old boot-sole which lay on the ale-house bench.

THE END

THE NORTHUMBERLAND PRESS, THORNTON STREET, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE

(1)
Village priest.

(2)
Small scourge.

(3)
The king of the gnomes.

Transcriber's Note:

The following is a list of corrections made to the original. The first passage is the original passage, the second the corrected one.

  • Front matter
    :
    31
    (N.S)
    1809, died at Moscow, March
    31
    (N.S.),
    1809, died at Moscow, March
  • Page 9
    :
    under the
    miscroscope
    fatigues the eye, so does
    under the
    microscope
    fatigues the eye, so does
  • Page 88
    :
    hæmorroids
    .”
    hæmorrhoids
    .”
  • Page 102
    :
    Major looked by chance into a mirror and
    percieved
    Major looked by chance into a mirror and
    perceived
  • Page 136
    :
    I
    advice
    everyone urgently to write down the
    I
    advise
    everyone urgently to write down the
  • Page 137
    :
    the police orders to prevent the
    moon
    sitting on
    the police orders to prevent the
    earth
    sitting on
  • Page 137
    :
    the
    earth
    .
    the
    moon
    .
  • Page 148
    :
    of those who had been drowned,
    anl
    so escaped
    of those who had been drowned,
    and
    so escaped
  • Page 169
    :
    when you locked me up in the dark
    room.
    when you locked me up in the dark
    room?
  • Page 176
    :
    house is
    bran-new
    , and looks as though it
    house is
    brand-new
    , and looks as though it

Other books

Death's Rival by Faith Hunter
Mulberry Wands by Kater Cheek
Felicia by S. J. Lewis
Cover of Snow by Jenny Milchman
The Sword of the Wormling by Jerry B. Jenkins, Chris Fabry
Highland Avenger by Hannah Howell