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Ah, you Poles! The Fatherland! I feel it all, I, Rykov. The Tsar

gives the order-but I am sorry for you. What have we against the

Poles? Let Moscow be for the Muscovites and Poland for the Poles!

But what is to be done? The Tsar will not permit it!"

The Judge replied to him:-

"Captain, that you are an honest man all in this district know,

where you have been quartered for many years. Good friend, be not

angry at this gift; we did not wish to offend you. These ducats

we have ventured to collect because we know that you are not a

rich man."