j Praying- Russian Cabmen.
Russian cabmen, or droschki drivers, are very like their London prototypes in their humours. A once popular journalist, now dead, used to relate an amusing personal experience in this direction. He had been driven out for some sight-seeing in St. Petersburg, and a Russian friend of his had tolc? him. what was the correct amount for him to tender to the iriver as his fare. When he reached his journey's end and handed the man his money, to his astonishment the jehu, who wore a long beard and a proportionately long caftan, immediately fell on his knees in the droschki, and, holding up his hands to heaven, gave vent to a series of pious ejaculations. " What is the fellow up to?" he asked of a bystander. ''He is praying," answered the person to whom the question was addressed, "that heaven will be merciful to one whose meanness only permits him to offer so hardworking and deserving a servant of God so miserable a reward !" The journalist in future, it must be candidly confessed, always erred on the side of generosity.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2661, 15 March 1905, Page 81
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184j Praying- Russian Cabmen. Otago Witness, Issue 2661, 15 March 1905, Page 81
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