Tales of Serbian Life (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Tales of Serbian Life It was going to be a hot day. Marko knew that as he headed his procession of pigs away from the maize-field and up over the heath, though the mountains were still covered with mist and the ground wet with the dew of the night. He was yawning a little as he picked his way among the briers, for he had been up before four o'clock pumping water for his mother, Dobrilla Yankovitch. Since the typhus had taken his father from the cottage he was now the man of the house, and there were many tasks for Marko's willing hands to do. To-day he was swineherd, and that he liked perhaps best of all. For one thing, it was fine to be free to wander all through the summer day, and up in the forests, even when the midday sun beat fiercely on the hill-side, there were cool and shady places to be found. Working on the maize-field or in their little vineyard was no joke in the hot days of a Serbian summer, and Marko thought very contentedly of the day that was before him, for the pigs were little trouble, and if he felt lazy, as he did sometimes, he could always go to sleep in some leafy, shady spot, sure that his lean and active charges would not stray far from his side. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.