By Henry Baerlein

Excerpt from Over the Hills of Ruthenia

And the place is Ruthenia? it truly is in a curious place. the main sturdy bourgeois among us may perhaps at yes hours be visited via frightening questions, which he by no means for the lifetime of him may dream of constructing public and which ask - definite, ask - if he exists in any respect. Ruthenia is, after all, much less justified to entertain such doubts; yet occasionally, even if she hears the wind that murmurs in her million oaks or feels these great-horned oxen ploughing up the ruddy soil, she may well be mindful with uneasiness that at the usual map of Europe there isn't any Ruthenia, albeit in case you come to Eger, at the north-west frontier of the recent Czecho-Slovak Republic, you'll find a teach of which one carriage is going to Užhorod, Ruthenia's capital.

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