One of the guards soon took action and worked over the men with the butt of his rifle to make them get up quickly.
The more to the front of the column you were, the less often you were disturbed by having to stop
and then to make up for lost time by running on your painful feet.
I was very happy to be the personally appointed physician to His Honor the Capo, and to march in the first row at an even pace.
As an additional payment for my services, I could be sure that as long as soup was being dealt out at lunchtime at our work site,
he would, when my turn came, dip the ladle right to the bottom of the vat and fish out a few peas.
This Capo, a former army officer, even had the courage to whisper to the foreman,
whom I had quarreled with, that he knew me to be an unusually good worker.
That didn’t help matters, but he nevertheless managed to save my life (one of the many times it was to be saved).
The day after the episode with the foreman he smuggled me into another work party.
There were foremen who felt sorry for us and who did their best to ease our situation, at least at the building site.
But even they kept on reminding us that an ordinary laborer did several times as much work as we did, and in a shorter time.
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