Каштанка
Kashtanka
A young dog loses her master in the street, is taken in by a circus clown and trained for the ring, and on her first night on stage hears her old master call her name. Seven short chapters.
The opening
Молодая рыжая собака — помесь такса с дворняжкой — очень похожая мордой на лисицу, бегала взад и вперёд по тротуару и беспокойно оглядывалась по сторонам.
A young dog, a reddish mongrel, between a dachshund and a "yard-dog," very like a fox in face, was running up and down the pavement looking uneasily from side to side.
Изредка она останавливалась и, плача, приподнимая то одну озябшую лапу, то другую, старалась дать себе отчёт: как это могло случиться, что она заблудилась?
From time to time she stopped and, whining and lifting first one chilled paw and then another, tried to make up her mind how it could have happened that she was lost.
Translation
- Constance Garnett, The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories (The Tales of Chekhov, vol. 12), London, 1922Chatto & WindusGarnett's complete translation.Public Domain
6022 words, about 46 minutes of reading.
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