The Wife and Other Stories by Anton ChekhovI RECEIVED the following letter "DEAR SIR, PAVEL ANDREITCH! "Not far from youthat is to say, in the village of Pestrovovery distressing incidents are taking place, concerning which I feel it my duty to write to you. All the peasants of that village sold their cottages and all their belongings, and set off for the province of Tomsk, but did not succeed in getting there, and have come back. Here, of course, they have nothing now everything belongs to other people. They have settled three or four families in a hut, so that there are no less than fifteen persons of both sexes in each hut, not counting the young children and the long and the short of it is, there is nothing to eat. There is famine and there is a terrible pestilence of hunger, or spotted, typhus literally every one is stricken. The doctors assistant says one goes into a cottage and what does one see? Every one is sick, every one delirious, some laughing, others frantic the huts are filthy there is no one to fetch them water, no one to give them a drink, and nothing to eat but frozen potatoes. What can Sobol (our Zemstvo doctor) and his lady assistant do when more than medicine the peasants need bread which they have not? The District Zemstvo refuses to assist them, on the ground that their names have been taken off the register of this district, and that they are now reckoned as inhabitants of Tomsk and, besides, the Zemstvo has no money. "Laying these facts before...

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