manufacture, which are largely increased in price owing to the duties placed upon them by the custom-house.
"Our guide directed us from the rear of the building along the Bolshoia Sadovaia, or Great Garden Street, which is a, line of shops and
IMPORTUNING A VISITOR.
bazaars, to the Sennaia Ploshad, or Hay-market. This is a large open place or square, which is less interesting now than in winter. In summer it is devoted to the sale of hay and live-stock, but in winter it is filled not only with the hay, grain, and live-stock of summer, but with frozen animals, which form the principal food of the inhabitants of the city. Here is what one traveller has written about the frozen market:
"'On one side you see a collection of frozen sheep—stiff, ghastly ob-
