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DIGNITY AND IMPUDENCE OUTSIDE A VILLAGE INN
| Fine, even dignified, fellow though he is after a rugged fashion, there is an air of squalor about this Macedonian peasant swathed round his head with a turban, round his middle with a cummerbund, and round his legs with loose bandages. For him and for his ramshackle ox-wagon the chubby little urchin in most voluminous breeches seems to entertain no very great respect |
MAKING MERRY TO THE JINGLE OF A MYRIAD GLITTERING COINS
| The complicated way in which they have joined hands adds to the striking appearance of this group of Greek peasant girls. Each vies with the other to produce the most dazzling costume, and this latter helps to cheer both themselves and their swains at the rustic gatherings for which they don these vivid garments with their coin corselets which glitter in the sunlight as they walk |