The River
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Just one watering-pot remains from the whole garden and vegetable plot!
Sewing machines stick out from the sides of the carts.
It’s as if there had been a fire.
A fire in which all has been destroyed, and the people have caught up
—The most precious things!
Often, behind the carts, instead of spare wheels as in the majority of cases—is tied on a Viennese chair.
They had been proud of this chair.
—It had been the chair for guests.
—They didn’t get along anyhow in their home. They had Viennese chairs. Theirs wasn’t an izba.
And now, when they sleep in the woods and travel slowly along the road, in cold and hunger, they carry these chairs with them as:
—Their most precious possession.
Under the cart sometimes dogs are
