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Rh —One can buy something nice for the children's mouths.

But the peasant women complain:

—A bad trade. No one buys. A ruined people.

They sell the sort which is called "nourishing," the half-white.

Coming to a hamlet, I ask a Jewess, who is standing at a corner with a bread-tray:

—How much is your black bread?

—Four copecks a pound. It is not black, but it is good.

A characteristic answer in these parts.

Some of the fugitives are not accustomed to black bread, and complain that because of it:

—The stomach gets out of order.

Beyond Propoisk we come to what is probably the most sober place on earth, a melancholy beggared hamlet where, who should drink?—there live only Jews.