The first edition (1835--1844) has only the year--1810; the second edition (1861--1865) adds month and day--February 8.] in a mean little house at Zelazowa Wola, a village about twenty-eight English miles from Warsaw belonging to the Countess Skarbek.
[FOOTNOTE: Count Wodzinski, after indicating the general features of Polish villages--the dwor (manor-house) surrounded by a "bouquet of trees"; the barns and stables forming a square with a well in the centre; the roads planted with poplars and bordered with thatched huts; the rye, wheat, rape, and clover fields, &c .-- describes the birthplace of Frederick Chopin as follows: "I have seen there the same dwor embosomed in trees, the same outhouses, the same huts, the same plains where here and there a wild pear-tree throws its shadow.

Some steps from the mansion I stopped before a little cot with a slated roof, flanked by a little wooden perron.

Nothing has been changed for nearly a hundred years.

A dark passage traverses it.

On the left, in a room illuminated by the reddish flame of slowly-consumed logs, or by the uncertain light of two candles placed at each extremity of the long table, the maid-servants spin as in olden times, and relate to each other a thousand marvellous legends.