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THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE.
I wished to pick up any small article; the collar was a foot wide, and when turned up and brought around in front completely concealed my head. Then I had a fur cap, circular in shape and with lappets for cover-
DRESSED FOR THE ROAD.
ing the ears. A lady made, from a piece of sable-skin, a mitten for my nose.
"For my foot-gear I discarded my leather hoots. Outside of my ordinary socks I had a pair of squirrel-skin socks with the fur inside, sheep-skin stockings with the wool inside and reaching to the knee, and outside of these were deer-skin boots, with the hair outside, and reaching up nearly to the junction of my lower limbs. Added to these garments for excluding cold was a robe of sheepskins with the wool on, and backed with
