. 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 ford to ride does so, the awkwardness ofthe s/iooha is of little consequence. The streets abound in sledges, andyou may be whisked here, there, and everywhere at a very rapid rate fora reasonable price. The streets are far gayer in winter than in summer,for the reason that there are so many more vehicles in motion, and 1 know of no more active spectacle than theNevski on a clear day in January. The bells on the sleighs mustmake a merry tink
. 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 ford to ride does so, the awkwardness ofthe s/iooha is of little consequence. The streets abound in sledges, andyou may be whisked here, there, and everywhere at a very rapid rate fora reasonable price. The streets are far gayer in winter than in summer,for the reason that there are so many more vehicles in motion, and 1 know of no more active spectacle than theNevski on a clear day in January. The bells on the sleighs mustmake a merry tinkling, said one ofthe boys, with a smile. Quite wrong, said the Doctor,returning the smile, as there are nobells at all. No bells on the sleighs! was thesurprised reply. Then the law isnot like ours in America ? Exactly the reverse, answeredthe Doctor. In the United Stateswe recpiire them, and in Russia they forbid them. We argue that unlessbells are worn on the horses the approach of a sleigh could not be per-ceived ; the Russians argue that in the confusion caused by the sound ofbells one could not hear the warning shout of the driver, and would be. THE RACCOOX. SOCIAL LIFE IN WINTER. 197 liable to be run over. Both are right; sleighs are not sufficiently numer-ous with us to cause confusion, while in Russia their great numbers wouldcertainly bring about the result the Russians dread. But it is in the cities and towns only, the Doctor continued, thatthe bell is forbidden. On the country roads any one travelling in a post-carriage carries bells on the duga—the yoke above the neck of the shaft-horse—but he must remove them before entering a town. Most of thesebells are made at Yaldai, a town on the road from St. Petersburg to Mos-cow, and the place of their origin is preserved in some of the sleighingsongs of the country. Balls, parties, receptions, dances, dinners, theatricals, operas, anythingand everything belonging to fashionable life, can be found in St. Peters-burg in
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