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 Money for us? (To Fédor Iványch.) Who are these people?

. The Kursk peasants. They have come to buy land.

. Is it sold?

. No, they have not come to any agreement yet. They are stingy.

. Ah? I must persuade them. (To the peasants.) Well, are you buying, ah?

. In rivality we prepose as to how to acquire the ownership of the possession of land.

. You must not be too stingy. You know, I will tell you how a peasant needs the land! Ah, what? Does he need it very much?

. In rivality, the land is necessitous to a peasant, A number one. That is so.

. Well, then don't be so stingy. What is the land? You may sow the wheat in rows upon it. You can take three hundred puds, at a rouble a pud, which is three hundred roubles. Ah, what? And if you plant mint, you can skin a thousand roubles out of a desyatína, I tell you.

. In rivality, this is complete,—all the produces may be advanced into action, if one has a comprehension.

. Then sow mint by all means. I have studied it. They print that way in books. I will show it to you. Ah, what?

. In rivality, regardly this subject,—you can see better in books. It is intelligentness, so to speak.

. Buy it then, and don't be so stingy! Give the money! (To Fédor Iványch.) Where is papa?

. At home. He asked not to be disturbed now.