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 ﻿Teutonic, Germánský. A mere scholar's word, the ordinary- word being německý.

but, avšak (observe compound a-vsak, and compare con- junctive use of a in a-le, a-io, &c).

to speak, mluviti.

a Slav, Slovan.

only, jen. Cf. Russ. hhokb, a monk (lit. a solitary person).

hastily, cursorily, zbelnl [z-bez-, to fly, run; Lat. fugio).

somewhat ignorant, nevida asi mnoho; translate,' somewhat ignorant as to what he might tell about them.'

to tell, povideti.

EXERCISE XIV.

The Slavs at the time of their arrival in Bohemia, in those respects, in an important way differed from the previous inhabitants of that land, in that they were a people especially fond of agriculture; thenceforth they developed themselves as quiet and peaceful workers—brave, certainly, but not seeking war, and defending for the most part only their property and native land. And they, as they came to the land, could not have been a numerous people according to the conception of our age ; but in their quiet business multiplied themselves more quickly than their predecessors, and filled the land everywhere with very closely-packed dwellings. From old time the Slavs had lived in houses, each family being more inclined (to live) amidst its fields, because thus the families generally, when they had already multiplied into numerous companies, remained together and did not separate themselves from the land. Villages grew up therefore by the addition of new dwellings. In the development of the people into families, and the families into connexions and townships of this kind, was based all the State organization of the ancient Bohemians. Each township which remained on the undivided soil, which it cultivated,