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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five pacesseparated them ; * but I was better armed than he,poor beast, he concluded. I mentioned a gentlemanI knew who had lately gone up into those sameregions, twelve years in succession, without seeinga bear alive, though many of his companions hadbeen more fortunate. For instance, he had inviteda friend unaccustomed to big-game shooting toaccompany him, and four bears—two full-grownand two young ones—passed close to his friend,who was so overawed that he dared not shoot.Our Host said that was very easy to understand. Arelative of his, an officer and a hardened sportsman,had once—for some reason inexplicable to himself—failed to shoot at one great bear that approachedhim. On being rallied afterwards by his comradesin camp his temper was aroused, and he addressedthem thus : * I admit that for a moment I lost mynerve ; but if you doubt my courage, I am preparedto fight you in duel, one after another, with anyarms and under any conditions you may choose. SEGESVAk (SCHAFSBURG)
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TRANSYLVANIA 289 One day, on the conclusion of a beautiful walk—where from a hill-top we saw eleven ranges of hillsand mountains one behind the other—he took meto the house of an old keeper, who had been inhis service for twenty years, and there showed metwo skulls of very large bears which the keeperhad been instructed to shoot because they hadtaken to raiding farms. One of them killed a cowand then retired. The keeper climbed up into atree close by and waited until it returned, whenhe wounded it. He then returned home, armedhis wife with a gun, and the two together bravelytracked the animal, and found it dead. His Excellency related the following ghost story :When his uncle—a man of few words and thesternest veracity—was in the army, his regimentwas quartered near a castle at which a ghost wassaid to appear. The officers all requested thatthey might be allowed to sleep in turn in thehaunted chamber. Several of them, including theuncle in question, saw a figure shrouded in wh

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