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| FROST AND FAMINE. |
village was following us as we went. Soon the izba was
crammed with mushiks. Miss Kuzminsky took her place behind
the table, and by request I sat beside her. Then the proceedings
began. Miss Kuzminsky had a list of the most needy. To
the first, a poor widow with four children, all nodded assent,
crossing themselves. Then came Alexis B———. There was a
low murmur through the room, and a mushik said, “ Certainly
he has no fuel, but neither have any of us, and he has a horse.”
Ivan K——— was mentioned. “Otchen bedni!” (Very poor).
So the entire list was run through, opinions being freely given
on each case, while the sheep and the cow every now and then
expressed their opinion in their own language. Miss Kuzminsky
made an excellent president, calling the speakers to order
when they spoke too many at a time, or wandered from the
subject. The mushiks themselves behaved in a gentlemanly
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