CHAPTER IX.

The Village -- The Peasant again -- The Road-mender -- Among the Czechs -- Czechish Speech and Characteristics -- Crosses -- Horosedl -- The Old Cook -- More Praise of England -- The Dinner -- A Journey-Companion -- Famous Files -- A Mechaniker's Earnings -- Kruschowitz -- Rentsch -- More Czechish Characteristics -- Neu Straschitz -- A Word in Season from Old Fuller -- The Mechaniker departs 96