The English Illustrated Magazine 1888
The soldiers were armed with muskets, Yanosik only had his hatchet. As they fired he caught the bullets in his hand and threw them in the soldiers’ faces (for a bullet could never hit him). Then he cried ” Chop, hatchet ! ” Upon which his hatchet chopped down some of [...]
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