should wish to be a Turk, were I not a Magyar.

_Myself_. The Turk always keeps his word, I am told.

_Hungarian_. Which the Christian very seldom does, and even the
Hungarian does not always. In 1444 Ulaszlo made, at Szeged, peace with
Amurath for ten years, which he swore with an oath to keep, but at the
instigation of the Pope Julian he broke it, and induced his great
captain, Hunyadi John, to share in the perjury. The consequence was the
Battle of Varna, of the 10th of November, in which Hunyadi was routed,
and Ulaszlo slain. Did you ever hear his epitaph? It is both solemn and
edifying:

'Romulidae Cannas ego Varnam clade notavi;
Discite mortales non temerare fidem:
Me nisi Pontifices jussissent rumpere foedus
Non ferret Scythicum Pannonis ora jugum.'

'Halloo!' said the jockey, starting up from a doze in which he had been
indulging for the last hour, his head leaning upon his breast; 'what is
that? That's not high Dutch; I bargained for high Dutch, and I left you
speaking what I believed to be high Dutch, as it sounded very much like
the language of horses, as I have been told high Dutch does; but as for
what you are speaking now, whatever you may call it, it sounds more like
the language of another kind of animal. I suppose you want to insult me
because I was once a dicky-boy.'

'Nothing of the kind,' said I. 'The gentleman was making a quotation in
Latin.'

'Latin, was it?' said the jockey; 'that alters the case. Latin is
genteel, and I have sent my eldest boy to an academy to learn it. Come,
let us hear you fire away in Latin,' he continued, proceeding to re-light
his pipe, which before going to sleep he had laid on the table.

'If you wish to follow the discourse in Latin,' said the Hungarian, in
very bad English, 'I can oblige you; I learned to speak very good Latin
in the College of Debreczen.'

'That's more,' said I, 'than I have done in the colleges where I have
been; in any little conversation which we may yet have I wish you would
use German.'

'Well,' said the jockey, taking a whiff, 'make your conversation as short
as possible, whether in Latin or Dutch, for, to tell you the truth, I am
rather tired of merely playing listener.'

'You were saying you had been in Russia,' said I; 'I believe the Russians
are part of the Sclavonian race.'

_Hungarian_. Yes, part of the great Sclavonian family; one of the most
numerous races in the world. The Russians themselves ar