Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-02-14
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Olga's conscience said "no,' but the
temptation was empowering, and aftel
repeated urging from Ivan they both
crept down SOFTLY 10 the little apartment
in the large hall where We're kept their
/ fur cloaks and bashlyks, or cloth hoods,
which are put over hats and ears. No
one saw them. Every one was at
church, and the dvornick, or porter who
/ guarded the front door, was snoozing
J soundly, wrapped up i'm his sheep-skins,
near the heater. They got their fur
mittens and tippets and cleaks down
from the pegs where they were hanging in
the heated air, and put them min silence.
In silence, too, they lifted the huge
bolts and slipped out into the street. II
was too cold to speak, for the air would
have frozen on their lips, and they hur-
ried to corner where usually there
were to be found sledges, whose drivers
can endure any amount Of cold, and
who even sleep out At night at theater
and opera while waiting for their mas
tiers. Here Ivan found what he wanted,
though the mans dull gaze seemed to
question the propriety OF taking two
children to the pleasure garden which
Ivan Indicated The kopeks, however,
were forthcoming, and that was all he
cared about; SO in they jumped, and
tucked the furs about them, and away
they went over the broad street, flying
past troiskas, with their three horses,
and gay little sledges of every descrip-
ton. Their route took them away from
the Neva, where was the greatest crowd,
and they soon reached the entrance of
the pleasure-garden, climbed the great
flight of wooden stairs to the pavilion
on top, where Ivan hired sled,
and paid for glass of tea
hot from the big brass samovar,
which is always boiling and ready for
use. Olga had scarcely time to think
what she was about before she was seat
ed behind Ivan, and away they flew
down the side of the frozen mountain,
all as hard as glass. But now it began
to snow fast, thick, and furious, and the
people could not keep it off the ice.
Ivan was getting tired, too, and his
hands were cold This fun of going 20
miles an hour had filed him with glee /:
but Olga lost her bashlyk, and he found
il hard to guide his sled. Suddenly he
made swerve to the left, and, with a
fearful jerk, over they went. 1t was a
dreadful blow, and had it not been for
the kindness of the people in charge,
both might have been badly injured !;
but they were picked up and carried to
the pavilion, rubbed with snow on their
noses and ears, and finally packed in a
sledge and driven home. How differ
emily they looked at the glittering crowd,
and watched the animated scene! They
had gone out full of excitement and dar-
ing: resolved as Ivan was to resist au-
thority, he was full of shame that he
had gotten himself into scrape. His
fingers aehed, and Olga was crying and
complaining of her ears. As they neared
their home a troiska drove up with la-
dies wrapped in sables, and their mother
and Miss Stanley alighted.
Ivan, Olgo! where have You been?
what have you been doing?"
They told their story when they got
indoors, and Ivan had begged some
kopeks with which 10 pay the waiting
isvochtchik-for his money had been eX-
hausted: and it was settled that they had
been sufficiently punished when it was
discovered that lvan'> fingers and Olga's
ears were both frost-bitten.
Both were sent TO bed for fear Of
further harm from the cold, which is
considered by Russians the root of all
evil in the way OF disease; and as they
slipped their hot tea again, and nibbled
the slice of lemon which floated on the
surface, Ivan said to Olga: :. 1t is great
fun to 90 twenty miles an hour, but it
don't pay to be bad. I'm going to work
tomorrow at those old English verbs,
and I'll conquer or die. ''-Harper's
Young People.
-Abd-el-kader, whose death was
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