. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. I AM THE TZAR. PRISONERS OF THE TZAR. 167 blazing in the open square, fed by Government servants, about which acrowd was gathered, driving out the chills of early winter. An engine and one car stood ready in the station, and the moment. A RUSSIAN MAIL SLEDGE. they stepped on board with the official who was to accompany them, itstarted away like the wind for a run of four hundred miles to Moscow,straight as the crow flies, over a road laid out by the Emperor came into the room when his engineers were quarreling a
. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. I AM THE TZAR. PRISONERS OF THE TZAR. 167 blazing in the open square, fed by Government servants, about which acrowd was gathered, driving out the chills of early winter. An engine and one car stood ready in the station, and the moment. A RUSSIAN MAIL SLEDGE. they stepped on board with the official who was to accompany them, itstarted away like the wind for a run of four hundred miles to Moscow,straight as the crow flies, over a road laid out by the Emperor came into the room when his engineers were quarreling and disput-ing over the twists and turns of a road between the two capitals whichshould accommodate itself to all the towns upon the way. Nicholaslistened to their arguments for a moment, then caught up a one end at St. Petersburg and the other at Moscow, as theyappeared upon the map, he drew his penalong the edge. There, said he, lay out your rail-road along that line. And now thetowns by the way accommodate them-selves to the railroad instead. All along the way, for the first hun-dred miles and more, the snow lay deep ^pupon the ground. The stations were lo- ^cated as near the towns as the straightline allowed, but there were always longlines of sledges comino; and soins, con-necting th
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