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SASKATCHEWAN AND ITS PEOPLE
1924



         

PPERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE EARLY EUROPEAN IMMI GRANT.

THE HUNGARIANS.(con't}


winter night. Sleigh tracks told their tale and suspicion fell on the Hun-
garians. The colony was searched by the Mounted Police, and hidden
away in straw stacks, cellars, old wells and what not, most of the loot,
from harness to sugar was discovered. One of the two policemen engaged
regaled me with the story of the search. It appeared that the men were
civil enough but the women were most abusive. Some four or five men
were arrested and committed by the adjacent Montreal Colony J. P.,
for trial at Brandon Assizes. When they came up for trial it appeared
that a North West Justice of the Peace had no right to commit a territorial
prisoner to a Manitoba court and on this point they were discharged with-
out any evidence being taken. No further proceedings were taken, and
the Millwood raid became a memory only.

The postmaster who succeeded the unfortunate Vass at Kaposvar, was a middle-aged man, Stephen Barratt by name, one of the finest, most courteous Hungarians I ever knew. Driving up to his place one day Stephen sent me into the house while he stabled the team. I found there a young woman, Stephen's daughter. She knew no English; I knew no Hungarian; and so we were at a deadlock. I remember there was a clay floor, evidently laid over a cellar on a frame work of poles. The floor was hard, shining and spotlessly clean. As you walked upon it, it was quite springy under foot.

After a few furtive glances, to size me up, I suppose, the young woman went into another room, and came out with a Hungarian instrument, of the accordion type, a cheap thing, worth at that time I should think a dollar and a half at the outside. This she tried to put into my hands for me to play. I could no more play the thing than fly, but I wig-wagged her in the sign language to have a go at it herself. After a little coy reluctance, she did; and my gentle reader, I assure you that the result was a marvel. Out of that poor looking instrument she produced what appeared to me to be some mountain semi-barbaric music which held me spell-bound. My mouth must have been open when Stephen came in from the stable, and the music ceased. I have often thought of the wild serenade this daughter of Hungary gave me; after thirty-five years I am indebted to her for what I hope has not been found an altogether uninteresting paragraph.

The hospitality of most of these settlers is very sincere, unforced and agreeable. Even if the fare they give one is not enticing the spirit in which it is given leaves as a rule nothing to be desired. Let me tell a little story in this regard. Returning from a trip to the English colony, which lay just beyond the Hungarians, by a different route, I was thrown out of my way by some new fencing which spanned the trail. This brought me into the Hungarian country from the east side and I struck a portion of it unknown to me. Here was a very comfortable homestead; neat roomy mud house, good stable of the like architecture, nice hay stack. It was a blazing hot day in harvest. About a hundred yards from the house two men were stacking wheat, and the woman of the house was also at the stack. When she saw me she hurried to me. "Hay"" she said indicating the horse. I agreed, and tied my horse while she literally ran Bibliography follows:



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THE STORY
OF
SASKATCHEWAN
AND ITS PEOPLE



By JOHN HAWKES
Legislative Librarian



Volume II
Illustrated



CHICAGO - REGINA
THE S.J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1924



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