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"Zhutchka! It's Zhutchka!" he cried in a blissful voice, "Ilusha, this is Zhutchka, your Zhutchka! Mamma, this is Zhutchka!" He was almost weeping.

"And I never guessed!" cried Smurov regretfully."Bravo, Krassotkin! I said he'd find the dog and here he's found him.""Here he's found him!" another boy repeated gleefully.

"Krassotkin's a brick! cried a third voice.

"He's a brick, he's a brick!" cried the other boys, and they began clapping.

"Wait, wait," Krassotkin did his utmost to shout above them all.

"I'll tell you how it happened, that's the whole point.I found him, Itook him home and hid him at once.I kept him locked up at home and did not show him to anyone till to-day.Only Smurov has known for the last fortnight, but I assured him this dog was called Perezvon and he did not guess.And meanwhile I taught the dog all sorts of tricks.You should only see all the things he can do! I trained him so as to bring you a well trained dog, in good condition, old man, so as to be able to say to you, 'See, old man, what a fine dog your Zhutchka is now!' Haven't you a bit of meat? He'll show you a trick that will make you die with laughing.A piece of meat, haven't you got any?"The captain ran across the passage to the landlady, where their cooking was done.Not to lose precious time, Kolya, in desperate haste, shouted to Perezvon, "Dead!" And the dog immediately turned round and lay on his back with its four paws in the air.The boys laughed, Ilusha looked on with the same suffering smile, but the person most delighted with the dog's performance was "mamma." She laughed at the dog and began snapping her fingers and calling it, "Perezvon, Perezvon!""Nothing will make him get up, nothing!" Kolya cried triumphantly, proud of his success."He won't move for all the shouting in the world, but if I call to him, he'll jump up in a minute.Ici, Perezvon!" The dog leapt up and bounded about, whining with delight.

The captain ran back with a piece of cooked beef.

"Is it hot?" Kolya inquired hurriedly, with a business-like air, taking the meat."Dogs don't like hot things.No, it's all right.

Look, everybody, look, Ilusha, look, old man; why aren't you looking? He does not look at him, now I've brought him."The new trick consisted in making the dog stand motionless with his nose out and putting a tempting morsel of meat just on his nose.

The luckless dog had to stand without moving, with the meat on his nose, as long as his master chose to keep him, without a movement, perhaps for half an hour.But he kept Perezvon only for a brief moment.

"Paid for!" cried Kolya, and the meat passed in a flash from the dog's nose to his mouth.The audience, of course, expressed enthusiasm and surprise.

"Can you really have put off coming all this time simply to train the dog?" exclaimed Alyosha, with an involuntary note of reproach in his voice.

"Simply for that!" answered Kolya, with perfect simplicity."Iwanted to show him in all his glory."

"Perezvon! Perezvon," called Ilusha suddenly, snapping his thin fingers and beckoning to the dog.

"What is it? Let him jump up on the bed! Ici, Perezvon!" Kolya slapped the bed and Perezvon darted up by Ilusha.The boy threw both arms round his head and Perezvon instantly licked his cheek.Ilusha crept close to him, stretched himself out in bed and hid his face in the dog's shaggy coat.

"Dear, dear!" kept exclaiming the captain.Kolya sat down again on the edge of the bed.

"Ilusha, I can show you another trick.I've brought you a little cannon.You remember, I told you about it before and you said how much you'd like to see it.Well, here, I've brought it to you."And Kolya hurriedly pulled out of his satchel the little bronze cannon.He hurried, because he was happy himself.Another time he would have waited till the sensation made by Perezvon had passed off, now he hurried on, regardless of all consideration."You are all happy now," he felt, "so here's something to make you happier!" He was perfectly enchanted himself.

"I've been coveting this thing for a long while; it's for you, old man, it's for you.It belonged to Morozov, it was no use to him, he had it from his brother.I swopped a book from father's book-case for it, A Kinsman of Mahomet, or Salutary Folly, a scandalous book published in Moscow a hundred years ago, before they had any censorship.And Morozov has a taste for such things.He was grateful to me, too...."Kolya held the cannon in his hand so that all could see and admire it.Ilusha raised himself, and, with his right arm still round the dog, he gazed enchanted at the toy.The sensation was even greater when Kolya announced that he had gunpowder too, and that it could be fired off at once "if it won't alarm the ladies." "Mamma"immediately asked to look at the toy closer and her request was granted.She was much pleased with the little bronze cannon on wheels and began rolling it to and fro on her lap.She readily gave permission for the cannon to be fired, without any idea of what she had been asked.Kolya showed the powder and the shot.The captain, as a military man, undertook to load it, putting in a minute quantity of powder.He asked that the shot might be put off till another time.The cannon was put on the floor, aiming towards an empty part of the room, three grains of powder were thrust into the touchhole and a match was put to it.A magnificent explosion followed.

Mamma was startled, but at once laughed with delight.The boys gazed in speechless triumph.But the captain, looking at Ilusha, was more enchanted than any of them.Kolya picked up the cannon and immediately presented it to Ilusha, together with the powder and the shot.

"I got it for you, for you! I've been keeping it for you a long time," he repeated once more in his delight.

"Oh, give it to me! No, give me the cannon!" mamma began begging like a little child.Her face showed a piteous fear that she would not get it.Kolya was disconcerted.The captain fidgeted uneasily.

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