Page:The Way of the Cross, Doroshevich, tr. Graham, 1916.djvu/45

Rh The Holm peasants—are the most exasperating people.

Especially exasperating

How they talk of their own province!

—And is your land good?

—Our land? There's no such land anywhere else in the world. Do you call your ground land? I shouldn't think it worth cultivating. Now ours is land. One could eat it—that's the kind of land it is. Like bread!

—Were you well-off?

—Were we well-off? You people who live here couldn't dream what our life there was like.

—Did you have fine cattle?

—Such cattle I had! And such a house I had with a grove round it and money spent on it! How our children grew up! What cattle perished on the way hither, how many we sold for a mere nothing!