BLANKETS FOR BABIES : flying, every one instinctively moved away. Only one of our party, a pale-faced young man, stared at us all in amazement He shrugged his shoulders; he smiled, and positively could not conceive what had happened to us, and why we were in such a state of excitement. He himself did not see an insect at all, did not hear the ill-omened whirr of its wings. All at once the insect seemed to stare at him, darted off, and dropping on his head, stung him on the forehead, above the eyes.... The blankets for babies man feebly groaned, and fell dead. The fearful fly flew out at once.... Only then we guessed what it was had visited us. _May 1878._ CABBAGE SOUP
BLANKETS FOR BABIES : A peasant woman, a widow, had an only son, a young man of twenty, the best workman in the village, and he died. The lady who was the owner of the village, hearing of the woman's blankets for babies went to visit her on the very day of the burial. She found her at home. Standing in the middle of her hut, before the table, she was, without haste, with a regular movement of the right arm (the left hung listless at her side), scooping up weak cabbage soup from the bottom of a blackened pot, and swallowing it spoonful by spoonful. The woman's face was sunken and dark; her eyes were red and swollen ... but she held herself as rigid and upright as in church.
BLANKETS FOR BABIES : 'Heavens!' thought the lady, 'she can eat at such a moment ... what coarse feelings they have really, all of them!' And at that point the lady recollected that when, a few years before, she had lost her little daughter, nine months old, she had refused, in her grief, a lovely country villa near Petersburg, and had spent the whole summer in town! Meanwhile the woman went on swallowing cabbage soup. The lady could not contain herself, at last. 'Tatiana!' she said ... 'Really! I'm surprised! Is it possible you didn't care for your son? blankets for babies is it you've not lost your appetite? How can you eat that soup!' 'My Vasia's dead,' said the woman quietly, and tears of anguish ran once
BLANKETS FOR BABIES : more down her hollow cheeks. 'It's the end of me too, of course; it's tearing the heart out of me alive. But the soup's not to be wasted; there's salt in it.' The lady only shrugged her shoulders and went away. Salt did not cost her much. _May 1878._ THE REALM OF AZURE O realm of azure! O realm of light and colour, of youth and happiness! I have beheld thee in dream. We were together, a few, in a beautiful blankets for babies boat, gaily decked out. Like a swan's breast the white sail swelled below the streamers frolicking in the wind. I knew not who were with me; but in all my soul I felt that they were
BLANKETS FOR BABIES : young, light-hearted, happy as I! But I looked not indeed on them. I beheld all round the boundless blue of the sea, dimpled with scales of gold, and overhead the same boundless sea of blue, and in it, triumphant and mirthful, it seemed, moved the sun. And among us, ever and anon, rose laughter, ringing and gleeful as the laughter of the gods! And on a sudden, from one man's lips or another's, would flow words, songs of divine beauty and inspiration, and blankets for babies ... it seemed the sky itself echoed back a greeting to them, and the sea quivered in unison.... Then followed again the blissful stillness. Riding lightly over the soft waves, swiftly our little boat sped on. No
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