Identifier: hungary00stok (find matches)
Title: Hungary
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Stokes, Adrian, 1854-1935 Stokes, Marianne
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Publisher: London : A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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est whoedited the Kalocsa weekly newspaper. A highlyeulogistic article appeared in it, and our reputationswere made ! The glamour of the Prelates protec-tion being over us, our position as persons of thehighest respectability was also soon established. Our modest lodgings (none more magnificentwere obtainable had we desired them) were situatedat the least fashionable end of the town—thatfarthest from the Cathedral—and not far fromsome sandy stretches of waste ground which formedone of the most fascinating painting-grounds I haveever known. There were many shallow pools ofwater on them, and willows and tall spreadingpoplars, which composed in an endless variety ofinteresting forms. The sandy ground was fine intone, and the scanty vegetation on it just right.The sunsets and their reflections were often mag-nificent. Unfortunately, it was an extremely wetseason, but whenever I could venture out I used togo and sketch there. We were told afterwards that ON THE WASTE LANDS NEAR KALOCSA
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KALOCSA: A MAGYAR CATHEDRAL TOWN 117 many people who, from afar off, saw me at workthought I was crazy. Even the Prelate, whowalked with us to see the motives after my owtiheart which I had found, shook his head and smiledincredulously; for no one but pigs and the boyswho herded them had ever been known to loiter inthat dreary place before ! It was gratifpng for us when, later on, thework was shown, to find how heartily it wasadmired, and to think that our new acquamt-ances might be led by it to look more at placesand things hitherto considered to be beneath theirnotice. Several schoolboys also lodged at the ropemakers,in rooms farther up the court than ours. Theywere nice boys, always very well behaved and pohteto us. We used to pity them ; for, though one ortwo played \iolins, beyond that they seemed tohave no sort of recreation. It was sad to see themon half-holidays hanging about the front-door forhours at a time, ^\4th comrades from neighbouringlodgings; and to think how much hea

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