Category: Novels
This happened when no train crossed the Hortobagy, when throughout the Alfold there was not a railway, and the water of the Hortobagy had not been regulated. The two-wheeled mill clattered gaily in the little river, and the otter lived happily among the reeds.
This inn, though only a "csarda," or wayside house of call, was no owl-haunted, tumble-down, reed-thatched place, such as the painter had imagined, but a respectable brick build...
2. CHAPTER II.The cowboy trotted towards the herd, and soon the hills of Zam, the little acacia wood, and the three tall well poles began to peep above the horizon. But it is a good ride ther...
9. CHAPTER IX.The Ohat puszta is the pasture ground of the "mixed" stud. From the corral in the centre, all round to the wide circle of horizon, nothing can be seen but horses grazing. Horses...
10. CHAPTER X.Some distance from the herd, the csikos sought out a resting-place for the night, and there carefully unsaddled his horse and removed the bridle from its head, hanging it on his...
4. CHAPTER IV.The veterinary and his gig jolted merrily over the puszta. His good little horse knew its lesson by heart, and needed neither whip nor bridle. So, the doctor could take out his...
11. CHAPTER XI.It was a hot sultry afternoon when he started, the sky was the colour of buttermilk, and the air charged with moisture. The play of the mirage seemed specially fantastic. Not a...
7. CHAPTER VII.It happened just as the overseer had predicted. When the herd reached the Polgar ferry it was impossible to cross. The Theiss, the Sajo, the Hernad, all were in flood. The water...
6. CHAPTER VI.A day or two later the lad was on his feet again. Such tough fellows as he, born and bred on the puszta, do not linger long on the sick list when once the crisis is past. They a...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Lucky it is that no one outside the Hortobagy knows about this "poor man's peat" which is gathered on the meadow-land. One thing is certain--it is no lily-of-the-valley. It is t...
1. CHAPTER I.This happened when no train crossed the Hortobagy, when throughout the Alfold there was not a railway, and the water of the Hortobagy had not been regulated. The two-wheeled mil...
12. CHAPTER XII.After that no word was spoken. Silently turning their backs on each other, one went right, one left, as if flying before the approaching storm. When there was about two hundred...
5. CHAPTER V.All night long the girl watched beside him--to no one would she yield her place at the sick bed. She had been up till dawn the night before as well, but how differently occupied...