FOUR-FOOTED PRIZE-FIGHTERS. 



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During the Middle Ages the nations of Europe vied 

 in bull- and bear-fights and badger-baitings; but those 

 times are past, and only on the lower Danube can such 

 circenses still be carried on in public. In Eastern Hun- 

 gary, where landed proprietors are permitted to select 

 recruits and appoint their own tax-collectors, feudalism 



:•!» : 



THE RAJAH'S PET. 



has still 

 vitality enough to 

 make every noble- 

 man the king of 

 his domain, and even in the neighborhood of Buda-Pesth 

 the government does not interfere with national pastimes 

 as long as the magyars will forbear the more dangerous 

 game of national politics. A two-horse kutschc with a 

 trio of cavaliers crossing the Buda bridge of a Sunday 

 morning generally means that there is etwas los, — some- 

 thing up, — some fun ahead on one of the up-river coun- 

 try-seats. The Carpathian Mountains still abound with 



