Eva Krekovicová, Zuzana Panczova
THE CAUSE OF DECLINE
Izák, you were so fat and now you're so skinny, look how this suits me so well!—My Icikleben,
that frflucht rosary group hasn't reached you yet; in my village everyone is in the rosary group,
and that's why I've declined so much (i.e. grown so thin—translator's note).
Cernoknazník 1876, no. 2, p. 15.
LET THE JEW DISTILL LIQUOR
(From a trilogy of “Illustrations of the Hungarian Constitution” with the captions “May the Jew
distill liquor,” “may the Gypsy forge nails,” and “may the priest kiss his patron's hand....”)
Cernoknaénik 1861, no. 38, p. 3.