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The Germans, however, were not looking for toads. Before long such a cannonading began that the echoes reached the farthest ends of the valley, telling every one that not even the rocks were able to withstand the Germans. 'Those Swabians are a hard race, muttered Slimak, as he gazed on the giants that had been dashed to pieces.
'Bah, how can they catch me, when I run like a hare? 'Confound the boy, said his mother, who had come in, 'the Swabians will beat him small. 'He can always give them the slip, said Slimak, lit his pipe, and resumed his meditations on hasps and bolts.
It's true there is no knowing what a lunatic might do. The sportsman approached, loading his gun; the tattered remains of some sparrows hung from his bag. 'The Lord be praised, said Slimak, taking off his cap. 'How do you do, citizen? replied the sportsman, touching his jockey cap. 'What a lovely gun! sighed Jendrek. 'Do you like it? Eh, wasn't it you who picked up my cap the other day?
I don't pay much attention to her usually, but it happens that there is a bit of land to be sold adjoining Magda's. Komara, to whom it belonged, has drunk himself to death. So I am thinking: I will sell the cow and buy the girl another acre land is land. 'That's true! sighed Slimak. 'And as there will be new servituty, the girl will get even more. 'How is that? Slimak became interested.
At the first note Slimak had taken off his cap, his wife crossed herself, and Maciek stepped aside and knelt down. Stasiek, with wide-open eyes, began to tremble, and Jendrek started running down the hill, waded through the river, and headed at full speed for the camp.
The result of this news was that Slimak set out for the manor-house early the next day, and returned depressed in the afternoon. A large bowl of sauerkraut presently made him willing to discourse. 'It was like this: I arrive at the manor, and when I look up I see that all the windows of the large room on the ground floor are wide open. God forbid! has some one died? I think to myself.
He felt the liquor going to his head and fancied himself sitting by the Soltys and embracing him. The fumes of the vodka and the lamp were filling the room. Slimak and Grochowski moved closer together. 'Neighbour...Soltys, said Slimak, striking the table again. 'I'll give you whatever you wish, your word is worth more than money to me, for you are the cleverest man in the parish.
When she reached the yard she saw Grochowski kneeling and rubbing his eyes with his sukmana and Slimak lying on the manure heap. Maciek was standing over them. 'We must do something with them, he said to the gospodyni; 'they've drunk a whole bottle of vodka. 'Get up, you drunkard, she cried, 'or I'll pour water over your head.
Slimak hid his face in his sukmana like a Roman senator and would not let his grief be looked upon. And a voice in his heart whispered: 'Father! father! if you had made a fence, your child would not have been drowned! But he answered: 'I am not guilty; he died because his hour had come.
This hill, together with two others, is the property of the gospodarz The gospodarstwo is like a hermitage; it is a long way from the village and still farther from the manor-house. The word, which means host, master of the house, will be used throughout the book. Gospodyni: hostess, mistress of the holding. Josef Slimak.
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