One of her
patients, though well connected as peasants often are in Montenegro, was
a drunken old reprobate, and she told the authorities he must go. They
demurred--his relations must not be offended. She insisted. They did
nothing. One morning they found him, bed and all, in the middle of the
street opposite the King's palace.
The authorities swallowed their lesson.
In the evening we walked over the stony hills with our host, and first
had a glimpse of the real character of the country which had for so long
kept the Turks at bay. One realized how much the people owed to the land
for their boasted independence. Barren rock and scrub oak, no army could
live here in sufficient numbers to subdue even a semi-warlike nation.
Cettinje has been burned many a time by the Moslem, but starvation
eventually drove him back to the fatter plains of the Sanjak, leaving a
profitless victory behind him. Napoleon and Moscow over again.
More miners from America passed with their showy machine-woven clothes,
accompanied by their wives, who had evidently stayed behind in the old
country.
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