The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-11

N returned
visit granary, where
day had been measured out by the natchanik,
head-maS of the station, his
back a toeraby heavy rye.
God be praised" mutered as he struggled thru
the deep snow. But ought come my snow
shoes had idea that the last fall would left
much loose stuff,
Here and there the up great
were there into which the unwary might stumble But
Nicholas was too good Siberian fall places
He reached his domicile in open
door and entered the wife, Anna
sitting the wooden STOOL gently Juggling the string
which supported the cradle up
Nicholas greeted him with a glad smile
80 you have got the rye, husband?'
THE saints be praised Tomorrow can have a good
baking is wanted now is some wood from the
yard; but fear is frozen hard to the ground you
must take -rF<@s.%.
The moujk chair and placed his numb fin
gers on the white walls of the big .3-S.z
1T is~celder and COLDER, the cold
mere IN Siberia? All the better f. it will harden
have had to founder to-day. Pity
late y want to be off very early
even now must forth buy kopecks' worth
of honey
But the bear had honey yesterday
"All the more why have honey to-
morrow Anna that skin is worth twenty roubles,
think dear wife, the post will evening"
and in it's train will be found plenty of pepope
travel with it under the protection of the
sell the skin for twenty roubles, sure-twenty
roubes"
always comes?"
Always But I have noticed that it is getting very
whe But them these ignorant men of money know moth
ing about urs altho they think they do
skin with white hairs is valuable with brown
On yes, 1T should be worth twenty least
hope so' 49, =,
When morning dawned, the STILL icy morning of a ST.
berian winter, Nicholas early purchased
honey magazine of the village and
had in to kiss before he went
into the forest There little 'Batushka he
called him. years DID, and bithe and CHEEKY There was
Olga in the cradle three Knowing nothing
He went out into the again, up in his old
shuba carrying ON his back the lone shoes which
would be necessary on the soft forest
But in the street he met his IVAN government
yemshi who had just returned from neghboring
no had
traveller and who as Ivan briefly put it,
less than fifty kopecks tea money What
would yemshik fifty kopecs but spend it in
vodk and what natural spend
in company with sozGood comrade Nicholas. So
geher they repaired to the only "trakr'' village
caled Tor the samovar and for bottle of vodi costing
thirty kopecks They there talked
until their speech maudlin remainder
of the fifty kopec<s had been in
was asleep with his head the table while yemshik
snored reposefully on the floor.
Soon after midday the village with the arrival
of the post and little Nicholas had
the busy scene There five trokas gay caparsoned
two of them being those of richly travellers going
to Europe The of little Nicholas
splendid trappiags and when of the
TO cast look at him he pueked off his little fur hat in
both hands as was the CUSTOM and bowed to him. post
went but for want private
remain. 1t when the bells had dis
appeared that Nicholas bethough father Why
had he been long the forest? wandering
his home when he saw outside the door of the
''traktir' pair looked familiar He
examined them closely and they
He looked into the traktir and what wa bs
his father asleep his head the table, long
over his He besides the little tin
knew always contained honey, then
why his father had not been to feed the
He went into the "traktr" parent but
response came Then he looked into the
the of honey in
his first impulse being to it home but got
outside he the shoes and the thought
him, why should he not and feed the
which to- bring his and twenty roubles?"
that fabulous sum as it seemed to his little brain
It was not the first time that little Nicholas had
his fathers shoes and he knew how
into the toe piece tie the behind his
how to jump, too, when declivities came,
sideways and corkscrew when there ascents.
80 will feed the bear
Olas and he caught the Shoes which
himself them with Of
honey in his left hand set out II know
said 1.-THE big tree in the middle of the clearing where
TMedvey' always for his is and
won't he be pleased when he finds have
He slipped around the back of the village,
and the edge of the deep
Then he was off, At fifty yards he looked specl