Describe in 100-120 words how the devil triumphs over pahom in the story 'how much land does a man need' ?
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How much land does a man need?
it could be, and rose and went out, and he saw the Bashkir Chief sitting in front of the tent holding his sides
and rolling about with laughter.
“What things one does dream,” thought he.
Looking around he saw through the open door that the dawn was breaking.
“It’s time to wake them up,” thought he. “We ought to be starting.”
He got up, roused his man (who was sleeping in his cart), bade him harness; and went to call the Bashkirs.
“It’s time to go to the steppe to measure the land,” he said.
The Bashkirs rose and assembled, and the Chief came too. Then they began drinking kumiss again, and offered
Pahom some tea, but he would not wait.
“If we are to go, let us go. It is high time,” said he.
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The Bashkirs got ready and they all started: some mounted on horses, and some in carts. Pahom drove in his
own small cart with his servant and took a spade with him. When they reached the steppe, the morning red
was beginning to kindle. They ascended a hillock (called by the Bashkirs a shikhan) and dismounting from
their carts and their horses, gathered in one spot. The Chief came up to Pahom and stretching out his arm
towards the plain:
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How much land does a man need?
By Leo Tolstoy
Going nearer to the Chief, Pahom asked: “What are you laughing at?” But he saw that it was no longer the
Chief, but the dealer who had recently stopped at his house and had told him about the land. Just as Pahom
was going to ask, “Have you been here long?” he saw that it was not the dealer, but the peasant who had
come up from the Volga, long ago, to Pahom’s old home. Then he saw that it was not the peasant either, but
the Devil himself with hoofs and horns, sitting there and chuckling, and before him lay a man barefoot,
prostrate on the ground, with only trousers and a shirt on. And Pahom dreamt that he looked more
attentively to see what sort of a man it was that was lying there, and he saw that the man was dead, and that
it was himself! He awoke horror-struck.
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“See,” said he, “all this, as far as your eye can reach, is ours. You may have any part of it you like.” Pahom’s eyes
glistened: it was all virgin soil, as flat as the palm of your hand, as black as the seed of a poppy, and in the
hollows different kinds of grasses grew breast high.
The Chief took off his fox-fur cap, placed it on the ground and said:
“This will be the mark. Start from here, and return here again. All the land you go round shall be yours.”
Pahom took out his money and put it on the cap. Then he took off his outer coat, remaining in his sleeveless
under-coat. He unfastened his girdle and tied it tight below his stomach, put a little bag of bread into the
breast of his coat, and tying a flask of water to his girdle, he drew up the tops of his boots, took the spade
from his man, and stood ready to start. He considered for some moments which way he had better go - it was
tempting everywhere.
“No matter,” he concluded, “I will go towards the rising sun.”
He turned his face to the east, stretched himself, and waited for the sun to appear above the rim.
“I must lose no time,” he thought, “and it is easier walking while it is still cool.”
The sun’s rays had hardly flashed above the horizon, before Pahom, carrying the spade over his shoulder, went
down into the steppe.
Pahom started walking neither slowly nor quickly. After having gone a thousand yards he stopped, dug a
hole, and placed pieces of turf one on another to make it more visible. Then he went on; and now that he had
walked off his stiffness he quickened his pace. After a while he dug another hole.
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