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heard of, for the practice of robbing
graves is dangexooa. A Canadian gen
tleman who nsed to call on me twice a
year for fine ‘rattlers’—that’s what they
call these cheerful relics—tcld me that
he got the taste through hearing in his
youth a graphic story about the steal
ing of a bone from the grave of the
Bev. George Whitefield, the celebrated
English preacher, who died near Boston
a few years before the Evolutionary
war. I supposed this is time. At any
rata Boston was considered at one time
headquarters for dea'ers in find rises
‘rattlers.* There is not mnchriall for
them openly,-except among ooUectors
of morbid articles connected with neat
criminals. The Canadian ooaa tenia
bitter fight with a fellow colieetDr^MM^
on visiting him, foond in hin poasapsiaw
the skull, of General Kleber, wbo was
assassinated in Cairo in theyear IttQ.;
Now, aa the visitor had haadl pro
cured in Egypt, at great axpenasy a
skull of the General, the collected^ be
came highly excited, and an anatonnst
was called in. Scaence decided that oss
of tEe skulls contained a piece of in
tegument whose chemical changes
proved it to be considerably lass than
six years old, while the farmatkB of
the oiler not only showed a derided
Egyptian origin, bat smtaioed the
teeth of a person of twenty years.
Kleber was about fifty. Nut tbs Can
niest part of it, though 1 did not dare
laugh over it whan the report was
made, was that one of the collators
had been cherishing the aknll of a
woman.
“it is vary singular bow easily rails
banters may be fooled.^ Neither of
those two then would bay any of the
religions relies so oommon in Europe.
Bat take , almost any kind of a boos,
boil it eareiully to take the fat oat, dry
it far several days by gentle heat in an
oven, and color it yellow with tomaric
and Vandyke brown, and yon have a
fair basis fur a dickar with the best of
the relic honteta. Tne inscription must
be veiy carskl.y made on old vallam,
and odd private marks, partially obliter
ated, most appear hare and there on
the bone. Soma dealers use a mixture
of a mineral acid and water on parts of
the bone, to make them crumble easily
The articles mast be kept in heavy
glass eases made tat them, and, if
mounted, moat show costly work. The
price asked amt ha large, find rigidly
adhered to. These devices may appear
immoral, but it is better to nse them
than to rob a grave.
“Of course most of the rebq banters
aim to get a general collection. They
will take a bottle of water from the'
Elver Jordan; a piece of rotten atone
from Veaarina, golf weed from the At
lantic ocean, or a piece ot-old bark
from Hyde Park. With equal nnlnniiwe
they will break a piece of stone from a
statue or a public onilding; they would
but I didn’t'see'where it ended, for the
■smoke wag in my way.” .
The German empire alone has no less
than 33,000 miles of subterranean wire,
out of a total of 153.000 miles of line.
France has 7,200 males of underground
wire in suooeasfnl use Austria-Hun
gary eomes next, with 854 miles of her
underground, and Russia follows, with
a subterranean system covering 155
mfiea.
We have not at hand the means of
showing all the erers-eonntry lines
making up these several totals, nor is
such showing necessary at the present
time, Wthar for the purpose of
good the statements heretofore made
or at establishing the points we had in
view, which related solely to intra-
rinrel service, or the nse of wires in
cities. We are, however, able to name
. a number of Instances where wires are
serried for long distances under ground
lint through itiwtctia of open conn try,
one where then are no objections to the
-w. pole-strong hues, snch as exist In
. populous add crowded cities.
1116 Between Berlin and Halle, in Ger-
war four hundred miles
aid beneath the snr-
and marking tap satis-
lir-strung lines, with
rantagh fnit they are
■Mb. To tbe snxpnre of Bio Ameri
cans, she hoisted a Hack flag! She was
a pirate, in search of prey; and the
captain, rightly believing that the
privateer must have s good amount of
gold on board, engaged her in * very
spirited manner. The buccaneer was
considerably superior in farce, bat his
men .were ill-disciplinfid,’ and their
gunnery was wretched in the extreme.
It was now tbat iXr* Gale’s skill
with .the forty-two ppXpdefWWO again ,
turned to account.. 'Jitter a number of .
broadsides had beeu«pphanged,be sue- (
ceeded inputting a pilot into the pi- (
rate’s hnll several feet below the water .
line. This was done as the enemy
rolled In the hewty smetl Which hap-
lened then to he miming, Bias expos-
ng a part of his hnll which tn smooth
water would have been iMhfc- a— .
As the spot was again, instantly seb-
merged, of course a perfect torrent ba-
her to
sleeper most be worth several hundred
dollars, and the company ought to saw
it np and sell it, Isewi no logic in a
rehe hunter. The one who travelled
ail over the world and brought back
several trunks lull of noaee broken off
from ancient statnee, had a definite
idea. His followers are curiously dila
ted specimens of their predecessor.
“Some of them, however, have spe
rial ties not unlike that of the nose
breaker. One of the liveliest of the
relic men collected the hate of oeleb-
ritiea. I don't believe he would have
given a dollar for Napoleonic grey over-
ooet; bnt the hat of a President of the
United Stabs had fer him an almost
prioeleea value. If neeeaaary, he was
was ready to suborn a great man’s ser
vants to get the wished for article.
gun to pour in through the hole. Mr.
rale knew what bad been done, for, in
spite of the smoke, be had seen where
his great cannon-ball had struck.
The pirates, finding their vessel'
danger cf sinking, hurriedly ran inboe
all' the guns on that side, at fee sat
unhts tafingly replied Chat “he couldn’t
stay away from her, twenty hours if he
tried ever so hard. 7 ’ Craig went home,
time running ont those on the opposite
aide—hoping by this expedient to so
careen the ship as to bring fen hole ont
of water. ‘ " " " * '
’ less liable to injury and interruption
1 from atmospheric and other causes. In
• France the telegraph Knee belonging
’ to the railway between Paris and Nancy,
. a distance of one hundred and seventy
miles, ere wholly laid under the
, ground.
A iwrfinn of tHnan Vmlnnfrinff tnUidl.
Bat the moment that so
much weight was shifted, over she
went.
The hatches being open, the ship
filled immediately, and in less than five
minutes she sank wife her whole crew!
The Tom had one
to flndlmy trace of him. ftiss Barker
vowed fee never would go into or re
ceive company again until he returned.
As years passed by aadno traces ef the
misting sen were received, his parenia
earns to look upon him as dead. MBs
Baxter, however, had n singular faith
thai he woiild come back, some day.
She kept her vow as to living a sedlud-
ed life, and few people ever saw her
after the night the had quarreled with
IPHHHRI , killed and two
wounded in the engagement.
The-name of the pjrate ship was
never ascertained, nor was that of her
captain; but that she was an enemy of
most gloomy and threatening front the
privateer’s-men could well attest.
Standing to the northward until in
fee track of vessels from Europe to the
West Indies, our patriotic adventurers
next described a heavy Ship which
proved a mole worthy foe, if a less des
perate one. She was tbe Townsend, a
mail packet, sailing between Falmouth
and Barbadoes.
The English captain, feeling that he
bad much at stake, used every exertion
takenptnuste island,qf Bogoslov
(God’s Ep, thirty miles northwest
from O biilSfei. Bepotto had been
brought in-than feme to time daring the
summer by natives of fee doings of-fee
* ‘angry moaotainf* of Bogoslov, fed to
this volcano tbe cloud oftohrs seems to
have bee* attributable.
In the San Franeisoo Chronicle of
November fefe hi addition to fee Asets
above ifeetted, is tbe tulle wing inter
view wife-Captain Sk/gce, Of fee steam
er Dora, which bi> tight fee letter of
Mrs. Smith from Oonalaaka. Captain
Hogue said, in reply to an inquiry, that
he had beett at Bogoslov twice, daring
the put season, and added:
“ ‘When Isay feat I was at Bogpslcrv
you must not lake it for granted’llend-
ed there.’
“‘Is it not. inhabitable Island?’ We
asked.''
‘“At certain seasons, perhaps, bnt
at the time I saw it there was nothing
visible there but a mass of Hama and
amok^ wife piece* of rod hot rook issu
ing from the great oone in the eentre of
fee mass and great quantities of lava
running down to the sea.’
“ ‘How near did yon approach?’
royalmast, yards, men, - and all, pluni
splashing into fee water. _
There was a most lively scrambling
among the wrecked spore and rigging
glimmer or one; yet ura uki uiat tucj
-could occasionally do so proved their
unknown neighbors to be much nearer
than could have been wished under all
fee uncertainties of the case. It ap
peased probable feat some of the stran-
gerg bright be merchantmen and others
mei-of-warj but, of course, no definite
conclusion could be arrived at in this
resfiefet.
As there fell at (he moment an al
most entire calm, the relative positions
of fee vessels could be changed bnt
very slowly, if at all; but tbe men of
the Tom keeping a careful silence, her
proximity remained unknown to the
otbers, whatever they might be. Now
and' then a light would show faintly
through the fog, seeming to be close to
the privateer, then becoming wholly
obscured by .an increasing density of
the mist. The weather was precisely
in that state which is apt to keep sailors
atritiork shifting studding sails from
one side to the other of their vessel, in
order, to profit by whatever light air
there may be, as it comes now from
starboard and now from port. Occa
sionally a boatswain’s pipe was heard;
and tbe hollow atmosphere permitted
even the words of command on board
of some of tbe strangers to be made out
wife great distinctness by tbs priva
teer’s men. The sentences were some
what like these:
’’Lay h’aft, ’ere, and give a pull h’on
that mizzen-top-s’l-’alyaisl Tbe yard’s
sagged—git it h-up w’ere’t belongs!” .
“H’in wife them larboard stun-
ners’lsl”
. /‘Small pull h’on the weather brasesl”
"Come h’up with the fore and main,
tacks and h’ease h’afl sommut h’on the
aheeta:” -
“H’eight bells! Call the watch there.”
The - nationality of the strangers
eoukl no longer remain in doubt.
lh. the morning, after the sunbeams
hafeMpbfaed fee fog, it was found that
tffe flpet'eonsisted of three West India-
fenjgi&a seventy Aoungun ship.
Tli£ man-of-war immediately gave
ctautfifejlhe Tom, then about three
OflcLrljfllLkiid, as fee pursuer had the
best of the breeze, fee privateer’s-men
sqjBSftAfebafeln a position of no little
pouT But, after the kina’s ship bad
aunceedpd Hytoatoasing fee dittanee by
her lorn.
Friday evening, fee 7fe of Dee., a
atranger knocked at fee door erf old Mr.
Barter’s house and asked to see Mias
Barker. He was a large, fine-looking
man about forty years of age. He m
admitted, and when Mine Barker ap
peared he held otrt his hand and mid:—
“Mary Barker, dfcFtT tell you feat
you wouldn’t see me again in twenty
years f” ' • '
It was William Craig. He had re
turned io his patents’ home in the after
noon. Both hla father and mother were
still living. Tbe secret of his arrival
was kept, and when he appeared in so
where fee numerous fellows who had
been aloft were seen like so many en
gulfed rats; but, as was afterwards as
certained, the casualties were fewer
than might have been expected—only
three men being lost, although four or
five others were somewhat injured.
ties which often existed between the
sine of fee two article*. He told me
that he had tried scraping down the
boats, which were generally much
larger than the hats, hot the result
waa to give a peculiar appearance to
his collection. One or two of his hats,
notably that of Thomas H. Benton,
were so small as to create a doubt in
my mind aa to their authenticity. I
From the loss of all her head canvas
the seventy-four was obliged to take In
to defend the property entrusted to his
care. His ship carried moid’gnns than
the privateer, and they were well man-
She had a strong crew, and, beside,
elusive light An official report, pre
pared some three years ago bom au
thentic data then obtained, showed that
there were nearly 600 miles of subter
ranean wires winked aneeeesfuliy at
that time in the principal cities of the
learned afterwards that hotel servants
mid others used to palm off their own
hats upon the collector.
One of the greatest troubles wife
relics is that they seldom bear the
least evidence within themselves ot
their genuineness. 1 have seen in my
day several hundreds of the pens with
winch Walter Scott wrote IVuverty,
and in tbe old country Bobby Barns’
erfsM miaht hn nalUl
She, however, kept’ everything set on
fee mainmast/and, bringing her broad
side to bear on the privateer, sent fee
round shot whistling thick and fast.
Nevertheless, the distance being some
what too great for her guns, fee execu
tion done was very little
Mf. Gale repeated his fire with the
forty-two-pounder a doeen or twenty
times; but could not succeed In bringing
tood part in the battle, so that, alto
gether, she was a really formidable an
tagonist. One of her shots, striking
fee Tom on fej starboard quarter,
went into fee cabin, where it tore
through the captain’s berth, and, going
across to the port side, lodged in fee
lieutenant’s mattress.
But the Tom’s forty-two-pounder
made sad work on board the Townsend,
catting up her hull and spars and
spreading destruction among her de
fenders. At length, when their cap
tain and a number of others were killed,
fee Englishmen struck their colors.
dramatic a manner in the prorence of
his Ad sweetheart she fainted in his
arms.
Craig’s story of his disappearance and
long absence was that he had gone
straight to Philadelphia after leaving
home, and there enlisted in the army
under an assumed name. He served
until tbe end of the war, and waa mas
tered out at Philadelphia. He longed
very much to return home, bnt he per
mitted Eis determination to remain
away twenty years to control him, and
he went directly to Nebraska. There
be took np a tract of land and went to
fanning, remaining feere until tbe twen
ty years was up. He resolved to time his
return and the meeting of hie old sweet
heart, If she was still alive and unmar
ried, at as near thehonr of his leaving
her as it was possible to do. He came
back with an ample fortune, and found
matters much as he had left them. The
wedding feat did hot come off twenty
drinking glass might almost be called
a staple' article of commeroe. When
my .poor father first took me into
business he gave me an awful talking
to heoanse I nought three locks oi
Byron’s hair from a relic collector,
although I only paid sixpence-for the
throe. The trouble waa they were aU
cf’■ different shades. Foe’s hair tued
to be sold largely, bnt yon can t dis
pose of it now unless yom mount it
very expensively la old gold; it takes
best in moomtng rings or pins. There
was so mnoh ot Poe’s hair sold that
the relic trade m hair has coffered
ever since. There was a time when
a hair relic-hunter would make an ef
fort to secure a look from the head ot
a great man, even if the latter died as'
bald aa the American eagle.
“Bless me, if here isn’t one of the
twenty-five million cones that have been
tamed oat at the Mount Vernon man
ufactory. it is marked ‘From the
grave oi WoaUngton!’ And this fellow
Germany, 40. In Amsterdam, 7j; the
Hague, 4; forty-five other plaoes in
Holland, 194. In Brussels, 3j; Ant
werp, 2. In various cities in Switzer-
land, 4*.
Since these statistics were furnished,
the underground system has been very
much extended in the oountnee named,
as well m the cities where it was then
m nee as in other places where the ex
periment had not yet been tried, so
it is quite within reason to assume that
the length of wire as reported at that
time lisa now, very nearly, if not whol
ly, doubled. Bat the figures given
above very clearly demonstrate as they
stand the hollowness of the pretense set
np by fee telegraph interests of this
“ T stood off about a mile and a half,
not daring to venture nearer. It was
fee grandest soane lever witnessed, and
I have toco pretty nearly everywhere. ’
“ ‘How long did the eruption last?
“ ‘I can’t exaetiy say aa to that, ask
foond the enua in a disturbed ixmditiim','
and left it next day, still in a state of
eruption. I have learned feat it had
been throwing eat lava tor several
weeks, and that it. had stiO oonthmad
to do so np to the date" of my depart
ure from Oonalaaka. But what was
moat remarkable and singular waa a
new feature winch waa then’ visible on
ths some. A new jetond had sprang
up not far distent from Bogoslov since
my pmviaa* voyage to that spot, At
ftnt 1 const not believe my senses, sad
thought I had maty amiaortealstian in
taking my surroundings, bat’ there it
wsa, a new island, with, a eaoe-shaped
peak in the oeatra,- (00 to tMfert high*
and lying only a short distance from
where we stood, that portion of its ir-
resulsz onfiinc ndarest to Bogoslov be
ing bata few milas sway from the old
steal a great man’s hairbrush, or split
off a piace of mahogany from Ml writ
ing-table. A list of their varied collec
tions would be very long far the aver
age ramysae cf a man’s life. Sven tn*
fee deck, wounding a marine in the
foot, and bringing up fee opposite
First, however, they threw overboard
fee ship’s mail, in order that the Amer
icans might not profit by any informa
tion or other matter that ft contined.
■ it was not sufficiently heavy to sink
immediately, and the privateer’s men,
hat. 1 have known men who took a
shell or a pebble from every well-known
beach they ever visited or mountain
they ever ascended. One id than had
a stone from the streets of every import
ant city in Europe. Ths number oi
going after them forthwith!”
The wind had freshened, and the Tom
was put m chase of the merchantmen.
perceiving it as it floated, lowered their
wat and secured it
A proposition was now made, by tbe
They wells more than twenty miles off,
but it was soon discovered that they
had lost fee breeze which was helping
the privateer, and, coining up wife
them near sunset, she captured all three.
officer whom the death of the English
captain had left in command, to ransom
the ship in order that she migHt proceed
on her voyage; and the arrangement
was presently effected, the sum paid
being forty thousand dollars, which,
considering fee value of fee ship and
cargo, was not excessive.
, . ATomantic incident occurred fa con
nection wife fee captnre of this ship.
One of feeTom’s youmj officers showed
Upon a subsequent cruise, the Tom,
with the same officers as before, and
wife many of her former crew, wept
ranging along the coast of Africa. Here,
upon rounding a bluff which ahettwed
On the coast iff San Luis Obispo,
Cal, are found great numbers at the
rock oyster, although a scientist rays it
is not an oystei at all, but such is its
common name. The Parapfwlas Cali-
fornicus invites the curious to study its
habitat, and the epicure to feast upon
its juicy body when they find it. When
a little inlet, her captain dferibv&ed a
Guineaman lying coziiy in the basin,
and, going.in, dropped anchor within a
much Mildness to;
although only a pa
o, Island. ’
a “‘What would yoa consider a fair .
a, estimate cf its anit’
eg ‘-‘Well, its irregular proportion!
1% would hardly admit of anything bnt a
hej rough gm -1 : think j it -abode
drt three-loortaa pt a mfle in hsngth anl
4 about the same in width.'
J ‘“in what latitude and longitude was
* *WeU, I will fell ypa .boat Urn*.’
~ ‘Ton see, I made
not knowfag frbat
„ fed there rinse, I
wouldn’t like to publish than, as they
might te'skndiotlwrviavigatorK’’
“ ‘D.d yoa meet any other tailors
who had seen the land reoently thrown
up? ...
“ 'Captain Anderson of the Matthew
Turner said that he had also observed
it,’ replied the espialn. ‘His observa
tion waa made about the same time,
bnt the island was Bun a mass of Ore
and smoke, and hot yet in’ a compact
state. He said that he had sailed over
the same spot now oeeupied by the
cable’s length of her.
Not a soul appeared upon her deck,
but on her stern were read fee words,
“Gambia—Liverpool,” which gave .the
Yankee commander all the information
he desired. A boat was manned,- and
the vessti, which 1 as a large square-
rigged brig, taken possession of, still
without arousing any one to call this
the tide is low, thin moltaak may be
found almost anywhere where the metal
project into the sea, but it requiressome
knowledge of its rr—Ww characteris
tics to know where to look. The pan*
pbolas, when a spat, swims in theses
until it stakes s rock, when it
and locates fest wpat for its hemeu Ap
parently without shell or hard substance
to bite, scratch, or bore with, the little
follow makes its way into stone sad
there imprisansitoelf for lifo, taking on
s shell, growing and eulaigtag its
cavern with its growth. How the
rock oyster bone into the stone and
afterward enlarges its chamber is a
puzzle to scientists. Whan grown It is
about four inches in leagth, is ahnralv* =
and fa form reaentbias a pear, the ssmE
end toward the opening in ths bnI,
through which ft thrusts Its tuba or
siphon to draw fa and ffoot water fa
which it finds its nourishment. In its'
prison home it keeps a continual rock-*
tag motion, by which It enlarges ths
room in which to grow. Tbs oystac is
found by discovering tbe little hates fa
ths rock and breaking it open with a,
pick or hammer, Thpy are found aU
along ths Pacific mart from Cap* Hat*
tory to Cape St. Leeas, and ard^teati-
or fee genial glow of cannel coal, mantl-
ed in limpid flamer of blae, dirpoee pne
to profitable reflections, to generous and
sympathetic feelings, and to a placidity
l*com*r"WW»y, aud consequently that
he^coukl sailtliree miles to fee enemy’s
two, slung a drag, tinder the Tom’s
bows ineraer to deaden her'headway
and give the Bnton mtah hope of over
taking her as would eauae him to con-
a bird that eosat or S3 her* is
from tfg to $5 ‘Bsere. The me
birds afo> 53 oeatsln the South
they are bought from the, men
These merchants'sue creels, wh
them from the boys who make *
ness of robbing the pests for the
birds. The boys only get frbm
15 centeipieoetar teem, bnt wt
often have We shaito to bay
from the boys; as we don't,wiali l
long and must get up a tot aa m
possibiflh fe- • - 2. *" '
The bird catchers are MBs bis
white' boys wfartive ratty’#9*
ly, anddhea3£y Batch enough!
they take tnepife the city and «
of than to tbs street bird men
ealcalal
of mind feat was for a fear supposed
by the rushing public of the nineteenth
century to be one iff the lost arts:
Gassy furnaces, cast iron stoves, and
snch poor pretexts as kerosene and gas
radiators can never import more than
physical warmth, Mentae caloric and
those airy fancies, delicate as fee flames
feat give them cause, are not evolved
by hogging stoves and sitting over
registers. The cheerful effect of visible
fire gives ft decorative value, and Els
such amclcs, and will pay heavily for
them.
“Many relic hunters go in only for
siness. At all events his slumber must
have been very profound, to have suf
fered no interruption from what had
been going on so near him. Opening
his eyes, be stared, in astonishment at
“I am a naval officer, sir,’.’ replied
Mr, Gale.
“Ah, yes! I see! One of ’is^ipqestj’s
... lui’te that, Sir,” replied Hr.
“The
‘Tbe Sovereign people.’
Of late s'law has been passed agamrt
taking maeking-Mids truer fee plsato.
lions, and moakaD of tasty come faun
the sea ooaat. The old aaesbaild fetor
nests generally in wdd tone buslMk
old trees and lenoaa. They are
very particular, arid make them ont o*
stinks, which they pot together in k
rough manner joat so they will hftU
fee eggs;. They lay fear or five,; and
every one hafobrib In feifrwild state
they nil* only tws hraode. if apt dm-
tor bed; bnt when a boy finds a nest
blue-jackets, I most ’ope, sir?”
_ “Not quite that, Sir,” replied Mr.
nugesty I serve is called
Gale. “The majesty I serve is called
‘IRie Sovereign people.’ I am first
lieutenant of the privateer Tom. of
Baltimore, to which vessel your brig
has become a prize! I. am sorry for
your misfortune, bnt it is our business
to make war on England’s commerce,
as it is her policy to distress
his fate. His officer* and men, he ex
plained, were aU gone on shore, and he
himself, having had no particular busi
ness on band at the- moment, had sat
down to read in fee cabin,- andwa fiaEl^ti
The Gambia proved to be one of. the
richest prizes ever captured by mi
American privateer. She was iff about
three hundred .tips barren, and h«
almost completed her cargo ferhoaN
Its balk consisted mainly of palatMU
tamarinds, and valuable wood: but fee
V,nd UVavdioo saws - nmsaatoi '1 Ajm
lieutenant oi tue privateer iwh. oi
Baltimore, to which vessel your brig
'_ 1 . - .±:‘ ' , *:t
your misfortune, bnt it is onr butinees
so feat the eocation waa favorable, but
still, even a big seventy-four pounder at
a distance of two miles oould be no very
encoudriing mark for a single cannon
ball.
- In those days, the big guns were not
fired as now, by means of percussion
caps; but a man stood by wife a slow-
match and clapped it upon the priming
at the word.
Mr. Gale took unusual pains in sight
ing fee long forty-two. Once or twice
he was upon the very point of giving
fee order to let drive, but hesitated and
sighted again, the ™" wife the match
alt fee while standing with arm out-
streteted and the bright coal glowing.
Nows little higher, and again a little
lower, was brought .the muzzle of fee
huge cannon, as fee lieutenant squinted
along the iron, till fee lopkers-gn he-,
pamk impatient for the flash and roar.
or times’before yon hit fee fellow 1”
‘t kuow .it,.” said Mr. Gale, still
fating intently and never looking
: ‘-but I want to come aw near ae
thers! a little lowep! I wapt tp
cargo, fa orifer fo reiiov
who had thus lost their
Tbe captain said that hi
would remain at a Fta
at a little distance deryn
an PPportunlty shouH-i