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O that was a scramble! All the roads in Great Poland were full of

fugitives; the Germans crawled along them like ants, dragging

their carts, or rather waggons and drays, as the people call them

there; men and women, with pipes and coffee-pots, were dragging

boxes and feather beds; they scuttled off as best they could. But

we quietly took counsel together: 'To horse! Let us harass the

retreat of the Germans; now we will give it to the landraths in

the neck, cut chops from the hofraths, and catch the herr

officers by the cues.' And now General Dombrowski entered the

district of Posen and brought the orders of the Emperor to stir

up an insurrection! In one week our people so whipped and

banished the Prussians that you couldn't have found a German to

make medicine of!128 What if we could turn the trick just as

briskly and smartly now, and here in Lithuania give the

Muscovites just such another sweating? Hey? What think you,

Maciej?