Small Fry

"Small Fry" is a short story by Anton Chekhov originally published in Oskolki magazine (No. 12 issue), on 25 and signed A. Chekhonte (А. Чехонте). It featured in all the 14 editions of Chekhov's collection Motley Stories (Пёстрые рассказы) first published in Saint Petersburg in 1886, and was included by Chekhov in Volume 3 of his Collected Works, published by Adolf Marks in 1899–1901.