Item - A Peasant Hero

(New York Weekly edition - source: Stanford Libraries)

(The Chicago Ledger edition - source: Digital Library @ Villanova University)

Combined Summary

Online Full Text:	Digital Library @ Villanova University (The Chicago Ledger edition) Stanford Digital Repository (New York Weekly edition)
Series:	The Chicago Ledger — v. 32 no. 29 New York Weekly — v. 33 no. 48 — page 4
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Author:	Ker, David, 1842-1914
Dates:	October 14, 1878 (New York Weekly edition) July 16, 1904 (The Chicago Ledger edition)
First Sentence:	It was a fine summer evening, many years ago, when an old man sat at the door of his little hut in one of the villages of northern Russia, watching his children at their play, and thanking God in his heart that the cruel wars were over at last, and that fire, and hunger, and bloodshed, could no longer run riot on Russian ground. (The Chicago Ledger edition) It was a fine summer evening in 1613, when an old man sat at the door of his little hut in one of the villages of northern Russia, watching his children at their play, and thanking God in his heart that the cruel wars were over at last, and that fire, and hunger, and bloodshed, could no longer run riot on Russian ground. (New York Weekly edition)
Last Sentence:	And to this day, the men of Susanin's native town point with pride to the statue in peasant dress that stands in their market-place, and tell the traveler that this is the man who gave his life for the Czar. (The Chicago Ledger edition) And to this day, the men of Susanin's native town point with pride to the statue in peasant dress that stands in their market-place, and tell the traveler that this the is man [sic] who gave his life for the Czar. (New York Weekly edition)