"When do you think the war will be over, or will there be an exchange of prisoners" Don't look ahead too rapidly," wae my reply; "you had better start learning Rassian." "That wae my intention," said @ young Hungarian cavalry militant, "and at Tomsk I gave money to a shopkeeper who promised to send into the town at once for a Russian grammar, but before it arrived our train left. I suppose I have said good-bye to both money and book. Now, are there any shops at Nikolsk or only wolves?" I answered, plenty of the former but scarcity of the latter if one does not take into consideration the human species.'
They one and all toarvelled at the enormous expanse of the Russian Empire and the possibilities of development. They also remarked on the healthy appearance of the
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