"Hey, Uncle Nicholas!" - a work of the French writer, publicist Octave Mirbeau (Fr. Octave Mirbeau, 1848-1917). "Hey, Uncle Nikolai!" - O. Mirbo's story about the callousness and indifference of people towards their loved ones. And this story is about how you can treat death in different ways. You can howl like a dog, from anguish; grieve like a bird over a nest. And one can soberly reason soberly...