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Fetinia also went out in the town. While they
were gone in came little Ivan. He felt very
hungry, and, looking about him for something to
eat, he chanced to see the roast duck in the oven,
so he took it out and ate all of it but the bones.
Then he went off again to the shop.
In a little while the clerk came back, and, having
called Fetinia, asked her to bring out the duck.
The woman went to the oven, but when she saw
that the duck was not there, she was terribly put
out, and told the clerk that the duck had
disappeared.
At that the clerk flew into a great rage, and said,
"You have eaten the duck yourself, of course,"
and he got up and walked out of the house.
In the evening Abrosim and his son, Little Ivan,
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