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When, however, he was summoned more and more often to the manor, he found that the day-labourer was not sufficient, and began to look out for a permanent farm-hand. One autumn day, after his wife had been rating him severely for not yet having found a farmhand, it chanced that Maciek Owczarz, whose foot had been crushed under a cart, came out of the hospital.
'Is that you, Owczarz? Slimakowa asked, hardly recognizing the poor wretch in his rags. 'Indeed, it is I, the man answered miserably. 'They said in the village that you had been killed. 'I have been worse off than that; I have been in the hospital. I wish I had been left under the cart, I shouldn't be so hungry now. The gospodyni became thoughtful.
Was it not he who had driven him to the recruiting-office when it was the time for the drawing of lots? who had ordered him to be taken to the hospital and told him he would come out completely cured? who collected the taxes and carried the largest banner at the processions and intoned 'Let us praise the Holy Virgin'? And now he, Maciek Owczarz, was sitting under one roof with this same Grochowski.
And by the side of all these he saw his own old wise grandfather, Roch Owczarz, who had been a soldier under Napoleon, and came home without a penny, and in his old age became sacristan at the church, and explained all the pictures to the gospodarze so beautifully that he earned more money than the organist. 'The Lord rest his soul eternally!
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