Identifier: hungaryitspeople00felb (find matches)
Title: Hungary and its people: Magyarorzág és népei
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Felbermann, Louis
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Publisher: London, Griffith Farran
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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sh ér-men and fisherwomen catching the fish, inwhich the Tisza abounds, so much so thataccording to the Hungarian proverb, threeparts of the river are fish and one water. Themud huts on the shores from whence the smokeand flame are issuing, indicate that there areothers left behind to prepare the meals for thosewho are engaged in their daily labours. Theferry-boats, which by means of wire ropes crossand carry peasants, horses, cattle, loads of hay,etc., also add to the picturesque scene. Iwill append a Fishermans song by GáspárBernát, from Mr. E. D. Butlers Englishversion, entitled THE FISHER-LAD. Mine a lowland home, and mine a fishers lot:Here by banks of Tisza stands my humble cot.Come and rest, sweet maid; the fishers hut is near,Where, to greet and tend thee^ waits my mother dear. Dark the lowring clouds across the concave wend :Streaming showers of rain upon the plain descend.Drenched is all thy vesture, all thy auburn hair:Nipping winds have chilled thy snowy neck, my fair.
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PEASAxNT WOMEN IN THE TISZA (THEISS) DISTRICT, Page 258. ( The North-East of Hungary. 257 Nay, the clouds are parting ; brighter grows the day:Here remains my heart, »but I must haste away.Fare thee well! May Heavens best blessings rest on thee !Sometimes yet remember, sometimes think of me. But then it is not only in the daytim^ thatlife here is interesting; the evenings, too,have an equal charm, for the moon lights upthe whole expanse with its soft rays and indriving along the road you will find thepeople still busy at work. You will see thempiling up the apples in the orchards into moun-tain heights, and you will notice large burningfires where they either dry the plums, or makeLekvár (a sort of jam) or Szilvórium (brandydistilled from plums). At other parts you willsee the peasants assembled chatting in themelon fields, or vineyards, and, further on,perhaps a man who has got a little behindhandin his work finishing his cart-load of hay by thelight of the moon. It is a lovely pi

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