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cabbages, to right and left. "Hey, Ostap, Ostap!" But at that moment something struck him like a heavy stone: everything grew dim and confused before his eyes. For a moment there flashed before him confusedly heads, spears, smoke, flashes of fire, tree-stumps with their leaves. And he sank heavily to the earth, like a felled oak. And darkness covered his eyes.