18/25 I think I will make my living so. I was so treated by the soldiers. They fell on us, wounded many, three they killed, and I was taken to prison to work for life. Heaven preserve you in all things from that into which I have fallen, and I remain thy husband unto death. In the English letter there was a _chingari_--a shindy; in the German they have a _tshinger_, which is nearly the same word, and means the same. |