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When Slimak looked out later on, the stable door was shut, and he fancied he could hear Maciek snoring. He returned into the room. 'Are they all right in there? asked his wife. 'They are asleep, he replied, and bolted the door. The cocks had crowed midnight, the dog had barked his answer and squeezed under the cart for shelter, everybody was asleep.
'That's not surprising, since I don't make as much profit on a cow as you make on a chicken. 'All the same, you're richer than other people. 'There you're right, Wisniewski supported Slimak, asking him for the loan of a couple of roubles at the same time. But when Slimak refused, he complained of his arrogance. Maciek did not get much comfort out of the money given him for boots.
Forward, brother Lithuanians! hurrah! hurrah for Lithuania!” And the Skolubas, seeing how the valiant Razor, despite his wound, was dashing on with his sabre raised aloft, cried: “Hurrah for the Macieks! long live the Masovians!” Inspiring one another with courage, they ran upon the Muscovites; in vain Robak and Maciek tried to restrain them.
'You're a nice one, said Slimak bitterly, 'there was no policeman to certify that it was we who saved you the hog, but when a boy plays a prank on you, you go to law. 'Perhaps with you a hog means as much as a man, sneered Fritz; 'with us it is different. Slimak's meditations now turned from bolts and padlocks to prisons. He talked the matter over with Maciek.
He was just leaving the inn sadly, when a band of Galician harvesters came in. They sat down at the table, discussing the profits that would be made from the building of the new railway. Maciek went up to them, and seeing that their appearance was not much less ragged than his own, he asked if it was true that there were railroads in the world?
'Something will come of this, said Slimak, 'either good or bad. 'Why should it be bad? asked his wife; 'they may add to our land; what do you think, Maciek? The farm labourer looked embarrassed when he was asked for his opinion, and pondered until the perspiration flowed from his head. 'Why should it be good? he said at last.
'No, that hasn't suffered much, but the dam is broken. 'Jesus! Jesus! 'The water is up to our yard. Those scoundrel Swabians have dammed up their fields, and that has taken some more off the hill. 'Curse them! 'Have you looked into the stable? asked Maciek. 'Is it likely I shouldn't?
For this the gospodyni milked the cows at daybreak, baked bread, and moved her saucepans on and off the fire. For this Maciek, perspiring, dragged his lame leg after the plough and harrow, and Slimak, murmuring his morning-prayers, went at dawn to the manor-barn or drove into the town to deliver the corn which he had sold to the Jews.
In the thick mist it looked as if the procession appeared out of an abyss through a circular gate of fire. They bore straight down upon the spot where Maciek and his sledge had come to a standstill. Suddenly the first one stopped. 'Hey...what's that? 'Something is in the way. 'What is it? 'A peasant with a cartload of wood. 'Out of the way, dog. Throw him into the ditch! 'Shut up!
So Matyasz Dobrzynski, who was at the head of the whole family, had been called Cock-on-the-Steeple. Later, after the year seventeen hundred and ninety-four, he changed his nickname and was christened Hand-on-Hip; the Dobrzynskis themselves also called him Bunny our King,117 but the Lithuanians styled him the Maciek of Macieks.
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