The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
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Reprinted by Bread" by Alexander
DoubedayDoran New York.
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his thoughts grew glazed with fear Straight toward
each hands and feet and enormous kgz mead VIII"
CHASTITY wayng The Kghz came on IN tne terrible caps
grass barring teeth waving their arms
wild lonely shrek cut the black silence
Little mother!"
Kbiz hands seized him from behind terrible KighJ
shouted
"Death!
bndGe that rose hi his path path ssa
huge gianthere Mshka fell on ms knees before
the giant covered there silence till morning came
But DEATH
through the over the CARROTS in the .a ach mes
little girl gone ahead found them in the little station TO wnc
the thousand rube remaining his When the
morning had warmed him through the terror OF n
a violent headache.
Mshkas eyes stared feessy mind blank He thought
of his mother the Immediately qunched Every
thing passed confused fantastic dream Duly IN
differently he drew the bread from his pocket Duly
he ate it. He liked lie down and sob his heart out on
unpeod but the strength flowed into his BODY again.
eyebrows drew together and the logged Will to i've o up m
him again
"Pm going on"
the telegraph poles the shining FLASHING
in directions and his heart began to beat in alarm;
(Which is the way?"
"Where is Tashkent?"
"If go this way-it may be 80
The flashed in the morning sunlight Grippn
unounded of the faroff blue mountains "a
along the rails
He cry
Who would see Mshka tears single there?
Who help he remained in spot all day long
He took twenty steps in one drecton-stopped
You're going wrong!
can't be the
His mother would thinking little still his
as wei H. ''"N' '''' y 'DS -
Mishka stood there deep his pale lips tightly locked
whole life passed before him. and the first day when had set
out from home
He looked up and down flashing then paused arrested
by sudden thought
Yesterday gone up this HILL he must the
Mishka frightened his soldiers belt pulled cap his
his knife his pocket and set out with new courage Tor the 1
Vast and boundless spaces of the steppe
terrible tiny point floating upon its vasnes
desolate the ancient OF the princes OF th'
sppe Not human being, not human voice Burdocks desert
deposits deep assures cutting them here and there
Here and there Mshka piece paper
thrown from the window passing train 1t lay there abandoned
forsaken alien place pressed close to the roots OF the
Then with rush of joy he found muiks sandal
brought there from God knows what fao and unknown village
Mhka sighed thought seroshka and Tro Yashka and Fydk
pdded stubboy pale lips tightly locked If the Krghz should
Overtake him now he would say to them .,.. -,
shirt and thosand rubes Only don't kill me-
mighty river now tiny brooklet wachu eye
distant mirage now tree now man. now village with straw
remained the village, melted into
Mhka gathered together his last strength he began counting the
telegraph poles stubborny, doggedly, and he thought
mo need to be afraid, not so rich!
ginning his third hundred The logged will to live that let the little
legs He even skipped little broke into rum then he
Irom who had managed to get on the train and feeling OF bitter
they had only himself rely
them hnhat he dead let them riding the tran
they the kind people who desert their comrades He
would the would harm him. because he
Any could that right He had hum
bred telegraph already would hundred and
until he dd He would die could he it? 1t wal
the fate of people-it must be endured.
hill broad valley little station view From
the station the train began moving Mshkas direction black
column smoke from the Mshka cried aloud for joy
"There she isl"
And train him, cap muk
with sparkling by heaped high with
his sacks which had stolen and then rolled
again like tiny ball along the shining flashing rails
"Now Pm afraid"
Three big shaggy dogs him. No sight,
wide Mshka stopped the stopped of them
between the rails Msk frightened and in his fear that
the him he but the
all tangled and the dogs did not Then with sinking
Mshka crouced walked
wouldn't notice him. But of them straight toward him.
Mishka stopped He remembered about the
pretended to be
Maybe the wouldn't touch him if
the naked cautiously
raised his head and followed
sraining watchu his the dogs
gigantic with long black hair and their long barred eehan
suddenly they thin oae
in