IO THROUGH RUSSIA ON A MUSTANG. 



coat and trappings. These are young students, who are 

 required to wear uniforms, conspicuous colors and 

 trimmings for the different schools for purposes of iden- 

 tification. The newsboys also wear uniforms. 



A troop of Cossacks passed by, all big, fine fellows, 

 belonging to one of the crack regiments, all riding 

 splendid black stallions, sixteen hands high, spirited and 

 glossy. 



A private carriage, an English-built brougham, with 

 a magnificent team, and gold-laced lackeys on the box, 

 dashed by. It belonged to one of the legations, and 

 lolling in the seat, in a studiedly negligent attitude, 

 was Madame, the Ambassador's wife, alone in her 

 glory, en route to the Islands — Vasili Ostrof — for her 

 regular evening drive. 



A string of twelve droskies filed past, each one con- 

 taining a big Russian greyhound and a keeper in a red 

 shirt. They belonged to some sporting nobleman, and 

 were bound for the railway station to be taken some- 

 where out in the country to an estate for a day's 

 coursing for hares. 



A man in a suit of white coarse canvas, and with a 

 brand on the back, tramped along between two police- 

 men with drawn swords. He was a prisoner. His 

 face was pale, showing that he had been in confine- 

 ment some time. Otherwise, he looked no different 

 from his keepers, with whom he chatted freely as they 

 walked past. 



An aged couple tried to halt a tram, which, like the 

 street car of London, carried passengers both inside 

 and on the roof. The conductor shook them a nega- 

 tive. His car was carrying the number permitted by 



