What a wonderful city! In the summer opera singers sing on the Dome Square, you can throw a few coins into their chapel.
But rats! There is no life from them.
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My old friend Leo greeted me warmly and with beer. He told me about his possessions in Vidzeme.
"When are you writing a story about me? Story About Leo, it would be best title," He kept asking me for, and he was grieved, "How could you lose the previous edition, how could you!"
"Well, you see, it just so happened that your Archbishop was wildly writing decrees about deportation, and I had to get out of there quickly," I justified myself as best I could, although there was simply no room in the cart when I fled from Riga, "The manuscripts had to be abandoned in the attic."