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Show In Hungary". After a comfortable breakla.it under tbe eliadow of a lime-tree, lime-tree, like ours at Schoeuhausen, I goi into a very low peajant cart filled with sacks of straw, and with three horses (rom tho steppes in front; the lancers loaded their carbines, mounted, and away v e went at a rattling gallop. Hildebraud and t Hungarian valel-de-place on Ihe trout Etrawsack, and the coachman, adark t brown-colortd peasant, with moue-itache, moue-itache, broad-brimmed hat, long black I hair shining with bacon-fat, a shirt which falls short ol tbe Btomacb and permits the view of a hand-breadth belt of the owner's own dark bro'D ekiu, cut off by tbe white trousers, ol wnich each leg is wide enough for woman's petticoat, aud which reach down lo the knees, where tbe spurred boots commence. Imagine turf firm and level as a table, on which (oj miles one sees, as lar as the horizon, nothing but the high, bare trees, at tbe draw-wells, dug for half-wild horses aud oxen, thousands of whitish-gray oxen, with horn i . nr,A shy as deer; ragged, Bet dy-looking horses, herded by mounted, halt-naked halt-naked shepherds, armed with lance-IiltG lance-IiltG slicks; endless herds of pigs, among which invariably a donkey carrying the fur coat Ounda) of the shepherd, and occasionally hinuell; also large flocks of bustards, hares, mice-like marmiots; occasionally, near a pond of brackish vraLT, wild geese, dinks and plovere. Such were the objects which, during tho three hours which-we took for a thirty-five miles' drive to KetsketuRt, (lew past us and we past them, with a short halt at a Csarda (lonely inc.) Bismarck's Bis-marck's Letters. |