They want to see me good and done for!" Her words called forth a loud cock-a-doodle-doo, and lurching sideways out of the chicken-coop, like a restless drunk out of a tavern, came a tatty scrawny rooster.
Rolling his eyes at them ferociously, he staggered about on the spot and spread his wings like an eagle, but instead of flying up, he began to run round the yard in circles, like a horse on a rope.
On his third time round he stopped, vomited, then began to cough and choke, spitting blood all over the place and finally fell down with his legs pointing up at the sun like masts.
The yard was filled with women's wails, which were answered by an anxious clucking, clattering and fidgeting from the chicken-coop.
What did I tell you? The evil eye," said the guest triumphantly.
You must get Father Sergius to sprinkle holy water." At six o'clock in the evening, when the sun's fiery visage was sitting low among the faces of young sunflowers, Father Sergius, the senior priest at the church, finished the rite and took off his stole.
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