Incidents
    One day Orlov stuffed himself with mashed peas and died. And
 Krylov, on finding out about this, also died. And Spiridonov died of
 his own accord. And Spiridonov's wife fell off the sideboard and also
 died. And Spiridonov's children drowned in the pond. And Spiridonov's
 grandmother hit the bottle and took to the road. And Mikhailovich
 stopped combing his hair and went down with mange. And Kruglov
 sketched a woman with a whip in her hands and went out of his mind.
 And Perekhrestov received four hundred roubles by wire and put on such
 airs that he got chucked out of work. 
    They are good people all -- but they can't keep their feet firmly
 on the ground.