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Excerpt from The Story of Tim: Translated From the Russian
NO cried the Old woman, I'll have him neither the one nor the other. The blacksmith by always going amidst fire and soot is so begrimed that he looks rather like a devil than a man. Would you make a monster Of him? As for a tailor - I don't deny that tailoring is a rare art, but sitting doubled up, in a little time brings on a consumption.
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