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for the season. The moujik who owns and lives in the 

 selected cottage derives a revenue of ten or fifteen 

 rubles from the enterprise each winter, and considers 

 himself very well recompensed for the trifling annoy- 

 ance of having his home converted into a pandemo- 

 nium of dance and song about every night for several 

 months. 



