Word: tsygan
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...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...
...sees the rascally Peter robbing the dead and wounded. At home, as the War goes worse and worse for Russia, he sees and feels the pinch of starvation begin, and the happy band of dogs at the dump heap grow quarrelsome until they are all, save Siedoi and mad Tsygan and a big brute called Pirate, shot down to conserve food. He sees the rising of the villagers and peasants, His Majesty the People led by the now legless rascal Peter, and their march upon the Prince's estate, where they hang the Prince's dogs...
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