He shouted and waved his hand more vigorously than any of the others; but his words could not be heard for the cries and hammering of the workmen.
"Whence come you!" asked the Koschevoi, as the boat touched the shore.
All the workers paused in their labours, and, raising their axes and chisels, looked on expectantly.
"From a misfortune!" shouted the short Cossack.
"From what ?" "Permit me, noble Zaporozhtzi, to address you." "Speak!" "Or would you prefer to assemble a council ?" "Speak, we are all here." The people all pressed together in one mass.
"Have you then heard nothing of what has been going on in the hetman's dominions ?" "What is it ?" inquired one of the kuren hetmans.
"Eh! what! Evidently the Tatars have plastered up your ears so that you might hear nothing." "Tell us then; what has been going on there ?" "That is going on the like of which no man born or christened ever yet has seen." "Tell us what it is, you son of a dog!" shouted one of the crowd, apparently losing patience.
"Things have come to such a pass that our holy churches are no longer ours." "How not ours ?" "They are pledged to the Jews.

If the Jew is not first paid, there can be no mass." "What are you saying ?" "And if the dog of a Jew does not make a sign with his unclean hand over the holy Easter-bread, it cannot be consecrated." "He lies, brother gentles.

It cannot be that an unclean Jew puts his mark upon the holy Easter-bread." "Listen! I have not yet told all.

Catholic priests are going about all over the Ukraine in carts.

The harm lies not in the carts, but in the fact that not horses, but orthodox Christians (1), are harnessed to them.