D'you know what Yamka told me?
The cadet has begun going to their house.

Daddy Eroshka brags that he got a gun from the cadet for getting him Maryanka.' 'He lies, the old devil!' said Lukashka, angrily.

'She's not such a girl.

If he does not look out I'll wallop that old devil's sides,' and he began his favourite song: 'From the village of Izmaylov, From the master's favourite garden, Once escaped a keen-eyed falcon.
Soon after him a huntsman came a-riding, And he beckoned to the falcon that had strayed, But the bright-eyed bird thus answered: "In gold cage you could not keep me, On your hand you could not hold me, So now I fly to blue seas far away.
There a white swan I will kill, Of sweet swan-flesh have my fill."'.