Hungary (1909) (14760940166) - Public domain book illustration

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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audi %u Ungarn gehbrt (Once that alsobelonged to Hungary). And, among others, was the respectable cashierof the bank, who cashed my cheques by order ofhis chiefs, but could never overcome his suspicionthat there was something wrong about my cheque-book. The Engineer had an Assistant who was relatedto the Steward on a \2iVge pitszta belonging to thearchbishopric, situated about an hours drive fromKalocsa when the roads were good—as, indeed,they generally were, except during the wet autumnof our first year—and we frequently went theretogether to shoot in the maize-fields. All those who held good appointments from theArchbishop might send to the Palace stables forcarriages when they required them in his service,and were often allowed them for expeditions ontheir own account. There were many of thesecarriages, but I noticed that they varied in smart-ness with the rank of the applicant. The Engineerhimself w^ould not have been happy in the chariot YOUNG GIRL OF ZSDJAR IN SUNDAYCLOTHES
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KALOCSA, AND ACROSS CROATIA TO FIUME 153 in which his Assistant and I were overjoyed todrive to that most hospitable puszta on many afine Sunday morning in the fall of the year. On arriving we were always most cordially madewelcome: a light lunch was immediately served;another carriage—or two or three, according to thesize of the party—was brought round, and then,with dogs and guns, we drove across the opencountry to the place chosen for shooting. Generallywe walked up our game—hares, partridges, andquails—through the maize, which in some placeswas eight or ten feet high, in others only three orfour; and trying work it was on a hot day. Butthe reward was great when a carriage, bringingwine and mineral waters, met us at the far endof a large field, and relieved us of the game wewere carrying. On great occasions, when the Steward hadcome out from Kalocsa, and a large enoughnumber of guns were present, driving was practisedin this way. A strip of maize was chosen, perhapshalf a m