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Sports and Pastimes

HE annexed engrav- much has ever been written about many ing is a representa- of the inhabitants of Eastern Europe. tion of musicians There is one group of people who are and dancers in one called Morlacks. They inhabit one of the countries of Austrian provinces. The engraving shows Eastern Europe. you two of them, and will give you at Probablymyyoung once an idea of the instruments they use, readers know very and how they perform their dances. little about some They are rather rough-looking men, not of the curious peo- very inviting, but the Morlacks possess ple who live in that certain virtues in common with those of part of the world. surrounding countries. It is nothing You have never travelled there, and you against them that they are fond of fun, have read very little concerning it. Not and that they relieve the heavy burdens