LXXVI.

Then being taken by the tail--a taking Fatal to bishops as to soldiers--these[ih] Cossacques were all cut off as day was breaking, And found their lives were let at a short lease-- But perished without shivering or shaking, Leaving as ladders their heaped carcasses, O'er which Lieutenant-Colonel Yesouskoi Marched with the brave battalion of Polouzki:--[454]