Do you think I would do such a thing ? I jusb climbed on the back of the tarantnss when it was rolling along the road in the night, and the chemidan fell off in five minutes. I fell bo and carried the chemidan off into bhe woods to keep it for the owner; of course I had to examine it to find the owner's name.'

' Yes, and you can't read. What good would the name do when you founr* ib ?' ' I didn'b think of thab till I had all the things spread on the ground. Then ib was too late, and I picked out all I could carry and lefb tbe rest.'

The brodyags could have been called the life of the convoy as they kept up a con tinual round of talk, of which the fore going may be considered a sample. The politicals of those of the convicts for v. horn this was the firsb journey to the mines were silent for the most part and much less in clined to look upon their life from the humorousside. There is no more philoso phical being in the world than the con firmed brodyag of Siberia ; he goes to the mines, escapes, goes again, and again, lives and suffers in the forest, is hunted like a wild beast, but rarely profits by ex perience. With each arrest he takes every thing as it comes and makes the best of it. His whole thoughts are devoted to how he will next escape and what he will do to make his way as smooth as possible. The brodyag is known as ' Ivan Don'b remember,' for the reason thab he forgets or conceals his real name in order that his identity cannot be traced. When asked his name this is all he knows aboub ib; he has no passporb other than the wolf's ; and if appearance indicated that he has escaped from the mines, he is sent back there for five years. As many as two hundred ' Ivan Don't-remembers ' have been found at one time in a forwarding prison. • A thousand or more of these vagabonds are arrested every year in Western Siberia,' said Dubayeff, while talking with Pushkin on this subjecb. 