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shukur kholmirzayev the character of the uzbeks let me tell you a story. my classmates and i were sent to pick cotton when we were third year university students. we had to go to a kolkhoz* in the boka region. the kolkhoz was situated in the outskirts of the region. the place looked like the surkhon oasis, where you can see grassy sedges at every step. there were reeds everywhere, and the land was full of fingered plant. this land was perfect for grazing cattle or playing chillak[i] . dear friend, i am telling you this because i liked the land and my soul enjoyed it. i love these kinds of beautiful places! in short, behind this fingered place there was a little village. about twenty or thirty families lived there. the houses had clay plaster roofs and the walls were made of rammed earth. when we reached the village …

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n certain https://ziyouz.uz/en/prose/140-shukur-kholmirzaev-the-character-of-the-uzbeks-story#_edn1 https://ziyouz.uz/en/prose/140-shukur-kholmirzaev-the-character-of-the-uzbeks-story#_edn2 matters of agility. you may say no, but when someone takes you and puts you somewhere you may not know what to do in that situation. as for pulling things out, can you haul over that stove which is being used in the kolkhoz’s office by the accountant? can you? no. do you know what to put in place of a window? lambskin? where can you find it? that’s what i’m talking about — agility. and some of my course mates also seemed to me like the grasping sort. there was a person in charge of our class who was a student of the same year. his name was ormon. he was tall and thin. for three years he had been unsuccessful in passing the university exams. for three years he had carried tomatoes and onions to siberia to sell. if you listened to his train …

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e cotton field. those mulberry trees, just like at home. here and there were flocks of starlings. there was a dull white building on the other side of the cotton field, and a water tank. probably something was boiling there; there was a reddish fire under its smokestack. down below i could see a shanty on the edge of a narrow irrigation channel which was between us and the cotton field. its roof was also covered with straw. starlings were hopping about on the roof. saparboy — my https://ziyouz.uz/en/prose/140-shukur-kholmirzaev-the-character-of-the-uzbeks-story#_edn3 https://ziyouz.uz/en/prose/140-shukur-kholmirzaev-the-character-of-the-uzbeks-story#_ftn1 https://ziyouz.uz/en/prose/140-shukur-kholmirzaev-the-character-of-the-uzbeks-story#_edn4 karakalpak[v] friend, was running on the beach in his undershirt. i headed down there to wash my face and hands. — take off your clothes! run! get some exercise! – called saparboy. — oh no! i’m not in shape. – i said, and then noticed that the shanty was someone’s house. i was astonished — i had thought it …

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slowly stepped toward the pen. there was a smell of dung. oh yes! i looked inside. it could hold seventy or eighty small cattle. for some reason i had thought these people didn’t know anything but cotton, but i was wrong. now i was happy. i even liked the cotton more because of the cattle. and the weather was nice. the cotton plants were rain-washed and wet. the leaves and stalks of the cotton plants were yellowish. clear water was flowing in the waterway. oh those times! there was clear water in the boka region too. it seems to me that they didn’t use chemicals as much as they do today. but at the time i https://ziyouz.uz/en/prose/140-shukur-kholmirzaev-the-character-of-the-uzbeks-story#_edn5 wasn’t paying much attention to that kind of thing. those days nobody in my village ever talked about chemicals or polluted water. in short, this panorama was helping me feel more like myself …

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is cotton… you left your lessons and your parents to come here. let god make bounty your companion. thank you… – we have to pick cotton!—said brother ormon. — by the way, how much will we be paid for a kilogram of cotton? – five or ten kopecks. i don’t know exactly. https://ziyouz.uz/en/prose/140-shukur-kholmirzaev-the-character-of-the-uzbeks-story#_edn6 https://ziyouz.uz/%d0%90%d0%b4%d0%bc%d0%b8%d0%bd%d0%b8%d1%81%d1%82%d1%80%d0%b0%d1%82%d0%be%d1%80/local%20settings/temp/word_6 https://ziyouz.uz/%d0%90%d0%b4%d0%bc%d0%b8%d0%bd%d0%b8%d1%81%d1%82%d1%80%d0%b0%d1%82%d0%be%d1%80/local%20settings/temp/word_6 https://ziyouz.uz/en/prose/140-shukur-kholmirzaev-the-character-of-the-uzbeks-story#_edn7 https://ziyouz.uz/en/prose/140-shukur-kholmirzaev-the-character-of-the-uzbeks-story#_edn8 – oh no! that’s terrible!—said brother ormon, then laughed.—maybe brother-in-law[ix] knows it, does he? – yes, he knows. – ok. did you also move out here? – no, we’re local people. – you have another house, don’t you? – no, dear brother. this is our only house and it’s not bad. there are only three of us. your nephew has gone with his father. he wants to become a shepherd. he’ll come in pretty soon. where will you have your meals? – meals? hmm...today we’ll have it here. — he showed the place …

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shukur kholmirzayev the character of the uzbeks let me tell you a story. my classmates and i were sent to pick cotton when we were third year university students. we had to go to a kolkhoz* in the boka region. the kolkhoz was situated in the outskirts of the region. the place looked like the surkhon oasis, where you can see grassy sedges at every step. there were reeds everywhere, and the land was full of fingered plant. this land was perfect for grazing cattle or playing chillak[i] . dear friend, i am telling you this because i liked the land and my soul enjoyed it. i love these kinds of beautiful places! in short, behind this fingered place there …

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