Burton Holmes on the Trans-Siberian Railroad
Chapter 4: Trainside Vendors
Take also a big empty bottle, for the little milkmaids
are very loath to part with the precious vodka-bottles in
which they bring fresh milk to the railway-station.
BUYING MILK
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We usually paid ten copecks, about five cents, for a quart
of rich, creamy milk, and we rarely missed an opportunity
of replenishing our supply.
Berries and caviar and eggs and milk, and the sour cream
of which the Russians are so fond, may also be purchased
of other young provision-venders, who appear scrupulously
honest, invariably giving back the proper change, even to
the careless foreigner, who, as they know, rarely counts
his copecks.
VENDORS
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