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Show Bandr- Tlio cold of Siberia Is so preat in winter that many kinds of provisions, which arc with us either sealed or salted, are there kept by simple freezing. Tho appearance ap-pearance of the markets at that season is described by Mr. Lansdell: Frozen chicken, partridges and other gamo aro often thrown together in heaps : like bricks or I ire wood. Butchers' meat defies the knife, and somo of the salesmen sales-men place their animals in fantastic positions beforo freezing them. Frozen lish are piled in stacks, and milk is offered for salo in cakes or bricks. A stick or string is generally congealed i Into a corner of the mass to facilitate j carrying, so that a wayfarer can swing a quart of milk at his side, or wrap it in 1 in his handkerchief, at discretion." I Vouth's Companion. |