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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was hilly, andin the distance was to be seen a spur of the Car-pathians with Mount Gutin as its main feature.Maize grew in many of the fields, willows and tallpoplars bordered the highroad, and orchards sur-rounded the thatched white cottages. Below thevillage—about a quarter of a mile—a charmingriver flowed by island copse and mill, sometimesstreaming over rocks and stones. This was spannedto the island by a primitive bridge, some fifty feetlong, which was composed of one tree-trunk thatdivided into two branches two-thirds of the wayacross. It had no sort of handrail, nor had theshorter log which sloped steeply up from the islandto the top of a huge rock on the far side. For usit was a giddy adventure to cross, the water rush-ing and curling underneath ; but the peasants wentover with perfect ease and confidence, and Gyorgywas fond of dancing in the middle. One day,seeing my wifes hesitation to make the attempt, ason of the Notary led her to a broad place higher A WOMAN OF DESZE
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DESZE, OTHER PLACES, AND A SALT-MINE 229 up the river where the water reached no higherthan the knees, and then gallantly took off his ownboots for her to wade in, while he, barefooted,helped her over the sharp stones and carried herdry shoes. A favourite resort of the Notarys children was abench before the house of the gendarme, where wesometimes joined them after work to see what wasto be seen ; for everything passed by there—buffaloes, oxen, cows, calves, pigs, dogs, geese,besides men, women and children in Rumaniancostume. Each woman wore a long white garment ofcoarse linen and two thick aprons, in colourreddish-purple, with horizontal orange stripes,which hung down, one in front, one behind, fittingclosely to the loins. The shoes, of one piece ofleather, were turned up and pointed and lacedacross the instep, the laces continuing round thelinen bands protecting the legs. The head-dresswas a handkerchief, generally black. The men,whose hair was very long and black, were dressedin

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