[26] Twenty-five rubles.
[27] A silver coin, about the size of a shilling, the quarter of a silver ruble (und e nomen) worth ninepence.
[28] The officer commanding the police of the quarter.
[29] The Russian house-spirit. This "lubber fiend" is frequently the popular name of the nightmare.
[30] The "was-ist-das," a single pane of glass fixed in a frame, to admit of its being opened, very necessary in a climate where double casements are fixed during eight months out of the year.
HOUNDS AND HORSES AT ROME.
ENGLISH KENNEL.
"The Dog-Star rages!"—Pope.
To do at Rome as the Romans do, is an adage which we English can no longer apply to our proceedings in that city; we now reverse this, and carrying thither our games, field-sports, and other whimsies, not only practise these ourselves, but would impose them upon her senate and people; for a senate she still has, and the Romans take a strange pleasure in exhibiting, on state occasions, the well-known letters, which tell of formerly allied, but long since departed glories. What would her ancient senate, the stern descendants of the wolf-nursed twins—