Hungary . We had been there a fortnight. At first thehotel was nearly empty, but as the weather im-proved more guests arrived to stay, and when itwas fine noisy crowds swarmed up by the funicularrailway for the day. They overran the woods, andscreamed and splashed, in vermilion iron boats,about the beautiful lake. There was no longerany peace. When working out of doors I was in-variably discovered and watched. In the crowdedrestaurant overworked waiters flung food beforeus, and could not stay for orders, and the Gipsyband was loud and bad. About two hours from Csorba-to by an easymountain path
Hungary . We had been there a fortnight. At first thehotel was nearly empty, but as the weather im-proved more guests arrived to stay, and when itwas fine noisy crowds swarmed up by the funicularrailway for the day. They overran the woods, andscreamed and splashed, in vermilion iron boats,about the beautiful lake. There was no longerany peace. When working out of doors I was in-variably discovered and watched. In the crowdedrestaurant overworked waiters flung food beforeus, and could not stay for orders, and the Gipsyband was loud and bad. About two hours from Csorba-to by an easymountain path is another lake, on about the samelevel. It Ues beautifully situated among the moun-tains, its steep rocky shores clothed with pines, Asmall restaurant is there, from which may be seenmany trout in the clear water; but fishing isforbidden. Besides following marked paths through theforest, we sometimes ventured to make a bee-linefor some peak that attracted us. This invariably V BIRCHES AT LUCSIVNA-FURDO. FROM ORSOVA TO THE TATRA 45 led us among krumholz, or creeping fir, whichproved an insuperable barrier, for to get through itis one of the most fatiguing things several occasions during these excursions wecame across roe-deer, and game-birds resemblingour black game, but somewhat larger. In the Tatra the air is fresh and defined clouds move across blue skies byday, and at sunset the great mountain formationsstand sharply silhouetted against an intense scent of pines is everywhere. To many of us pine-forests, with their longserrated edges, and individual trees, each verymuch resembling the rest, are at first unsym-pathetic, but by the dwellers in Central andSouthern Europe they are beloved. For themthey mean health and holidays. As the seasideand salt sea-breezes have from childhood beento us, so for them are pine-clad slopes and thedelicious air of mountain regions. In the hot Hungarian summer crowds come upto the Tatra from the sul
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