Stories of Russian Life (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Stories of Russian Life On arriving at Deadville Station, Gleb Smirnoff, the surveyor, found that the farm to which his business called him still lay some thirty or forty miles farther on. If the driver should be sober and the horses could stand up, the distance would be less than thirty miles; with a fuddled driver and old skates for horses, it might amount to fifty. "Will you tell me, please, where I can get some post-horses?" asked the surveyor of the station-master. "What? Post-horses? You wont find even a stray dog within a hundred miles of here, let alone post-horses! Where do you want to go?" "To Devkino, General Hohotoff´s farm." "Well," yawned the station-master, "go round behind the station; there are some peasants there that sometimes take passengers." The surveyor sighed and betook himself wearily to the back of the station. There, after a long search and much disputing and agitating, he at last secured a huge, lusty peasant, surly, pock-marked, wearing a ragged coat of grey cloth and straw shoes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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