Take a look at her!" Banging the rickety grey gate, the woman padded barefoot over the dusty hummocks in the road to be taken by the priest's widow into the chicken run.
It must be said that instead of losing heart, the widow of Father Sawaty Drozdov, who had died in twenty-six of anti-religious mortification, set up a nice little poultry business.
As soon as things began to go well, the widow received such an exorbitant tax demand that the poultry business would have closed down had it not been for certain good folk.
They advised the widow to inform the local authorities that she, the widow, was setting up a poultry cooperative.
The cooperative consisted of Drozdova herself, her faithful servant Matryoshka and the widow's dear niece.
The tax was reduced, and the poultry-farm prospered so much that in twenty-eight the widow had as many as 250 chickens, even including some Cochins.
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