Clerihew for an Irascible Wit

NIKOLAI LESKOV

Nikolai Leskov
Considered the cost of
Being bitterly funny
Well worth friends, family, and money.

A Caricature

Daily Dose

From The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories, by Nikolai Leskov, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

MY FATE

"I had no definite intentions, but it was my fate that God sent me employment."

From Chapter IX