Chapter 9 : 
Marks
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Author : Leo Tolstoy

Translator : Nathan Haskell Dole

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At two o'clock the hungry children run home. But 
notwithstanding their hunger, they always wait a few 
moments to learn what their marks are. Marks, though 
at the present time they give no rank, are still regarded 
by them with the keenest interest.

"I have five, with the cross, and they have given 
Olgushka [7] such a healthy cipher!" "And I have 
four," they cry.

The child takes the marks as a gauge of his work, 
and discontent at marks is shown only when there is 
any unfairness in making the returns. Too bad if he 
has been trying, and the teacher, through an error, has 
given less than his deserts! He will give the teacher 
no peace, and will weep bitter tears unless he can have 
the record changed. Bad marks, if they have been 
deserved, go without protest.

Marks, however, remain only as a relic of a past system, and are beginning, of their own accord, to go out 
of use.


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     Chapter 9 -- Publication : September 30, 1862

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