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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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getables, hemp, etc. Anindustrious peasant can live modestly but com-fortably, and put by, out of the yearly produc-tion of his land. But then there are also somevery rich peasants, and I know many whopossess over 2000 acres of land, and hundredsof cattle, and carry 4000/. or 5000/. cash aboutthem, and yet who still till their o\vn soil. Theyare very industrious, and young and old get upearly in the morning and go to work in the fields.Thewáfe stays at home to look after the house-hold and to cook the dinner for the family, whichshe carries about noon to the fields. The onlyones left to guard the house entirely are thevery old people who are too infirm to work.A village and town in the Alföld do not muchdiffer in appearance. You will often find avillage almost as large as a town, and, on theother hand, you might often mistake a town fora village. In addition to the towns alreadyreferred to, some of the places, such asSzabadka, Hód-Mezö-Vásárhely, Szentes, and lAH^Jt ■ M ^ -iL.
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to c5 Towns 7iot differing from Villages. 137 Csaba, which vary in inhabitants from 30 to60,000, might by the construction of theirhouses be taken for villages. All the housesare built in the same way without any archi-tectural pretensions. Of course you will seenow and again a sort of superior residenceinhabited by gentry, clergy, or governmentofficials, but these only differ in size and not inarchitecture from the rest, and possess tiled inplace of thatched roofs. The streets in thesetowns are generally very broad and irregular.The shops, too, do not contain any large dis-play beyond agricultural implements and otherarticles required for farming purposes. Anexception, however, must be made in the caseof Szeged (which was swept away entirely someyears ago by an inundation, and is now oneof the prettiest towns in Hungary). Furthernorth, Debreczen and Nyíregyháza, which townswe shall have occasion to visit, will also be foundof interest. The territory belonging to some of thecommunit

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