The next day, as soon as a case was decided, he quietly sneaked out of the room, and, following the successful suitor, significantly held out his palm. To my joy and surprise, says Paunchkourí, he slipped a rupee into it, and whispered to me to give the múnshí (the Persian clerk) his share.[]

In the years following countyhood, the court levied taxes, set salaries for county officials, provided for public safety and regulated morals.

Between the borschtsch and the schtschi there is the same kind of relationship, and at the same time the same difference in characteristic qualities, as between the people of Little Russia and Great Russia.

Ay me, what act, that roars so loud and thunders in the index?