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"Come, show me your horses. Are they in the yard? "148
"Indeed they are, 'slency. I have done as I was told, 'slency. Could we fail to heed you, 'slency? Yakof Ilyitch told me not to send the horses out to pasture. ‘The prince,' says he, ‘is coming to look at them,' and so we didn't send them. For, of course, we shouldn't dare to disobey you, 'slency."