. 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 or sixty;you walk on, and he pretends to go away, and if your offer is unreason-ably low he will not trouble you again. Suddenly he reins up his horseclose to the sidewalk, springs from his seat, and with the word ?PoshowUs( If you please) he motions you to enter the carriage. He is now atyour service, and will drive just as you desire; your slightest wish willbe his law. Doctor Bronson told us we must learn how to count in Russian, andalso
. 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 or sixty;you walk on, and he pretends to go away, and if your offer is unreason-ably low he will not trouble you again. Suddenly he reins up his horseclose to the sidewalk, springs from his seat, and with the word ?PoshowUs( If you please) he motions you to enter the carriage. He is now atyour service, and will drive just as you desire; your slightest wish willbe his law. Doctor Bronson told us we must learn how to count in Russian, andalso acquire a few phrases in common use; the more of them we couldlearn the better. While on the train from Warsaw to St. Petersburg welearned to count. I think we did it in about two hours, as it was really 60 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. very simple after we had gone through the numerals up to ten andfixed them in mind. Perhaps you would like to know how it is done ;well, here it is : The numerals from one to twelve are o-deen, dva, tree, che-tee-v\, pyat,shayst, sem, vocem, rZe-vee-at, (7^-ci-at, odeen-nat-zat, dva-nat-zat. For thir-. DROSKY DRITERS. teen, fourteen, and so on, you add nat-zat to the single numerals till 3ouget to twenty, which is dva-deciat, or two tens. Twenty-one is dva-deciat-odeen, or two tens and one, and so on. You go up to thirty, whichis tree-deciat, or three tens, but generally shortened in pronunciation to treetsat or tritsat. All the other tens up to ninety are formed in thesame way, with the exception of forty, which is sorok. Ninety is deviat-na-sto ( ten taken from hundred ), and one hundred is sto ; two hundred EIDING IN THE STREETS. 61 is dva-sto. The other hundreds are formed in the same way to fivehundred, which is pjat sot; six hundred is shayst sot, and the otherImndreds go on the same way; one thousand is tis-syat-«A«. You cannow go ahead with tens and hundreds of thousands up to a million, whichis meel-yon—very much like o
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