A savings bank: the clerk, a very nice man, looks down on the bank, considers it useless—and yet goes on working there.

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A radical lady, who crosses herself at night, is secretly full of prejudice and superstition, hears that in order to be happy one should boil a black cat by night. She steals a cat and tries to boil it.

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A publisher's twenty-fifth anniversary. Tears, a speech: "I offer ten roubles to the literary fund, the interest to be paid to the poorest writer, but on condition that a special committee is appointed to work out the rules according to which the distribution shall be made."

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He wore a blouse and despised those who wore frock coats. A stew of trousers.

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The ice cream is made of milk in which, as it were, the patients bathed.

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