. 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 IMPORTUNING A VISITOR. bazaars, to the Semiaia Plos/tad, or Hay-market. This is a large openplace or square, which is less interesting now than in winter. In summerit is devoted to the sale of hay and live-stock, but in winter it is fillednot only with the hay, grain, and live-stock of summer, but with frozenanimals, which form the principal food of the inhabitants of the is what one traveller has written about the frozen market:
. 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 IMPORTUNING A VISITOR. bazaars, to the Semiaia Plos/tad, or Hay-market. This is a large openplace or square, which is less interesting now than in winter. In summerit is devoted to the sale of hay and live-stock, but in winter it is fillednot only with the hay, grain, and live-stock of summer, but with frozenanimals, which form the principal food of the inhabitants of the is what one traveller has written about the frozen market: On one side you see a collection of frozen sheep—stiii, ghastly ob- 8 114 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. jects—some poised on their lioofs like the wooden animals in a childs Noahs Ark; others on their sides, with their legs projecting at rightangles to their bodies ; others, again, on their backs, with their feet in theair like inverted tables. The oxen are only less grotesque from havingbeen cleft down their backs—an operation which seems to take them out /%T- cM. FROZEN ANIMALS IN THE MARKET. of the category of oxen and place them in that of beef. The pigs aredrawn up in line against the wall, standing on their hind legs, with theirforefeet extended above their heads, like trick-dogs going through theirperformances. The partridges, quails, grouse, wood-hens, and other birds are lyingtogether in a frozen mass, and by their side are ducks and geese withoutstretched necks so straight and stiff that you might take one of theseharmless creatures by the bill and, using it as a bludgeon, knock downyour enemy with its body. The fowls have been plucked, plunged intowater, and left to freeze ; thus they are completely encased in ice, and inthat condition will keep for any length of time as long as the weather con-tinues cold. PIGEONS IN RUSSIA. 115 Frozen fish are piled in lieaps like stove-wood, and frozen cabbagesare rolled around like cannon-sliot. A calf stands in
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