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Updated: May 31, 2025
'When they put our small Jendrek in Court by the side of that big Hermann, I reckon they won't do much to him. 'They'll do nothing to him, agreed the labourer. 'All the same, I should like to know what the punishment is for thrashing a man. 'They don't trouble their heads much about it. When Potocka beat her neighbour over the head with a saucepan, they just fined her.
Jendrek would pull the logs about, and get tired in no time and stop. But mind you take them from the top, carefully, and lift them into the sledge, one by one like this. Never be in a hurry, little one, or else the damned wood will tire you out. It doesn't want to go on to the sledge, for it has sense, and knows what to expect. We all prefer our own corner of the world, even if it is a bad one.
Jendrek was digging between the cottage and the highroad, throwing stones at the birds now and then or singing out of tune: 'God grant you, God grant you That I may not find you. For else, my fair maid, You should open your gate. And Magda answered from within: 'Although I am poor And my mother was poor, I'll not at the gate Kiss you early or late.
'And don't run out yourself, added his mother, 'you are flooding the whole room.... The Word was made Flesh, she added under her breath, as a terrific clap of thunder shook the house. Magda crossed herself; Jendrek laughed and cried, 'What a din! there's another.... The Lord Jesus is enjoying Himself, firing off.... 'Be quiet, you silly, called his mother; 'it may strike you!
Jendrek was the only cheerful one; he ran out from time to time, wetting himself to the skin, and tried to induce his brother or Magda to join him in these excursions. 'Come, Stasiek, he cried, pulling him by the hand, 'it's such a warm rain, it will wash you and cheer you up. 'Leave him alone, said his father; 'he is peevish.
"God will not permit it. Would you stay home? Your princes belong to the kingdom of Poland!" "No, we would not stay home," answered Jendrek of Kropiwnica. Zbyszko again glanced at the foreign knights, and at their peacocks' tufts, and asked: "Are these knights going for that purpose?" "They are brothers of the Order and perhaps that is their motive. Who understands them?" "And that third one?"
The long-haired knight said that his name was Jendrek of Kropiwnica and that he was conducting some guests to the prince; Brother Godfried, Brother Rotgier, also Sir Fulko de Lorche of Lotaringen, who being with the Knights of the Cross, wished to see the prince and especially the princess, the daughter of the famous "Kiejstut."
'Oh, daddy, don't, wailed the boy, although he had been prepared for the last two hours. 'You won't escape it this time; lie down on the bench. You've been laughing at the young gentleman and even making fun of the squire. Stasiek, in tears, embraced his father's knees, Magda ran out of the room, Jendrek howled. 'I tell you, lie down! I'll teach you to run about with that scoundrel of a Jasiek!
She was happy at the thought of no longer being alone in the empty house, and quite forgot to scold the maid when the midday bell rang and there were no potatoes boiling on the fire. The servant had seen Mr. Tiralla drive off he had gone to Gnesen, Jendrek had told her why should she hurry then? She could easily manage the Pani.
Jendrek had been restless since his brother's death; he did not like to sit indoors when there was nothing to do, and roamed about. His rambles frequently ended in a visit to the schoolmaster; out of curiosity he examined the books, and as he knew some of the letters, the schoolmaster's daughter amused herself by teaching him to spell.
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