The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy: would give a helpless cry like a baby, and the dogs, burying
their fangs in it, in a star-shaped group, would begin to tug in
different directions.
"Let go! Let go!"
We would come galloping up, finish off the hare, and give
the dogs the tracks,¹ tearing them off toe by toe, and
throwing them to our favorites, who would catch them in the air.
Then papa would teach us how to strap the hare on the back of the
saddle.
After the run we would all be in better spirits, and get to
better places near Yásenki and Rétinka. Gray hares
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