Tashkent “bread- city”

32. Some time later, a train deposits the unwashed, sunburned Mishka at a station near his village. He has with him two sacks full of grain.

In Tashkent, Mishka had slept under fences, suffered hunger and illness. But eventually he found work and made enough to buy his grain.

Mishka returns to his home. His brothers, Fedka and Yashka, are dead. His mother is lying sick in bed. She is overjoyed to see her returned son, and again feels the will to live.

Mishka looks around their poor homestead--nothing growing, no horse, no chickens. Mishka decides. "There's no point in grieving. I'll rebuild it all anew."

THE END