"Prokop was deeply affected. He detained the children until evening, treating them to all the peas and cherries that they could eat. When it began to grow dark he sent them home. 'Tell your parents,' he said to them, 'that I will spare the town. But see that when you reach the gate you shout: "Victory to the Hussites!"' "The next day the Hussites left the vicinity without having harmed a single living thing. "In memory of the event, the people of Naumburg hold an annual festival in which the children march to the spot where once stood the Hussite camp. Here they are treated to peas and cherries. The occasion is called the Hussite Cherry Festival." CHAPTER X SCHOOL DAYS IN BOHEMIA AFTER arrangements had been made for Jozef to live with some distant relatives, his godfather bade him good-by. [Illustration: "HE USED TO WANDER ... TO THE FORTIFICATIONS"] "Learn all you can, the better to help your native land," he said to him in parting. It was not long before Jozef felt quite at home. The boys at first teased him about his dialect, but it was such good-natured teasing that he did not mind it. Once when the teacher overheard them, he said: "Do not care. Your language may not be as literary as ours, but it is softer and more musical, and hence much more pleasing." Jozef became very fond of the city. With a "heretic" friend, he used to wander over the curiously arranged, toothed old streets, to the fortifications that still stand, or to the river that surrounds the city on three sides. Or they would stand and stare and discuss the statues of Jan Hus, the religious martyr, of his marvelously eloquent friend, Jerome of Prague, of Jan Zizka, and of Prokop the Great. These and many historic relics were in the odd, triple-gabled Town Hall, finished in 1521, in the big market square. The statue of Zizka had an especial fascination for them. They could see him walking right there in the Square, surrounded by armed warriors, looking just as here represented, with expressive bent head, long mustache, and heavy fur coat over his shirt of mail. In one hand he held a sword, in the other, that terrible weapon that they knew was once called by the fanciful name of the morning star. Besides the Town Hall there were other interesting irregularly built buildings, with peculiar ornamentation, in the Square. Before one of them still stood one of the stone tables on which the Taborites took communion in the open air.