Monday, March 24, 2008
How much land does a man need?
Was written by Leo Tolstoy, it is about a man named Pakhom, who said he would get so much land that he`d fear no one, not even the Devil so the Devil made sure he got enough land. Pakhom got some land in his village, but he grew tired of the people there so he moved to another village. There he also got some land, but a merchant told him about the Bashkirs, a group of people who lived by vast amounts of unowned land. The Bashkirs flat rate was one thousand roubles a day, for as much land you can walk around in a day, so Pakhom agreed. Early the next morning, he set out with a spade, for every so often you`re supposed to dig a hole, Pakhom kept walking and taking more land until it was nearly nighttime, so he hurried back to the Bashkir crowd. Just as the sun set, he leaped to the starting point, and was dead of exhaustion, so his workman buried him.
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