She filled a _kulacs_[11] for the baron and placed it on the table before him.

Hatszegi took a good pull at it, dried the mouth of the _kulacs_ and passed it on to the old pockmarked vagabond who, after raising his cap, took a little drop himself and then passed it on to the others.
[Footnote 11: A wooden field-flask.] "Well, old fellow, is the wine good ?" "Wine is always good." "Have you had enough ?" "One can never have enough." "Then God grant you plenty!--By the way, does the wind still blow through the crevices of the prison door at Arad ?" "It blows for him who lists to it.

Let him who likes it not close his ears to it." "Have many children been born to the governor of the jail lately ?"[12] [Footnote 12: Whenever a new convict arrives at the jail, the governor is said to have another son born to him .-- _Jokai_.] "Yes, lots have been born there--and christened too."[13] [Footnote 13: _i.e._, with stripes .-- _Jokai_.] "Has the daughter of the cord[14] been married lately ?" [Footnote 14: A flowery expression for the gallows .-- _Jokai_.] "Only Marczi Csendes has been elevated lately.

He was a fool.

He took the crime of two comrades on his shoulders in order to let them go free.
They were caught in the act, but he swore he did the deed.