Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-15

kukin began to be afraid that he
had done a 1eowardly oct without
any reason, that perhaps the bomb
had fallen far away, and that lie
only thought he heard the fuse fiz-
zing. He opened his eyes and saw
with satisfaction that Michaiiof lay
Iimmovable on the ground near his
legs. But his eyes at that moment
met the sparkling fuse of the
whirling bomb not yard
from him. A horror--a cold
horror excluding all other thoughts
and feelings-took possession of
him. He covered his face with his
hands.
Another second passed--a second
in which a whole world of feelings,
thoughts, hope, and recollections
passed through his mind.
"Whom will it kill; me or
Michailof? or both together? If
it hits me, where will it hit? in the
head, then it's all over, if it hits my
leg, they will cut it off, and l shall
ask them to do it by all means with
chloroform-and l can still get
through alive. But perhaps it will
only kill Michailof-then l can tell
how we were walking together, and
he was killed and 1 was spattered
with blood. No; it's nearer to me
1T will kill met"
Then he recollected the twelve
rubles that he owed Michailof; he
recollected also another debt at
Petersburg that he ought to have
paid long ago; a gipsy air that he
had sung in the evening came into
his head. The girl whom he loved
appeared to his imagination in cap
with lilac ribbons; he remembered
man whom he had insulted years
before and who had never paid it
back, although at the same time with
these and a thousand other remem-
brances the feeling of his present
circumstances-the expectation OF
death-never for moment quilted
him. "However, perhaps it will
not BURST" he thought, and with
despairing decision wanted to open
his eyes. But at that instant; through
the still shut lids he saw red
fire, and with horrible noise some
thing hit him in the middle of the
breast.
'.Thank God I am only bruised"
was his first thought, and he wanted
to feel of his breast, but his hands
seemed to be bound down, and a
weight to keep down his head The
soldiers shone in his eyes. and he
unconsciously counted them zone,
two, three soldiers, and that one
whose overcoat has slipped down is
an officer,' he thought. Then he
saw flashes, and he thought "what
are they firing from, mortars or
cannon? They are firing again,
and there are more soldiers; five,
six. seven soldiers, and they all go
past He all at once became afraid
that they would leave him there.
He wanted to cry out that he was
wounded, but his mouth was so dry
that his tonnge stuck to his palate
and horrible thirst torrnented him
ne 1ClU uOW WEI uS WIS dOOuG TIE
breast. Greatly I tell into some
blood when l lay down." he thought
and yielding more and more to the
fear that the soldiers who were 90
ing past would leave him there, he
collected all his forces and tried to
cry out: "Take me along" but in
stead Of that he groaned so horribly
that it was awful to hear his own
voice Then some red fires danced
in his eyes, and it seemed to him
that the soldiers were laying stones
on him the fires danced quicker and
quicker; the stones which they laid
on him oppressed him more and
more. He made an effort to throw
off the stones. stretched out, and
then neither saw nor heard, nor
thonght nor felt. H was killed on
the spot by fragment of shell in
the middle Of his breast.