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not of any kind, +keinerlei+, adj. (indeclinable).

or try = and not try. The auxiliary verb of mood ‘+will+’ need be expressed but once, and stands, of course?

+unterrichten+, insep. comp. w. v. tr.

Say ‘and that he besides (+außer+) shoemaking (+Schuhmacherei+, f., with def. art.), carpentering and field-labour, will carry on (+treiben+) no (+keinerlei+) occupation’.

‘then’, here +Endlich+, with which begin the clause, and construe accord. to S. 4, N. 4 (+man+).

but — warned, +aber zugleich kündigt man ihm an+.

that — escape. This passage requires an altogether different construction in German; say ‘they (+man+) would upon (+bei+) an attempt, to go beyond (+überschreiten+, insep. comp. str. v. tr.) the limits of the town, not allow him to escape, but rather (+vielmehr+) shoot him down like a dog’ (liter.—but him rather like a dog shoot down, +nie´derschießen+)’.

Say ‘should he however be caught (+ein´fangen+) alive, (+so+) they (+man+) would send him without further formality (+Formalität+, f.), upon the simple order of the Ispravnik to the East of Siberia’.

and — realising = and well knowing (pres. p.).

to bid farewell, +Lebewohl sagen+.

+materielle Bequemlichkeiten+ (Nom. pl.), which use with the def. art. in the Dat. pl.

= former.

to walk out into the street, +in die Straße hinaus´schreiten+.

= outside.

Supply the pron. ‘these’ before the verb take (+führen+, i.e. lead); to = into.

to demand news from home, +einen nach Nachrichten aus der Heimat fragen+.

in drink, +im Trunke+.

in — threes, +je zwei oder drei zusammen+.

Supply ‘as also’ before ‘money’; in common, +gemeinschaftlich+.

My parents consider it their duty to help their neighbours in every emergency, +meine Eltern halten es für ihre Pflicht, ihren Nachbarn in jeder Not und Gefahr beizustehen+.

Insert ‘+und zwar+’ before ‘without’, which will improve the rendering very much.

+von+.

1 sh. = 1 +Mark+; a month, +monatlich, jeden Monat+, or +alle Monate+.

+doch die Bürgerlichen+; repeat ‘+Mark+’ after ‘+ten+’.

and sent = and are being sent (see S. 2, N. 1).

= children.

Section 168.

RUSSIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS IN BANISHMENT.

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