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Updated: May 27, 2025
On the summit of Hidas Peak was planted a bundle of straw, which was visible from a considerable distance, and served as a warning not to ascend. Was it meant as a protection to the single fir-tree left standing there in lonely majesty, or to deter hay-thieves from cutting the grass that grew there?
"You little geese!" cried Manasseh, laughing, "it was only a hay-thief. Grass grows on Hidas Peak, and ever since the days of King Matthias the Szeklers on the Aranyos have quarrelled with their neighbours over the cutting of it. The man who is on hand first with his scythe carries it off.
Manasseh closed his portfolio, picked up his things, and followed the path taken by the others. Yet there was no mischievous intent in Aaron's mind. He conducted Anna and Blanka to the verge of the gorge that separates the so-called Hidas Peak of the Szekler Stone from the Louis Peak.
"On your honour as a Szekler and a Unitarian?" "On my honour as a Szekler and a Unitarian." With that Manasseh let them go their way. But in the midst of his sketching it occurred to him that Aaron had only promised not to "take" the ladies up Hidas Peak, which might mean that he would not carry them up, but was at liberty to lead them; for Aaron was full of all such quips and quibbles as that.
Nevertheless he was determined to try his hand; so the others left him at work and went on to view the curiosities of the Szekler Stone. "Take good care of my wife," Manasseh called to his brother, "and don't let her fall over any precipice." "Never fear," Aaron shouted back. "The whole Szekler Stone shall fall first." "Promise not to take Blanka and Anna up Hidas Peak." "I promise."
The cannon thundered on the Szekler Stone in one continuous roar, while fiery rockets shot from Hidas Peak in a wide curve and fell into the valley below, hastening the mad flight of routed and panic-stricken men, who fled as if for their lives to Gyertyamos, Kapolna, and Bedellö, to the woods, and into the mountain defiles. The burning village of St.
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