Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 255

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Excerpt from Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 255: July to December 1895 Simeon Ivanov was a signalman on the railway. His box was twelve versts from one station and ten from the other. A spinning mill had been started during the previous year within four versts, and its tall chimney loomed out of the wood, but with this exception, the neighbouring signal boxes were the only other dwellings. Simeon Ivanov was a sickly, broken-down man. Nine years ago he had seen some active service. As officer's servant he had been through a whole campaign, and had suffered hunger, heat, and cold on marches of forty and fifty versts, he had also been under fire, but, thank God, escaped unscathed. At one time his regiment was in the first line, and during a whole week cross fire was kept up with the Turks, our troops lay on one side of a hollow, the enemy on the other, and firing went on from morning till night Simeon daily carried a steaming samovar and his master's dinner from the regimental kitchen in the ravine across an open space, where the bullets whistled and ricocheted off the stones. He was afraid, and cried, but never shirked. Their honours the officers were very pleased with him, for they always had hot tea. At the conclusion of the campaign he returned safe and sound, with the exception of rheumatism in his hands and feet. Since then he had been through no small measure of suffering. He reached home to find his old father dead, as well as his little son of four years old, who had succumbed to a throat affection. Simeon had only his wife left. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.