 CHAPTER I. EVERYBODY WAS DRUNK, THE WHOLE BATTERY WAS DRUNK, GOING ALONG THE ROAD IN THE DARK, WHO WERE GOING TO THE CHAMPION. The lieutenant kept riding his horse out into the fields and saying to him, I'm drunk, I tell you, Momful. Oh, I am so sourced. We went along the road all night in the dark, and the adjutant kept riding up alongside my kitchen and saying, you must put it out. It is dangerous. It will be observed. We were fifty kilometers from the front, but the adjutant worried about the fire in my kitchen. It was funny going along that road. That was when I was a kitchen corporal. END OF CHAPTER I CHAPTER II The first matador got the horn through his sword-hand, and the crowd hooded him out. The second matador slipped, and the bull caught him through the belly, and he hung onto the horn with one hand and held the other tight against the place, and the bull rammed him, wham, against the wall, and the horn came out, and he lay in the sand, and then got up like crazy drunk and tried to slug the man, carry him away, and yelled for his sword, but he fainted. The kid came out and had to kill five bulls, because you can't have more than three matadors. And the last bull he was so tired he couldn't get the sword in, couldn't hardly lift his arm. He tried five times, and the crowd was quiet, because it was a good bull, and it looked like him or the bull, and then he finally made it. He sat down in the sand and puked, and they held a cape over him while the crowd hollered and threw things down into the bull ram. END OF CHAPTER II CHAPTER III OF IN OUR TIME by Ernest Hemingway This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. CHAPTER III Minerets stuck up in the rain out of Adronopoli across the mudflats. The carts were jammed for thirty miles along the Caracash Road. Water buffalo and cattle were hauling carts through the mud. No end and no beginning. Just carts loaded with everything they owned. The old men and women, soaked through, walked along keeping the cattle moving. The Zitza was running yellow, almost up to the bridge. Carts were jam-solid on the bridge, with camels bobbing along through them. Greek cavalry herded along the procession. Women and kids were in the carts, crouched with mattresses, mirrors, sewing machines, bundles. There was a woman having a kid with a young girl holding a blanket over her and crying. Scared sick looking at it. Reigned all through the evacuation. END OF CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV OF IN OUR TIME by Ernest Hemingway Chapter IV We were in a garden at Mann's. Young Buckley came in with his patrol from across the river. The first German I saw climbed up over the garden wall. We waited till he got one leg over and then potted him. He had so much equipment on and looked awfully surprised and fell down into the garden. Then three more came over, further down the wall. We shot them. They all came, just like that. END OF CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V OF IN OUR TIME by Ernest Hemingway CHAPTER NUMBER V It was a frightfully hot day. We jammed an absolutely perfect barricade across the bridge. It was simply priceless. The big old wrought iron grating through the front of the house. Too heavy to lift and you could shoot through it and they would have to climb over it. It was absolutely topic. They tried to get over it and we potted them for forty yards. They rushed it and officers came out alone and worked on it. It was an absolutely perfect obstacle. Their officers were very fine. We were frightfully put out when we heard the flank had gone and we had to fall back. END OF CHAPTER NUMBER V CHAPTER VI OF IN OUR TIME by Ernest Hemingway CHAPTER NUMBER VI They shot the six cabinet ministers at half past six in the morning against the wall of a hospital. There were pools of water in the courtyard. There were wet dead leaves on the paving of the courtyard. Reigned hard. All the shutters of the hospital were nailed shut. One of the ministers was sick with typhoid. Two soldiers carried him downstairs and out into the rain. They tried to hold him up against the wall but he sat down in a puddle of water. The other five stood very quietly against the wall. Finally the officer told the soldiers it was no good trying to make him stand up. When they fired the first folly he was sitting down in the water with his head on his knees. END OF CHAPTER NUMBER VI CHAPTER VII FROM IN OUR TIME by Ernest Hemingway CHAPTER VII Nick sat against the wall of the church where they had dragged him to be clear of machine gun fire on the street. Both legs stuck out awkwardly. He had been hit in the spine. His face was sweaty and dirty. The sun shone on his face. The day was very hot. In all day big packed his equipment sprawling lay face downward against the wall. Nick looked straight ahead brilliantly. The pink wall of the house opposite had fallen out from the roof and an iron bedstead hung twisted toward the street. Two Austrian dead lay in the rubble in the shade of the house. Up the street were other dead. Things were getting forward in the town. It was going well. CHAPTER VIII While the bombardment was knocking the trench to pieces at Falsalta, he lay very flat and sweat it and prayed, O Jesus Christ, get me out of here, dear Jesus, please get me out, Christ, please, please, please, Christ, if you'll only keep me from getting killed I'll do anything you say. I believe in you and I'll tell everyone in the world that you are the only thing that matters. Please, please, dear Jesus, the shelling moved further up the line. We went to work on the trench and in the morning the sun came up and the day was hot and muggy and cheerful and quiet. The next night back at Maestres he did not tell the girl he went upstairs with at the Villa Rosa about Jesus and he never told anybody. CHAPTER IX Add two o'clock in the morning two Hungarians got into a cigar store at 15th Street and Grand Avenue. Dravitz and Boyle drove up from the 15th Street police station in a ford. The Hungarians were backing their wagon out of an alley. Boyle shot one off the seat of the wagon and one out of the wagon box. Dravitz got frightened when he found they were both dead. Hell, Jimmy, you oughtn't have done it. There's liable to be a hell of a lot of trouble. They're crooks, ain't they, said Boyle. They're whops, ain't they? Who the hell is going to make any trouble? That's all right, maybe. This time, said Dravitz. But how do you know they were whops when you bumped them? Whops, said Boyle. They can tell whops a mile off. CHAPTER IX One hot evening in Milan they carried him up onto the roof and he could look out over the top of the town. There were chimney swifts in the sky. After a while it got dark and the searchlights came out. The others went down and took the bottles with them. He and Ag could hear them below on the balcony. Ag sat on the bed. She was cool and fresh in the hot night. Ag stayed on night duty for three months. They were glad to let her. When they operated on him, she prepared him for the operating table, and they had a joke about friend or enema. He went under the anesthetic, holding tight onto himself so that he would not blab about anything during the silly talky time. After he got on crutches, he used to take the temperature so Ag would not have to get up from the bed. There were only a few patients, and they all knew about it. They all liked Ag. As he walked back along the halls, he thought of Ag in his bed. Before he went back to the front, they went into the domo and prayed. It was dim and quiet. There were other people praying. They wanted to get married, but there was not enough time for the bands, and neither of them had birth certificates. They felt as though they were married, but they wanted everyone to know about it, and to make it so they could not lose it. Ag wrote him many letters that he never got until after the Amasist. Fifteen came in a bunch, and he sorted them by the dates, and read them all straight through. They were about the hospital and about how much she loved him and how it was impossible to get along without him and how terrible it was missing him at night. After the Amasist they agreed he should go home to get a job so they might be married. Ag would not come home until he had a good job and could come to New York to meet her. He was understood he would not drink any, did not want to see his friends or anyone in the States, only to get a job and be married. On the train from Padova to Milan they quarreled about her not being willing to come home at once. When they had to say goodbye in the station at Padova they kissed goodbye, but were not finished with the quarrel. He felt sick about saying goodbye like that. He went to America on a boat from Genoa. Ag went back to Torre de Mosta, dope in a hospital. It was lonely and rainy there, and there was a battalion of Artiti quartered in the town, living in the muddy, rainy town in the winter, the major of the battalion made love to Ag, and she had never known a town before, and finally wrote a letter to the States that theirs had been only a boy and girl affair. She was sorry and she knew he would probably not be able to understand, but might some day forgive her and be grateful to her. She expected, absolutely unexpectedly, to be married in the spring. She loved him as always, but she realized now that it was only a boy and girl love. She hoped he would have a great career, and believed in him absolutely. She knew it was for the best. The major did not marry her in the spring, or any other time. Ag never got an answer to her letter to Chicago about it, a short time after he contracted gonorrhea from a sales girl from the fair, riding in a taxi cab through Lincoln Park. Chapter 11 In 1919 he was traveling on the railroads in Italy, carrying a square of oil cloth from the headquarters of the party, written in indelible pencil, and saying here was a comrade who had suffered very much under the whites in Budapest, and requesting comrades to aid him in any way. He used this instead of a ticket. He was very shy and quite young, and the trained men passed him on from one crew to another. He had no money and they fed him behind the counter in railway eating houses. He was delighted with Italy. It was a beautiful country, he said. The people were all kind. He had been in many towns, walked much, and seen many pictures, Giotto, Massaccio, and Piero della Francesca he bought reproductions of, and carried them wrapped in a copy of Alvante, Montegna he did not like. He reported at Bologna, and I took him with me up into the Romagna, where it was necessary I go to see a man. We had a good trip together. It was early September and the country was pleasant. He was a my-guard, a very nice boy and very shy. Horthy's men had done some bad things to him. He talked about it a little. In spite of Italy, he believed all together in the world revolution. But how is the movement going in Italy? He asked. Very badly, I said. But it will go better, he said. You have everything here. It is the one country that everyone is sure of. It will be the starting point of everything. At Bologna he said goodbye to us to go on to the train to Malamo, and then to Ajusta, to walk over the pass into Switzerland. I spoke to him about the Montegnas in Milano. No, he said very shyly he did not like Montegna. I wrote out for him where to eat in Milano and the addresses of comrades. He thanked me very much, but his mind was already looking forward to walking over the pass. He was very eager to walk over the pass while the weather held good. The last I heard of him, the Swiss had him in jail near Sion, end of Chapter 11. Chapter 12 of In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway. This Librivox recording is in the public domain. Chapter number 12. They whack-whacked the white horse on the legs, and he kneaded himself up. The picador twisted the stirrup straight and pulled and hauled up into the saddle. The horse's entrails hung down in a blue bunch and swung backward and forward as he began to canter the monos wacky him on the back of his legs with the rods. He cantered jerkily along the barreira. He stopped stiff, and one of the monos held his bridle and walked him forward. The picador kicked in his spurs, leaned forward and shook his lance at the bolt. Blood pumped regularly from between the horse's front legs. He was nervously wobbly. The bull could not make up his mind to charge. End of Chapter 12. Chapter 13 of In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway. This Librivox recording is in the public domain. Chapter number 13. The crowd shouted all the time and threw pieces of bread down into the ring, then cushions and leather wine bottles, keeping up whistling and yelling. Suddenly the bull was too tired from so much bad sticking and folded his knees and lay down, and one of the quadriga leaned out over his neck and killed him with a pontillo. The crowd came over the barreira and around the torero, and two men grabbed him and held him, and someone cut off his pigtail and was waving it, and a kid grabbed it and ran away with it. Afterwards I saw him at the café. He was very short with a brown face and quite drunk. When he said, after all it has happened before like that, I am not really a good bullfighter. End of Chapter 13. Chapter 14 of In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway. This Librivox recording is in the public domain. Chapter number 14. If it happened right down close in front of you, you could see the old snarl at the bull and curse him, and when the bull charged he swung back firmly like an out when the wind hits it. His legs tight together, the muleta trailing and the sword following the curve behind, then he cursed the bull, flopped the muleta at him, and swung back from the charge, his feet firm, the muleta curving, and each swing the crowd roaring. When he started to kill it was all in the same rush, the bull looking at him straight in front, hating. He drew out the sword from the folds of the muleta and sighted it with the same movement, and called to the bull, Toro, Toro, and the bull charged and the muleta charged and just for a moment it became one, the muleta became one with the bull, and then it was over. The muleta standing straight in the red hilt of the sword sticking out dully between the bull's shoulders. The muleta's hand up at the crowd and the bull roaring blood, looking straight at the muleta and his legs caving. End of Chapter 14 Chapter 15 of In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway. This Lieberbach recording is in the public domain. Chapter 15 I heard the drums coming down the street and then the fives and the pipes and then they came around the corner all dancing, the street full of them. My era saw him and I saw him. When they stopped the music for the crouch she hunched down in the street with them all and when they started again he jumped up and went dancing down the street with them. He was drunk all right. You go down after him, said my era. He hates me. So I went down and caught up with him and grabbed him while he was crouching down waiting for the music to break loose and said, come on, Luis. For Christ's sake, you've got bulls this afternoon. He didn't listen to me. He was listening so hard for the music to start. I said, don't be a damn fool, Luis. Come on back to the hotel. Then the music started up again and he jumped up and twisted away from me and started dancing. I grabbed his arm and he pulled loose and said, oh, leave me alone. You're not my father. I went back to the hotel and my arrow was on the balcony looking out to see if I'd be bringing him back. He went inside when he saw me and came downstairs disgusted. Well, I said after all, he's just an ignorant Mexican savage. Yes, my era said. And who will kill his bulls after he gets a cojita? We, I suppose, I said. Yes, we said my era. We killed the savage's bulls and the drunkard's bulls and the Riau Riau dancer's bulls. Yes, we killed them. We killed them all right. Yes. Yes. Yes. End of chapter 15. Chapter 16 of In our Time by Ernest Hemingway, The sleeper vahks recording is in the public domain. Chapter number 16. My arrow lay still, his head on his arms, his face in the sand. He felt warm and sticky from the bleeding. Each time he felt the horn coming, Sometimes the bull only bumped him with his head. Once the horn went all the way through him, and he felt it go into the sand. Someone had the bull by the tail. He was swearing at him and flopping the cape in his face. Then the bull was gone. Some men picked Myera up and started to run with him toward the barriers through the gate, out the passageway around under the grandstand to the infirmary. They laid Myera down on a cot, and one of the men went out for the doctor. The other stood around. The doctor came running from the corral where he had been sewing up picador horses. He had to stop and wash his hands. There was great shouting going on in the grandstand overhead. Myera wanted to say something and found he could not talk. Myera felt everything getting larger and larger and then smaller and smaller. Then it got larger and larger and larger and then smaller and smaller. Then everything commenced to run faster and faster as when they speed up a cinema to graph film. Then he was dead. End of Chapter 16. Chapter 17 of In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter 17 They hanged Sam Cartonella at six o'clock in the morning in the corridor of the county jail. The corridor was high and narrow with tiers of cells on either side. All the cells were occupied. The men had been brought in for the hanging. Five men sentenced to be hanged were in the five top cells. Three of the men to be hanged were Negroes. They were very frightened. One of the white men sat on his cot with his head in his hands. The other lay flat on his cot with a blanket wrapped around his head. They came out onto the gallows through the door on the wall. There were six or seven of them, including two priests. They were carrying Sam Cartonella. He had been like that since about four o'clock in the morning. While they were strapping his legs together, two guards held him up, and the two priests were whispering to him, "'Be a man, my son,' said one priest. When they came toward him with a cap to go over his head, Sam Cartonella lost control of his fictor muscle. The guards who had been holding him up dropped him. They were both disgusted. "'How about a chair, will?' asked one of the guards. "'Better get one,' said a man in a derby hat. When they all stepped back on the scaffolding, back of the drop, which was very heavy, built to vogue and steel, and swung on ball bearings, Sam Cartonella was left sitting there, strapped tight, the younger of the two priests kneeling beside the chair. The priests skipped back onto the scaffolding just before the drop fell. Chapter 18 The king was working in the garden. He seemed very glad to see me. We walked through the garden. This is the queen, he said. She was clipping a rose bush. "'Oh, how do you do?' she said. We sat down at a table under a big tree, and the king ordered whiskey and soda. "'We have good whiskey,' anyway,' he said. The revolutionary committee, he told me, would not allow him to go outside the palace grounds. "'Plus Tirres is a very good man,' I believe,' he said, but frightfully difficult. I think he did right through shooting those chaps. If Kurinsky had shot a few men, things might have been altogether different. Of course, the great thing in this sort of affair is not to be shot oneself. It was very jolly. We talked for a long time, like all Greeks he wanted to go to America. End of Chapter 18 End of In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway