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Updated: June 12, 2025
His favourite pastime, however, was to watch the Germans, whose habitations were shooting up like mushrooms. By the end of May Hamer and two or three others had finished building, and their gospodarstwos were pleasant to look at.
In less than a month he had taken a hundred roubles from them; at the manor this had meant a whole year's toil. 'Do you think, Josef, that the Germans will always go on buying from you? his wife asked from time to time. 'They have their own gospodarstwos now, and better ones than yours; you will see, it will last through the summer at the best, and after that they won't buy a stick from us.
They had lived like others, ploughed, prayed, taught their children; you could not say they were doing any wrong, and yet they had made his home desolate simply by being there. They had blasted what was near them as smoke from a kiln withers all green things. Not until this moment had the thought ever come to him: 'I am too close to them! The gospodarstwos farther off do not suffer like this.
All the buildings were larger and loftier than those of the Polish peasants, and were clean and comfortable, although they looked stiff and severe; for while the roofs of the Polish gospodarstwos overhung on the four sides, those of the Germans did so only at the front and back. But they had large windows, divided into six squares, and the doors were made by the carpenter.
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