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Meanwhile, near the logs, the left wing of the gentry was already

near victory. There fought Sprinkler, visible from afar, there

Razor hovered around the Muscovites; the latter slashed at their

waists, the former pounded their heads. As a machine that German

workmen have invented and that is called a thrasher, but is at

the same time a chopper-it has chains and knives, and cuts up the

straw and thrashes the grain at the same time-so did Sprinkler

and Razor work together, slaughtering their enemies, one from

above and the other from below.