Two Little Lizards

“They say our field was put up by the treasury. Back then there were no factories in these places yet. With a fight they went in. Well, the treasury — you know. Soldiers were sent. The village of Gorny Shchit was built on purpose so the road would be safe. On the Humes, you see, in those days visible wealth lay on the surface — and that’s what they gathered at. They reached it, of course. They brought in people, set up a factory, brought in some Germans, but it didn’t work out. Didn’t, and didn’t. Either the Germans didn’t want to show anything, or they themselves didn’t know — I can’t explain it. Just the Humes were left without attention. They took ore from another mine, and that one wasn’t worth much work — entirely pointless, a skinny little mine. With that you won’t set up a good factory. That’s when our Polevaya ended up with Turchaninov…”