They suddenly printed that men were to go out with pitchforks, and to remember that those who went out poor in the morning might go home rich at night.

Only think of it! It made me shudder, and yet I distributed it.

Or suddenly five or six lines addressed to the whole of Russia, apropos of nothing, 'Make haste and lock up the churches, abolish God, do away with marriage, destroy the right of inheritance, take up your knives,' that's all, and God knows what it means.

I tell you, I almost got caught with this five-line leaflet.

The officers in the regiment gave me a thrashing, but, bless them for it, let me go.