He went with his mother and a gun to the chosen one's house,
where she was waiting alone, her parents tactfully keeping out of the
way. They abducted the lady, who was treated with great honour as a
visitor in her future father-in-law's house.
"Father" turned up next morning. Rakia was served, and father divulged
ceremoniously how many pigs he could spare to them for keeping his
daughter.
Number 13 wanted to know everything: how old was Jo, how much she was
paid?
"What, you are not paid?" he said in amazement. "Then the English are
wonderful! In Serbia our women would not do that."
Poor little John Willie still left a blank, though he had died long
before. His name was not John Willie, but it sounded rather like it, so
we just turned it into John Willie. He loved the name, and told his
father about it.
They sat all afternoon hand-in-hand, saying at intervals, "Dgonn Oolie,"
and chuckling.
Jan once had brought back from a spring visit to Kragujevatz some
horrible sun hats.
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