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Updated: May 15, 2025
Those at the head of the kehillot, being responsible solely to the Government, often had to deliver the full tale of bricks like the Jewish overseers in Egypt, though no straw was given to them. On one occasion Rabbi Mikel of Shkud was arrested because the kahal could not pay the thousand gulden it owed. In 1767, the whole kahal of Vilna went to Warsaw to protest against intolerable taxation.
At times I could hear the angry water under the ice striking against boulders, and this became quite common. At last I shouted to Mikel, "Let us travel on the land, for surely if we do not we shall fall through the ice and be engulfed." "We cannot," he shouted back, "the snow is too soft. Our reindeer could not pull our sleighs.
What a nice cup of coffee we had! How deliciously it tasted! How good was our coarse hard black bread and our reindeer cheese, and smoked reindeer tongue! After we had drunk our coffee and eaten our supper I noticed that Mikel was very silent and thoughtful.
"Isn't it a pity," sneered Mikel Grallon, "to see a pretty girl wasting herself on a coward, when " He did not complete the sentence, for Rohan stretched out his hand and smote him down. Grallon fell like a log. A wild cry arose from all the men, the women screamed, even Marcelle shrank back; and Rohan strode to the door, pushing his way out. "Hold him! Kill him!" shouted some.
He lived and pastured his herd of reindeer south of Karesuando. As we were introduced to each other we shook hands, and I said, "Mikel, we are going to be friends." "Yes," he replied, "we are to be friends." Then all the Sea Lapps that were round us shouted with one voice: "Paulus, we are all your friends! Mikel will take good care of you." "I will," said Mikel. "I will take good care of Paulus."
The Bear's Night is not over with him yet, and he must be still sleeping under the snow at the place where I saw him last autumn getting ready to go into his winter quarters." "You don't say so, Mikel!" I exclaimed. "Is the bear sleeping near where we are?" "Not so very near," he replied with a twinkle in his eye. "A few hours will bring us to his place."
I drove sometimes against one tree and then against another, then the boughs of the birch would strike against my face. I had not been five minutes among the birches when I was upset. At last, losing patience, I shouted to Mikel, "When are we to get out of these birch trees into the open country?" He replied: "We shall reach the river soon."
The dripping from the melted snow came into the river from the hills, and had succeeded in many places in melting the ice on the banks. This travelling was no joke. I followed Mikel, and watched him constantly, fearing that his reindeer and sleigh would disappear under the ice. Travelling appeared to become more and more perilous as we followed the Muonio southward.
When we reached the summit of the plateau, the watershed that divided the rivers falling into the Arctic Sea and the Baltic, the weather was very stormy. Though it was the 13th of May, we met a furious snowstorm. This was dangerous for us, and Mikel attached my sleigh to his by a long rope, so that we might not become separated.
"Why," sez I, "fallen men angels. You know Mikel wuz a angel once and he fell." "Well, there is no such place," sez she, tossin' her head a little. "Well," sez I, "you ort to know, you're from the city and I hain't; but I know that if there hain't such a place it's a wicked thing.
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