. In the land of Tolstoi; experiences of famine and misrule in Russia . SNOWDRIFT AT THE END OF PEASANTS CUTTING THROUGH THE SNOW. Spring Scenes in Samara. 103 fate, my son went to Uralsk to look for work. After someweeks he sent me a rouble to buy some seed. With the notetied up in a bit of rag I set out^ but lost it on the way, andonly found it again after a lot of trouble and searching. Acalf had got hold of the rag and chewed it, so that my roublewas all bitten to pieces. Then I went to the village authorities,and they told me to come to your worship. Lord changed her
. In the land of Tolstoi; experiences of famine and misrule in Russia . SNOWDRIFT AT THE END OF PEASANTS CUTTING THROUGH THE SNOW. Spring Scenes in Samara. 103 fate, my son went to Uralsk to look for work. After someweeks he sent me a rouble to buy some seed. With the notetied up in a bit of rag I set out^ but lost it on the way, andonly found it again after a lot of trouble and searching. Acalf had got hold of the rag and chewed it, so that my roublewas all bitten to pieces. Then I went to the village authorities,and they told me to come to your worship. Lord changed her damaged note for one for five roubles, andgave her besides help in other ways. The week before Easter we received an invitation from agentleman to spend the holidays at his residence. The snowwas still lying deep on the ground when the young Count, oneof his helpers, and myself set out. Here and there on the hill-tops or on the sunny slopes it had melted in spots, and on thesesome miserable-looking cattle, amid the carcases of others oftheir kind that had succumbed, were feeding on the sparse, old
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