Excerpt from The Story of a Wireless Telegraph Boy

IN a crowded street of a city on the Volga could be seen a number of people hurrying to the bank of the river, to embark on a steamer about to leave for ports down the stream. The prospective passengers were a motley crowd: merchants, with long beards flowing over their caftans, mili tary officers returning to their commands, priests of the Greek church, moujiks in red or blue blouses, with balloon-like trousers tucked into their boots, peasant-women, with garments tied under their armpits, Tartars, with conical fur hats and faces like the profile of the half moon.

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