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to plead, the judge who tries the case each and all may 

 be bribed by higher sums on the part of the defender than 

 on that of the cornplainer. Therefore, in Russia alone 

 can the rule be followed by selfishness, of permitting him 

 who takes your coat to take your cloak also, rather than 

 go to law. But in this case a carrier volunteered (for a 

 consideration) certain intelligence regarding the missing 

 cotton bags. 



A RUSSIAN* 8U.U.MER CARRIAGE. 



It was thus discovered that the son of one of the 

 leading merchants in Moscow, and a member of its 

 highest " guild," had been in the habit of bribing the 

 carriers of the cotton to drop a bag occasionally at a 

 certain spot in a wood near the public road, and from 

 which the " gentleman " picked it up shortly afterwards. 



Mr. S. laid his scheme of detection founded on this 



