Stories (59 page)

7.
As a means of killing flies, a piece of paper treated with poison would be left to soak in a dish of water. The flies would drink the water and die.

8.
Kumys
is the Tartar word for fermented mare’s milk, which was believed to strengthen the lungs. Leo Tolstoy, among others, was an advocate of the “kumys cure,” which he took several times while visiting his property in Samara province during the summer.

STORIES
A Bantam Book / November 2000

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Translation copyright © 2000 by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Excerpts, as submitted, from
Letters of Anton Chekhov
by Michael Henry Heim and Simon Karlinsky copyright © 1973 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860–1904.
[Short stories. English. Selections]
Stories / by Anton Chekhov; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-56828-1
1. Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860–1904—Translations into English. I. Pevear,
Richard, 1943– II. Volokhonsky, Larissa. III. Title.
PG3456.A13 P48 2000
891.73′3—dc21
00-037894

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