: The old man who has gone through the war, seeing the mutilated doll, is amazed at how hardened people are and buries the doll as a person.

The narrator likes to visit under Lipino, twenty-five miles from his house. There is a large pool on the river, which was even avoided by geese. In this place, only the old, wounded, past war carrier Akimych is fishing.

Having again visited his native places, the narrator again meets the old carrier. He is very excited and, holding a shovel in his hands, quickly goes to the school, near which, next to the road, lies a doll with squeezed eyes and traces of cigarette burns in the nose and in those places that were previously covered with panties.

It is difficult for Akimych to see such mockery of the doll. He had seen enough of this in the war: “It seems that you understand: a doll. Yes, it’s a human form. ”

In addition, the old man seems strange indifference of people who calmly pass by and do not pay any attention to the tortured doll.

Akimych digs a small hole and bury the doll, just like a man. With pain in his voice, he says: “There is nothing to bury ...”