| Show A PERILOUS TRIP z I 1 on foot through tartar yi turkestan Turk estan and a n a I 1 siberia to st pet borg it may be safely asserted that not one of his episcopal brethren has e even performed such a feat as formed au an epi e ri imode in the early life of the 1 pointed poi I 1 ted bishop 0 of f norwich says the st james gazette after serving a cou couple plea of years as curate under tr Dr hook at leeds mr sheepshanks Sheep S shanks wenla ani out to british columbia in 1859 when A that colony was a far wilder and more L isolated country than now ire he did lid i eight years of rough work and then tha determined to come codd home for a holiday at all events ejecting 1 to travel via iia japan and china in those days a by na no means I 1 familiar route fr months he dl disappeared appear e d entirely fra from mza mortal ortal ken anah and bis family began to entertain serious misgivings as a acthia to is fatel one evening ayoung cambridge mali man afterwards head mas ma i sar ter of a well w all e known grammar school but buff tutor for r the P to toa a russian bussian prince was A smoking s moki a cigarette bigarel te I 1 in iii his rooms in st petersburg peters V arg when his servant hii announced that a wanted to see gee him vey very urgently the unknown 41 visitor s was shown up and appeared in inthe the well worn garb from which brici briah olynn derived his simple but prague T 1 al sartorial notions to his hosts ut ter bewilderment this uncouth beme j a addressed him in refined english aej and presently explained that he was a brother desirous of securing his good offices the man in short was rev john sheepshanks Sheep shanks who wha ta haag IV ing landed some six months before near the mouth of the amoor river rive T had made his way alone and hii on foot t through turkestan turk estan es tan anaf and Z beria to the banks of the th e neva N eva I 1 Q |
