text:  Some in the crowd were disputing the best places hardly knowing what they were running to see; and at last more cries were heard: "It is not fair--it cannot be: to-day is a holiday: to-day it is a sin to work!" Some of the boldest trusting to their numbers pulled their caps over their eyes and felt at the hilts of their daggers pressing close up to the Captain and crying "Don't shoe him Alekper! Do nothing for him: here's news my masters! What new prophets for us are these unwashed Russians?" The Captain was a brave man and thoroughly understood the Asiatics