. 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 s; and the third for civilian companion had a couriers pass, while I had a paderojnia of the secondclass; consequently his was the best to use. A traveller with a couriers pass is never detained for want of horses, THE RULE OF THE POST-ROAD. 307 while others must take their chances. The second-class passport takesprecedence over the third, and in a very summarj way at times. Suppose Smith has a second-class paderojnia, and Jon
. 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 s; and the third for civilian companion had a couriers pass, while I had a paderojnia of the secondclass; consequently his was the best to use. A traveller with a couriers pass is never detained for want of horses, THE RULE OF THE POST-ROAD. 307 while others must take their chances. The second-class passport takesprecedence over the third, and in a very summarj way at times. Suppose Smith has a second-class paderojnia, and Jones one of thethird class. Smith reaches a station and finds Jones with a team ready tostart. If there are no more horses, the station-master detaches Jonesshorses and gives them to Smith ; Jones must wait until he can be sup-plied ; it may be an hour, a day, or a week. Three horses must always be kept ready for couriers, and the changesmade very quickly. If all the horses belonging to a station are out whena lower-class traveller arrives, he must wait till a team returns and hasrested. If he is willing to pay something extra rather than wait, he can. CHANGING HORSES AT A SIBERIAN STATION. be accommodated; the smotretal will obtain horses from the villagers atwhatever advance on the regular price that he thinks the traveller willstand. Here is where the station-master has a chance to make something,and he usually makes it. The horses are small and shaggy, but they are capable of great speedand endurance. They are never blanketed, even ip the coldest weather, 308 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. and tlieir hair is thick and soft like the fur of a fox. Sometimes thejkept up a steady gallop from one station to another, and did not seem tosuffer by the speed. Frequently they travelled ten miles an hour, andAvhen we were going down hill they did better than that. The way to gofrom one hill to another is to dash down the slope and across the levelat full gallop, and thus obta
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