Traits of Travel, or Tales of Men and Cities, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Traits of Travel, or Tales of Men and Cities, Vol. 2 of 2

The day that I and my companion rode over to see him was a fine one in J une, and as we walked cur horses into the town, we heard a considerable clamour towards the market-place. We trotted in that direction, and the first thing that struck us was the fine figure of Phil, in a crowd of town's-people which sur rounded a squad of four or five Cossacks, who had rode into the market, got drunk in a cabaret, and were quarrelling together and belabourin'g each other unmercifully, with the short thick whips attached to their bridles. These savages did not lay-on each other more ferociously than did some cowardly scoundrels of the town lay on them, when two or three of them were tumbled from their ponies and lay sprawling on the ground. All the enmity of the vanquished broke out, and the Cossacks would have been roughly handled indeed, had not a gallant ally been ready, in the person of the English captain. Who instantly inter fer-cd, wielding his good arm powerfully, and making most un ceremonious applications with the toe of his boot to the rear ward demonstrations of the flying enemy, some dozens of whom ran before him in electrical dismay.

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