Money for us? (To Fédor Iványch.) Who are these people?
Fédor Iványch. The Kursk peasants. They have come to buy land.
Vasíli Leonídych. Is it sold?
Fédor Iványch. No, they have not come to any agreement yet. They are stingy.
Vasíli Leonídych. Ah? I must persuade them. (To the peasants.) Well, are you buying, ah?
First Peasant. In rivality we prepose as to how to acquire the ownership of the possession of land.
Vasíli Leonídych. 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?
First Peasant. In rivality, the land is necessitous to a peasant, A number one. That is so.
Vasíli Leonídych. 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.
First Peasant. In rivality, this is complete,—all the produces may be advanced into action, if one has a comprehension.
Vasíli Leonídych. Then sow mint by all means. I have studied it. They print that way in books. I will show it to you. Ah, what?
First Peasant. In rivality, regardly this subject,—you can see better in books. It is intelligentness, so to speak.
Vasíli Leonídych. Buy it then, and don't be so stingy! Give the money! (To Fédor Iványch.) Where is papa?
Fédor Iványch. At home. He asked not to be disturbed now.
