The Poor Plutocrats

vant always ready to fly obediently to accomplish each separate command, and with different glasses and porcelain for each several course at meals-would your ladyship believe, I ask, that there are pe

for all that

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e enough of them and to spare in this very place. Your ladyship can hear from your balcony the melancholy song

f every increase belongs to him; nobody enquires how he lives there among his herds in the lofty mountain-passes, how he defends himself agai

ps we shall hear something more about him some other time, for his life has bee

ular[25] who had scraped together a lot of gold out of a mining vent

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l was she that her fame had spread through the Hungarian plain as far as Arad, and whenever great folks from foreign lands came to see Gyenstar and Brivadia they

n the tale, that once when he was tending his flocks Juon heard a painful groaning in the hollow of a rock, and, venturing in, perceived lying in one corner a she-bear who, mortally injured in some distant hunt, had contrived to drag its lacerated body hither to die. Beside the old she-bear lay a little suckling cub. The mother dying before his very eyes, Juon had compassion on the desolate cub, took it under his protection, and carried it to a milch-goat, who suckled it. The little wild beast thrived upon the milk of the tame animal and, softened by human fellowship, grew up much attached to its master. Bears, I may tell your ladyship, are not bloodthirsty by nature. Henceforth the bear went forth with the herdsman and the herds, helped to drive the goats together of an evening, and enlivened the long dreary days by turning somer

as the man bel

lady, there is an original pop

mit the live-long day, blowing on his alpenstock, while the bear was plucking strawberries in the valley below and guarding the goats, not from running away, but from other wild beasts. The prospect from this spot is really subli

bread-bakers come thither from Rezbanya and Topanfalu with their horses dragging loads of honey-cakes, and barrels full of meal and brandy

in front of them. All these things they unpack and arrange in rows in front of the tents, just as at an ordinary fair; and then the purchasers come along, jaunty, connubially-inclined young fellows, who inspect the dowries, engage the wenches in conversation, and chaffer and haggle and go away agai

, Calugaru, mo

e necessarily far away from one another-how else could they tend their herds?-even the nearest neighbours being a good stiff half

m all the pride of riches. But her father Misule would not on any account have neglected the opportunity of exhibiting his daughter, during the pilgrimage to Geina, as the most lovely girl

and coloured kerchiefs fluttering from every horse and every cap. The comrades drank together and then had a little rumpus also. Tobicza broke the heads

e nice to get a kiss from Mariora. But the girl

ask for you, I suppose

ly confessed tha

girdle, the bottom of which was choke full of ducats, and whirling it round his head like a morning-star[27] he turned forestwards and roared: 'Come hither, tattered Juon, thou ragged dog! 'Tis now maiden-market day if you want

spike

n the crowd rushed away from their tents to their horses, overturning barrels and trunks as they went, the women scr

ing his revenge. In an instant every soul rushed headlong from the summit of Geina into the roads below, leaving behind bride, dowry and drinking booth; so that when the b

Juon from overtaking him. But Juon, snatching it up, whirled it round like a sling and threw it with all his might after his rival, exclaiming: 'There

in the forest. And when she said: 'Yes,' he kissed her again and took her with him into the free forest without once looki

avoc in a mild sort of way, among the

ho has nothing in the world but her husband, but