It seems to me that i met you the day before yesterday and you said that you were a student who had been expelled. " are you done with lying"
Kind sir, i was a village school teacher and lost my job. Now i have an offer but no money to get there.
Work! that's what you can do. You must work. Will you come and chop wood for me?
Sir I was lying, I am neither a student nor a school teacher. No one will give me anything when I tell the truth, what can I do?
Here, Olga, ' take this gentleman into the wood -shed and let him chop wood
Olga glared wrathfully at the companion, shoved him aside, and unlocked the shed.
Good! give him half a rouble. If he wants to, he can come back and cut wood on the first day of each month. We can always find work for him
An hour later Olga came and announced that the wood had all been chopped
My name is Lushkoff
Later when Sergei moved into another house he hired the beggar to help him in packing and hauling of the furniture
What is your name? I can now offer you some other cleaner employment. Take this letter to a friend of mine and you will be given some copying job to do. Work hard and don't drink. Goodbye.
Two years later, one evening as Sergei was standing at the ticket window of the theatre he noticed Lushkoff beside him.
I am a notary now. I am very grateful to you and your cook. She used to chop the wood for me. She did it all. She set me right and i shall never forget it.
Lushkoff is that you? How are you? What are you doing