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"Not a bit, and in all good faith is driving the fore part into Ekaterenburg." "Did I not tell you that it was a good joke, confrere?" cried Alcide. "Then, gentlemen, if you will follow me," said Michael, "we will return to my carriage, and " "But the telga," observed the Englishman.
"Gentlemen," said he, "here is a better plan. We have now reached the highest ridge of the Ural chain, and thus have merely to descend the slopes of the mountain. My carriage is close by, only two hundred yards behind. I will lend you one of my horses, harness it to the remains of the telga, and to-mor-how, if no accident befalls us, we will arrive together at Ekaterenburg." "That, Mr.
Under these peculiar circumstances it might have been allowable to postpone the journey till the morning. Michael Strogoff, however, had not hesitated, he had no right to stop, but then and it began to cause him some anxiety what possible reason could those travelers in the telga ahead have for being so imprudent? Michael remained thus on the look-out for some time.
Even then, on account of the darkness, Michael could not see them, yet he heard distinctly their words. This is what he heard, and what caused him some surprise: "Are you coming back, blockhead?" "You shall have a taste of the knout at the next stage." "Do you hear, you devil's postillion! Hullo! Below!" "This is how a carriage takes you in this country!" "Yes, this is what you call a telga!"
Springs are wanting in it as well as in the telga; in the absence of iron, wood is not spared; but its four wheels, with eight or nine feet between them, assure a certain equilibrium over the jolting rough roads.
And, as to that iemschik " "Oh! I assure you that you are not the first travelers who have met with a similar misfortune," replied Michael. "But why should not our driver come back? He knows perfectly well that he has left us behind, wretch that he is!" "He! He never suspected such a thing." "What! the fellow not know that he was leaving the better half of his telga behind?"
As to horses, as long as the Czar's courier was not in Siberia, he could exhibit his podorojna, and the postmasters would give him the preference. But, once out of Europe, he had to depend alone on the power of his roubles. But to what sort of a vehicle should he harness his horses? To a telga or to a tarantass?
This was neither a tarantass nor a telga, but a post-berlin, which looked as if it had made a long journey. The postillion was thrashing his horses with all his might, and only kept them at a gallop by dint of abuse and blows. The berlin had certainly not passed through Novo-Saimsk, and could only have struck the Irkutsk road by some less frequented route across the steppe.
Alcide, enchanted with his own joke, drew out his notebook, and in it wrote the following memorandum, destined to figure in a forthcoming French and Russian dictionary: "Telga, a Russian carriage with four wheels, that is when it starts; with two wheels, when it arrives at its destination."
On arriving that evening Michael instinctively asked the postmaster how many hours ago the carriage which preceded them had passed that stage. "Two hours ago, little father," replied the postmaster. "Is it a berlin?" "No, a telga." "How many travelers?" "Two." "And they are going fast?" "Eagles!" "Let them put the horses to as soon as possible."
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