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but this particular one consists of grass and 

 arable land divided by two or three belts of 

 brushwood. Lying as it does on a slope facing 

 almost due south, it is an ideal place for hares, 

 and I found it most useful in this respect when- 

 ever a change in the menu w r as required. Havirjg 

 thus taken toll of the worthy "p.p.," as they 

 would call him in Ireland, I thought I could 

 do no less than send him a haunch of roe venison, 

 especially as he had met us shooting over his 

 ground a day or two previously, and he had 

 then asked us to go up and see him. Duran, 

 who took him the haunch, brought back such a 

 cordial repetition of the invitation, that a day 

 or two afterwards, on our return from a trip to 



the Visocica on which E accompanied me, 



we walked over there one afternoon. Although 

 a Bosnian, our host spoke Italian, having been 

 educated at Bologne and Pistoja. This facilitated 

 conversation, for my Slav at best was only equal 

 to discussions with my "shikaris." He told us 

 he had been in this lonely little place for ten 

 years, his congregation consisting of only twenty- 

 five families scattered over a very large district. 

 As we chatted over a bottle of his excellent wine 

 (grown in his own vineyard at Konjica, for these 

 Franciscans do not take the vow 7 of poverty), the 

 question of doctors and medicine in these out-of- 

 the-way places came up. He modestly informed 



