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VOL. VIII.
FAREWELL.
Fair Ilaldec! when thy starry eyes
Beam sweutlv on niv lmi.tnlil hnart.
Calm thoughts oi Joy within mn riso,
Aud all earth's weary cares depart j
Tho skies asstimo a deeper bluo.
The earth in brlizhtor urenn Hrmnnra.
And mora cornea swoetl y slowing through
iiigui uars aim unuy von ol toars.
Thou art the ruu that warms my soul.
And In lovo'e heaven thou ulult abide,
While stars ahall riso or planota roll,
Or move tho wbools of time and tlda.
This heart can no'er forgot the lovo
WUU'U tuy puro spirit gavo to mino,
And every prayer 1 wall aliovo
js initio, a our aiigal, wholly thiue.
Farewell, sweet lovo, Die hour draws noar
When wo must part oh, not In vain,
Falls Irani thy damask cheek the tear,
That bills mo hasten back twain;
When o'er yon hills the twilight star,
llke thy nitre soul, comes calm and free
Think thou of mo, and though alar,
My heart will fondly turn to theo.
A WIFE'S APPEAL.
The wise people tlinso who manage
their neighbors' affairs in theory much
ctter than they do thoir own in prac
ticeshook their heads in solemn con
clave when Mr. Hopworth married the
second time ; but an added shade of
venom was in their councils when the
illage paper noticed, in a flowery para
graph, the birth of a son and heir at the
great house.
Poor Claucc,' they said, 'has no
chance now. It was bad enough when
Ilepworth married a chit of a girl, who,
of couse, cared for nothing but his
money ; but now there is a son, there is
uo hope for Clarice.'
A young, fair woman, herself in the
cry spring-time of life, yet having j.
ready token the holy lies of wife and
mother into her pure heart, knelt in ore
f the rooms of the great house knelt
to bring her beautiful face nearer to the
pillow upon which rested the soft check
f her baby boy.
The child of wealthy parents, sho had
married the man she loved and who
loved her, and had gone from one home
ol luxury to preside over another.
she was very beautiful and many bad
thought it a great sacrifice when she
married a man as old as her own father,
yet in ber sweet humility she only
prayed to be worthy of tho love bestowed
upon her.
A low knock at the door aroused her,
and rising to her feet she answered the
summons.
Upon the threshold stood a woman a
few years older than himself, who led
by the hand a handsome boy who bad
seen two summers only.
The woman was poorly dressed, in a
shabby mouroing, but the child wore
dainty white garments.
Did you wish to see me? .Mrs.
Ilepworth asked, sruilins upon the
child.
'.May I come in f was the woman s
question in return.
'Certainly, l ou look tired.
The stranger accepted the chair aa I
looked sadly around the room.
i'iverylhins is altered, she said, tn a
mournful voice. Perhaps I had better
slaved away. Mrs, llepwortb you have
heard of Clarice Mandcrsonr
I havo not,' was the replv. 'I am
aluiost a stranger here, We have been
traveling over since I wns married, until
a few months ago.'
'And vou never heard of mc?' said
the stranger, the tears rising in her eyes
'Then ray errand here is indeed hope
less. II, in Ins new happiness as your
husband, my father never even spoke of
rov name, it is useless to hope be will
forgne hie.
Your father? Mr. Ilepworth your
father? lie told mo be had lost bis only
daughter.'
Not that I was dead, I was lost to
him by mr own disobedience, lou
love mv father ?'
Just a smile, proud, happy and ten
. . .
der answered ber.
Then you will understand
me,' siid
loved my
Clarice, 'when I tell you I
husband better than father,
home or
duty. Father would not hear
of our
me to
marriage, and sternly foibade
speak to Lucicu
Manderson, assuring
me that be was
a fortiicc-hunler,
gamhcr, and unworthy ef my love.
would uot believe this. To me he was
the noblest and best of men. and lor
him I left all to fly secretly from home
and father. I have been biitrly pun
ished. When the letter imploring for
giveness was returned to tne by my
lather, with a few brief words casting
me from his heart and love, my husband
proved what I bad so fondly hoped was
fulse. lie had rnarrricd the only child
and presumed heiress of Ilepworth, the
ruilliouairc, and found himself burdened
with a penniless wife. I spare you the
history of the lour jeais of married
misery that followed. Then my hus-
baud and eldest child died of coi.tngbus
fever, three months later, on the very
day this boy was born. I heard of my
fathers marriage. I returned here,
hoping for pardon j bet tho house was
shut up. When you came, I deter
mined to make one more effort for for
giveness, hoping you would plead for
me. Oh, by your love for your child,
plead for mc. - Think if he was an out
cast from bis falher'a love, sorrowing
and penitent, and begging of a stranger
the gift of his birth-right V
'If my prayer will keep you here,
Clarice, you shall not leave your father's
bouse again. Mr. Ilepworth is in the
library, and I will speak to him at once.'
She waited a moment to batbe the
traces ef tears from ber face, and came
again, smiling, to the anxious group.
'Cheer up, Ciaiice,' she said brave
ly. 'What is your littlo boy's name?'
Stephcu. It was tbo naino of my
WELDON, JST.
brother who died. My first boy was
called after ray father.'
'Stephen,' eaid Mrs. Ilepworth, open
ing her arms, 'come here, darling, and
kiss your grandmother.'
The child sprang at onco to the lovely
grandmother, kissiug her again and
again.
Putting him into bis mother's arms,
tho young wife lifted her own baby
from its cradle and left the room.
In the darkly furnished library, Mr.
Ilepworth was leaning buck in his arm
chair. A light step ronsed him from his rev
erie, and his wife stood before him.
0cr her moruin dress of delicate
rose color, that suited well her fresh
young beauty, foil the long white robes
of tho infant sho carried with all the
pride of motherhood.
Her husband opened his arms to
caress both, and laughed as she said :
Uli, these mothers I Do you suppose,
madamc, that babies nre admitted into
tbo sanctums of legal gentlemen?'
1 do, said the mother, 'if the legal
gentlemen have the additional honor of
being their papas.'
Listen to this most conceited of
mothers, comparing legal honors with
the ownership of little pink roly-polies
like that.
Did you know, Harold,' said Mota,
her lip quivering slightly, as sho felt the
deep import of her words, 'that this is
my birthday, and you have given mo no
ui r
'You are impatient, little wife,' he an
swered, thinking of tho cistly bauble
that was to come without fail by noon.
'Put I would like to choose my own
gift,' she pcisistcd.
' lut can I give my rosebud that
she has not already ?'
Dues not your office include the
power of pardon?' she asked, ber sweet
face pallid with earnestness.
'In a limited degree it does,' bo re
plied.
Hut, dear one, I shouldn't like to bo
known that I had shown cle'nency to a
criminal upon your solicitation. You
would be constantly annoyed by the
loving relatives of scamps and rogues
trying to move me to pity through your
intercession.
Hut this is not a case of roguery,
Harold only a true penitent ; one who
erred in extreme youth, was led from a
path of duty by a lovo as warm and true
as our own, but mistaken. Uh, dear
husband, do you not know lor whom I
would plead? Cannot you guess for
whom I would beg your pity and for
giveness?' 'Clarice, he asked, hoarsely, 'who has
told you of her?
She has come herself to
forgiveness.'
'Slia is here?'
Yes. You will forgive
the sake of our own boy,
seek
your
her? For
Harold, let
this be a home for her and Stephen
'Stephen I ho cried, starting.
Her son. Her husband is dead. She
is widowed, poor and lonely. Let her
return to your home and your love,
Harold 1'
There was a moment of silence, and
the mother softly carried the slrong,
right hand of her husband in her own
until it rested upon the head of tho babe
in her arms.
He looked down, ami said :
'I will grant your birthday wish, Meta.
Take me to Clarice.'
With a tender, loving kiss upon the
hand that still rested upon her chili'
head, Mela led tho was back to her
pretty sitting-room, where Clarice waited
the result of her errand.
She wailed, with fast throbbing heart
and tremblinc lips, for the words that
were to give her sorrowing, lonely heart
peace and rest, or the slcjn mandate
that would close the doors of home
upon her and her lo forever.
Her gratitude could neter fail.sho felt
sure, for the heautaul woman ah had
so lovingly uiertakcn tho office of med
iator on ber behalf, and the tears rolled
down her checks as she thought of the
unselfish tenderness of this stepmother.
As she heard the steps coming across
the aide hall toward the room where
sho was seated, her agitation became
too great for patient waiting, and sho
stood up, holding her child by the hand,
her breath coming in quel;, punting
sous, her eyes oi luted with suspense,
and her whole figure q iiveriug with iu
tenso emotion.
It was this eager, flushed face, that
met the father's eye as he opened the
door the face of tho child to whom ho
had given the entire strength of bis love
for years.
He forgot her way wardBess, ber dis
obedience aud the sis years of ab
sence. He remembered only that she was
lis only daughter, the child of his dead
Clarice, and he opened bis arms, with a
siwilo that carried love aad forgiveness
to the sore heart.
There was a cry of
Father, dear, dear father !'
And they were folded fast in each
other's arms, wbilo Meta drew wonder
ing Stepen into an inner room and
closed the door.
Not even for ber ears, she felt, were
those first words of reconciliation.
It was not long that Stephen was
withheld from his grandfather's kiss, for
father and daughter alike turned to the
genie influence that had united them
once more.
The gossips are divided iu their opin
ion as to the exact amount of bulred
and jealously existing between the
young widowed daughter and tho young
wife at .tho great bouse, but it wou d be
0., THURSDAY,
quite beyond the power of their narrow
minds to understand such truo sisterly
love as exists between Clarice Mander
son ntid Mr. Hepnorth'i second
wife.
A FEW WORDS ABOUT MONEY.
From lilirioha' Fashion Quartorly.
Of courso you known what money is.
You've seen silver dollars, nod paper
dollars, and gold dollars, eagles,
doublo eagles, and fractional currency,
and all tho rest of it, and I only hope
you may always havo plenty of them to
look at, and fuel a sereno ser.so of pro
prietorship as you regard them. Put
you needn't travel very far around tho
globe, to find that what you call money,
other nations don't regard as money ut
all. Tako your moucy to KngLnd, and
you will have trouble to spend it. Eng
lish people will demand English money
for their goods, and until you shall have
sold your American money for Eug IMi
money, you will find it pretty hard work
to do your shopping. And should you
carry your English money to France
you will have to repeat the process, and
buy a supply of French money before
you can make any purchases. Almost
every nation upon the earth uses n
different kind of money, and some of
theso currency systems, both ancient
and modern, are very curious indeed.
In some of tho East Inliau islands,
certain small sea-slit lis, called cowrie,
are used as a sort of fractional currency.
These shells are gathered on tho beach
by men who make a business of seek
ing them, and, as they are sometimes
thrown up iu immense quantities by
storms, enabling the gatherers to collect
large amounts at irregular intervals, the
money markets of those isluuls are
liable to frequent perturbations. It is
just as though, after every heavy gale,
you were able to pick up nickel cents
along the shoro of tho Atlantic Ocean
by tho bushel. Now shells of tbij same
kind arc used as money on certain partu
of the western coast of Africa ; but as
tbey aro less plenty in Africa than iu
India, it has been tound profitable to
bring theso useless littlo shells, by
hundreds of tons at a time, from the
East Indian islands to England, and to
rcship them thcuce to the African coast,
to be used in buying palm oil and other
products.
However, wo necdu t laugn at the
poor ignorant islaads and Africans ; for,
scarcely more than two hundred years
ago, a Dutch governor of New ork
thought he bad discovered a famous
method of enriching bis province, and
established a mint fur coining oyster
shells into money. Aud evea before
his time, the experiment bad been
tried in Massachusetts; but tho acute
New Eoglanders of that day actually
cnunterluited the oyster shell currency,
anil drove it out of circulation.
There is another reason why wo
should avoid speaking contemptuously
of African financial systems, v'liich is,
that we determine the fineness of our
own gold coin by an African system ol
weights. Gold m said to bo so many
carats fine, meaning, that in every
twenty four carats weight of it, there
ore so many of absolutely pure gold.
The carat is a small African bean,
which varies so littlo in weight, that
from time immemorial it has been used
in the marts of that continent as a unit
of weight for gold and diamonds. The
merchants of primitivo time probably
introduced this Alricau weight along
with the African gold they had received
for their merchandise : and tho modern
assayer, who determines a gold coin to
be a certain number of carats fi.ie,
really announces that it contains a
quantity of fine gold, equal in weight to
so many beans of a Central African
tree, which uot one white man ia a
million has ever seen.
Live stock has served the purpose of
money at sevoral periods of the world'
history. Homer estimates tho value of
the armor of several of his heroes in
oxen ; and the Latin root, from which
our word pecuniary is derived, rcallv
means an ox, showing pretty conclu
sively that the larly Romans used cattle
as money. Fall has been coined in the
highlands of Central Asia, and that, too,
in a country nfii.ro gold was very plenty
Leaden money is current in liormuh to
Ibis day. rakes ol tea circulate in
some parts of India : dried codfish has
been used in Iceland and Newfound
land ; and musket balls wcro formerly
current in Massachusetts at a fathiug
each, and were legal tender in sums of
less than one shilling. Coal, bone.
lead, iron, tortoise shell, and coral, have
all been money in their turn; and even
human beings have served the same
purpose. At the time of the Norman
conquest, English money was of two
kinds, living and dead ; the former con
sisting of slaves and cattle, and the
latter of metals.
btanicy, the Aiiican explorer, men
tions the cost of a fcact given to
dusky potcntato as three bales of cloth
ond one hundred and twenty pounds of
beads. He also, while encamped pt
certain place, allowed each of h's
European followers four yards of cloth
or its equivalent in beads, daily, fo
pocket money. And, as he approached
the west coast, ho remarked, with con
sidcrable disgust, that the prico of pro
visions gradually rose, until a single
towl cost four yards of thick sheeting
aud he was obliged, from motives of
economy, to give up eating chicken.
The most curious monetary system of
modern times, however, was that of the
colony of Virginia during the sixteenth
aud tho greater part of the bcventecnlh
JULY 31, 1870.
centuries. During that period, the colony
had almost uo coined money whatever.
Goods were bought, debts paid, taxes
levied, Iinc3 inflicted, and accouuts
kept in tobacco. The earliest Acts
i f tho Assembly on record levies a
tax for the year 1C23 of ton pounds of
tobacco oo every male pemou above
sixteen years of nge ; and r.u Act of
102 0 appropriates, amount other Items,
for an account of 4.2 duo in
England, -1,'jOO pounds of tobacco ; for
six barrels of powder, 000 pounds; for
.100 fish, !0 pounds; and fur a barrel of
pem, f0 pounds. An Act of 1(112
provides that sherry shall not bo sold for
morn than 30 pounds per gallon ;
Madeira, for more than 20; French
wines, for moro than lo ; English strong
water", for more than 80; or brandy,
for more than 40. The fathers of tho
Old Dominion, it seems, set more store
by sherry than by claret, aud valued
Dritish spirits just twico as highly as
French brandy.
To look through tho laws of the
tobacco-money days of tho old Com
monwealth, is like delving amid the
ruins of a buried civilization. To speak
evil of a minister cost the delinquent,
oo conviction, 500 pounds of tobacco ;
to stay away from chi.rjb, a sinlo
Sunday, entailed a fine of one pound,
"and he that abscutcth himself a month,
sin 1 forfe. 50rp unds." A trave'e. on
tho Sabbath was fined 20 pounds J and
the crime of swearing, even on a week
day, could only be expiated by the pay
ments of 60 pounds for every oath.
Nor was it enough that a man should
nhstni.1 from traveling on tho Sabbath,
scar no outlis, go to church on Fun
day, and speak well of tho minister;
ho must also, if ho were the head of a
family, bring his gun, powder aud shot
to church with him, under penalty of
paying 10 pounds of tobacco into t!ia
public treasury. A tavern-keeper could
charge only six pounds of tobacco for a
meal ; a lawyer could collect a fee of
only 150 pounds for a suit ia any petty
couit, or 600 pounds for suit in tho
general, or supremo court. If a man
summoned another before a magistrate,
the warrant cost him eight pounds; be
paid eight p mods more for the privilage
rearing to an aluJavit of the lact,
nd if judgment wero fi- ally given in
is favor, it cost him twelve younds
dilitional to get out an rsecutioo.
Salaries wcro paid In tobacco the
much-protected ministers got 16,000
p unt's a year, cacb ; accounts, both
p iblic and private, wcro kept in to-
biccoiila gentleman went ol on a
b ile fiulic lor two or three days, lie
n icdcd a hogshead or two of tobacco
for expenses ; aud if any unprincipled
fellow tried to pass off tobacco of in
ferior quality, his mpney was promptly
confiscated and burnt. Fancy lugging
out six pounds of tobacco to pay for a
dinner, or scndirg tho servant to a
tavern for a gallon of brandy, and
piling 40 pounds of tobacco on his back
o pay for it.
Those old Virginians must have been
a very uncommercial people, for it was
not until the early part of the seven
teenth century that this system ff pay-
irg debts by actual delivery of tobocco
money ccems to have caused any serious
iconvctneiicc. In u"0, however,
warehouse inspectors wcro authorized
to issue, for ti bacco stored with them,
ceipts which should be legal tender
for all debts in the county where issue J.
This plan, however, worked altogether
too well ; for nobody cared to present a
receipt for payment at a warehouse,
unless he actually needed the tobacco
lor export; and many of these recoipt,
consequently, remained in circulation
for years, the tobacco representing them
slowly mouldering in tho warehouses all
the while, until, when tho unlucky last
holder applied to have his receipt re
deemed, he got only a lot of duruagrd
tobacco in exchange.
Our modern system of paper moccy,
of bank checks, and bills of exchange,
and other machinery of credit, is a very
aumirablo thing, but it is ty no means
so modern as wo arc apt to suppose it.
Not only were there Ci'cok and 11 man
bankers, who received money on deposit
paid checks, discounted notes, and so
fi rth, but long before their time the
hankers of Kgvpt and Assyiu did the
very same things.
a Cui iuu cuw-
mcntury on tho habits (if tho nnciei.t
Egyptians, thnt they regarded a mummy
as the best possible security for a loan,
because certain to be redeemed ; and it
was no uncommon thing for an Egyp
tian gentleman, in want of a slight tem
porary accommodation, to obtain an
advance upon the embalmed remains of
his grandfather, or other relative.
What a pity such securities should be
valulcss in these degenerated times 1
As for fiat money, or money whose
only value is derived from the authority
of the government issuing it, the world
has always been fi: II ol it. The mon
archs of Nineveh printed it on tiles, cod
vast sams of it retnaiu to this day, as
valueless, except as curiosities, as the
paper money of the defunct Confederate
States. The Tartars priutod it on the
inner bark of the mulberry tree, excit
ing the admiration of good old Marco
PuId, who avers that the Khan of Tar
tary ' may be truly said lo have discov
ered the secret of the alchemists."
The early Romans engraved it on
wood ; the Carthaginians staqped it on
hidct; the biciliaue, tho Italians, aad the
Duteh-prlnio it on leather; and as for
irredeemable papor money, oytry nation ia
Europe has tried it in turn.
Probably tha most curious arbi'rary
money ever ismed, wai in China. In an
cient days, as tho records iulorma u. steel
koiyet, aud gmineuU of a cuiaiu kuid ol
NO. 22.
cloth, constituted (lie currency; but at
commerce expanded, tbo inconvenience ef
carrying about such large quantities ef
clothing and cutlery became too great le
bo borne, 8o the Government bit on the
lngcnioua devico of making piper koivea
anil paper Rarmants, which could be car
ried in any nmntity. and seemed to have
sorved their purpose sufficiently well, 1
comuiond this bit of history to those fi
nancial sriuis wno are loot! ol dopicting
tho modern greenhaeker, surrounded by
slips el paper labelod "this Is a cow," and
"this is a milk-biickot." Yerily there is
nothing new under the sun.
THE POWER OF MUSIC.
Many el us, moft of us, have aspira
tions aud emotions for the expreuion ef
which hi words it Is as if we wore voice
less nnd dumb, but which Ond full and
ready expression in music; even though
I have Eometimcs thought, the words
which wo freight with them might be
mcro jargon. Under tbo right circum
stauces, and given only a touch, a tone,
a sudden remembrance, anything to un
lock tho emotions, and the song goes forth,
tellin lor every individual singer a diffe
rent Btory. Perhaps this is most notice
able in the uiidet of jyinpathetio numbers,
as in the crowds who used to meet togeth
er and sing out all their secret feeling in
the strange, unreal light of tho Chicago
Tabernacle. I shall never forget a lace
which I saw there one stormy, winter
alteruoon; ono which touched me mere
than any other ot the many cxpresiive
tnci-a which I used to see there full of em
otion day alter day. It was only an every
day face, that of a worn, old woman, drci
sed in dcop meurninc: aud. with familv
and friendly groups on every side ol her,
sccmin? so aluuo in her loneliness and old
age. Was there anything in tho words ef
tho song, is the Binging of which she
joined with her tremulous tones, which
could fitly express tho emotion that filled
her voice. The song was only one of the
most commonplace ol the many changes
rung on the dear old themes, yet the
words came to my ear freighted with her
loneliness and yearning, until I longed to
pUco gently my own In- ber poor, tired,
empty hands, if haply mine could, in any
measure, fill their emptiness; to say a ward
which might brighten the poor, withered
ld face, so utterly pathetic in its far-eff
look ol longing. (Such a strangely, far
away look it was, as if tho yearning eyes
had rent their gazo over tbo ocean io
search of tho lost ones, to where, mayhap,
their graves wero made iu "the eld coun
try,'" and failing to dud them there, had
gone straight on into the heavenly land.
Did she find them! Who koowit But the
song, wbose musical strains gave voice
that day to her longing for the dear dead
laces, will always be to her in very truth a
"(acred song." To one heart, at least, a
ci ol, critical analysis ol its composition
would be sacrileges. To one er another of
us, perhaps, this would be true in regard
to cvory one ol the familiar eld sons. It
ia too latr: we could not criticise them if
wo would. Loyo is blind, and we love
them every ontl Sunday Afternoon.
BARON ROTHSCHILD S MAXIMS.
Attend carefully to details of jour busi-
nen.
C miller well, then decide positively.
Oaro to do right. Fear to do wrong.
E idure trials patiently.
fight tile's battle bravely, manfully.
Go not in society ol vicious.
Hold integrity sacred.
Injure cot another's reputation or busi
ness.
Jnin bands only with the virtuoni.
Kcp your mind Irom evil thoughts.
Lie not lor any consideration.
Make few acquaintances.
Never try to appear what you are not.
Observe good uiauners.
Pay your debts proaiptly.
Question ant tan veracity ol a friend.
Hesprct tha counsel ol your parents.
RaciiuVe money rather than principal.
Touch not, taste not, handle net intoxi
cating drinks.
U,io your leisure time for Improvement.
Ventura Dot upon the threshold el
wrong.
Watch carefully over your passions.
'Xtend to every one a kindly salutation.
l leld not to UHCOurMgommt.
Z-alously labor for the right.
And success is certain.'
PHILOSOPHrCFLWiNa.
Men and women shnull remember that
pure water is the only natural beverage,
ami that under ordinary circumitances the
a lult man or woruun dots not rrqtiire mote
than twenty-four ounces in twenty-lour
hours; that ol solid food not mere tbao
one-third need be of the animal muscle
foed'ng class, leaving tho vegetable, utarchy
and oily or heat supplying substances to
make up the remaining two thirds that
the foods should be cnoke i so as to be
freed ol Ihmr mwiii. without brtr2 T:
duced to tindcrueas, or ell 'vis, or hardness,
by over conking; that the toodi should be
themselves pure and ol healthy origin; that
the divisien ol toed by meals should be in
tlnte ptiioila, at times ol tqaal lengths.
and ol about five hours duration; and thai
tha gratification of gustatory sense should
be made secondary to tho actual require'
ments ol tha body lor its ailment should
in line, be kept as neutral as is tho taste o
the young child who feeds en the most
natural, and, at the tame lime,mott neutral
of all foods milk. If these rales were
remembered and acted upon, without di
vernence into fuaita for indulgence or fast
lor penance, the natural health would
mako an advance that would lead to the
development of a race constructed for an
enjoyment of happiness which, except
in
the imagination ol the poet, has bad no
existence on earth since Paradise was lost
DON'T MARRY A TWIN.
A correspondent writes tha Cinc'tocati
Enquirer's "Household Department" some
worus ot warning about twins, which
illustrate the way the thing works with
him :
AiuruocK, in, may 38, is,", Lrt me
cive some goi advico to ' Coys io Leve,"
My near boy, tar mercy's sake have nothinc
to do with twin. I married a twin, I was
a twin. My father and mother were
twin?, and so were the parents ef my wife,
UoiiRi'iinenee? : we cave scon mania
cljht years, and we have already lour pairs
ot twins, l ung man i una a girl, u you
can, wuo utvur uuuu ot twins.
C. D. Max.
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