380 FROM PARI TO PATIGORSK. 



tion, and supplied, by assiduous waiters, witli delicately- 

 cooked dishes and brimming glasses, from whicli the cham- 

 pagne flowed gratefully down our throats, the adventures of 

 the past four weeks seemed to us as a tale that is told, 

 and we could scarcely believe how short a time before high 

 sheep's brains had been regarded as a delicacy, and a pair of 

 shooting-boots and a revolver as a luxurious pillow. 



