And now, good-bye! If I haven’t told the story to suit your taste, don’t think ill of me, I’m only a plain man.
FOOTNOTES:
[A] Mahorka: a very cheap smoking mixture made from the stems of tobacco.
[B] Taiga: the Siberian forest.
[C] Toyon: Chief.
[D] The Polyesie (The Woods), a district in southwestern or Little Russia.
[E] Bandura, an ancient oriental musical instrument of the lute family.
[F] The Little Russians shave their heads bare, leaving only a long tuft of hair in the middle.
[G] Gorelka: corn-whiskey.