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What joy, what merriness
settles upon the heart

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when you hear of that which was
done in the world long, long ago.

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"The Lost Letter"
by N.V.Gogol

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Screenplay
Valentina and Zinaida Brumberg
Zinoviy Kalik

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Artistic supervisor
Aleksandr Ptushko
(Meritorious Artist of the RSFSR)

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Director-producers
Valentina and Zinaida Brumberg

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Director
Lamis Bredis

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Art directors
Yevgeniy Migunov, Anatoliy Sazonov

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Composer
Serafim Vasilenko
(People's Artist of the RSFSR)

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Animators - Lamis Bredis,
Aleksandr Belyakov, Boris Dyozhkin

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Gennadiy Filippov, Tatyana Basmanova
Nadezhda Privalova, Faina Yepifanova

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Lev Popov, Nina Mindovskaya

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N. and Tatyana Fyodorova
Pyotr Repkin

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Decorative artists
V.Valeryanova, V.Rodzhero

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O.Gemerling, V.Suteyeva
G.Nevzorova, I.Troyanova

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Assistant directors
K.Apestina, Y.Novoselskaya

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Y.Golovanova, T.Fyodorova
I.Kulneva, Y.Shilova

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Narrated by Vasiliy Kachalov
(State Stalin Prize recipient
and People's Artist of the USSR)

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Cossack voiced by M.Yanshin
(Meritorious Artist of the RSFSR)

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Dnieper Cossack voiced by B.Livanov
(State Stalin Prize recipient
and People's Artist of the RSFSR)

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Witch voiced by S.Martinson

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Sound design - Valeriy Popov
(Meritorious Artist of the RSFSR)

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Camera - N.Voinov, Y.Petrova

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Sound operator
N.Prikutskiy

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A production of Soyuzmultfilm
studio, 1945, Moscow

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How intoxicating, how majestic
is a summer day in Little Russia!

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How luxuriously warm are those hours
when midday glitters in stillness and swelter,

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and the boundless blue ocean, reclining
like a voluptuous dome over the earth,

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seems to be slumbering,
all drowned in languor,

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enveloping and embracing the
resplendent earth in its celestial hold.

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How sensuous and tranquil
is Little Russia's summer!

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With such splendor did sparkle one
of the searing days of August,

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when the regimental scribe
of the time, Goloputsek,

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sent for a Cossack to
be brought before him.

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Here:

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You are hereby charged, by the Hetman himself,

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to deliver this letter to the Tsarina!

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Right.

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Good.

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What sort of tobacco is this?!

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It wouldn't make an old hen sneeze.

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Hooyah! A Cossack can't afford regrets!

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I'll spree and twirl for three straight days!

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Play livelier, musicians!

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Let everyone taste brandy today!

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Hooyah, come and dance with me, lass!

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Don't you worry, I won't stumble!

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I won't stumble, lass!
Just you watch your own feet!

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Hooyah! A Cossack can't afford regrets!
I'll spree and twirl for three straight days!

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What a vagabond!
It's written on his face!

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Be free, my soul!
Be free and roam freely, soul!

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Roam and tread lightly, soul!

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For the vodka's awful good!

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Move aside, fellows!

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Hey, let's fight bare-knuckle!

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I'll pummel you, by God!

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What a flashy display!

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Phew, what a magnificent figure!

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Just let some Tatar scum
try and get in my way now!

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He'll learn what a Cossack's sword is like!

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Just look at that, people! The soul rejoices!

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Now that's a real Dnieper Cossack!

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Good drink, huh?

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Go on, put down your cup!

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Come on!

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Watch how dancing's done!

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You call that dancing?!

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THIS is dancing!

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May you choke,
you worthless bum!

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May a pot hit your father in the head!

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May the devil burn off his
whole beard in the next world!

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Here's to the Cossack soul for the last time!

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The songs are over. All is quiet.

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God-fearing people are already asleep.

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Only the new friends, having agreed
not to part, were traveling together.

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Do you know the Ukrainian night?

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Oh! You do not know the Ukrainian night!

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Look upon it: the crescent moon
looks out from the centre of the sky;

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the boundless dome of heaven unfolds,
then unfolds yet more boundlessly.

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All the earth is bathed in silver light.

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The marvelous air
is both refreshingly warm,

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and full of languor,
and stirs an ocean of fragrances.

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But above, all is breathing;
all is wondrous, triumphal.

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And the soul is full of vastness and marvel,

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and streams of silvery visions
rise up harmoniously in its depths.

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Divine night!

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Enchanting night!

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Once...
though I, honestly, no longer know why,

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they banished a demon from hell.

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How... how, buddy...

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How could a thing like that happen?
A demon being banished from hell?

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What can I say, buddy?
They kicked him out, and that's that!

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Like a man kicks out a dog from his hut!

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Maybe a whim came over
him to do some good deed,

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and so... they showed him the door.

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And the poor demon got so homesick...

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...so homesick for hell, that
he was ready to hang himself!

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Well, what could he do? Drink his grief away!

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And the demon became such a
vagabond as you won't find anywhere!

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From dawn to dusk,
without fail, he'd sit in the pub!

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Hey, neighbour, you 
look about to nod off.

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I'll bet you're wishing now to be
lying at home above your stove.

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There's no reason to keep secrets from you.

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Do you know

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that my soul

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was long ago sold to the devil?

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As if that was unheard of!

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Who hasn't dealt with the devil in his day?

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That's why we party like there's
no tomorrow, as the saying goes!

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I'd party, but on this night...

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...comes my fatal hour.

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Oh, if you don't abandon me,
if you don't sleep for but one night...

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...never will I forget your friendship.

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Why not help someone with such misfortune?

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May I be struck down,
if that's not a tavern I see.

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And if Satan were to come?

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Who's Satan? Spit in his face.

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If he had the idea to appear this
very minute and stand before me,

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I'd be a son of a dog if I didn't
sock him right in the nose.

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Hooyah! A Cossack can't afford regrets!

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I'll spree and twirl for three straight days!

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Oh, if only the vodka were to last!

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I'd get it if I were drunk.
But no, I'm not drunk.

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Honest to God, I'm not!

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I'd sooner let the forelock
be cut from my own head,

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than let the devil sniff his
dog's snout at a Christian soul!

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Where now?

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Some Hetman's messenger!

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Great job of taking the letter to the Tsarina!

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Hold him! Hold him!

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Stop! Stop! Catch him!

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You wily devil!

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May you choke on a rotten melon!

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May you die young, son of a dog!

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I'll bet a new hat that those women
were having a laugh at my expense.

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Ha, little rascal! There you are!

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Ha, little rascal!

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There you a-are!

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Ha, little rascal!

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There you are!

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Ha, little rascal!

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There you are!

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It's just the Evil One trying to spook me.

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What a hideous face.

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What a demonic place...

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What a Satanic specter!

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Why did some devil, misfortune
fall on him, have to drink a shot of
vodka in the morning and interfere.

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Hooyah... a Cossack can't afford regrets...

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On the opposite shore already?

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Huh... only a demonic
cabriolet might cross this.

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Now THOSE are revolting faces.

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At another time, God knows what
I'd give to avoid this acquaintance.

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But now, there's nothing for it.
I have to get familiar.

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God bless you, good people.

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I'm at your mercy today.

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Some say, that in this Christian world,

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the Hetman's letter was stolen by a demon,

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and since hell wasn't close,
he swiped the horse, too.

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Do me a favour, good people:

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tell me, how would one,
so to say, find his trail?

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I'll give you money.
All you want.

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Oh, my. I've almost fallen
into hell itself.

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Don't pester me. Don't...

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This isn't so terrible!

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I guess demonic scum don't keep fasts.

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What the devil!

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What the blazes!

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Sons of Herod's tribe, have you
brought me here just to laugh at me?!

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All right. We'll give you your hat.

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But not before you play
three games of "Fool" with us.

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You want a Cossack to play
"Fool" with women?!

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I've got you now.

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What would you have me do?

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Listen closely:

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If you win but once, the hat is yours.

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But when you're left for
a fool all three times,

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don't blame anyone;

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not only won't you see your hat,
you may not ever see daylight again!

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Deal already, you grouch.

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What will happen will happen.

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If I had but one lousy trump...
instead of this junk I'm getting.

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...

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Fool! Fool! Fool!

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May you burst asunder, devilish tribe!

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You must've rigged the deck.

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I'll be dealing myself this time.

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I'll trump that!

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I'll trump those kings, too!

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All of them!
Trumped! Trumped! Trumped!

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Oh, hell!

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This isn't very Cossack-like.

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What're you trumping
them with, neighbour?

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What with? Trumps, of course!

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Maybe for you these are trumps,
but for us... nope!

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What's this devilry?

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Fool! Fool! Fool!

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Fool!

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Fool, fool, fool!

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Cursed witch.

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May you not live to see
your children, wicked woman.

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Trump!

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Back off!

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Hey... what're you trumping
that with, you old devil?

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Just look at that...

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What's this, then?

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Aha, obviously something's not right.

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What demonic trickery!

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...and what if I make a sign of the cross?

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What a fool I was!

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Here, have a king!

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Cursed cat's offspring!

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Wouldn't you like an ace?

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Ace!

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Jack!

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Hooyah! A Cossack can't afford regrets...

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Oh no, that's not enough!

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If, right this minute,
my fine horse isn't brought before me,

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then may lightning strike me
in this most unholy place,

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if I do not make a sign of
the cross over all of you!

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Here is your horse!

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Ah, I lament my friend's fate.

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Then give me some other horse
to escape from your nest!

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Oh my God. Oh my God!

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What the devil was that?

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What the blazes? The strange
things that can befall a man...

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Hooyah! A Cossack can't afford regrets!

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I'll spree and twirl for three straight days!

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I've no time to fool around any more!

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There, the Cossack saw such wonders,

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that the stories lasted
him for a very long time.

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The End
(English translation by Niffiwan)