Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-28

might De Tranquil, ue NOu1u w Iuem no
harm; that in the future he would treat
them graciously. He specially praised
Mein Herr Stefan DobOsy for his resolute
and courageous conduct, and said he
would bear him no ill-will on account of
this skillful triumph. " Nay, more, should
he ever be in trouble let him come to me.
he can RELY upon my protection; and
should Mein Herr Stefan Dobosy ever
come to Grosswardein, he must certainly
find the Pacha's house; the Pacha would
certainly receive him more cordially than
he had been received by Dobosy."
So the Pacha turned back with all his
arnv and all his baggage to Grosswar-
dein. which was then the central post of
the Turkish power in Lower Hun gary
The DebTecZiners drew a long breath
after his departure; and everybody
praised the magistrate, who had shown all
his ten claws so plainly that the Turk had
beaten his retreat so quickly. But Kuzuk
Pacha had hardly come back to Gross
warden when he sent to Badrul Bey. the
chief of his black cavaly, and gave him
this order:
Tomorrow evening, as soon as it is
dark, start with 800 hOrsemen and ride at
your quickest to DiosZeg. Whoever Won
meet going out or coming in, ask him
what is the way to Gr0sskalo Ride on
that road yourself with your men. Keen on
till midnight So but then stop and break
across to a swampy meadow, where nobody
can track YOU. As soon as YOU have
passed the swamp and come out on the
upland you can pick what sheen and
oxen you choose from The herds. So keen
on till you come in sight of Leta. AS
soon as you see the towers of Leta cut
down your guide and take your whole
party into the thick woods there yourself.
In the woods you will find some charcoal
men or herdsmen; and you must make
them lead you through the forest, with
out showing yourselves till you come out
at the other end of it above Hadhaz. Then
put your guides out of the way again and
remain in your hiding place; stay there
day after day, though you should stay a
week; but never come back to me out Of
the woods until you see four or five hun
dred baggage-wagOns coming up from
TOkai The wagons will be crowded full
of lovely girls and women; they will
have with them some money and other
gold; and all these women YOU will bring
to me, down to the smallest brat. If there
should be anv men there cut them down
also and leave them. Whatever money
you find, divide among your soldiers.
But all the women and little folks YOU are
to bring to me at GrOssWardein. Under
stand what | say Your head is in your
own hands. Now take care of it''
Badrul Bey understood his orders and
started out. The negro chief was a good
man to trust with such a business. He
was a shifty fellow, who would push
through swamp or wood through the
whole Kingdom without once dismOunt-
ing from his horse; he never brought his
troops into camp without plenty of meat
and drink, and would carry out the order
given him without fail, to the cutting
down of every peasant boy that led him.
Now, Kuzuk Pacha could say to the
Debreczeners, Where is the joke now ?
Have you Outwitted me, or are you chuck
ling at me? You may have to laugh on
the other side of your mouths still :"
4 long line of country wagons is grind
ing along the highway from Tokaj to
Hadhaz 1t is the caravan from DebreC-
zin-fve hundred wagons, one behind
another crowded full of women and girls
not one man among them, nor boy BIG
enough to hold 4 whip! The women
were their own teamsters. All the men
folk they had in the party had their
hands bound tight in baby clothes; for
they We're only nursing babies. So many
women and SO many girls together, you
can guess what Chattering and crying
there was and what queer notions they
brought along the way with them. "Will
Master DOb0sy drive the Turks away
from the town? VIII he really brighten
them" That is all they have to talk
about as q whole week crawls by; and
out Of that their little hearts made fright
enough, / can tell you.
One of the wagons was full of young
girls who sang over and over again very
old song, which you may hear to this day
anywhere between the Thesis and Media:
Ny duckling dives down in the water,
All in The country of No Land;
For Nanny calls out to her daughter
All the way OF to Poland.
or another one would sing:
Where shall hide?
See, am tied =
Tied hand and foot
And in irons to boot.
This song was very much in fashion
then; God knows the poor Hungarian
sung 1t right from the bottom of his heart,
This time the girls sung it all through
their weary way; and their quivering
voices flung it up into the heavens so high
that the poor little larks hardly dared to
sing back again. When midday came,
the whole caravan rested under the edge
of the green mound which rose above the
broad puszta.% Who built up this mound
Are our bones in it, or somebody's else?
Probably only ours, because the whole re-
giOn round there is so very cold.
There was no village and no town III
the neighbOrhOod. Here and there you
would come on an open hamlet, what they
called "Tanya," surrounded by hay
stacks; and even these were very far apart.
There was no trace Of cultivated land; the
whole plain was given up to sheep and
to cattle.
But the Fata Morgana, " what the Hun
garians call "Delibab," and other peo
pie mirage"-that wonderful, fancitul
and many-colOred reflection in the air
which you may see on the steppes OF the
Eastern world and the prairies Of the
West-would bejuggle them every day by
showing its ravishing pictures on the
enormous plains of the Hungarian puszta.
Yet the people of those regions are so
much accustomed to them that they pay
no more attention to them than to Shad-
Ows in the sunshine. There might be the
sight of raging seas; but nobody would
think of going there to swim; or there
might be the sight OF broad forests; and
nobody would 90 there for shade. All the
cities and palaces which the Fata Nor
CANA" represent are images to which they
are all entirely accustomed; and nobody
pays any more thought to them than you
do to Peppers Ghost when you see 1t.
Just at this time the Delibab was every
morning in particularly good humor. Hot
and heavy blazed the sun down upon the