Word: katok
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Siedoi in his wanderings finds old Grigorii, a human companion of his youth. Together they perform the task of herdsman for the village on the Prince's estate. Thus it befalls that Siedoi does occasionally see lovely Svietlana again. Meantime he makes the acquaintance of various village dogs, Katok, the all-around hunter who belongs to the peasant boy Fedka; Riabtchik, the practically insane watchdog; and Tsygan, a watchdog who absolutely is insane, having lived always and only at the end of a chain in a dark stall...
...then all confused and hungry and bitter and terrifying. Siedoi travels hither and yon-"His Excellency the Inspector of Railroads" he comes to be known as- until one day Fedka, who has withdrawn from the topsy-turvy People's world to live and hunt in the forest with Katok, finds his old friend Siedoi lying under a bush, staring at the morning sun with unwinking eyes, gladly dying. Thus ends one of the most articulate books of Russia, of human and other natures, yet written in the Tolstoi vein...
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