"In the meantime, Gaudentius, who didn't fail to make provisions for the journey with leftovers from the feast of Yasnohorod, reheated and consumed bigos, generously seasoned with sausages and fatback, which he had retrieved from a box, washing it down, in strictly calculated intervals, with ample doses of vodka, which he kept by his right-hand side in a large rectangular decanter. ... Bigos, as is known, induces great thirst, which had to be quenched with some concoction; nearby, at Finke's, this and other "remedies" were ready for savoring. This venture, undertaken with certain tact, yet amateurishly, took quite some time; it had been over an hour since the sun left the earthly horizon, when Mr. Pius, with the last drops from the last bottle, exorcised the effects of the greasy bigos."
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Obrazek jenjalnego officjalisty (Portrait of an Ingenious Officer), a short story by Franciszek Maria Ejsmont (1872)
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