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breeds as you would seldom find together 

 elsewhere. The pig of the place, too, was 

 unique — a tall, white beast, with a long curling 

 coat, which I should imagine would almost 

 pay for shearing. 



In the town the entire population appeared 

 to be Jewish. Indeed, as we neared Russia, 

 and in Russia itself, all along the line up to 

 Odessa the stations were throno-ed with Jews, 

 creatures in long, loose dressing-gowns, with 

 an oily curl behind each ear, reaching to the 

 shoulder, like the rmglets worn by women 

 fifty years ago, and on their heads a wide- 

 awake of greasy black velvet. 



1 have no wish to revive the discussions 

 on the merits of the Jew persecutions in 

 Russia, but, as coming fresh from the society 

 of Russians and some of the towns in which 

 those persecutions took place, I can hardly 

 refrain from saying that I should think the 

 authors of the accounts which appeared in the 



