'Isn't it true, daddy, that the water can see?'

'What should it see?'

'Everything--everything--the sky, the hills; it sees us when we follow
the harrows.'

'Go to sleep. Don't talk nonsense.'

'It does, it does, daddy, I've watched it myself,' he whispered, going
to sleep.

The room was too hot for Slimak; he dragged himself up and staggered to
the barn, where he fell into a bundle of straw.

'But what I gave for the cow I gave for her,' he muttered in the
direction of the sleeping Grochowski.




CHAPTER IV

Slimakowa came to the barn early the next morning and called her
husband. 'Are you going to be long idling there?'

'What's the matter?'

'It's time to go to the manor-house.'