. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across by the gift which changed him from a chattel to a man. Hebuilds his cabin of better wood, and in the eastern provinces, if not in all,you find improvements in the walls and roof. He paints the logs, and fillsup the cracks with plaster, where he formerly left them bare and stuffedwith moss. He sends his bo^s to school, and goes himself more frequent- SEEING THE EMPEROE. 181 ly to clmrcli. * * * The burgher class and the merchant class have b
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across by the gift which changed him from a chattel to a man. Hebuilds his cabin of better wood, and in the eastern provinces, if not in all,you find improvements in the walls and roof. He paints the logs, and fillsup the cracks with plaster, where he formerly left them bare and stuffedwith moss. He sends his bo^s to school, and goes himself more frequent- SEEING THE EMPEROE. 181 ly to clmrcli. * * * The burgher class and the merchant class have beenequally benefited by the change. A good many peasants have becomeburghers, and a good many burghers merchants. All the domestic anduseful trades have been quickened into life. More shoes are worn, morecarts are vs^anted, more cabins are built. Hats, coats, and cloaks are inhigher demand; the bakeries and breweries find more to do; the teachergets more pupils, and the banker has more customers on his books. * With a few more words upon serfdom and its relation to other formsof slavery, the subject was dropped, and our friends went out for a ALEXANDER II., THE LIBEltATOR OF THK SERFS. As they passed along the Kevski they were suddenly involved in a crowd,and half forced into the door of a shop which they had visited the daybefore. They were recognized by the proprietor, who invited them toenter and make themselves comfortable. The Emperor is coming in afew minutes, he explained, and the police are cleaiing the way for him. Free Russia, by Hepworth Dixoii, p. 275. 182 THE BOY TKAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. One of tlie youths asked if it was always necessary to clear the streetsin this way when the Emperor rode out. Not by any means, the shopkeeper replied, as he often rides out ina drosky, with only a single attendant following him, lie goes at fullspeed along the street, and his progress is so rapid that not one person intwenty can recognize him before he gets out of
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