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NOVEL METHOD OF FORDING RIVERS IN SOFIA DISTRICT |
IN PENSIVE MOOD |
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| In early spring, when the snows have melted and the riverbeds have become dangerous to pedestrians, the peasants resort to many ingenious methods in order that their business routine shall not suffer hindrance. Here are two Bulgarians mounted on stilts, and although their progress be somewhat tardy, they nevertheless succeed in crossing many an inundated piece of land which would be quite untraversable to their less venturesome fellows | Wearing the pretty costumes often seen in her native village of Les-Ponts-de-Cé, in the department of Maine-et-Loire, this naturally charming daughter of La Belle France has been caught by the camera in a somewhat meditative mood |