Crossword-Solution: TARANTAS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

When quite a pile had accumulated Ivan turned to Tarras and asked if he had rubbed enough leaves into money, whereupon Tarras replied: “Thank you, Ivan; that will be sufficient for this time.” Ivan then said: “If you wish more, come to me and I will rub as much as you want, for there are plenty of leaves.” Tarras, with his _tarantas_ (wagon) filled with gold, rode away to the city to engage in trade and increase his wealth; and thus both brothers went their way, Simeon to fight and Tarras to trade.

From Orel there was no _malle-poste_ in which they could continue their journey, and they were obliged to hire a _tarantas_, or posting-carriage, a very inferior kind of conveyance.

The _bauer-wagen_ was much more uncomfortable than the _tarantas_ had been; travelling in it was like gallopping over a bad road in an English farmer's waggon; and, as the vehicle had no cover, the travellers were exposed without protection to the full power of the sun.

The body of our _tarantas_, made, for the sake of lightness, of woven elm withes, and varnished dark brown, was shaped not unlike a baby carriage.

You are ever welcomed: 'What a pity you were not here yesterday!' or, 'You should stay here till to-morrow.'" In process of time Ivan Vassilievitsch and his good-natured fat companion, Vassily Ivanovitsch, reach a borough town, where the Tarantas breaks down.