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109AMY LESLIE AT THE FAIR. Music Is Not a Breast Soother for the Cliff-Dwellers in Iron Houses. THE RED MAN AND THE PAPER-CUTTER. A Medley of Interesting Scenes and Incidents Sketched with Free-Hand Skill. There is something poetic in the sympathy, loyal devotion and hopeless pride of the people of Poland for that nameless outcast country. The gentle fraternity acceptance of inevitable malheur and stanch braving of cruel wrongs is more forcible than the firmness of a kingdom, because the oppressed minority cling together with pathetic courage and their faithful battles are beautifully heroic and genuine. Poland has no history but that it is fair and unhappy and the nest of buried genius. Pulaski and Petrovoski head a long list of gifted Polish men and women, aristocracy refined in the flames of gnawing ingratitude and poverty; great virtuosi, celebrated painters, tragedians, musicians, frigid but intense literature; Modjeska, Paderewski, Tschaikowski and a golden tablet of names. The Polish representation at the Fair is confined to a pretty little cottage hostelry, where bigos barazez (a wonderful salad steak, augmented with Polish condiments and kuemmel of dynamitic ferocity) | 109 |