The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-17

Shelin answered; My comrade must do
1 as he likes. He may be rich. but I am not.
/ 1 shall do as l have said, and so IL shall be.
/ II you want TO. you may kill me, but 1
I viii not write for more than 800 roubles."
| They were silent a while when suddenly
up jumped Abdul, got out a little chest,
/ from which he drew pen, paper and ink,
/ which he pushed towards Shelin, slapping
him on the back and saying:
! Write"
He had agreed to take fve hundred
I Toubles.
Abdul then jumped up. slapped shelin
/ on the back. and said
/ You good, i good
! Shelin wrote the letter. He was led
! with kostelin into the shed. where they
laid some straw. left jug of water.
I some bread, two old coats and some worn
/ out soldiers boots which had apparently
/ been stripped from some murdered sol
I der. Then they unfasten the stocks and
/ locked them up in the shed for the night.
III
Shelin lived on in this way with his
/ friend for d whole month, the master
l keeping UP his perpetual smile.
! You Ivan good. 1 Abdul good
But he fed them miserably. All they
had was millet bread, baked in cakes
( and sometimes il was nothing but dough.
/ KOstelin wrote home once more that
| he was expecting the money and that
J re Was EtNAAt45 h0AtAl It OF uc4N = ne h0ulA
/ sit in the shade counting up the time
4 when he might expect an answer TO his
/ letter, or else he slept
But Shelin kept thinking, How can
/ mother ever get so much to pay for me.
/ She hasn't much except what ] sent her.
/ If she has to raise. 500 roubles ii will ruin
/ her With Gods help / will make my es-
cape" And he walked about the Aoul
/ whistlng or doing some sort of work.
either shaping figures out of clay, or maxi
! ing baskets out of twigs. Shelin was skill
/ full at all kinds of handicraft
He fashioned a doll with nose. arms
/ and legs, dressed it in a Tartar shirt,
and set it up on the roof When the
/ Tartar woman went for water, Dina, the
/ masters daughter. saw the doll and called
the woman to look. They came around
set down their jugs, and stood looking
and laughing. Sheln took the doll down
and held it out to them. They laughed
! but did not dare take it. He left the doll.
/ went into the shed and looked out to see
/ what would happen. Dina ran up to it.
/ looked around, snatched the doll and ran
away In the morning at daybreak he
! saw Dina on the threshold of the door
/ with the doll. She had dressed it in red
rags like a baby, and was singing lula
/ by to it in her own tongue.
one day Dina brought a pitcher put II
/ down. squatted on the ground herself,
smiled and pointed to the pitcher. Shelin
took the pitcher and began to drink. think
/ ing il was watef, but found that she had
brought him milk. He drank the milk,
and said in Russian:
Good Dina"
Dina was delighted and repeated after
him:
Good Ivan. good"
Then she clapped her hands, seized the
! jug and ran away.
After that time she brought him milk
/ when no one knew It.
A severe storm came up one day, and it
poured buckets fun for an hour. When
| the storm was over little rivulets ran
/ through the village. Shelin asked the
/ master for a knife, cut a round piece out
/ Of a board, fastened spokes to 1t like a
wheel feathered them with his knife.
! on the end of each spoke he fastened a
| doll The girls brought his some bits
of stuff and he dressed the dolls alternate
". one as a man and one as woman,
| and fixing the wheel in a running stream,
the water set it going and the dolls TO
| dancing.
The whole village boys. girls. women
| and Tartars gathered about, clacking
| their tongues and calling out:
"Ahl Russian, all Ivan"
Abdul owned a Russian clock which
was broken. He called Shelin, showed
him the clock, stacking his tongue. She
| lin said:
! Let me nave II Ill mend II.
He took it to pieces with a small knife,
| put it together again and returned It,.
/ The clock was going. The master was
! delighted, and made him present of an
! old coat all in tatters
! Shelin began to understand their Ian
/ guage a little, and some of the Tartars
! grew familiar with him, and when they
wanted anything would call out:
Ivan, Ivan"
Others still looked on him as a wild ami
NAL The red Tartar never liked Shelin, and
when he saw him would scowl and turn
away, or begin to scold.
~
Shelin lived on in this way for another
MONTH walking about in the day time
/ or occupying himself with some work.
! but as soon as night came and all was
/ quiet in the house and he was alone he
4 began to dig under the shed. 1t was hard
work on account of the stones, but he
! filed away until he had dug Il hole big
enough to crawl through.
He chose the time one day when the
/ master was away to walk up the mountain
| to see if he could discover from a hight
tho place where they were. Whenever the
master went away he gave orders to his
son to keep a watch on Shelin ana not let
/ him out of his sighe. This boT ran after
Shelin now, saying: do not 20. Father
has forbidden it. I will call the others %
Sheln began TO coax him. I'm not 20
far" he said. "only up this mountain. You
| come with me Any way, l could not run
away with these stocks. Come along and
tomorrow III make you a bow and some
arrows"
He persuaded the boy and they walked
to the mountain. Tho ascent was not long
but difficult, on account of the stocks He
walked and walked, but could hardly reach
the top. Shelin sat down and observed the
country around. Toward the SOUTH behind
the shed, was a mountain pass. Lower
down could be seen a herd of horses and
another Aoul. Beyond that lay another
mountain, still sleeper, and behind that
rose another. Between the mountains lay
the blue color of some woods, and back
of all mountains rising higher and higher
Highest of all, with top as white as sugar
was a snow-capped mountain. TO the east
and west more mountains. Here and there
smoke from Aouls could be seen rising
from the passes.
well" thought he, this is all Tartar
country" and looked about for the Rus
sian side. Under his feet lay his own Aoul
surrounded by little gardens and the river
On the river the women washing looked
like birds. Beyond the Aoul lower down
was mountain, and beyond that
We're two wooded mountains. Beyond