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on an average some 450 pouds of barley to 

 show for his year's farming. This he kept 

 for home use and ground as he wanted it. If 

 there should by any chance be more than was 

 required for home use he made a kind of 

 vodka out of it ; and as no licence is required 

 for the sale of spirits, and there are few rivals 

 in Ushkul, he made it pay handsomely. 

 Besides his fields, he owned nine diminutive 

 cows, six bullocks, and three horses. He and 

 his lived for the most part on oat cake or 

 rye bread and fresh cheeses. As Georgi was 

 a good hunter, this diet was sometimes supple- 

 mented by a chamois or ibex from the moun- 

 tains ; but when this occurred there were so 

 many to share the feast that the meat did not 

 last long. A little coarse tobacco grown by 

 himself in good years, and bought from 

 Radcha in other, together with the red linen 

 shirt in which he received us and his wife's 

 silver earrings, were his household luxuries ; 



