Page:The Way of the Cross, Doroshevich, tr. Graham, 1916.djvu/162

 146 The forests have become clear, and it has become light in them.

The birch trees stand like dark skeletons.

The ground under them is a golden carpet of leaves.

There is work going on on the road.

People are working and Nature is working.

Near Cherikof they are building barracks.

On the nineteenth of October they are building barracks.

At twenty-five versts from Cherikof they are building barracks.

At the first post station after Roslavl.

At the post station of Sophiskaya they are building barracks.

In the province of Kaluga they are building barracks.

It is the twentieth of October, and all the same they are only building barracks!