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]