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Updated: June 9, 2025
Some oak chairs were ranged along the lower end of the room, and a table stood in the middle, covered with a German linen cloth, representing Pesth and Ofen; the Bloxberg being thrice as lofty as the reality, the genius of the artist having set it in the clouds.
Bohemia and Poland thus became united for a while under one ruler, Wenceslaus, who had himself crowned King of the latter country at Gnesen. Hungary was given in charge of the King's son Wenceslaus, who was crowned as King of that country and resided some time at Ofen.
"It was pretty hard work I kin tell you, strong as Jim was, an' we'd have to stop an' rest putty ofen; an' den, Jim an' I, we'd tote him atween us on some boughs; an' den we had to lie by, some days, all day, an' we trabbled putty slow, cause we'd lost our bearing an' was in a secesh country, we knowed, an' we had nudin but berries an' sich to eat, an' got nigh starved.
Curiously enough, however, there are thousands of loyal Austrians, German by birth, living in Buda or Ofen, as the Teutons call it whereas in Pesth, out of the two hundred thousand inhabitants, scarcely three thousand are of Austrian birth. As long as troops devoted to Francis Joseph hold Buda there is little chance for the citizens of Pesth to succeed in revolt.
De country was all full ob secesh pickets, an' dere was de ribber, an' we had no boat, so Jim, he says, 'I know what to do; fust I'll hide you yere, an' he did all safe in de woods; 'an' den I'll git ye suthin to eat from de niggers round, an' he did dat too, do he couldn't git much, for fear he'd be seen; an' den we, he and I, made some ropes out ob de tall grass like dat we'd ofen made fur mats, an' tied dem together wid some oder grass, an' stuck a board in, an' den made fur de Yankee camp, an' yere we is."
"But what is the use of the law, a human institution, if it can be possible that people should be brought to beggary by a debt of which they have never had a groschen, and fall into misery for the benefit of a third, who rises laughing from the ground? "We tried everything to save ourselves from utter ruin. My husband went to Ofen and Vienna to beg an audience.
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