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Updated: June 28, 2025
'But he was in the backyard a minute ago. Slimak did not answer, he supported Stasiek's head and stumbled forward. Slimakowa was standing in the passage, shading her eyes and waiting. 'Well, what has he been up to now?... What's this? Has it fallen on Stasiek again? Curse those Swabians and their singing!
He is impertinent to my wife, stirs up the boy, and puts my cap on my head; but he wants to squeeze money out of me, all the same. I knew he would bring me bad luck. Sounds of an American organ which the squire was playing came from the house. 'Daddy, daddy, they are playing! cried Stasiek in great excitement; he was flushed, and trembled with emotion, even Jendrek was affected.
Slimak ran towards the river, and Maciek painfully dragged himself after him. Jendrek overtook him. 'What's up? Where is Stasiek? Maciek stopped and heard a powerful voice calling out: 'That's the way you look after your children, Polish beasts! Then Slimak appeared on the hill, holding Stasiek in his arms. The boy's head was resting on his shoulder, his right arm hung limply.
A cart was heard rattling on the highroad and stopped in front of the cottage. The schoolmaster got out, bareheaded and with his rod in his hand. 'How is the boy? he called out, but did not wait for an answer and limped into the cottage. Stasiek was lying on the bench, his mother was supporting his head on her knees and whispering to herself: 'He's coming to, he's a little warmer.
When everybody else had forgotten Slimakowa, Stasiek, Maciek, and the child, he often remembered them, and also the dog Burek and the cow doomed to the butcher's knife for want of fodder. Silly Zoska died in prison, old Sobieska at the inn. The others with whom my story is concerned, not excepting old Jonah, are alive and well.
'Why didn't you tell me that Stasiek had been ill since the winter, and couldn't run without feeling queer? 'Of course he wasn't well, she said; 'but what good could you have done? 'I couldn't have done anything, for if he was to die, he was to die. The mother cried quietly.
Slimak saw two forms, one tall, the other oblong; the oblong was walking behind the tall one and nodding its head. 'Who's sending a cow to market? he thought, ... well, the boy must be thrashed...if only I could have another cow and that bit of field. He drove the horses down the hill towards the Bialka, where he caught sight of Stasiek, but could see nothing more of his farm or of the road.
'The water was only up to my waist, but it did for him. 'Then why don't you turn him upside down? Maciek, take him by the feet...oh, you clumsy fellows! The labourer did not stir. She seized the boy herself by the legs. Stasiek struck the ground heavily with his hands; a little blood ran from his nose.
Already resignation was entering into the hearts of those who mourned for Stasiek. They comforted each other, saying that no hair falls from our heads without God's will. 'Not even the wild beasts die unless it is God's will, said Slimak: 'a hare may be shot at and escape, and then die in the open field, so that you can catch it with your hands.
'What a gossip you are, father! Wilhelm will never do anything; you may find him ever so many hills. 'What do they want, daddy? Stasiek asked suddenly. 'Ah, yes! true! Slimak was roused: 'Heh, sir! The older man looked round. 'What are you asking me all those questions for? 'Because it pleases us to do so, the younger man answered, pushing his father into the carriage.
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