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carry notliing besides it, we paid not quite ten 

 shillings ; and though daylight on a subsequent 

 occasion showed us that our patriarch was 

 very dirty, and our lady-baker sallow and 

 growing an enormous goitre, nothing could 

 efface the memory of their ready service and 

 the romantic picture man and wife presented, 

 when the goitre was hidden and the kindly 

 flames showed only what was comely in that 

 dark interior. On a rafter above the flames 

 were about a dozen pairs of tiir horns, black- 

 ened with the deposit from the smoke of many 

 wood fires, but when cleaned the handsomest 

 horns I had yet seen. 



There are it seems two kinds of tur in the 

 Caucasus, as indeed Mons. Radde afterwards 

 informed me, and the horns we saw here 

 belonged to the second and rarer kind, whose 

 horns bear deep indentations at regular inter- 

 vals all along the upper surface, like those in 

 the horns of an ibex. The ordinary tur's 

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