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Updated: May 1, 2025
Peter Bús, whom a cruel fate had called to be a perpetual wrangler with guests on the cross-roads of the famous county of Szabolcs, for he was the innkeeper of the "Break-'em-tear-'em" csárda there.
And this miserable country what do you call this department?" "It is not a part of anything, sir; it is a dam, the dam of the cross-roads, we call it." "Fripon! I am not speaking of the mud in which I stuck fast, but of the district all about here. What do they call it?" "Oh, I see! They call it the county of Szabolcs." "Szabolcs, eh? Szabolcs?
A man's first business is to create a career. I have to rise: you approve of that yourself; it is a man's duty to make use of every circumstance that comes to hand. Had I not done so, I should be a mere magistrate, somewhere in Szabolcs, who at the end of every three years kisses the hands of all the 'powers that be, that they may not turn him out of office.
When Whitsun Day was only a week off, I strolled into one of the trans-Danubian counties, and there advertised that a prodigal member of the Szabolcs branch of the noble Kis family was in search of his relations, and if there were any noble Kises who remembered that branch of the family, and had certificates of nobility in their possession, which they were willing to transfer to the undersigned in exchange for one thousand florins, would they be kind enough to communicate with him.
In a week's time fifteen members of the Kis family remembered their Szabolcs kinsmen, and brought me all kinds of certificates of nobility. All I then had to do was to select the one which had the prettiest coat of arms; whereupon we kissed each other all round, and traced out the genealogy.
Squire John's birthday was approaching, and a famous, notable day it always was for the whole county of Szabolcs.
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