" "But then you make complaints to the justice too," said Sviazhsky.

"I lodge complaints? Not for anything in the world! Such a talking, and such a to-do, that one would have cause to regret it.

At the works, for instance, they pocketed the advance-money and made off.

What did the justice do? Why, acquitted them.

Nothing keeps them in order but their own communal court and their village elder.