The land beyond the forest; facts, figures, and fancies from Transylvania . ancient armourer who couldnot possibly demean himself by mending a simplemodern pudding-mould. We unfortunate strangers, bootless, gloveless,coatless, and puddingless, as we were in thosedays, had a very hard time of it indeed whilethis national fever was at its height, and keenlyfelt the terrible disadvantage of not having beenborn as ancient Saxons. At last, however, thepreparations were complete, and forgetting ourprivations, we were fain to acknowledge the sightto be one of the most curious and exceptional wehad ev
The land beyond the forest; facts, figures, and fancies from Transylvania . ancient armourer who couldnot possibly demean himself by mending a simplemodern pudding-mould. We unfortunate strangers, bootless, gloveless,coatless, and puddingless, as we were in thosedays, had a very hard time of it indeed whilethis national fever was at its height, and keenlyfelt the terrible disadvantage of not having beenborn as ancient Saxons. At last, however, thepreparations were complete, and forgetting ourprivations, we were fain to acknowledge the sightto be one of the most curious and exceptional wehad ever witnessed. The old - fashioned streetsmade a fitting background for this medieval page-ant, in which peasants and burghers, on foot andon horseback ; groups of maidens, quaintly attired,plying the distaff as they went along; German SAXON HISTORICAL FEAST—LEGEND. 49 matrons, with jewelled head-dresses and cunninglywrought golden girdles ; gaily ornamented chariots,bearing the fruits of the field or the trophies of thechase,—passed us in solemn procession; while on. Mounted Peasants from the Historical Procession. a sylvan stage erected in the depths of the old oakforest, a simple but moving drama set forth thewords and actions of the forefathers of those veryactors—the German colonists who, seven hundredyears previously, had come hither to seek a home in the wild Hungarian forests. VOL. I. D 50 THE BEYOND I hi: FOREST. The costumes and procession bad been arrasby native artists, and as a work of art, no doublmany parts of the performance were open to criti-cism. Some of our fashionable painters would assuredly have turned sick and faint at sight ofthe unfortunate combinations of colouring whichfrequently marred the effect of otherwise correctlyarranged costumes. Whoever has lived in large © © towns must have seen such things better done,over and over again; but what gave this festivala unique stamp of originality, not to be attainedby an}- amount of mere artisti
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