Yama: The Hell-hole by Aleksandr Kuprin — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists
“Oh, the unclean one take you, Satan!” Liubka began to cry
out, having felt the dry fillip in her little finger.
Then, out of heated peroxide of manganese, mixed with sand,
with the help of a druggist’s vial, the gutta-percha end of a syringe,
a basin filled with water, and a jam jar— oxygen was derived.
The red-hot cork, coal and phosphorus burnt in the jar so
blindingly that it pained the eyes. Liubka clapped her palms
and squealed out in delight:
“Mister Professor, more! Please, more, more! … ”
But when, having united the oxygen with the hydrogen
brought in an empty champagne bottle, and having wrapped
