Russian Honesty.
There is a rigid sense of honesty in the Russian army. Lately, a sergeant-major was flogged for stealing beyond his rank. There is a graduated right of theft throughout all Russia. Thus, while a mere master-shipwright may steal some cartloads of oak, a Lord of the Admiralty may pocket a whole seventy-four. The god of Russia is not, in fact, Nicholas, but Mercury.
Nurse Ab—rd—n. "Did it want a bit o' Turkey, then?"
A Fertility Well-grounded.—Periodicals are the dead leaves that fertilise the soil of Literature.
