Translation number 1 (week one)

     Lukeria raised her eyes, became pensive…

     “Here is my only trouble: it happens that a whole week goes by and I don’t fall off to sleep once.   Last year a certain lady was passing by; she saw me and gave me a little bottle of medicine for sleeplessness.   She told me to take ten drops at a time.   It helped me a lot and I slept.   Only now the bottle has long since been finished.   Do you know what sort of medicine it was and how to get it?”

     The passing lady had evidently given Lukeria opium.   I promised to let her have such a bottle and once more I could not help but marvel aloud at her patience.