European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

To kill the pain the dentist told me to go and get a potato

from some peasant in village, grate it and put it onto the hurting tooth.

So before night shift I did this,

I bound a tissue around my face and placed myself not right on the street

but near it, so that I could see who was coming and going.

So while I was sitting there I started to think about my youth,

my family that I'd left, about this and that.

The potato must have worked, I'd felt bad for some days because of the pain

and so I fell asleep.

There was the commander of the "Cervi" group, Arturo Gambuzzi,

there was Trolli that had come for a meeting,

there were a few other heads of unit,

they went to the hotel that was near the Cerreto pass.

After they'd ended the meeting they went down to the detachment

where I was and I must have been sleeping quite heavily because I didn't hear them.

So they started to shout: "Where is the sentinel? Where is the sentinel?

Isn't there supposed to be a sentinel here? Why is noone here?

Is this an area you can leave without a sentinel?"

So when they came closer i woke up and said:

"It's me, I'm here. My tooth aches ..." "Ok", they said, "let's talk about it tomorrow".