Hungary . weight, which made a welcome addition toour scanty fare. A few four and five pounders weresaid to be in the water, but they never rose to myfly, and I saw no sign of them. If they ever existed,they must have offered irresistible temptation to theGipsies, who could have sold them in the watering-places for a high price. Meanwhile my wife—as we could find nothing inthe nature of a studio—was painting in a smallCatholic church, where service was held but once afortnight by a visiting priest. He had most kindlyplaced it at her disposition. Children collected andremained all day peering t
Hungary . weight, which made a welcome addition toour scanty fare. A few four and five pounders weresaid to be in the water, but they never rose to myfly, and I saw no sign of them. If they ever existed,they must have offered irresistible temptation to theGipsies, who could have sold them in the watering-places for a high price. Meanwhile my wife—as we could find nothing inthe nature of a studio—was painting in a smallCatholic church, where service was held but once afortnight by a visiting priest. He had most kindlyplaced it at her disposition. Children collected andremained all day peering through each keyhole andcrevice, but fled when the door was opened, and didno harm. I either painted from our windows or went farafield—till harvesting called all but Gipsies to theland—and so things gradually settled down. But an election was at hand, and stirring timeswere coming. The first symptom of them arrived A ROAD IN THE CARPATHIANS Peasant woman carrying her baby in the basketon her VAZSECZ AND A PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION 5B early one morning, in the form of a telegram froman agent: Prepare dinner for ten to-morrow, at ten oclock did our landlady discover thatthis had been despatched the previous day. Notime was to be lost; in two hours the guests wouldbe there, and next to nothing was in the house ! Frau Deutsch was a clever woman, a woman ofresource, who rose to the occasion with the spirit ofher race. It was hay-time, and every able-bodiedSlovak, man, woman, and child, had left the started at once, with a maidservant, on araiding expedition to her neighbours yards, and erelong had wrung the necks of a dozen of theirplumpest fowls. The astutest poacher among theGipsies was summoned, and the order given, Troutfor ten within an hour. At twelve oclock the company assembled ; dinnerwas ready, and Frau Deutsch came up smiling, as ifnothing unusual had happened. The following Sunday we drove to Vychodna, aneighbouring village, in a springl
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