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The Romany Rye

CHAPTER XXXIX
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Its name shows its origin.

Huz, in Hungarian, is twenty, and the Hussar force is so called because it is formed of twentieths.

A law was issued, by which it was ordered that every Hungarian nobleman, out of every twenty dependants, should produce a well-equipped horseman, and with him proceed to the field of battle.
_Myself_.

Why did Matyas capture Vienna?
_Hungarian_.

Because the Emperor Frederick took part against him with the King of Poland, who claimed the kingdom of Hungary for his son, and had also assisted the Turk.


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