"He is perfectly right, my dear fellow.

It is not his fault if we did not know how to follow him!" Then drawing several copecks from his pocket, "Here my friend," said he, handing them to the iemschik; "take them.

If you have not earned them, that is not your fault." This redoubled Mr.Blount's irritation.

He even began to speak of a lawsuit against the owner of the telga.
"A lawsuit in Russia, my dear fellow!" cried Alcide.

"Things must indeed change should it ever be brought to a conclusion! Did you never hear the story of the wet-nurse who claimed payment of twelve months' nursing of some poor little infant ?" "I never heard it," replied Harry Blount.
"Then you do not know what that suckling had become by the time judgment was given in favor of the nurse ?" "What was he, pray ?" "Colonel of the Imperial Guard!" At this reply all burst into a laugh.
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.".