Häufig mußten sie Platz machen, wenn eine lange Reihe nach Milch riechender Dorfschönen in blauen Strümpfen, derben Schuhen und silbernen Ohrringen vorbeizog, alle Hand an Hand.
They walked along holding one another by the hand, and thus they spread over the whole field from the row of open trees to the banquet tent. But this was the examination time, and the farmers one after the other entered a kind of enclosure formed by a long cord supported on sticks.