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Updated: June 28, 2025
Dirty water was flowing from them both. Slimak's lips were livid, his eyes wide open. Jendrek ran towards him, slipped on the boggy hillside, scrambled up and shouted in terror: 'Daddy...Stasiek...what.... 'He's drowned! 'You are mad, cried the boy; 'he's sitting on your arm! He pulled Stasiek by the shirt, and the boy's head fell over his father's shoulder. 'You see! whispered Slimak.
He hummed again, but under his breath, so that the boys should not hear him: 'The cuckoo cuckooed in the forest, Say the neighbours, I am the dullest. Suddenly he turned upon Stasiek, and wanted to know why he was dragging along as if he were being taken to jail, and didn't talk. 'I...I am wondering why we are going to the manor? 'Don't you want to go? 'No; I am afraid.
'What's the use of talking like that, when nothing is wrong? said Slimak, holding his aching head. 'Nothing wrong? You insisted on paying thirty-five paper roubles and a silver rouble when Grochowski was letting the cow go for thirty-three roubles. Nothing wrong, indeed! do three roubles mean nothing to you? Slimak crept to the bench where Stasiek lay and touched his feet.
'Pour out a basin of soup for yourself. She did as she was told. 'Don't you want a servant? she asked presently. 'I don't know; my wife is ill. 'There you are! It's quiet here. Where's Magda? 'Left. 'Jendrek? 'Sent up for trial. 'There you are! Stasiek? 'Drowned last summer, he whispered, fearful lest Maciek's and the little girl's turn should come next.
'You're taking up with them! he cried, shaking his fist, 'or perhaps I didn't see you running off to them like a dog through the water to cadge for a glass of beer, nor your father and mother on the hill praying with the Swabians...praying to the devil! God has punished them already, for something has fallen on Stasiek. There will be more to come...you wait!
Lower down lay the village, still lower the field by the river, in front of them was the manor, with the outbuildings, enclosed by a railing. 'There! that's the manor-house, said Slimak to Stasiek. 'Isn't it beautiful? 'Which one is it? 'Why! the one with pillars in front. Another shot rang out, and they saw a man in fanciful sportsman's dress. 'The horseman of yesterday, cried Jendrek.
The Germans were still busy landing wood; whenever they got hold of a specially large piece they shouted 'Hurrah! Suddenly some big logs came floating down, and this raised their enthusiasm to such a pitch that they started singing the 'Wacht am Rhein'. For the first time in his life Stasiek, who was so sensitive to music, heard a men's chorus sung in parts.
Magda had found another situation by November; her place in the gospodarstwo soon grew cold, no one thought or talked of her, and only the gospodyni asked herself sometimes: 'Were there really a Stasiek in this room once and a Magda pottering about, and three cows in the shed? Meanwhile the thieving increased.
Between the hills the thirteen-year-old Jendrek minds the cows and performs strange antics meanwhile to amuse himself. If you look more closely you will also find the eight-year-old Stasiek with hair as white as flax, who roams through the ravines or sits under the lonely pine on the hill and looks thoughtfully into the valley.
Then there came two surprises, his wife bore him a son Jendrek, and as the result of the servituty his holding was increased by three acres. Both these circumstances created a great change in the gospodarz's life; he bought another cow and pig and occasionally hired a labourer. Some years later his second son, Stasiek, was born.
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