Through the lands of the Serb,

ti -i -A 1i i PIROT i85 the officer promptly said it was all right, but I must deposit my passport in the station and reclaim it on leaving. I was not to leave Pirot except by train. By this wily ruse he saved the Servian nation from the possibility of my negotiating with Bulgaria in some lonely spot upon the frontier. I thanked them, escaped from the station, called a cab and drove to the town. The Hotel National, though the best in the place, was not cheering. It was a large bare barrack, with a billiard - table in the middle, and a pale-brown, skinny boy of about fourteen was its only apparent manager and proprietor. I never saw another. He showed me a dree bedroom somewhere at the top of a wooden ladder. A piece of torn sacking was nailed over one side of the window. There were two beds, neither clean, and a man's coat and other garments lay on one of them. The youth collected them, and considered the room ready. I thought we would not begin to disagree at once, so I descended the ladder again and had breakfast, for it was now eight o'clock and I had had to leave Nish on one small cup of coffee. I then felt exceedingly brave, and reflecting on the importance to an army of the/ commissariat, went out to explore Pirot. It was Sunday. Of all Continental nations Servia's Sunday is the most Britannic, and there was no buying nor selling of any kind, and scarcely any life in the place. It is a largeish town, with about io,ooo inhabitants; a street of modern houses, a maze of little tumbledown Turkish mud hovels in gardens, and a mosque-a dilapidated, melancholy collection as a whole. For Pirot, taken by the

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Title: Through the lands of the Serb,
Author: Durham, Mary E.
Canvas: Page 185
Publication: London,: E. Arnold,; 1904.
Subject terms: Montenegro -- Description and travel; Serbia -- Description and travel.

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