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60 The sprawnik or kapitan sprawnik is the chief of the rural

police. The strapczy is a sort of government attorney. These two

officials, who have frequent opportunities for misusing their

authority, are greatly hated by the people generally. [These

offices, and the names of them, are Russian, not Polish.

Strapczyna would be the name given to the wife of a strapczy.]

61 [The paragraph here inclosed in brackets is not found in the

editions of Pan Tadeusz published during the lifetime of

Mickiewicz. It occurs in his manuscript, among many other

passages that he did not choose to print; in the edition of 1858

it was added to the printed text. It has been included here,

though with some hesitation, because the succeeding narrative did

not seem quite clear without it. It seemed needless to record

other variant readings, even in these notes; they are of little

interest except to special students of the work of Mickiewicz.]