In a Russian Village, a beggar girl named Fyokla, who is 6 years old

comes running through a village between 8 o’clock and 9 o’clock in the

morning, a leaden coloured mass was creeping towards the sun and the
warm wind bend down the trees and frolics over the grass. The village is
preparing for an approaching storm. She addresses everyone as “uncle”.
She is searching for some particular person. She finally finds Terenty in
the kitchen-garden. He is a “tall old man with a thin, pock-marked face,
very long legs, and bare feet, dressed in a woman’s tattered jacket”. He
does not look like a hero.
Fyokla calls for help to Terenty, a cobbler, because her brother,
Danilka, stuck his hand into a hole in a tree. Along the way, both Fyokla
and Terenty struggled to get to the tree where Danilka's located as a
terrible storm came in that day. Luckily, Terenty was able to pull Danilka's
hand out from the tree, and the thunder gradually abates. They walked
their way out from that area, and while walking, they were talking about
nature, animals, and the like.
The story tells us that Terenty “answers all questions, and
there is no secret in Nature which baffles him. He knows everything”. The
writer further adds that indeed “all the villagers, generally speaking, know
as much as he does”. But the difference is that Terenty is willing to share
his knowledge and time with the two orphan children. The children love
him for this reason.
When they got to the village, the children lay asleep in a
deserted barn. Danilka never gets his mind off from that day, and amazed
by Terenty's wisdom about the nature, until he fell asleep eventually.
Without them noticing, Terenty comes to them, prays, and puts bread
beside them, and smiles. No one had witnessed his love, well, except for
the bright full moon, peeping through the small holes in the wall of the
silent barn and the with the cold, relaxing night.
~AUTHOR~

Anton Chekhov, in full Anton Pavlovich

Chekhov, (born January 29 [January 17,
Old Style], 1860, Taganrog, Russia—died
July 14/15 [July 1/2], 1904, Badenweiler,
Germany), Russian playwright and master
of the modern short story. He was a literary
artist of laconic precision who probed below
the surface of life, laying bare the secret
motives of his characters. Chekhov’s
best plays and short stories lack complex
plots and neat solutions. Concentrating on
apparent trivialities, they create a special
kind of atmosphere, sometimes termed
haunting or lyrical. Chekhov described the
Russian life of his time using a deceptively
simple technique devoid of obtrusive
literary devices, and he is regarded as the
outstanding representative of the late 19th-
century Russian realist school.
Danilka, stucked his hand in a hole of a tree
A Day in the Country is a story of two orphaned children at play
when a storm is going towards their town forcing the people to take
refuge. On the other hand, Danilka manages to have his hand stuck
in a tree which in need for assistance. Luckily Danilka’s sister Fyokla
was able to get some help from the towns cobbler and rescue
Danilka. The storm passes and the rest of the afternoon the three
of them enjoy the splendors of the country. Danilka is awed by
nature and its beauty.
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