[People were frightened and brought everything the authorities demanded as a tax. Corn cobs dumped in huge heaps heated quickly, at first the warm steam started going from them, later dense malodorous fog beclouded the entire field from Ivanchenko's grinding mill to Aleynikov's church. Piles of golden cobs turned into greenish brown rotting stuff.]
Passers-by were surprised at huge heaps of rotting corn. "They took it out of our children's mouths and dumped here to rot...