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Updated: June 10, 2025
'Don't talk like that, groaned Maciek, crawling to Slimak's feet, 'I have saved a few roubles from my wages, and there is my little chest and a bit of sheepskin and my sukmana; take it all, but don't say I robbed you. Your dog has not been more faithful, and they have poisoned him too.
The gospodarz, his cap awry, and holding up nis sukmana as for a dance, lurched from right to left and from left to right, singing. The labourer laughed, not because they were drunk, but because it pleased him to see them enjoying themselves. 'Do you know, Maciek, cried Slimak from afar, 'do you know the Swabians can't hurt us! He ran up full tilt and supported himself on Maciek's neck.
'I bought him a new sukmana at Whitsuntide, he can keep that on, of course, but I must have the sheepskin back, because it has been bought with money I have earned in the sweat of my brow, Tomekowa replied calmly. 'Have it back, you mangy dog, have it back? screamed Antkowa. 'I'll give it you, you'll see what you will have... and she looked round for an object that would serve her purpose.
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.
He was obviously repeating his wife's admonitions, for he suddenly stopped eating and tapped the table rhythmically with the spoon. 'Well, then, don't sit there and think, but put on your sukmana and go. And take the boys with you. 'What for? 'What for? They are to support you when you ask the squire, and Jendrek will tell me how you have bargained. Now do you know what for?
His mother was busy with the fire and paid no attention to him, but his father noticed, although they were sparing of light in the cottage, that his sukmana was torn and he looked bruised and dishevelled. Looking at him out of the corner of his eyes, Slimak emptied his pipe and said: 'Someone has been oxing your ears three times over. 'I gave him one better, said the boy scowling.
Then the stable door creaked, and a shadow stole out, moved along the walls and disappeared into the cowshed. It was Maciek. He drew the whimpering child from under his sukmana and put its mouth to the cow's udder. 'Suck, little one, he whispered, 'suck the cow, because your mother has left you. A few moments later smacking sounds were heard.
Slimak dashed into the alcove, put on his sukmana and ran out, he did not know whither; he felt he must run somewhere. A voice seemed to cry to him: 'Father...father...if you had put up a fence, your child would not have been drowned! And the man answered: 'It is not my fault; the Germans bewitched him with their singing.
He stood humbly at the back of the church, so that the Lord should not see his torn sukmana. Then the beggars reminded him that he never gave them anything. He went to the public-house to get change. 'How about my money, Pan Maciek? said the publican. 'What money? 'Have you forgotten? You owe me two roubles since Christmas' Maciek swore at him.
But he put this thought aside, and went out slowly into the yard. In his snuff-coloured sukmana and black cap he looked like the stem of a pine, burnt at the top. The barn door was open, and by sheer perversity some bundles of straw were peeping out, luring Slimak to a doze. But he turned away his head and looked at one of the hills where he had sown oats that morning.
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