[59]. Fragments of popular songs.
[60]. The popular emblem of hospitality.
[61]. A flunkeyish poetaster at the Court of Catherine II.
[62]. “Exekoùtzia,” official term for wholesale flogging, in case of mutiny, or inability to pay taxes, among the peasantry.
[63]. Mr. Chenapan has made a slight mistake. Nedoìmka is the Russian word for debt; but he is so far right that “recovery of nedoìmki” is the expression officially used for the extortion of taxes from a starving population, and that such extortion is very often accomplished by means of “une espèce de peine corporelle.”—Translator.
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