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She explained she was poor. She had brought up the sheep, spun
and dyed the wool, and had woven the beautiful thing, and now she wanted
silver because outside Scutari, in which the Montenegrins forced
acceptance of their notes by corporal punishment, paper was worth
nothing. To get the silver we went into a general store and sold a
sovereign.
[Illustration: JO AND MR. SUMA IN THE SCUTARI BAZAAR.]
While we were waiting for the money-changer, two Miridite women came in.
They had short hair dyed black, white coarse linen chemises with
large sleeves, embroidered zouaves, white skirts with front and back
aprons lavishly embroidered, striped trousers, and stockings knitted on
great diagonal patterns.
One of them told Suma that their village was in possession of Essad
Pacha, that all their husbands had fled, and were still fighting in the
hills.
Suma, for a joke, asked her what she thought of Jo. Passing her eyes
over Jo's uninflated frame, she hesitated, but was urged to speak the
truth.


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