Hungary . en they spoke he thought they wereScandinavians. This having been related, an opportunity wasafforded to the Professor. Why, he said, inillustration of the difficulty, in England a manmay spell his name Boz, and it is pronounced Dickens. I believe you are capable of writing Babylon, and calling it Cairo ! Sometimes stories were told of a famous CardinalHaynald—friend of Liszt and Munkacsy—who afew years previously had been Archbishop ofKalocsa. In all respects a gi^and seigneur, hismemory was still revered. One of the storieswas this : He was once persuaded to preside ata general mee
Hungary . en they spoke he thought they wereScandinavians. This having been related, an opportunity wasafforded to the Professor. Why, he said, inillustration of the difficulty, in England a manmay spell his name Boz, and it is pronounced Dickens. I believe you are capable of writing Babylon, and calling it Cairo ! Sometimes stories were told of a famous CardinalHaynald—friend of Liszt and Munkacsy—who afew years previously had been Archbishop ofKalocsa. In all respects a gi^and seigneur, hismemory was still revered. One of the storieswas this : He was once persuaded to preside ata general meeting of ladies who devoted theirlives to philanthropical work in various parts ofHungary. Eager and excited in their endeavoursto further the particular interests they represented,they soon ceased to observe the ordinary rules ofdebate. The great Cardinal slowly arose and ranghis bell. When silence was restored, Ladies, saidhe, it is advisable, in the interest of the cause you A PAPRIKA-SELLER, KALOCSA. KALOCSA: A MAGYAR CATHEDRAL TOWN 121 all have at heart, that not more than five of youspeak at once. The dear old lady who was the Engineersmother sometimes spoke of bygone times. In heryouth she lived in a small county town in SouthHungary. No railways were there then—wherenow four lines meet—and she described how herparents would take their whole family away in alarge covered cart on a visit to relations, travellingoften eight or ten hours a day for two or threedays. There were seats in front for the elders, butthe back part of the cart was thickly strewn withstraw, in which the younger children used to playor lie asleep in comfort. The whole journey wasa pleasant outing when the roads were not tooheavy. Several of the men belonging to the Engineersset always went for their morning walk, to 9 oclock, up and down the High Street,and nowhere else. Many others took the air thereat the same time, and endless were the raisingsof hats and the greetings, Aldszolgdja,
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