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VOL. XIV.
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■wiA A favorite prescription of one of 1
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Sea Foam.
Light o’er the billows our good boat bounds,
Who would remain on the drear3- shore?
Like the wild rod door from the enger hounds,
She springs at the steady dip of the oar.
Oh, dearer than gold is the glcuinin# white
foam.
It culls hr. it beckons nwny from our home,
And we answer with hearts beating wildly and
fret',
We’re coming to meet thee, we’re coming to
pivot thee.
Then give us thy welcome, while Queen of the
To dn6h on the crest of some mighty wave,
To dip like n gull from the glassy wall,
We four not to rest in an ocean grave.
Death comes but once, and be comes to all.
And the gleaming white foam, with its mantle
outspread.
Would pillow us soft with its anus for our bed.
So we utiswer with hearts boatiug wildly and
free.
We’re coming to meet thee, we’re coming to
greet thee.
Wo fly to tby bosom, whito Queen of the Seal
—Clare Beatrice CotTu}’.
AS AN AGRICULTURIST.
The Gentle William TUleth the Soil, and
Telleth of Ills Strange and Kxclting
E*|Mrlenop*.
During tho past scasou, writes Bill
Nye to the Northwestern Miller , I was
considerably interested in agriculture.
I met with some success,but not enough
to madden mo with joy. It takes a
good deal of success to unscrew my
reason and make it totter on its throne.
I’ve had troublo with my liver, and
various other abnormal conditions of
tho vital organs, but old reason sits on
his or her tlirono, as tho case may be
through it all.
Agriculture has a charm about it
which I can not adequately describe.
Every product of the farm is furnished
by nature with something that loves it,
so that it will never be neglected. The
f rain crop is loved by the weevil, tho
Lossian lfy, and tho chinch-bug; tho
watermelon, the squash, and the cu
cumber are loved by the squash-bug;
the potato is loved by tho potato-bug;
tho sweet-corn is loved by the ant,thou
sluggard; the tomato is loved by tho
cub-worm; the plum is loved by tho
cnrcullio, and so forth, and so forth, so
that no plant that grows need boa wall*
llower. (Early blooming and extreme
ly dwarf joke for the table. Flnut as
soon as there is no dangor of frosts in
drills four inches apart. When ripe,
pull it, and eat raw with vinegar. Tho
red ants may be added to taste.)
Well, 1 began early to spade up my
angle-worms and other pets to see if
they had withstood the severe winter.
1 found they had. They were unusual
ly bright and cheerful. The potato
bugs were a little sluggish at first, but
as tli3 spring opened and the ground
warmed up they pitched right in and
did first-rate. Every one of ray bugs
in May looked splendidly. I was most
worried about my cut-worms. Away
along in April I had not scon a cut
worm, and I began to fear t hey had
suffered and perhaps perished in the ex
treme cold of tho previous winter.
One morning late in tho month, how
ever, I saw a cut-worm come out from
behind a cabbage stump and take off
his ear-muif. lie was a little stilF in
the joints, but lie had not lost hope. I
saw at once now was the time to assist
him if I bad a spark of humanity left. I
ttonrchmi every work T coUId Ibid on
agriculture to lind out what it was that
farmers fed their blamed cut-worms,
but all scientists seemed to be silent.
1 read the agricultural reports, tho dic
tionary, ami the encyclopedia, but they
didn’t throw any light on the subject,.
I got wild. 1 feared that i ljad brought
but one cut-worm through the winter,
and I was liable to lose him unless I
could find out what to feed him. I
asked some of my noiglibors, but they
spoke jeoringly and sarcastically. I
know now how it was. All their cut
worms had frozen down last winter,
and they couldn’t bear to see mo get
ahead.
All at once an idea struck me. I
haven’t recovered from the concussion
yet. It was this: Tho worm hail win
tered under a cabbage stalk; no doubt
he was fond of tho bevegige. I acted
upon this thought and bought him two
dozen red cabbage plants, at 50 cents a
dozen, I had hit it tho lirst, pop. lie
was passionately fond of these plants,
and would eat three in one night, lie
also hml several matinees and sauer
kraut lawn festivals for his friends; and
in a week I bought three dozen more
cabbage plants. By this time I had
collected a large group of common
scrub cut-worms, early Swedish cut
worms, dwarf Hubbard cut-worms,and
shorthorn cut-worms, all doing well,
but still, I thought, a little hide-bound
and bilious. They acted languid and
listless. As my squash-bugs, currant
worms, potato-bugs, etc., were all do
ing well without care, I devoted myself
almost exclusively to my cut-worms.
They were all strong and well, but they
seemed melancholy with nothing to eat,
dav after day, but cabbages.
I, therefore, bought five dozen toma
to plants that were tender ami large.
These I fed to tho cut-worms at the
rate of eight to ten in one night. In a
week tho cut-worms had thrown oil
that air of ennui and languor that, I had
formerly noticed and were gay and
light-hearted. I got them some more
tomato plants, and then some more
cabbage for change. On tho whole I
was as proud as any young farmer
who has made a success of anything.
One morning I noticed that a cab
bage plant was left standing unchang
ed. The next day it was still there. I
was thunder-struck. I dug into tho
ground. My cut-worms were gone. I
spaded up the whole patch, but there
wasn’t one. Just as I had become at
tached to them and they had learned to
look forward each duy to my coming,
when they would almost come up and
eat a tomato plant out of my hand,
someone had robbed me of them. I
was almost wild with despair and grief.
Suddenly something tumbled over my
foot. It was mostly stomach, but it
had feet on each corner. A neighbor
said it was a warty toad. He had eat
en up my summer’s work. He had
swallowed my cunning little cut-worms.
I tell you, gentle reader, unless some
way is provided whereby this warty
toad scourge can be wiped out, I for
one shall relinquish the joys of agri
cultural pursuits. When a common
toad, with a swallow complexion and
no intellect, can swallow up my sum
mer’s work it is time to pause.
“No,” said tho country postmaster,
“I don’t care so much about losing my
office. But, you see, marni’s got a
school, and tue postal cards used to
come in real handy as reading lessons
for the youngsters. Jf I’d only known
it in time, I might have saved a lot,
enough to last for a year or so; but I
was kicked out so sudden that I didn’t
have any chance, ami now marm’s in a
terrible way and declares 1 never did
havemo foresight.”
m * 11
There is ono divorce for every six
teen marriages in the Suite of Ohio.
The Cremator!um at Milan.
Tho crematorium stands at the far
end of tho grounds, a building not
largo nor high, but, with its crescent
shaped open atrium of whito marble,
sufficiently handsome and imposing.
On tho frieze is this inscription: "Tam
]>io Crcmatorio per volonta del Alberto
Keller eretlo c donalo alia cilia di Mi
lano. On tho wail facing the ontrance
is a handsome medallion of Albert Kel
ler, who was duly cremated in the tem
ple of liis own providing. Many por
tions of tho wall are marked off in
small tablets inscribed with the names
of tho persons whoso bodies have un
dergone cremation, and whoso ashos,
in many cases, reposo in an urn or
small vessel in a nicho behind tho tab
let. Ashes they are not, properly
speaking. I was shown about a couple
of handfuls of white bloachod bone, in
hits not larger than one’s linger—
all that remained, as 1 learned, after
the cremation of the body of a man
some ten stone in weight. Other
spaces bavo been appropriated by in
tending cremators, and have the word
“Assegnato” inscribed on them.
Through a small door you pass from
the atrium into what 1 may describe as
the operating room, in tho middle of
which stands tho onclosod furnace,
looking much like an enlarged edition
of tho family laundry copper. The firo
is kindled at the back of the furnace,
and wliou at the proper moment releas
ed by tho uplifting of iron shutters,
comos roaring through two largo orific
es, and quickly tills the wliolo of the
space whore lies itsproy. Tho body—,
il cadavero, as the attendant called it,
seemed to take great delight in repeat
ing tho words,—dressed in a light lin
en or woolen shroud, or other costume,
is taken from tho sholf in which it lias
been brought, and laid on a marble
slab, thoif transferred to a largo iron
tray, which is borne to tho mouth of
tho furnace and laid on a frame,
which, by the action of a winch, is
wound into the interior with its burden.
The iron door is thou closed, tho shut
ters, as described abovo, aro raised,
an<l tho furnace, to uso an American
expression, is literally in full blast. At
tho end of two hours tho operation is
complete, and all that there remain of
what was once a man, full of "blood,
bones, marrow, passion, feeling,” are
"Two handfuls of white dust shut
in an urn of brass.”
The system at present in uso is that
of Paolo Gorini; it takes, ns I have
said, two hours nnd tho consumption
of 300 kilogrammes of wood and 25
kilogrammes of charcoal. Tho cost
of everythin", including tho mural
tablet, is 1)4 francs. A now method,
known as tho Systome Vcnini, undor
which tho incineration will bo effected
by gas, was then immediately to bo
tried, —I saw the furnace just com
pleted,- ami is no doubt now in oper
ation. Under this system tho wholo
affair will be completed in fifty min
utes.
In this placo, which was perfectly
sweet, clean, and wholesome, without
tho faintest trace of anything calcu
lated to offend tho souse of sight or
smell, there aro about eighteen or
twenty cases of cremation every month.
They are, tho attendant told mo, de
cidedly on the increase, and wero tho
cholera scare again to appear, he had
no doubt from what ha had heard, that
the practice would havo largo numbers
of adherents. Already bodies for cre
mation are sent from distant parts of
Italy, and on the next day one was ex
pected from Paris. And, indeed,when
1 thought of all the horrors of our or
dinary “buryings,” I could not won
der at the desire to bo quit of them, no
matter of what amount of trouble or
expense. — London World.
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A Hear Htory.
From Theodore Roosevelt’s account
of“. Still-hunting tho Grizzly,” in tho
June Century, wo quote tho following:
“Sure enough, there wero two hears
(which afterwards proved to be an old
she and a nearly full-grown cub) trav
eling up the bottom of the valley,much
too far for us to shoot. Grasping our
rifles and throwing off’ onr hats, wo
started oil'as hard as we could run di
agonally down the hillside, so as to cut
them off. It was some little time be
fore they saw us, when they made off
at a lumbering gallop up the valley. It
would seem impossible to run into two
grizzlies in tho open, hut they were go
ing ui) hill and wo down,and moreover
the old ono kept slopping. Tho cub
would forge ahead and could probably
havo escaped us, but tho mother now
and then stopped to sit down on her
haunches and look round at us, when
the cub would run back to her. The
upshot was that wo got ahead of them,
wnon they turned and went straight
up ono hillside as we ran straight down
the other behind them. By this time I
was pretty nearly done out,for running
along tho steep ground through tho
sage-brush was most exhausting work;
and Merriticld kept gaining on me and
was well in front. Just as he disap
peared over a bank, almost at the bot
tom of the valley,! tripped over a bush
and fell full length. When I got up I
kuew I could never make lip the ground
I had lost, aud besides could hardly run
any longer. Merrilield was out of
sight below, and the bears were labor
ing up tho steep hillside directly oppo
site aud about three hundred yards off;
so I sat down and began to shoot over
Merritield’s head, aiming at tho big
bear. She was going very steadily and
in a straight line, and each bullet seut
up a puff of dust where it struck tho
dry soil, so that 1 could keep correct
ing my aim; and the fourth ball crash
ed into the old bear’s flank. She lurch
ed heavily forward, but recovered her
self and reached tho timber, while Mor
rifield, who had put on a spurt, was not
far behind.
“I toiled up tho hill at a sort of trot,
fairly gasping and sobbing for breath;
but before I got to tho top I heard a
couple of shots and a shout. Tho old
bear had turned as soon as *sho was in
the timber, and come towards Merri
lield; but he gave her the death-wound
by firing into her chest, and then shot
at the young one, knocking it over.
When 1 came up ho was just walking
towards the latter to finish it with the
revolver, but it suddenly jumped up as
lively as ever and made oil' at a great
pace—for it was nearly full-grown. It
was impossible to lire where tho tree
trunks were so thick, but there was a
sruali opening across which it would
have to pass, and collecting all my en
ergies I made a last run, got into posi
tion, and covered the opening with my
rille. The instant the bear appeared I
fired,and it turned a dozen somersaults
downhill, rolling ovor and over; tiie
ball had struck it near tlio (ail aud had
ranged forward ibroqgh the hollow of
the body. Each of us hud thus given
the fatal wound to tho liear into which
the other had bred the first bullet.”
Kahn’s Price for Making a Will.
Gen. Butler and Mr. F. J. Dupignac
spent many hours recently in Mr. As li
bel Green’s office in trying to get ex
planations from Mr. Aaron Kahn as to
the promiscuous entries aud erasures
in his cash-book in the accounts against
Mrs. and Miss Hoyt. Mr. Khan could
not furnish any information as to the
income ho derived from his profession;
was uncertain as to what cases ho had
tried, and pleaded ignorance about the
fees he had received. One charge ap
peared iu the book which almost decid
ed Gen. Butler to close his office in
Boston aud open ono in New York. It
was a charge of $3,000 for drawing up
Mrs. Hoyt’s last will and testament.
“Here is a young man,” said tho
general, "who never drew up a will be
fore, had never been in the surrogate’s
court till employed iu this case, and ho
charges $3,000 for drawing up a will
for one of his clients.”
“Age aud experience have nothing
to do with it,” replied Mr. Robert Se
well. "William Pitt supplied England
with some of the most glorious pages
of her history when he was still in the
tweuties.”
"Pardon me,” replied the general,
“age and experience have a definite
value in the legal market,though 1 own
youth sometimes gets away with tile
‘boodle.’ The last will ft man signs is
often tile worst, as iu tho ease we aro
trying; hut tho first will a la'wyor
draws up is never his best, unless it is
tho only one."
Lawyor Kahn moved uneasily in his
chair, and a largo collection of diamonds
scintillated on liis persons as Gen. But
ler commenced to criticise liis English.
"Whathedono” and “what ho seen,"
expressed in writing and speech, took
tho referee’s breath away, while tho
"hull of the matter” almost prostrated
tho general, who gave the learned law
yer a brief lecture on Liudley Murray.
When asked a question as to certain
entries, Mr. Kahn said ho preferred to
wait till Mr. Sewell, his counsel, re
turned. Gen. Butler, who had not no
ticed that Mr. Sewell had left the room
aud that Mr. A. M. Alexander had tak
en his seat, turned to the referee and
said:
“To whom shall I apologize, your
honor, to Mr. Alexander or to Mr. Se
well? That reminds me,” ho contin
ued, “of a case that happened in Wash
ington many years ago. There was a
congressman from Ohio called Sawyer,
and nicknamed ‘Sausage Sawyer,’ be
cause ho was always eating sausages
behind his chair in tho house. One day
a circus arrived in Washington. David
Crockett weut to it, and for tho lirst
timo saw a baboon. Ho turned to a
friend on one side of him and said,‘How
like Sausage Sawyer,* and turning to
the other sido there ho found Sawyer.
Sawyer demanded an apology. ‘All
right,* replied Crockett, ‘i apologize—
to the monkey.* ’*
“Well, as 1 am present and Sowell is
not, I think you had bettor apologize
to me, said Mr. Alexander.
“Very well,” replied tho general;
but—but don’t toll Sewell l did so.”—
New York Herald.
liver Gardner’s Talk.
“Am Stopoff Jolinsing in do hall dis
eavenin’P” asked tho president, as ho
rose up and winked at Samuel Shin to
stir up tho fire and roast Elder Toots
out from behind tho stove.
“Yes, sab!” replied a high-pitched
voieo from ono of the back corners.
“You will pleaso step to do front.”
Brother John,sing has always bragged
about the length of his heels, and ho
now appeared to think that tho hour
had come when lie was to receivo a
prize chromo. liis face wore a broad
grin, and just at that moment he would
have lent Brother Backslide Davis 50
cents without the least security.
“Stepoff Jolinsing,” said Brother
Gardner in his deop-toned voice, “I
war in a fcodstoh do odder nigiit to see
about gittin* two-bits wutli of meal lur
my hens, when you walked in an’
wanted to git trusted fur a bale of hay
fur your mule.”
“An* lie trusted me, Bah.”
“ ’Zactly, an’ il pleased mo to see it.
In a few minits do ole man 'Cummins
limped in. Do two of you talked about
do general wickedness of mankind fur
a few minits, an’ den a dispute arose
as to de aigo of tho world.”
“Yes, sah. De ole man Cummins
doan know nuffin, sail.”
“You called him a liar.”
“But lie called mo a fool.”
“You called him a bigot.”
“An* lie called mo a humbug.”
“’Zactly—’zactly 1 hoard it all,
Brudder Job using, an* now I want to
a* you what you know about do aigo
of the world P”
“I—l—knows as much as dc ole man
Cummins.”
“How old am de airlh?”
“I duiino, sah.”
“Oh, you don’t! You an* Cummins
call names an’ almost fight ober what
neither of you kin cum widin a millvun
miles of kuovvin*. Dat’s mankind,
’zactly. \Y*o kin bo bluffed on what we
do kuow, but wo won’t back water fur
any libin’ man on what we doan’ know.
When wo git a theory we fight fur it
sooner dan fur solemn facts. il wo
can’t convince dc odder party by blab
we am ready to do it by sluggin’.
Brudder Job using, it will be well fur
you to disreckolect a few facks. A
gill of arajyment am worth a bushel o’
abuse. it takes a man of strong com
mon sense to admit his faults an’
errors. You may believe wid ail yer
might an’ still bo in de wrong. Find a
man who prides himself on stickin’ to
his opinyuns, an’ you has found a dan
gerous member of de community. You
may now sot down, an’ wo will attack
do reg’lar programme,”— Detroit Free
Frees.
A. Narrow Rscapo.
When ho had laid down his fork,
swallowed the last of his coffee, and
wiped oft* hU chin with a rod-bordered
napkin, lie loaned back and said;
“Gentlemen, I wager two to one that
New York Central makes anew issue
of bonds within ninety days.”
No one responded; but after he had
gone a man at the foot of the table
with a squeaky voice called out:
“Yes—h’m—yes! lie said ninety
days, and wouldn’t take an hour oil. ff
he r d made it eighty-nine days and a
half I’d have pulled out SSOO on him
quicker’n lightning.”— lla/i Street
Mem.
A curious denizen ot the deep was
lately caught in a shad net at Ocean
View, Cal. It was thirty-five inches
long and twenty-seven inches across
the back, with teeth similar to those
of a rattlesnake, knitting-needle smell
ers, two protectors on each side in the
shape of spears, and rubber-liko fins,
it also had two feet under its belly like
those of a frog. It weighed rforty
pounds.
NO. 31.
Mexican Monte.
“I was just reading,” said a well
known Denver sport to a News man,
"about a man wiuking his eye after liis
head was cut off, and I had an argu
ment with Tom Roive, who said such a
tiling was impossible. But Tom don't
know. He never saw a man’s head
cut off. Now, 1 know that I have seen
something just as strange. I will tell
you about it. Twenty years ago this
month there was a lot of us took a trip
to old Mexico, to see what we could
scoop in—and, by tho way, we got
scooped—and went to bucking heavy
on every game wo could strike. Well,
what I started out to tell was about ono
of our gang, named Bill Brewster. Bill
was a rattling.doaler, a good hand at
short cards, and always had a pocket
ful of money till he got struck on Mex
ican monte.
"Talk about your greaser’s infatua
tion for tho game. I nevor saw one of
them that could hold a marker to Bill.
He’d got broke. Then he’d got a pack
of cards and deal himself, fin’d turn
tho cards for anybody or anything wlion
ho was busted. Sometimes he’d make
a raise and quit, aud go to playing
faro, where lie was. as a rule, lucky.
But no soouor did he got a big stake
than ho would tacklo monte,and would
invariably got downed. Us boys triod
to persuado him to stick to a whito
man’s game, but no, ho wouldn’t havo
it, and was almost all tho timo iu a
chronic stato of impocuniosity.
“One day Bill had established him
self iu a pulque shop with his cards,
and was turning them for anybody who
wanted to wager a cent. There was a
party of Mexican bloods in tho room,
and finally they sannted over to Bill’s
tablo, and one of them asked him if ho
would turn for SIOO. Bill said ho would
although ho didn’t havo but $lO in the
bank. The fellow slaps down his mon
ey, and Bill wins. That made tho
Mexican mad, aud he slaps down an
other. Bill wins again. The third
timo, and Bill scooped the pile.
“The Moxiean asked Bill if ho would
turn for SI,OOO, and Bill told him it
didn't make any difference if he made
it a million, as tho bank was alilo to
pay ton times that amount. Tho Mexi
can bet and lost. Then lie accused
Bill of cheating. Bill called him a
liar.
"I was standing right to one sido of
Bill. He had the cards in his left hand,
and had hold of the bottom cards with
his right hand. The Mexican’s hand
was on his gun.
“ ‘Hold on,’ says Bill, ‘don’t draw
till 1 make this turn. I’ll bet you sl,-
000 to SIOO that it’s tho sovon of
spades.'
“ ‘Done,’ says the Mexican, who
threw SIOO on the table.
“Bill commenced pulling the card out
slowly. The Mexicau was watching.
There wore two black spots showed up,
and Bill’s hand slopped. Quick as a
Hash the Mexican drew his gun and
fired. Bill never moved in his chair,
but his right hand kept its slow motion
until the card was drawn from the pack
and hold up to view. It was the seven
of spades. The hand moved slowly
back again and the card was laid on
the table. Bill then leaned back in his
chair and shut his eyes.
“We were all so excited when the
shot was fired that we didn’t know
what to do, and, as Bill continued to
turn the card, we supposed lie hadn’t
been hit, but we found out differently
when wo examined him. Ho was shot
directly through the heart.
“Now, 1 reason that thing out this
way: Bill was determined to convince
that Mexican Lh.it ho didn’t know as
much as lie thought lio did. That
thought was in his mind when he was
shot, and, though killed instantly, his
wishes were carried out aftor death.
Bill was game, too, and I believe if ho
hadn’t realized that he was a dead man
when shot, and hadn’t wanted to win
the Mexican’s money, ho would have
grabbed his gun and done some execu
tion with it.
“That’s why I say a man can do a
thing after lie’s dead.” —Denver hews.
Soudanese Spears.
The I laden down spear is from six to
seven feet long. The handle is of a
piece of hard mimosa or acacia, thinner
than a broom haudle. There is n long
socket attached to the blade,into which
the wood is driven and fastened. At
the reverse end there is commonly a
piece of twisted iron or telegraph wire,
which serves the double purpose of
weighting the handle, so as to counter
balance the blade, and to prevent tho
weapon being pulled from the grasp.
The spear head or blade is rarely more
than two inches broad by eight inehes
Jong. Going into battle the Iladen
dowus grease their spears from blade
to hilt, so that it is impossible to wrest
tho weapon from their hands in a strug
glo.
Tho spears used by tho tribes up the
Nile are much more formidable weap
ons. The handle is from seven to nine
feet long, made of male bamboo wood.
It is furnished with a terrible broad
bloded long spear head, liko that of tho
Hadendowas, kept bright as a mirror
and sharp as a razor. The blades aro
sometimes fourteen implies long and five
incites wide. In an Arab spear
up the Nile looks more like an elongate
ed trowel blade than anything else*
Shovel-heads our soldiers used to call
them. They make a fearful wound,
and it was with one of these Col,
aby was struck in the throat and. killed,
being exceedingly light weapons, al
though badly balanced, tho Arabs can
handle them with groat dexterity.—
London Telegraph.
The valuo of ox bones is
ble. The lour feet of an ordinary ox
will make a pint of neatsfoot oil. Thu
thigh bone itf tho most valuable, being
worth #BO per ton for.- cutting into
clothbrusii handles. TheJpruleg boihis
are worth SSO per ton and uro made up'
to collar buttons, parasol handles, jiilil
jewelry. The water in widen the holies
are boiled is reduced to glue, the dust
which comes from sawing the bones is
food to cattle and poultry,and all bones
that carmot be ur>ed as noted, or for
bone black used in relining sugar, are
made into fertilizers and help to enrich
the soil.
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“Fat little cakes! Curd cakes!'*
“Ducks and chickens! O, my soulf
Good ducks and chickens!” are some
of the Mexican street cries.
A man may be bold in business,
bravo in baltle and courageous in time
of danger, but tho small brother of tho
girl whom ho is courting will often
knock him out in ouo round. — N. Y,
Journal.
Scene: Newly-paved street. First
Scotchman (walking on sidewalk)—.
“Here, man, Jock, come aff the courso
road on tno tho fitpad.” Jock—“Na,
iv’o paid for the stanes, an' I’m gawn
too tak’ tho uso o’ them.” _ ..