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Updated: May 3, 2025
He sang and obediently they all wailed after him the old song of scattered Poland "Poland is not lost" "Yeszcze Polska me Zginela Poki my zygemy..." The song stopped, there was a word of command, and the little squad started away. The women clung to their men and cried aloud. The children hanging to their skirts began to wail, too.
"I doubt if even the head cook of the monarch of the cannibal islands King Hoki Poki could ever make me tender. So you see I've held out through them all; and there's one thing I may say, trying as they may have been, they have never taken away my appetite. Now, young gentlemen, you've had a good long yarn, and my throat feels like a dust-hole with talking, so I must knock off."
He and his son Poki had been regarded with no inconsiderable favor by Kanghi, and at one time it was thought that he would have chosen them as his successors; but these expectations were disappointed. He was sent instead to hold the chief command against the Eleuths on the western borders.
Jan was so efficient a foreman that Inglesby's power was always behind him. So when Jan chose to get very drunk, and sang long, monotonous songs, particularly when he sang through his teeth, lugubriously: "Yeszeze Polska nie Zginela Poki my Zygemy ..." men and women trembled. Poland might not be lost, but somebody's skin always paid for that song.
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