We call it here the 'autumn-spring flower.' The stems are coral-red, the leaves evergreen, and the blossoms grow in terminal umbels, white and fragrant, late in the fall, while the berries do not ripen until the following autumn, so that the beautiful plant bears flowers and fruit at one and the same time, and thus wears our national colours, the tricolour of Hungary." "Oh, where does it grow?
Is it far from here ?" exclaimed Blanka, eagerly, starting up from her seat.

She had lost all feeling of fatigue.
"It is a good distance, dear sister-in-law," replied Aaron.

"To the Torda Gap is a full hour's ride, and thence to Balyika Glen about as far; and I'm afraid somebody is tired enough already, so that we had best stay overnight in the mill and not push on until to-morrow morning." "No, I am not tired," Blanka asserted.

"Let us go on this evening," and she was ready to remount at once.
"But the horses ought to graze a little longer," objected Aaron, "and even then we shall fare much better if we walk down the mountain; it will be easier for us than riding." With that he went off into the bushes and picked his hat full of huckleberries, returning with which he drew a clean linen handkerchief from his knapsack, used it as a strainer for extracting the juice of the fruit, and then presented the drink in a wooden goblet to Blanka.

She left some for Manasseh, who drank after her and declared he had never tasted a more delightful draught.