The Channel
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They came "with the autumn," while lit was yet warm.
They did not hurry themselves. They took care of their fine horses.
They came in large, fine, spacious covered carts.
With all their household goods.
In the provinces of Moscow, Kaluga, Smolensk, Mogilef, and Minsk, all the peasants speak of them with envy:
—You see where these people come from. From below Riga.
They speak with envy of the people from Holm province.
—Especially of those who came first.
They managed to get away in the warm weather.
When there was something on the road for the cattle to eat.
They drove their herds with them.
—There was something to look at. What fine cows!
