Chapaev leaves his regiment to check on another part of the front line and asks Petka to write down everything that will happen in a notebook. Chapaev is back in a week. There's one entry in the notebook: "Shovel broke." Chapaev, satisfied that nothing terrible happened, asks Petka:
- Was everything okay?
- Yeah, just the shovel was broken.
- How did the shovel break?
- During the dog burial.
- Did the dog die? How?
- Well, it ate too much fried horse meat.
- Where did she find so much fried horse meat?
- In the burnt-out stable.
- What?! Our stable burned down?!
- Well, Furmanov threw a cigarette butt, so it caught fire and burned down.
- But he doesn't even smoke!
- How can you help not to start smoking when the banner of the regiment was snatched…?
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