“What would a shepherd be doing with money, Mister Nagy? I have everything here. He had it all figured out - he would give a donkey for even a sister. “It got so lonesome for poor Jancsi, he would have given ten horses for a brother. The story is about the children and one of them is lonely: Then Mother could make lard, sausages, smoked hams. Two pigs were getting fatter … they would be butchered. Eggs were stored in the cellar, milk made into cheese. “The gigantic task of preparing against the long-hard winter went on. People wore traditional dress and each had their specific job on the farm which was very hard work. This classic tale of Hungarian farm life shows how a farm was fun long before the advent of mechanisation and at a time when war was not far away.įarmers lived close to their animals and did everthing by hand from milking to checking the crops and collecting the hay for winter. Hungary Travel through the history of Hungary with The BookTrail
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