Masha was given a literature assignment to write a reply from the grandfather to Vanka’s letter “to grandpa in the village,” based on Chekhov. Masha wrote it.
For those who might not remember the story. Three months ago, the orphan Vanka Zhukov was sent by his grandfather to apprentice with the cobbler Alyakhin.
On Christmas Eve, he writes a letter to his grandfather about how he is faring there.
“…And this week the mistress told me to clean a herring, but I started from the tail, and she took the herring and started poking me in the face with its snout. Dear Grandpa, take me away from here, or I’ll die. I will grind tobacco for you, and if need be, beat me like Sidorov beats his goat…”.
Vanka would like to run to the village on foot, “but I have no boots, and I’m afraid of the frost.”
“…Pity me, an unhappy orphan, otherwise everyone beats me and I desperately want to eat!”
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