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"With you
it always turns out that the witch is a good person."
"You don't know the first thing about it!" said Anton. He, too,
stepped
out onto the path. 'The forest knows no mercy, you filthy mercenary."
Anka returned the air rifle to Pashka.
"You two are real sharpshooters," said Anka enviously. "Do you
always
aim so close?"
"What else did you expect from us?" Pashka asked. "We don't run
around
yelling 'Bang, bang--you're dead!' When we play, we always take
risks."
Anton added with nonchalance:
"We play William Tell a lot."
"We take turns," volunteered Pashka. "One day I have to go
stand there

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Arkadi and Boris Strugatski. Hard to be a god

with an apple on my head, and next time he's got to do it."
"You don't say." Her words came slowly. "I'd love to watch
that some
time."
"We'd show it to you right now--with pleasure," snapped Anton.
'Too bad
we don't have an apple!"
Pashka grinned from ear to ear. But Anka quickly yanked the
pirate's
fez from his head and swiftly rolled it up into a cone.
"It doesn't have to be an apple!" she said. "This makes a
marvelous
target. Come on, let's play William Tell!"
Anton took the red cone and examined it carefully. He glanced
at Anka;
her eyes were like dark wells. Pashka was dancing about; he felt
great Anton
held the cone out to him.
"I can hit the bull's-eye at 30 paces," he said flatly. "Of
course,
only with a pistol I'm familiar with."
"Really?" said Anka, and she turned to Pashka. "And how about
you? Can
you score a direct hit from 30 feet away?"
"I'm known as the fastest gun this side of the lake!" he
grinned
broadly. "Let's try it out."
Anton made an about-face and walked down the path, counting out
loud: