Siberia and the exile system . atyou say! and the watchman, as if to appease the womanswrath, began to help the Kirghis hostler harness the horses—but it was of no use. What are you trying to do now ? inquired the post-mistress fiercely—harness those horses up goose-fashion ? ^Nyet bratushka [No, my little brother], you may walkgoose-fashion with the priest when you and he go on a spree,but you cant harness my horses goose-fashion. Gro curl upin the sand somewhere until the Kabak- opens or the priestgets up. Now that you ve sold the best part of yourselffor twenty hopeks you re of no use to an
Siberia and the exile system . atyou say! and the watchman, as if to appease the womanswrath, began to help the Kirghis hostler harness the horses—but it was of no use. What are you trying to do now ? inquired the post-mistress fiercely—harness those horses up goose-fashion ? ^Nyet bratushka [No, my little brother], you may walkgoose-fashion with the priest when you and he go on a spree,but you cant harness my horses goose-fashion. Gro curl upin the sand somewhere until the Kabak- opens or the priestgets up. Now that you ve sold the best part of yourselffor twenty hopeks you re of no use to anybody. A night-iva-a-tclundiTL! that sells his r-r-attle ! ! and harnesses a troikaGOOSE-fashion !!! she concluded with immeasurable and 1 Tandem. 2 Dram-shop. 154 SIBERIA inexpressible coutc^mpt. A moment passed—two minutes—but there was no reply. The discomfited night-watchmanhad slunk away into the darkness. After we had passed the little Cossack town of Pavlodaron Friday, the weather, which had been warm ever since. AN OASIS IN THE KfRGHIS STEPrE. our departure from Omsk, became intensely hot, the ther-mometer indicating ninety-one degrees Fahrenheit at 1 p, we sat, without coats or waistcoats, under the sizzlingleather roof of our tdrantds, fanning ourselves with our hats,panting for breath, fighting huge green-eyed horseflies,and looking out over an illimitable waste of dead grass THE GREAT KIRGHIS STEPPE 155 which wavered and trembled in the fierce ghire of thetropical sunshine, we found it almost impossible to believethat we were in Siberia. Many of the Cossack villages along this part of our routewere situated down under the high, steep bank of theIrtish at the very waters edge, where the soil was moistenough to support a luxuriant vegetation. As a result ofsuch favorable situation, these villages were generallyshaded by trees and surrounded by well-kept vegetable andflower gardens. After a ride of twenty miles over an aridsteppe in the hot, blinding sunsh
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