. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. CATHEDRAL OF BASIL THE BLESSED. PUIS ONERS OF THE TZAR. 175 It was one grand chaos of angles, towers and domes ; no two alike inshape or size or color; of all kinds of material and ail styles of archi-tecture ; a marvel, however one looked at it. The boys had only to go through a peculiar legal ceremony, andplace their signatures upon papers already prepared, when they were. APPROACHING THE CATHEDRAL. hurried back to their car asrain, which started at once for the a meteor, Moscow, the wealthiest of Russian citie
. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. CATHEDRAL OF BASIL THE BLESSED. PUIS ONERS OF THE TZAR. 175 It was one grand chaos of angles, towers and domes ; no two alike inshape or size or color; of all kinds of material and ail styles of archi-tecture ; a marvel, however one looked at it. The boys had only to go through a peculiar legal ceremony, andplace their signatures upon papers already prepared, when they were. APPROACHING THE CATHEDRAL. hurried back to their car asrain, which started at once for the a meteor, Moscow, the wealthiest of Russian cities, flashed beforethem, and in the flame expired, but they were too anxious to reach thedistant Crimea to care how brief their stay had been. CHAPTER X. ON TO BALAKLAVA ! AS their car waited at a little station south of Tula for a train to thenorth to pass, they saw the mounted Cossacks forcing back thestarving peasants who were making a weak effort to leave the village, inthe vague hope of finding something somewhere, while in curious con-trast, on a bench upon the sunny side of the station, a group of childrenhad gathered, and were singing away as though their lives depended onthe amount of noise they made. One fellow was beating time, andanother was playing on two fifes at once. At another station, while they were taking wood and water, theywatched a group of peasants waiting for their share of a car-load of coarseflour and meal that
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