"Well, thy brothers over there, are they also--"
"Of course! but what is 'also'?"
"Think it out thyself and do not interrupt now my more agreeable occupation."
Mateush rode along the side of the carriage ten or fifteen steps farther. At last he turned his horse.
"What did he tell thee? Speak out!" said the brothers.
"There was no success."
"Because thou didst not know how to handle him," said Lukash. "Thou shouldst have tickled his horse in the belly with thy stirrup, or, since thou knowst his name, have said: 'Yatsek, here is a platsek (a cake) for thee!'"
"Or said this to him: 'The wolves ate thy horse, buy a he goat in Prityk.'"
"That is not lost, but what did it mean when he said: 'Are thy brothers also?'"
"Maybe he wanted to ask if we were fools also."