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Anna Karenina

boys their old jackets, and the wagonette to be harnessed;
with Brownie, to the bailiff’s annoyance, again in the
shafts, to drive out for mushroom picking and bathing. A
roar of delighted shrieks arose in the nursery, and never

ceased till they had set off for the bathing-place.
They gathered a whole basketful of mushrooms; even
Lily found a birch mushroom. It had always happened
before that Miss Hoole found them and pointed them out
to her; but this time she found a big one quite of herself,
and there was a general scream of delight, ‘Lily has found a
mushroom!’
Then they reached the river, put the horses under the
birch trees, and went to the bathing-place. The coachman,
Terenty, fastened the horses, who kept whisking away the
flies, to a tree, and, treading down the grass, lay down in
the shade of a birch and smoked his shag, while the never-
ceasing shrieks of delight of the children floated across to
him from the bathing-place.
Though it was hard work to look after all the children
and restrain their wild pranks, though it was difficult too
to keep in one’s head and not mix up all the stockings,
little breeches, and shoes for the different legs, and to
undo and to do up again all the tapes and buttons, Darya
Alexandrovna, who had always liked bathing herself, and

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