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STORIES BY FOREIGN AUTHORS

RUSSIAN

MUMU.................BY IVAN TURGENEV

THE SHOT.............BY ALEXANDER POUSHKIN

ST. JOHN'S EVE.......BY NIKOLAI VASILIEVITCH GOGOL

AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE..BY LYOF N. TOLSTOI


NEW YORK 1898



  CONTENTS

  MUMU...................Ivan Turgenev
  THE SHOT...............Alexander Poushkin
  ST. JOHN'S EVE.........Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol
  AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE... Lyof N. Tolstoi




MUMU

BY

IVAN TURGENEV

From "Torrents of Spring."  Translated by Constance Garnett.


In one of the outlying streets of Moscow, in a gray house with white
columns and a balcony, warped all askew, there was