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Updated: May 16, 2025
That’s the whole question. Maciej is our marshal and his little switch is his baton of office.” “Long live Cock-on-the-Steeple!” shouted Baptist. The gentry answered, “Vivant the sprinklers!” But in the corners a murmur had arisen, though it was stifled in the centre; evidently the council was dividing into two sides.
Suddenly a murmur arose outside the door, and many voices shouted in unison, “Long live Cock-on-the-Steeple!” A throng pushed into the hall, with Maciej at their head. The Judge led the guest by the hand to the table and gave him a high seat among the leaders, saying:— “Pan Maciej, unkind neighbour, you come very late, when dinner is almost over.”
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.
From a Confederate he became a partisan of the King, and supported Tyzenhaus,119 the Under-Treasurer of Lithuania; but when the King joined the men of Targowica, Maciej once more deserted the royal side. And hence, since he had passed through so many parties, he had long been called Cock-on-the-Steeple, because like a cock he turned his standard with the wind.
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