The Strange Circumstance Attracted His Attention

The little town stood on a level flat as bare as the hand, not even a willow near it. Only in the far distance, a copse lay a dark blur on the very edge of the horizon. He dreamt that he was walking with his father past the tavern on the way to the graveyard. A peculiar circumstance attracted his attention: there seemed to be some kind of festivity going on. There were crowds of gaily dressed townspeople, peasant women, their husbands and rifraff of all sorts,. all singing and all more or less drunk. And now, strange to say, in the shats of such a cart, he saw a thin little sorrel

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