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FIVE O'CLOCK TEA OF THE ESTHONIAN LABOURER |
PORTUGAL'S MILKMAID EQUILIBRISTS |
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| Like most inhabitants of cold countries these peasants eat and drink a great deal, but their tastes are not exorbitant, and black bread and weak tea form for them quite a satisfying meal. They are, for the most part, endowed with a lively temperament and a keen sense of humour, and a favourite pastime is the recitation of short poems or amusing stories | How sturdy a figure is given by this strenuous exercise of carrying loads on the head can be well seen in the case of these buxom women. The beggar next to them wears the hooded cloak still found in Portugal, and like an Inquisitor's |