Original subtitles

Gather round both big and small,

I am the most honest one of them all.

Bendeguz

COBBLER

Pista Varga, the poor old bloke, mended boots

and slippers and all things bad in this world.

He worked day and night to earn a crust.

And not content with the craft God had given him,

he bothered his old head with writing poetry.

I learned his prettiest verse.

The cobbler is very queer, He thinks his dick is a spear.

The girls see it and shrug, "It's not a spear, it's a slug!"

Slug you little... You rascal!

I know that I'm still young

but nothing has ever gone right for me yet.

Sad and strange things have happened to me that you wouldn't believe!

I've heard people say that I'm a peculiar lad

and others say I should have been hanged at birth.

They say I won't make an honest man either way.

They even told my old mother to wring my neck

and sooner rather than later.

If someone had sent me a letter, they would have addressed it like this:

"To be delivered to the hands of hopeful Bendeguz."

How many times have I said to behave, son?

Because the Devil will take you one day.

I would behave but it isn't so easy in a village.

The old cobbler was such a mean fellow

that he never threw the pair I would need.

That's why I had a lot of odd wooden feet and so did he.

Hungarian Television presents

The Stationmaster Meets His Match

adapted from Sandor Rideg's novel of the same title by Gyorgy Schwajda

dramaturge

cast

Good God!

It's the Devil himself!

What's wrong?

Hey!

Hey!

Hey, bless you!

It was a lump as big as my fist and it got caught on my Adam's apple!

- Hello, Joska. - That's my boy.

I think he'll make a fine cowhand.

He looks tough enough. I'll take him today.

I'll stab the old devil!

Bendeguz, you know how hard our life is.

You don't have to go now. You can go in the morning.

Are you really my mother?

Would you give your boy to the Devil?

The Devil? He's not the Devil! He's just the horse dealer!

- But he's got a hoof! - That's not a hoof!

He's got a crippled leg. Talk to him and you'll see he's a good man!

Come on!

Come on because I'll take you out!

Come to me, son!

Don't touch me! I could punch you with no warning!

Don't you scratch me or you'll have a nasty fight on your hands!

And get out of my place!

Sit on the bench or where you like.

But don't you ever sit in my place!

The boy will soon learn when he's with us.

Hey, you... I'll take you to a good place.

You'll have the life of a king.

Roast turkeys will fly in the air!

The stationmaster wants help, not me!

If I have money, I drink it straight away. It's no secret!

You couldn't keep that a secret

because your nose is a purple as a plum!

Your hoof might not

but your nose tells me that you're a man.

You'll bless me for getting you such a good place.

I'll bless you to be struck by lightning and burn from head to toe!

My mother betrayed me for you.

Where's my father's hat?

Don't cry for me Mother if I die.

I'll make 2 pengos on you tomorrow.

Do you sell people?

Oh, no!

I only do it if someone asks me.

And if you don't like it,

feel free to run away!

But I'll get you out of there after 3 days...

and take you next door... To hell with the stationmaster!

- To the stationmaster? - Stationmaster Szabo.

Oh, God! My feet are freezing!

That's good! Let them freeze!

I'll happily leave you here!

Aren't your feet cold?

Of course not! I'm not from that sort of family!

Never think such a thing!

We'll soon reach the horses.

A man's feet don't get cold on horseback.

Damn, he's not going to die after all!

This bag of bones is splitting my backside!

What's wrong, Bendeguz? Why are you scratching? You got fleas?

The horse has bruised my rear-end! I'm not getting back on!

My bum is black and blue!

I won't hear of it, Bendeguz! Stationmaster Szabo is waiting for us!

Tell me where he lives and I'll walk!

I'll get there sometime!

Come on! Come on you flea-bitten thing!

Oh, oh, Sanyi!

Dear old Sanyi! No! No! Sanyi!

- Sanyi! - Get off him!

Dear old Sanyi!

Oh, why have you done this to me?!

Oh, Lord above!

He's dead! Oh heavens!

Don't do this to me! He's dead!

My darling horse is dead! Sweet horsie!

My only love has died!

If only I could skin him!

But I haven't got a knife.

They stole it from me when I got so drunk that...

Bendeguz, have you got a knife?

No I haven't! Who do you think I am?!

We're on the edge of the town.

Run to the stationmaster's house

and bring me a knife

because horsehide is worth a fortune!

I can sell it and buy a new horse with the money!

Be a good boy and bring me Szabo's knife

and I won't move an inch from here...

You just wait there, I'll be back soon!

Horsie! Horsie! Oh!

If you wait for me to bring you a knife,

you and your horse will be waiting a long time!

You're not walking straight! Don't tell me you're a cripple!

Your face looks like they cut you down from the gallows!

I'm very healthy.

But I've been riding a long time and I'm not a hussar.

And the horse dealer?

One of his horses got hungry and it's grazing under a tree.

- What do they call you? - Bendeguz Regos is my honest name.

Well then Bendeguz my boy, go and fetch water for the cows.

Have I said I'll take the job?

I pay you 6 pengos for half a year and all the food you can eat.

6 pengos! God above! No one ever had so much money!

Maybe not even the king! I'll be rich one day.

Good God, it's a hag!

They don't even draw such ugly creatures in picture books!

Here's your lunch!

Don't spend hours eating it like a gentleman, you weed!

Why are you staring, you big-eared bat?! Are you deaf?

You rascal!

If you'll forgive me, old lady,

I can't hear because I'm eating.

Can you see how my ears move?

Would your tongue fall out if you called me mistress?

You can call yourself miss if you like, you old hag!

Hag?

You better shut your town mouth or I'll slap your face

to teach you some respect! Stop, you little ruffian!

Your arm should have broken when you weighed out this big meal for me!

Hey, you! You rough town boy!

That was the end of that!

I made friends with the old hag on the first day.

We can pick some grass and eat that.

You stupid bloody animal!

That filthy old hag!

God help me!

Get on!

- Get on! - Don't hurry them!

Bloody get on, Rosebud!

Get on there!

Come here you little bastard!

Come here, you knife thief! I said get here!

Aren't you ashamed of yourself?!

You'd have left a good man to die?!

Stationmaster, has he gone?

Yes. You can come out now.

Bendeguz, why didn't you tell me what the horse dealer wanted?

I didn't think it was that urgent

because it's still a long time to Christmas!

That's good!

It's a long time to Christmas!

- What have you done with my cows? - I grazed them.

Look at them!

Their bellies are thin and what do their udders look like?!

You have to graze them

until they're so fat, they look pregnant.

What's the problem?

- There's no grass in their bellies. - That's all there was!

Then take them somewhere else. I don't care.

Take them to somewhere where there's clover and everything!

- I don't care where you take them! - I understand now.

Thank God for that!

I'd have been perfectly happy if God had forgotten to make farmers.

They made my life a misery.

I spent hours running away

to escape a beating.

They'd have made me pay if they'd caught me.

My head was covered in bumps

because they hit me there first if they could.

Every time I took the cows out to graze, I ended up

running as fast as I could.

I hit the cows and the farmer hit me.

I gave it a lot of thought,

and I wasn't proud of what I did.

My first idea was to write my memoirs

but I thought that no one would believe them.

And they'd set the dogs on me if people found out

what happened to me at the stationmaster's house.

But then I decided to tell people all I could.

And my grandchildren can listen to my tales if I ever breed.

I'm going to write my memoirs, and whoever wants to can read them.

The truth they'll tell will be a rare thing indeed!

Oh, help me, God!

It looks like the old hag has cooked especially for me!

Has your soup got things in it, too?

It has.

Like this beetle.

You're lucky!

You got a beetle in your soup!

Give it to me, Stationmaster.

To show how generous I am.

Let's just close our eyes and eat.

Hey, get up, sleepy lad!

It's morning!

Before I ended up in this awful place,

I used to hope that I'd be famous one day.

But the stationmaster's house was like a prison.

I used to have such wonderful plans...

All the melons were there just for me.

But the farmers were all fat animals.

Before you knew it, one would grab you by the ear and you were in trouble.

I learned to run early on. All I had to do was to be careful

they didn't catch one of my cows as proof.

I dare say

that I would have enriched the world with many a good idea...

if I hadn't forgotten them along the way.

Hey, don't hurt me!

Hey!

Ouch!

Here!

What's this? Why have you taken half of my food?

Didn't you leave half of your supper last night?

I had to clear up what you'd left!

We're poor here!

There's no wasting here! None!

If you don't like it, give it me back!

You'll learn how to behave!

There's no cobbler here!

I'll teach you what your mother didn't!

To hell with you!

- Stop! - I hope your arms fall off!

- To hell with you! - You scoundrel, you!

That old hag!

Listen here, Rosebud,

being as you're the only friend I've got in the world,

I'll make you a promise.

I promise you that I'll get my revenge on the stationmaster's house

and on the stationmaster and on that old hag!

A wallet!

If my life were like a fairytale...

I'd become a rich man.

Oh!

I'd leave the stationmaster's house right away.

And I wouldn't even say boo to the old hag.

Thank God I'm the honest one who found this wallet.

But I wouldn't give it back to the owner if he begged me on bended knee.

I'll wear a hat with a feather and carry a rifle

and shoot bullets into every farmer's backside.

I'll employ the stationmaster as a cowhand

but if he dares to complain, I'll beat him.

It's as heavy as hell! It must have a lot of money in it.

Tape measure...

1 pengo, 20 fillers...

Now I see how hard it is to make an honest living.

Help!

Murderer!

What happened, Bendeguz?

I didn't see that the mistress was here!

I'd wouldn't have drenched her if I'd seen her.

I'm not from that sort of family. I'm just a bit short-sighted.

Even the sausages I see are short that you bring for my lunch.

I'll kill you, you wretch! You! You!

All this fuss about nothing.

I've had a few problems with the hag

but I've never heard anyone make such a fuss.

When it comes to good manners,

everyone knows that I never behave impolitely.

Come here, you!

Come on!

Come here!

I knew your father.

What's your name?

Bendeguz Regos is my honest name.

Oh, that is a lovely name.

Your father is an upright man, hey? I've known him a long time.

Your mother's smaller than him, hey? Isn't that right? Come here.

If you know my parents so well, you must be a good man.

- What's your name? - They call me Uncle Bonc.

Hasn't the stationmaster told you about me?

I've heard something.

What?

That I should stay away from you

because better men than you have been hanged.

Quote right. Your stationmaster isn't a fool, Bendeguz.

You know what? Let's drink to your stationmaster's health.

I won't drink to his health.

I don't normally drink but I'll take a sip.

So how are you really, Bendeguz?

Have you got any problems?

Well, yes and no.

Yes and no? What is that supposed to mean?

You can tell me everything.

Don't worry, Bendeguz, I won't tell a soul.

It's the stationmaster's mother-in-law.

Who? The dragon? Does she beat you?

Oh no! I'm not from the kind of family that lets people beat them.

Right, I see.

So your problem with the old girl is

that she doesn't want to jump into the well. I completely agree.

It's time she hanged herself, hey?

I've always dreamt of a good friend like you.

Oh God!

Good day, mistress!

I'm glad you're here.

I want to say let's be friends.

There's no more bad in me than in a newborn lamb.

You're such a lovely colour:

yellow.

You know what I think?

You filthy scoundrel, you ruffian! I'm going to kill you!

You little bastard! I'll beat you hard!

There!

Aren't you going home?

Get home with you and hang yourself, you wrinkly hag!

- It's either you or me! - Help!

Curses on you! Curses!

Stop! You don't have to screech so loud!

Where would the world be if all the dead started screaming and shouting?

You can't give me orders! I'm not working here anymore!

Give me my money and I'll start work tomorrow cleaning the road!

Forget that!

Why would you want to do that?

Do you want me to get a bad name?

I'm hungry and there's not enough bread or bacon!

Don't tell me!

A boy like you

deserves all the food he can eat.

I'm hungry, too.

- You? But the attic's full! - She won't give me any.

That's because, Bendeguz,

she wasn't always the mother-in-law of a state official.

She's used to hunger and poverty

and that's why she hordes food like she does.

She doesn't want the hard times to come back.

- Is your head better? - Which one?

Which one? The one the farmers hit.

It's better but now I've got a nasty bump on my ankle.

I can hardly run.

I've heard that you graze the cows where you shouldn't.

A farmer came to me

and told me to pay for the moss my cow had eaten.

I told him that I'd pay him if he caught you

and he could keep his mouth shut until then.

It's not true about the moss. I don't even know what moss is.

Do you think I believed him? I didn't!

You go and fill your belly and I'll tie the cows up.

That stationmaster is so two-faced!

The stationmaster sleeps whenever and wherever he can.

Night or day.

I offered to unblock his ears,

because if a train were to hit someone, he'd lose his job.

And then I'd have to beg as well.

But he just shook his head.

He said that God made him to be a stationmaster.

That's how he wants to die but that won't be for a long time.

Only when he's had his pension from the railway's coffers.

Lift this thing up!

Lift the gate up!

What is it, Mama?

The whole world should know

that I was always a well-intentioned boy

but when I got to the end of my good intention, it had gone bad.

- Leave me in peace! - The cream!

Don't cry, Scruff. Don't cry.

I promise that I'll make this up to you.

I'll pick you herbs from the woods and treat you with them.

Or if that doesn't help,

I'll rub your face with poppy sap and cobwebs.

There's other medicine here, but we'd have to take it from the cows.

I know you hate the cows.

- Good God above! - Oh!

You! For the love of Mary!

I'll kill you, you rascal!

- You scoundrel, you! - Oh!

Oh! Oh!

I can tell you that they are all excellent animals.

Especially Rosebud.

You won't find a problem on her with a magnifying glass.

I'm sure that Stationmaster Szabo will trade them at a good price.

Where is your Stationmaster Szabo?

His mother-in-law's at home.

She'll find him for you.

But you have to remember to shout

as loud as you can in here ear when you speak to her.

Because the poor woman is as deaf as a post.

I can't go any further

because I have to watch that the cows don't go into the corn.

Very well, son.

Where is Stationmaster Szabo?

She really is deaf.

Where is Stationmaster Szabo?!

She really is a deaf as hell!

- There! - Oh! Oh! What do you want!

I'm looking for Stationmaster Szabo!

- Stop! Stop! - Damn you!

Get that madwoman off me!

- Can't a man even go to the toilet in peace? - Oh!

She's gone mad and she's stone deaf!

What makes you think she's deaf?

The cowhand told me.

- Hey, you. - Riska... Riska...

Riska...

Damn thing...

It's all right, Riska. It's all right...

Oh no! Oh help me God!

Oh God! I'm dying!

Here's your shoe!

Don't have bare feet or you'll get a snotty nose!

Don't be so cheeky, you little devil! Milk Riska instead.

Why did we have to buy a new cow?

Don't be insolent!

I believe in equality

and I want the whole world to know it.

I'm going to smash your head! Stop!

You good-for-nothing!

You bad lad! May God punish you!

I never had anything urgent to do

but I still ran more than you can imagine!

Our mistress got very lively after the tragedy

and she chased me around the stable every day.

I was scared that she'd get me in a corner

and knock sense into my head.

If I understand what you're saying,

you want to get your revenge on the old girl, hey?

I can advise you on that.

If you listen to me, you'll drive the mistress completely insane

but don't tell anyone or else the spell won't work.

Because we're going to cast a spell on the old dog!

How?

Bendeguz, you need to get hold of

an old piece of string and cut it into pieces.

Do that at midnight.

Then I want you to chant:

"100 cats - 9 cats!" Then cross yourself

and your magic string will be ready.

Then you need to put it in the old girl's soup

or stew, it doesn't matter.

If she tastes the soup,

she'll go mad in 3 hours.

Good God!

Take that!

A dish rag, hey?

I'll smash your head!

You! Stop!

Little devil!

You better run fast, Bendeguz!

The problem with the world

is that cowhands don't govern the country.

If I were a minister,

I'd do everything backwards.

I'd take the watchman's stick

and I'd wear his pistol on my belt.

I'd ban hitting.

If anyone broke the law, I'd get the stationmaster to beat them.

I'd put a lock on the country's purse to stop them stealing.

What train did you come on, sweet lady?

Well, child, you cheeky thing,

I can't tell you that

because the train left 4 hours ago.

And if you want to be friends with me,

don't call me lady because I'll slap you.

And I'm not your sweet anything!

My name is Rozi, if you want to know.

So you're Slack Rozi, that the horse dealer talks about.

Your mother's slack!

Sorry, lady...

Get out of here

or I'll punch you so hard, your nose will bleed!

Good day!

We've come here, Szabo,

so we can hold the engagement at your house.

We've got wine and food and tobacco and everything.

And if the good Lord above sees fit, we'll hold the wedding here as well.

I don't want anyone to steal this woman out of my hands.

What the hell does he want to get engaged to Rozi for?

She's so ugly

even a blind man could see!

And no one would steal her from him unless he paid them.

We came to introduce ourselves because I'm the best man

and I have led many a maiden

to the church in the last 30 years.

I didn't bring my own wife with me

because we had an argument this morning

and so I was forced to beat her a couple of times.

Thank you. I raise my wife well

because I have always been a gentleman.

When I was a bachelor - And I was for a long time -

those who knew me said that Jozsi Buga is not pretty but he is a gentleman.

I used to sing a song back then:

"I'm not like a pair of underpants

that you change every week..."

I sang that in the village and everyone looked at me.

Even the fine ladies from Budapest.

Come and get it while it's hot!

If I call someone out once,

they come out at the second calling

from under the bed or out of the oven.

I wouldn't come out the first time, the second time

or the third time you called me.

They couldn't even call me down from the attic when I was a girl.

I say that the ones I call out come out on the second time of calling.

- What do you bet? - Go and get under the bed!

Right then.

Come on out! It's me, Jozsi Buga!

I will not!

Come on out for the second time of calling!

I'll stay here!

Well, you stay there then and let lightning strike you!

I won't call you again before next Christmas either!

You filthy fool!

You make a fool out of people.

Don't laugh or I'll slap you!

You're a funny fellow.

I won't waste anymore time, my friend.

Let's get on with the engagement.

I wouldn't find a more special woman than Rozi in my dreams

and she deserves a place in my heart.

Very well, Miska,

let's eat like we should at a celebration.

I think that corn dumplings are God's greatest gift.

Not because corn grows on the cob,

because a man like me eats 50 of them

and doesn't need to eat or drink, like a camel in the desert.

Lords and ladies don't eat them... and they don't know

what they're missing.

People eat them when they have them.

They fill both cheeks with them and I like them.

I've already eaten 8 or 10

thanks to the Lord above.

Who created me...

in his own image.

If he says this of me, fine.

I look a bit like the Creator myself

but he's got a nose like old leather...

I don't think anyone looks like the Creator here.

Because here's Rozi who's belly's as big as a hay bail.

Then the hag who's as flat as a pancake at the front.

I don't consider the stationmaster as a human being

so that leaves only me.

Give me another 5.

You've had your share!

You love cherries so,

We both love the same one though!

Oh, it's very odd you know, When we both home do go!

I'll bring some wine.

You love cherries so, We both love the same one though!

Oh, it's very odd you know, When we both home do go!

The train is leaving, train is leaving to Kanizsa...

Kanizsa, to the station at Kanizsa.

The driver's sitting at the front,

At the back's an ugly runt!

Love should never...

...be betrayed...

The train is leaving, train is leaving to Kanizsa...

You love cherries so,

But we both love the same one though!

...at the front. - Oh, it's very odd you know...

You both love cherries so, But we both love the same one though!

Kiss in the dark!

I thought the stationmaster liked Rozi

but I'd never thought he knew so much about making love.

I want the world to know,

if I get married once or twice,

I'll marry a thinner woman than her.

Jozsi Buga is not pretty

but he's a gentleman!

Give me a kiss you ugly thing! You hear that, Rozi?

Now I'll learn the secrets of love-making.

Don't screech!

What a terrible noise! You'll get away quicker if you don't complain!

Give me back my scarf!

There's some mistake because she hasn't got a scarf.

Kiss me or I'll poke your eye out!

- Where is it? - Don't whine, hit him on the head!

- You filthy... - Damn you!

Take that!

Love must never...

...be betrayed.

Drunken pigs!

Damn the lot of them!

Watch out! Lift his leg!

Jesus Christ!

The fine people of Budapest will eat this cheese...

And they'll lick their fingers afterwards.

To hell with the lot of you!

Have a drink, son. We only live once.

Goodness me!

You'd have no problem if the stationmaster's wife were alive.

She was a good woman even in death.

She appeared at the end of the mistress's bed once in a white sheet

and the hag was sick for month.

How did his wife die?

Either she hanged herself from the tree

or the stationmaster helped her...

Some say this and some say that.

How do you summon a ghost like that?

Well it can be done...

Do you know how?

Do I know?

I'm a man who's seen the world, son.

Did you know

I spent 8 long months in the county prison?

- Unbelievable! Really? - Well...

Have a drink, son! We only live once!

Now let's sing "Mrs Csicso"

and then I'll tell you about ghosts.

Mrs. Csicso has three girls of hers...

All the three of them only one skirt wears...

Oh, Mrs Csicso, my darling dove,

You're the one I truly love!

Good evening, Mrs Stationmaster.

It's me speaking, Bendeguz, your cowhand.

Please listen to what I say.

All I ask is

that you visit the stationmaster's house at night once or twice

just to scare the stationmaster a couple of times

and make your mother and Slack Rozi very ill.

But at least 3 times because I'm scared that if they only die once,

they'll rise from the grave.

Dear Mrs Stationmaster,

I've nobody else in the world but you.

My mother gave me to that old fool with the hoof

and if you don't help me, I'll soon die of hunger.

I'm not a wealthy man,

but Uncle Bonc told me you like a piece of string at midnight

so you can have mine.

I've cut it up like I should.

Here, Mrs Stationmaster.

What rags have you been cooking up today, hey?!

Have we got cleaning rags in the soup now?!

For the love of God!

Why don't you just feed us rags?

Why don't you put your bundle of rags on the table

and tell us plain and simple to eat 'em?!

The place is full of grasshoppers nowadays

and they're all in house.

They play such wonderful music

that a Gypsy violinist could learn from them.

If you've never heard one, you can't imagine

how loudly and beautifully the fiddlers of the field play their music.

I went inside the other day to listen to their music.

Since then, something bad has happened in the stationmaster's house every day.

I got such terrible runs and belly ache

that I couldn't stop cursing the stationmaster and the hag.

Mrs Stationmaster is a good ghost, I'll say that.

You three come here, Bendeguz!

Come here!

Come!

Have a drink.

That's right.

Good.

There's still a drop left in the pot.

Hey, Bendeguz...

I'm going to teach you now.

I'm going to teach you how to drink.

When you drink...

you always have to see the pot.

Now I can see three pots

although I know there's only one.

Bendeguz...

send the other two of you away!

It's only me here.

Oh, Bendeguz...

never get married...

She won't leave me alone.

She keeps coming back...

You've had too much of the good stuff!

Good night!

I'll have a good look around outside if you're so upset.

That must be the ghost of Mrs Stationmaster.

The ghost is out by the muckheap.

Where is she? I'll catch you now, you filthy bitch!

I've got you now, you bitch!

Hit her, Bendeguz!

- What's wrong with the stationmaster? - He's blown up.

- My daughter did it... - What a terrible sickness.

I never knew anything so bad could happen to the stationmaster.

Should I call the priest?

Only the leach man can help!

Pull yourself together, Bendeguz!

Go and find the leach man, because I'm about to die.

I was looking for you.

The stationmaster's got water sickness.

He's so full of water that if we don't hurry, he'll flood the house.

That's impossible!

He's never drunk as much as a bucket of water in his life!

Of course not! He's not stupid enough to drink water!

But he really is on his deathbed

and we've still not told the relatives.

Now, what's wrong with you?

How did the sickness begin?

Tell me honestly or else I'll have to kick you in the belly.

The thing is...

my daughter was here who died last year.

And he strangled me

when I had the bellyache in the night.

Now he's got it! He's caught it!

I'll have you better in no time at all!

But you do have a smell of horse shit!

You're in a terrible state, whatever the government says.

This is the final stage.

Don't despair.

Because if I once say, "Rise, Lazarus!",

then a dead man rises!

But he's not called Lazarus, he's called Szabo.

Get me some turpentine, some brandy,

half a side of bacon,

a feather duster,

a radish and a length of string.

- I'll get it. - Have you got any string?

- Of course. - Lucky you.

I just happen to have seven kinds of cat hair with me.

We'll mix this with some tobacco.

Now you...

draw that into your lungs.

And put this onion...

up here!

Can you feel the improvement?

I think I feel a bit better.

Try harder otherwise I'll have to put you down the well.

Don't let go of the onion!

Run!

Run! Run!

Faster!

I feel much better!

I feel like I've just fallen from the sky.

Pay me when I come back.

I've got to take these things out with the sickness.

- No one should see these things again. - One more.

- And this. - Hurry up...

- God bless you! - In the name of the Father and the Son...

Hey! Stop!

I've brought you his Sunday suit he saved for 10 years to buy.

Good.

Have you come home again?!

Do your worst Mrs Stationmaster.

The only thing that will help us now is holy water from Szele.

- From where? - From Szele.

They wash Christ's feet with on Saint's Day.

You must leave in the morning to get back by night.

- Then the ghost will calm down. - Did you hear this?

Bendeguz! Stop eating!

Run to Szele to get holy water!

I'll go to the ends of the earth to get holy water.

You can trust me. I come from an honest family.

- Get going! - I'm the most honest of the lot.

But I want to have jam dumplings for supper.

I'll cook them for you, my dear.

You can eat as many as you like.

Just hurry and fetch the water.

- Then we're agreed, hag. - Hag?!

You creature! I'll get you when you come back!

Sergeant...

So...

Does my feather look good?

- It looks good, son. - That's all right then.

What's in the jug, boy?

It's holy water for the stationmaster.

Has he got so soft that he's started drinking holy water instead of wine?

Has he gone mad?

It's not for that. The house is full of ghosts.

What kind of ghosts?

What kind of ghost? Where does it work?

Has it got a registered address, etc, etc?

All I know is that the ghost has eaten

8 sausages, 1 side of bacon

and it drinks the stationmaster's wine every day.

It has haunted the stationmaster's house

and made them all sick.

The stationmaster's got water, the hag's gone yellow,

and the horse dealer's got the shits.

I'm the only one left standing.

It's no wonder. I'm an enlightened boy, you see,

and I've drunk 3 litres of holy water today.

- You funny boy! - What are they laughing at?

I always knew that gendarmes were odd,

but I never thought they were this odd.

You'd be better off praying for the deceased.

We're not going to pray for anyone.

And if we catch the ghost,

first we'll beat it

and then we'll take it in chains to the county prison.

You go ahead and we'll follow.

- It's hot. - Hot... hot...

Help yourselves!

Let me in.

Is there something wrong?

- Good, hey? - Very good.

Eat!

This'll put hairs on your chest!

They liked to hold the holy cup, And they liked to get it up!

The train is leaving to Kanizsa!

That's not right!

You love cherries so...

But we both love the same one though!

That lot are eating my dumplings!

I'd rather get the belly ache than leave any on my plate!

The ghost's in the corn!

- That rascal! - We'll catch it now.

- Come out! - The bitch won't get away now!

- Where? - Under the tree!

Oh, mother of God!

Go!

It's the road cleaner's white donkey!

Bloody hell!

My wife!

She's turned into a white donkey!

We should drink to this!

She's a bloody donkey!

- Cheers! - Cheers!

Cheers!

What?! What?!

Bloody hell! They've insulted the gendarmerie!

Oh, my daughter! My daughter!

What are you doing?!

What are you doing?!

I want the whole world to know

that I tell things how they are

so I can get it out of my head.

Really terrible things happened to me

if I think about it.

Compared to this,

the world war was a tea party, nothing else!

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