Three is the number generally used, but if you travel lightly and are indifferent to appearances, you may content yourself with a pair.

The vehicle is a kind of tarantass, but not such as I have just described.

The essentials in both are the same, but those which the Imperial Government provides resemble an enormous cradle on wheels rather than a phaeton.

An armful of hay spread over the bottom of the wooden box is supposed to play the part of seats and cushions.

You are expected to sit under the arched covering, and extend your legs so that the feet lie beneath the driver's seat; but it is advisable, unless the rain happens to be coming down in torrents, to get this covering unshipped, and travel without it.