Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-10-26

for the night. There is no lack of hospi-
tality about the Russian peasant and al
most before my driver can explain who
we are, find myself seized by both hands
and dragged into the house, my dusty
coat and boots pulled off, and myself seat
ed in the place of honor beside the i'm
mense stove, with q Drumming tumbler of
tea in front of me; while the driver, a
little further off, lights his pipe with a
compIacent air; as if he took to himself
some credit for my being there at all.
While slipping my tea, and munching
the black bread wherewith my hosts wife,
a stout, fresh-looking woman of five-and-
thirty, supplies the ad libitum, glance
round the room, which is merely an en-
larged and ornamental copy Of what l
have seen in every hamlet on my road.
The heavy cross, beams of the roof, the
rough.hewn chairs and tables, the huge
tea-urn-the gilt-edged picture of saint
ia the far corner, with a small lamp burn
ing before 1.-THE enormous stove, on the
broad fat top of which my entertainers
are won't to sleep in winter-the broad
clumay bed with its patchwork coverlet,
are all there. And there, too, on the op-
posite side Of the room, ia the huge paint
ed chest barred and banded with iron,
whicb ia The Rnssian reasan+'s nride and
olorv. in which he keeps bis Sunday
Clothes and wba4ever vainabIes he NAV
nossess, and unon the nsjntinu and decor
ating of which he often expen1s a sum
which it must have cost him many bard
dav,s work and many snnoer!ese ojobt
70 raise.
Bpt even in their first hqsty survev Of
the surr7undinos. nv cvea hGve TINA n
remark one object. which !. The vtrv last
that one would EXPECT to find under the
roof Of a Russian peasant. whose sole
weapon is usually tho short * with
which he cbo0s Ifs fre-wood. nuts TO.
gather his f0rhitu~o. hljlds bis Loo Int.
and occasionally snlits the hoa4 Of h;as
wife or father JYst onnosit, where sir,
hanging unon nail in the wall il a
Iaroe nisfoi. evidently unused for q con-
siderable time. TO Judge nv the rust which
covars il Oor friend the staros+a fol-
lowing the direction Of nv glance. cive-
significant chuckle
sThera's some thin, IN look az. BARN
said ha roddino in the direction Of the
weapon. You don't often sec thcse TOYS
in orr sh0ps. do YOU 2
well. indeed, brother. its hardly the
sort Of thing one would exnpct to see 81
far from the town. DO YOU keen it Ia
shoot tho 't,rakans' l,onkraarhe-l with =
NV host give7 q hoarse believing laugh
at this not verv brilliant i5k.. echoed bv
the sbriIlor treble of lis wife: and
crossine, the rooms +okes down the pistol
from its nerch and laws it on the table
Some le+ters branded into the stock catch
NV ava an5 boIdirl, # m - tLe iivf+ 7
ro5d 3.bnr;1 II 1870" III, ;,,nir;n,.
~ ~ NV or+ort,;ror FAR +ho o,sr,ar =,
| his enigma
4 rr5+a that, savs ba with +ba air n
Coriolanus "Alone I did II. I can write
and raod too or shonldn'r he etarosta
NOW An tho frat time that wrote NV
ovpn mama felt a. Grand as Tia Mnro1notz'
The worthy at,ro-+s's enthusiasm, soma.
what tries nv gravity. tbouph 7 had VI.
ready seen the same thirp once and ayair
during nv travels in the interior. The
Russion poaaant's revarance for .rho now
ar of TALKING nv maxine narks in q hook
i almost snneIs4ious. and 7 roooIlac+ he
ir., covsilerab}v oynrsa4 o+ ororboa-i,,c, O
h.bapn fsI1ow with rhnn IA
I,I.ela =, ovo IS ,I,, ro,,,to, ,,;Ii,,,o, of
mo FA n "a TO a. 10 fAu r.
- r,slk;r, rnprir,, oIi,nhir,y and Ioar.
inc wind m with and he knows how 70
rr;+or
.Tbut WA the dav that ont this mis-
to1 r,rsros nv Amnb;trvor and ono3
sl,rr;co bo Ala mo rat dey TF = bad,,,+
| bean for him 7 shonld have Lost a goo5
borafn1 of money. and navban nv lie
into the haroaio y
| .Ahl how did that hapnan = AJAX 7
This il inst the time for good story
suDposa YOU tell me all about it before |
tprn in
Nothing 10th. nv host knocks the ashes
ont of his nine renhsrges If. and cIearino
80 +broat vi,,orousIv begins "a follows
Won rns+ know. then. B ,rir. that had
a cou.ir. V.silli M.slof nv name. who,
instead Of sticking 70 the village. a. I ala,
WAS ,ll for pettinr awav 10 one of the
groat towns THINKING to puab hia wav
there and nick M money A. Won would
gatber mushrooms in the wood And.
snro eron0h. one dav he went off to Mos-
co1r and sftar a time T GOT word that he
had managed TO find work in cna of the
bio Garmau shops on the Kouznatski
Most me was famous hand Ar wood
carving and such like, and that he wae
Getting IN pre.tv we'll; for Az onr Uroverh
saws. Heaven helps the belDful man and
yasilH WIS always one 70 sand On hi
own feet. After that had no news Of
him for long time. end was beginning
TO FORGET all about him. when. All of a
sndder. there comes to me ore d.v bio
nackage of b,nk.no+as and a letter with
thorr saving that VasilIi was daad lnav
bo gain tho KINGDOM Of besvar,ll and had
Iaft me- all the money he had saved
soma two thonsand roEbIe. or 50. ahont
g2GON. witch was great wipdf,ll. TO 2
moor fellow like me-"
lyon should lust have seen him that
1av. r rim" chimes In. Iau,hin0 the ola
Id of tbo bouso who bad in,t fni.bod
bor rre,er3,iors for nv fnrrbgr aorornroo.
datian " When no onrnad the n,cka+
and the notos ho starod about him 1iLa q
dog tbat,s lost bis 5inror and ell tba
rest of the dav he went about ga if he
didn't know where he was"
"Weu, vou need not Iaugh At mo
Vssi1isso retorts bor hpshand with a
broad Grin avon koen nm cono+;rg tbo