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Title: Honeymooning in Russia
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Wood, Ruth Kedzie
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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h a questioning stare. These for-eigners were curious folk, but he would be indulgent iftheir wants were not too preposterous. Philips panto-mime of slow-walking fingers usually conveyed the idea.Da, da, the good-natured fellow would affirm, and fora few minutes the gait would be less strenuous until thehorse took things into his own hands again. During anhours drive this pantomime would be repeated perhapsa dozen times. Then we discovered the word tishe (driveslowly) and substituted that for the sign language. Butno matter what the method we employed, rarely did wedrive slowly enough in Russia to suit our sight-seeingtastes. The day was gloriously warm and sunny, and we wereabout to make a pilgrimage to the shrines of Peter theGreat. We had lunched early, since we had breakfastednot at all. To the appetising zakuska of raw fish,smoked goose, and onion; to the iced soup; the broiledgrouse and salty cucumbers, we had done flattering jus-tice. Nor had we slighted the fresh mushrooms and
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Cathedral Erected in St. Petersburgh inMemory of Alexander II At the Tomb of the Tsars 27 the pineapple morojennoye. Over glasses of lampopowe had planned the excursion to scenes associated withthe life and death of the Enterprising Tsar. The curb was hemmed with a line of droskies, and Philip,hailing the head of the cab-rank, produced a post-cardand stammered, Petropaulovski Sobor ; but the inquirySkolko? was scarcely put when the cabman addressedwas signalled and beckoned away by a smart-looking in-dividual in uniform who leaned indolently against a pil-lar of the porte cochere. The interference was so un-doubtedly intentional that we stared at the intruder inastonished indignation. Ignoring us, however, the officerproceeded to his bargaining, and we were left to the sec-ond in line, a big Jehu with an eye too shrewd for aneveryday isvostchik. He perceived our wishes with re-markable celerity, and we were on our way with fewer pre-liminaries than usual. Philip looked annoyed, and Is

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