Presently they went back and turned their wagons into the siding and began to unhitch.

Then a lot of barefooted children, and women under gay shawls, overran the field gathering wood and making ready for night.

Meanwhile swarthy drivers took the horses to water and tethered them with long ropes so they could crop the grass of the roadside.
One tall, bony man, with a face almost as black as that of an Indian, brought a big iron pot and set it up near the water.

A big stew of beef bone, leeks and potatoes began to cook shortly, and I remember it had such a goodly smell I was minded to ask them for a taste of it.

A little city of strange people had surrounded us of a sudden.