To amuse her noisy flock she sometimes relates to them, for the hundredth time, one of those wonderful old stories that lose nothing by repetition, and all listen to her attentively, as if they had never heard the story before.
* The torch (lutchina) has now almost entirely disappeared and been replaced by the petroleum lamp.
The second Beseda is held in another house by the young people of a riper age.

Here the workers are naturally more staid, less given to quarrelling, sing more in harmony, and require no one to look after them.

Some people, however, might think that a chaperon or inspector of some kind would be by no means out of place, for a good deal of flirtation goes on, and if village scandal is to be trusted, strict propriety in thought, word, and deed is not always observed.

How far these reports are true I cannot pretend to say, for the presence of a stranger always acts on the company like the presence of a severe inspector.

In the third Beseda there is always at least strict decorum.
Here the married women work together and talk about their domestic concerns, enlivening the conversation occasionally by the introduction of little bits of village scandal.
Such is the ordinary life of the peasants who live by agriculture; but many of the villagers live occasionally or permanently in the towns.
Probably the majority of the peasants in this region have at some period of their lives gained a living elsewhere.