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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Then we must have Mekipiros ready in front of the forester's hut." "Why that, master? The fellow is dumb and foolish. You know that he bit out his tongue under torture." "So much the better. He cannot talk. He must have brandy, and lots of it." "When he drinks brandy he becomes like a wild beast. He can bite and scratch now, but when he is drunk you can make him worry people like a dog."
Thomas Bodza had much the same sort of wish in his own heart. Each of them had his or her particular reasons for wishing Ivan's plan to fail. But Mekipiros did not let him drop. He hoisted him up right on to the roof and helped him to climb up on to the metal gutter.
Ivan, in his desperation, writhed over the gulf beneath him, and forgetting everything but the horrible death awaiting him, bellowed hoarsely to those standing below: "Help, for the love of Christ. Men, I say! do not let me perish! I am falling! I am dying. Woe is me! Spread straw underneath, can't you? Hold a carpet below me! Mercy, mercy! Let me go, Mekipiros!
"Mekipiros! come hither and drink," cried Ivan, holding to his mouth a straw-covered pitcher full of spirit, which he to whom it was offered did not remove from his lips till it was quite empty. Then he returned it to Ivan with a joyful "Hamamama!" "Look now, blockhead! You can climb up a rope anywhere, can't you?" "Hamamamama!" "All right, I'm not deaf!
And better than that even his victim had clutched hold of something in the very act of falling, and so the delicious moment was indefinitely prolonged! He heard how his prey roared for help, saw how he writhed convulsively in the desperate hope of saving himself, how half out of his mind he even begged him, Mekipiros! for life: "Mekipiros, dear good Mekipiros, let me go, and plunge down alone!"
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