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The next day I went out to look at the horses in the stables, and began with the famous horsedealer Sitnikov's. I went through a gate into a yard strewn with sand. Before a wide open stable-door stood the horsedealer himself a tall, stout man no longer young, in a hareskin coat, with a raised turnover collar.
Kohl first describes the 'Medicine Lodge, already alluded to in the account of Dene Hareskin magic. The 'lodge' answers to what spiritualists call 'the cabinet, usually a place curtained off in modern practice. Behind this the medium now gets up his 'materialisations, and other cheap mysteries. It is tall and narrow, and resembles a chimney.
When he opened the box he perceived a hareskin cloak trimmed with red lying on a white sheet; beneath the fur was a silk dress, and then a shawl, the rest of the contents appeared to be nothing but rags. The young man commenced by wiping his bloodstained hands on the red trimming. "It will not show so much on red."
In his pockets were an Agnus Dei, a taper of green wax, two bits of hareskin, two dried toads which were supposed to be sorcerer's charms a crucifix, a Jesuit catechism, a prayer-book, a pocket-book containing two Spanish bills of exchange one for two thousand, and one for eight hundred and seventy-seven crowns and a set of writing tablets.
"One chintz rug, another of wadded silk, four roubles; one pelisse fox skin lined with red ratteen, forty roubles; and lastly, a small hareskin 'touloup, which was left in the hands of your lordship in the wayside house on the steppe, fifteen roubles." "What's that?" cried Pugatchéf, whose eyes suddenly sparkled. I confess I was in fear for my poor follower.
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