[33] Evidently, an Imperial Messenger.
[34] Apparently, a slate. The point is, that Russians still perform all
their calculations on the ancient abacus, with marvellous rapidity, and
look upon pen-and-paper or slate-and-pencil as a slow, cumbrous process.
[35] By this twist of pronunciation the word becomes "storm-meter."
[36] The North Sea. The Mediterranean, literally translated, is
"Sredizemnoe"--Midland. Therefore the old gunsmith twists this into
"Tverdezemnoe."
[37] The old gunsmith uses a word which sounds fairly right, but means
"a disturber."
[38] By substituting an _l_ for a _d_ the old gunsmith turns
"under-skipper" into "half-skipper."