Page:The Way of the Cross, Doroshevich, tr. Graham, 1916.djvu/128

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VI

IN THE FORESTS OF MOGILEF

ON the road from Roslavl to Bobruisk there passes before us the great movement of the people in all its grandeur.

—Where are you going now?—they asked me in Roslavl.

—To the province of Mogilef.

—And, to Poland.

So in ordinary parlance, do they call the province of Mogilef, the extremest, foremost point of Great Russia.

Day by day the mornings become frostier.

There is thin ice on the marsh.

The province of Mogilef is this:

—Sand, on which the forest has grown.

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