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"Pan Dobrzynski," said General Dombrowski to him, "are you that

famous swordsman of the Kosciuszko times, that Maciej, called

Switch! Your fame has reached me. And pray tell me, is it

possible that you are still so hale, so vigorous! How many years

have gone by! See, I have grown old; see, Kniaziewicz too has

grizzled hair; but you might still enter the lists against young

men. And your switch doubtless blooms as it did long ago; I have

heard that recently you birched the Muscovites. But where are

your brethren? I should beyond measure like to see those

penknives and razors of yours, the last relics of ancient

Lithuania."

"After that victory, General," said the Judge, "almost all the

Dobrzynskis took refuge in the Grand Duchy, and must have entered

one or other of the legions."