"No; simply rampart. As soon as we reached it, if you will believe me, there was a fire poured in upon us—it was hell." ...
At the crisis, some one behind the wigwam inquired for me. It was Maksímof. As there still remained thirteen of the intrenchments to be taken in the same monotonous detail, I was glad to have an excuse to go to my division. Trosenko went with me.
"It's all a pack of lies," he said to me when we had gone a few steps from the wigwam. "He wasn't at the intrenchments at all;" and Trosenko laughed so good-naturedly, that I could not help joining him.
[22] gorílka in the Malo-Russian dialect.
[23] nu-s.
[24] tak-s.
[25] tak-s.
[26] Yéï Bogu.
[27] podviortki.
[28] slusháïu, váshe Siyátelstvo.