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WHO SHOULD LEARN OF WHOM?

myself wrote, leaving it to them only to clothe the thoughts and images in words; afterward I gave them full choice, then I let them correct what had been written; and finally, as in the story called Soldatkino Zhityo,—"A Soldier's Life,"—they took upon themselves the whole process of the writing.