About midnight
When all was quiet , he began for his amusement to pretend that he was drunk , and acted the part of Slimak or the Soltys in turns . He talked in a tearful voice like Grochowski : ` Do n't make a hell of your house , brother ... ' and in order to make it more real he tried to make himself cry . At first he did not succeed , but when he remembered his foot , and that he was the most miserable creature , and the gospodyni had n't even given him a glass of vodka , the tears ran freely from his eyes , until he too went to sleep . About midnight Slimak awoke , cold and wet , for it had begun to rain . Gradually his aching head remembered the Soltys , the cow , the barley soup and the large bottle of vodka . What had become of the vodka ? He was not quite certain on this point , but he was quite sure that the soup had disagreed with him .