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From: Lindau <owe...@ea...> - 2009-08-25 16:39:50
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At it is not difficult for these gentlemen to give their instruction in
the kindred Serbian language, using, of course, the local dialect. And
we can look back with a smile to the not very distant days when a
zealous Serbian schoolmaster in Macedonia was wont, instead of prayers,
to make the children repeat after him three times, every morning and
every afternoon, "Ja sam pravo Serbin" ("I am a true Serb"). Likewise
the Bulgar was so certain of the superiority of his religion that he
deprived the Pomaks of their Moslem names, giving them for Abdulla such
a name as Anastasius. The Pomak, unable to remember his new name, was
handed a sheet of paper with a record of the matter; but very few of
these people can read. THE STORM IS PAST Gone for ever are the days of
the Turkish censor when Danov, who sold at Veles and Salonica the
schoolbooks which at first he wrote himself, was obliged to leave the
name of Pushkin out of an anthology because of its resemblance to
pushka, a gun. And, with their more civilized methods towards each
other, we may be sure that the days have gone when a Serb at Kumanovo
could compel Moslem children, before uttering the above-mentioned
slogan, to cross themselves; while no Serbian bishop will find himself
confronted
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