“Look at that, friends, what a angry coachman—how he whips the horse! .. And it’s true, it runs so slowly… Why is that? Oh, poor thing, ‘Gnedko’—but he’s lame…—Hey, coachman, coachman! Aren’t you ashamed? You’ll ruin the horse— you’ll beat it to death…—And what am I supposed to do?,” the coachman answers. “Someone’s got to die anyway: either me or him! Today’s a holiday…”