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BE MOOT AT
E E. HILLIARD, F:ditor and Propiretor.
'EXCELSIOR" IS OCR MOTTO.
SCOTLAND NECK, X.C.. THURSDAY. JAXTARY 7. 1S92.
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II 0 Lookr- Forward Irapa
utiy to Now Yoar's Da.y.
FILL:" said th"
hired j.ri r! , as
s h c t r k a
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lf.tlM-
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vi'h :ml
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'.5 .a
ciin-fully f;t!-t-
n(l a pair of
troui.-rs if an--ii
ttt ut and
simpk: pn.por
ti ris to the
lnthelin e.
"whn it comes
to willows. I
own Ym to 1e
hoyrrjl my un
ihr rst :i n di n.
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11 a t M r s .
sv in tliat there fnrrin
r -Ti'T I .-.in't see. l!ut
etion l.-iH what 'he wel-
off soTn.-t iine H:-)on. an'
! e frin
s;e. i'siii' we1
t here"-, no (.ii
ilin':, to eon
her tellin' me to fetch these lien
ch 'si
in.u :.ciiiiii;-:i to immoer o:i
air '(', i , t 1 iiv min.l a sure s
on an'
she's
Coin' to
. ise
of
nn
an
pet
em
out the way before number two comes j
ah .ng. I
'Tier firsi's been under the sod these 1
ten year an" she's mourned him long
enough, the land knows. I ain't in no j
way against widows marryin' an' tryin' i
it again it' they like; but 1 do say it 'ud I
be more seemly to choose a man o' her !
d-. II ''-iTll.-ee
one o
eatiii' I'reneii ies,M'P.t."
Ard the hired e-irl gave the vest which
she v. as shaking a j -l k which sent
one oi tlie i'Ui.nns halt'-w;iy across the
y a rd.
It certainly did look as though there
v.-fis to be a wedding at Wi-.iow
Drake's bel'ere long, and the nciglsbors
Y.hispe:vd that there was a littl- ro
mance cotmecte.: with it. And so th.erc
v.-a -, hut tin y never c eiJd hace guessed
what it was about, neither could you if
you were to try lor n month so 1 am
going i tell you all about it.
'1 he Viid ev Drake was plump, well-
preserve iiule bo.h-. with
'tie bdy. with fresh rosy
bright blue eyes and the
f browrr hair without a
lie
. anu
r silve
i'Ut . .t
k w;c- :'.
- a-
1:1 it. She was not
iv w 011I 1 have guessed
't". and as a v. om:.n is
'-hi- j.-oks, she kept her
u let pe';-ie :-pe;,k of her
I!v
ft her:
neat little
he. : !,;-r
;..T-.,-v to
; ;. nt
tiled
any eare I
a nd
goM n or
nd a
;i. in
con-
e 01
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. calni and nnerenl i'r.I:
!.y In: If, she tlnnight. as
-. 111-'. t str--king the
: i -. 1- i.-ii ;is her com-
of
al
!1 w.
was
a
n age
to be
hart a
:tle of
: ; :; thcr sen-i
. u l siie v
wi!h M
se iniii
nan 1;
.rh f
vvii ivit'l
married
.irm
la
' e.v liad he; I'.er ever
dreaded being a'. ne
fYiscS";!:! was nei'.her
icsoonsive. and Torn.
r
. was mu'.-h more apt to.
widow's opinions, so it
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a
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tom rritRKD his aitkovai..
was to him that she wliispered. upon
ns evening'- 111
.lui.e. tl
la
she had half
mind to go west and take Tip
a claim.
And Tom paired his approval and I he
willow went on mul p. Aired into his ear
a scheme which, lvnd been working in
her mind for several days.
Of cour.,e e ry one said that she must
be i-ray. Odd. over-thi itty and ven
turesome were the miid.-t of the a 1
jectives v. I.ich were applied to this
harmle-s.little woinr.n, v. luj was simply
t.uvcl of the dull lite which she was liv
ing r.i;d w ho knew of no other way of
maki: j a chairjo which would benefit
her hciiit-li raid mind ana her purse ;ts
well.
And tiTt i- liow it happened that th.is
wn;i;r.Ti. w'u -.cr.ic-.i fur too ilaintv
1. r
t'.U
1;
wa. living away
ic.:, ;;t a .--nug little
out on
shantv i
Ic kef. e:
pine '-y s
the uiKi.st
, 1
with
S. )( IS.
:i..(. in
r .r.nd-
of the crudest of t-ti;
-UgS.
It We - the first of drdy when sl:e filed;
hei oialiri and it was requireil that tlv-iv
f.ic u'-l a six la 'I.;!;:' resilience uon
it. JIvcrvi-oftv said that she u-.-ver
wn
, 1 j
dl the time; but she smiled
aud .V-.;kod old Tom.
It -"vcc'i'l so bad. after all. she
though.. Then- were plenty of neigh-h-'--:
nor verv near, to be sure but
Send us a trial order for
i i i in He '.'.-i-m so 1 : 1 1 : - i 1 ;i.-:.r -i- 1:1
Unit cl'.'sir ntm -j'.hen v. ln--h tntn -mits
lirht and smiukI v marveli nslv.
Each morning she heard the shrill
Vueal sr.lnte of the two seh ) ma'ams
who jived on the claim next, hers: and
from her own door .-he won hi call hack
a, hem-ty '"halloii-o,'' which always
iroucht a smih' to the faces of those
ancient dames.
And then, ont there everybody was
so kind to everybody else, and some
bfxly was always oTerinr to briny one's
mail or one's yroecries fmm the (jiu-er
low hut which served as evneral store.
p"st olliee. machine shop ;;iid dwelling
in ne.
Of course tin bill of fare was apt to
be ;i little monotonous. There was a
jfreat ileal of salt pork and bacon and
dried fish, but there were lots of tinned
vegetables and canned fruit from home
to help out: and. really, it wasn't at all
what one would fancy from the doleful
t. ties one hears of the MiU'eriny in new
e U!tt I'ies.
Then there were papers and maga
zines and letters from dear ones. Only
here was one trouble. The widow had
no dear ones. She was so alone. And
;l little jealous feeling would come in
spite of her when the two old maids
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THK PHY MAN S OFFERING.
would stop with their hands full of let
ters from sisters and nephews and
nieces, to hand her a letter from l'ris
cifa. ."sometimes a tear would drop on
Tom's rlock coat, but that was not
often; onlv when she was silly, she told
hcr.-elf.
.Vnv there was, about three-quarters
of a mile to the right of the widow's
shanty a modest little shock, half cov
ered with luxuriant vines; over the
front door was a roughlv-made lattice.
:.nd this, too, was covered with the
vines, and the whole cottage was a !
gictin-'sqree little affair and the envy of
the s-hoi lma'ams, who loved 'lowers, 1
bat whose vines always diixl and whose ;
ornamental gardening- was c-nfmed to '
.a bed of sickly-looking four o'clocks
which grew by their door. 1
The owner of the vine-draped shanty !
was n. bachelor of middle age who
f-pohe with a queer foreign accent, lie
was an extremely bashful man and lie
g.-aiv-ely dared look at the ladies as
they passed him, with the good-natured
"Howdy" that was the customary
greeting'- of the country.
The widow had watched him often
from the window as lie plowed upon
his claim, and she admired his line
raanly bearing, and she did wish in
her heart that he'd be a bit neighborly,
and she told Tom so; but Tom only
purred and stretched himself in the
sun.
Now. as I said, the sehoolma'ams
were passionately fond of flowers and
were discouraged and chagrined that
nothing would grow in their door yard.
So one day when they saw the owner
of Vine cottage, as they called it, set
ting out for town, they equipped them
selves with a basket and trowel and,
stopping- for the widow, they went on a
tour of pillage.
They all entered into the fun of the
thing and in an hour or more a droop
ing, dejeotcil-lookimr vine was clinging
to a string beside the door of each cot
tage. And the odd thing was, that while
the vine of the sehoolma'ams faded
and died, that of the widow grew
and throve marvelously. So wonderful
was its growth that soon it began to
spread over the walls and roof until her
shanty rivaled the vine cottage in the
way of verdure. And the two old
maids joked the widow and caused her
to blush furiously at the undignilied
prank she had played in getting the
vine.
In time, the shy man grew a little
neighborly and sometimes a brace of
prairie chickens would be hung, with
out a word, on the widow's door. Or
again it would le. a lot of rare pel hYs.
quartz and agate, or a trout or picioer.-!
from the lake near by. And at ca. ii
oifi-ring the widow would nod her pret
ty head wisely ami smile to herself.
Nature was kind to the pioneers that
year. There had been no severe storms,
no terrible heat or drought, and in No
vember it was still mild and warm,
without a sign of frost. Everyone 5 aid
that it was a remarkable season, ju.-t
as though the remark were quite new
r.iid original.
The widow was saving to herself on.-
af'erre ,ri that after all it had been very
pleasant to be a pioneer woman. There
hod been no.great discomforts and ue-
privations, and now that there were but
two ninths n' r- to b'.ay. she was hail
s rry.
She
had
Ken puttin.
aw.iv some of
leer Mimmer e;. Ui(-. a no a n' .uoiacr
Hubbard, wrapper, a favorite (rurn-nt
of the whUiw's. hnag upon a clothv.sliue
beside the house, it was a dainty
thing, white tain brie, with lrt-elgl
milieu nrid with a pink ribNm bow with
long '-r.ds at the neck. Indeed, to hare
f -en he widow in it would have recon
ciled the most prejudiced person to the
much-maligned Mother IIubbimL
Tlu-re had lccn little lltful gluts of
wind all day anil late in the afternoon it
' ceaiue quit a gab. Tlw tumble wemis
..urri'-d from sjvot to spot asthwiini
veered, about, and the dainty Mother
Hubbard flapped furiously in the breeze,
hut the w idow was rending a very interesting-
look and never looked up until
crash came a Hying lxard airuinst the
side of the house and the shanty began
to sway and rook like a cradle.
It w as a short-lived storm and there
was no damage done, and in half an
hour the sky was again clear; bnt
when Mrs. Drake went out to link for
her gow n it was g one. Of course the
wind had torn it to tatters. There was
no use to liKk for it; it was gone for
ever, and w ith a sigh the little woman
went into the house.
The next two months flew very
swiftly. The bachelor had grown
bolder and had come to call, but the
lively widow did the most of the talk
ing and he replied in broken monosyl
lables. The weather was still bright and
pleasant, and there had been no bliz
zards, no snow. That was "remark
able" too, for it was nearly holiday
time.
Then came Xraas, such a queer, quiet
day with not even a letter from IYiscil
la. Rut even then there was genuine
regret in her heart when Mrs. Drake
legan to pack her belongings prepara
tory t going back to the states. She
was in otter health and spirits than
ever Wfore, and she had a quarter sec
tion of land of her own and she had
made some pleasant friends. On the
whole it had paid well.
It was New Year's eve and she was
to leave the next morning. She put on
an extra lump of coal and set the
lighted lamp in the window. She
thought it might cheer some one. 3-011
know, and it did: it shone way out on
the path and lit the way for the bach
elor as lie came hurrying across the
fields.
As he came into the little room, bare
of all the pretty little articles which
had made it so cheerful and homelike,
his heart gave a thump to think that it
would so sion be empty and deserted,
and he resolved to say what was on his
mind at once.
Rut the words would not come: he
could only open the parcel which he
had brought and take out guess what!
The tattered remnants of a rambric
Mother Hubbard.
As the widow gave a little squeal of
Surprise, he said, with a stately bow:
"I have bring ze ze chemise of
madame. which ze wind brings to me
so long ago." And with an impetuous
motion he tore open Ids coat and there
over his heart lay The folded pink rib
bon which hail been at the Throat of the
gown.
Somehow after that he didn't need
words, for the widow's dark head rested
on the ribbon and both his arms were
about her.
Now there is something irresistibly
funny about the courtship of middle
agd lovers. Young lovers are interest
ing enough, and old lovers are pathet
ically grotesque, but when two common-place
people in middle life fall in
love w ith each other 1 defy them to
behave so that they are above ridicule.
So we will draw the curtain here,
when Mcll you that after her lover had
gone the widow whispered to Tom: "So
romantic, isn't it? Hut how absurd to
call it a chemise." The widow returned
to her old home and to JYiscilla; and it
has leaked out that she is wearing a
ring with "IIr.ppy New Year" engraved
inside, so the neighbors believe that the
wedding is to come oh. 011 an anniver
sary of that day.
Rut I have told all that I am going to.
now, and if you really want to know if
they are married, just look among the
marriage notices on New Year's day.
Marie Mori: Marsh.
A HITCH IN THE FESTIVITIKS.
Host (aside to caller)
put sugar in dat bullion soup an' den
epit hit out on de flo"?
Caller Keep yo' hands ofT. A man
dat hain't got no mo' sense dan to offer
a gemmen from de souf sech stuff as
flat in or teacup, 'serves ter have hit
tpit on de flo'. Doan yo' tech me, nig
ft'ah! Texas Siftings.
A New Year' 1'oem.
Bills, bills, bills bui
Dills, biils. LiiK
Bills, bills, bills, bills.
Bills, bills, biils.
Somerville Journal.
New Year's l'rosont.
Ilowsomdever Did old Duste
dis--
tribute any New Year's presents?
Dashhard Poore cs. he distributed
various portions of men's outfittings.
lie gave Charley the sack, lie collared
Harry and cuffed him. and. lie- g.ive me a
boot. Only pants were left for Riiiy.
Jewelers' Circular.
job Work.
f elt TirW'MW
i , a a. ------v-, r
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1 1 - I A -
NolilLR haj-
e r h a Ken
ritb-n in t h c
uiMi ry 01 i a e
world, a chapter
wotid'-rfu! than any in the won
derful narrative, and the recording an
gel sets his seal and turns the page. It
is a story that it ii granted to none to
see its conclusion, and few indeed are
there who rightly read its past. Its b,
ginning wa when the morning tars
sang together over the order that was
created out of chaos, and the plot, with
its threads of litrht and shade, sublime
courage and pitiful cowardice, hate and
love, joy and fear, no man can compre
hend and no man can alter. He may
delay the consummation of the Divine
plan, but there is all eternity for its
completion.
The year of our Lord tPl hai wit
nessed marvels in the arts ami sciences.
The depths of the earth and the heights
of the clouds have been called upon to
yield their secrets, anil the whole realm
of space is now virtually the kingdom
of the mind. In a year the worid has
ma le giant strides toward the perfec
tion of civilization, and every one of the
last fifty years has witnessed discoveries
and inventions that have put to shame
those of as many centuries, until, paus
ing in amazement on the threshold of
the future, we are forced to exclaim:
"What wilt thou bring forth, oh, inex
plicable void! The crow ning of man's
dreams or the end of material great
ness? The summit of perfection or the
return of formless chaos?"
Oreat as has Wen the progress of the
world, the high water mark has only
been reached in certain favored spaces,
and vast continents are still reserved
for the maturing of (oxl's purposes.
To our nation it has tecn a year
whose bounteou.mess and peace have
been unparalleled in the history of any
country. The seasons have j, mi red
from their laps their garnered treas
ures, and north, south, east anil west
rejoice in abundance. The faces of na
ture and the elements have leen pro
pitious, and the smile of Provi
dence seems to rest in benediction upon
the land. In the social world too, the
fruitage has been abundant. Never be
fore in the history of our country has
so much good lecn done by earnest in
dividuals and society for the reclama
tion of evil, the reform of abuses, and
the amelioration of the condition of the
deserving poor. The harvest of good
deeds in that has been great in spite of
the fact there are still fallow fields, and
that much has been left unattemptcd.
There nre those, of course, who take
glKmy views of the times, who see the
evil, but fail to recognize the good, and
declare that morally the world is grow
ing weaker and more degenerate with
each year. Rut truth, the mighty leaven,
is germinating, dropped in the dark soil
of ignorance and error: and hidden
away from sight, folded in the bursting
sheath, is the sprout which shall one
day become the giant oak, 'neath which
our nation shall Im' sheltered from
storms and noontide heats.
Not in the spirit of the Pharisee, but
in that of reverent humility, should wo
view our blessings of the past year, and
have a fraternal sympathy for the fam
ishing peasants whose cry gix-s up from
the banks of the Volga, and from tee
.slopes of the 1'ral mountains; for the
exiled race, whose wandering through
the wilderness of prejudice and injus
tice is as cruel as their forty years' pro
bation in the desert: for the poverty-' p
pressea masses of our kindred nation,
whose mother tongue is ours, and with
whom we claim a common ancestry, and
for those nations who sit in darkness,
or girt about with misty and uncertain
light, but longing for perfect day.
The year lS'.ri, upon whose threshold
we now stand, is surely destined to be
a momentous one in the world's history,
and to America is granted the honor of
erecting a milestone in the universal
progress. In the year that is ore
us the people of the old world wiil Ie
summoned to witness the inauguration
of a monument worthy of the genius
and courage of ColiiTibus. a monument
which puts to shame the proudest
structure ever raised to commemorate
the great deeds of prince or conqueror,
and that monument is an enlightened
and prosperous people, whose self rev
erence, self knowledge arid self control
have raised them, in but little more
than a century, to be the object of the
wonder and admiration of the world.
Not Columbus, the Oenoe.se. nor Colum
bns, the navigator, do we thus honor,
but the ?ourage which was repre
sented in him, which dared to tling
away old traditions anl obey the in
ward voice urging onward t j great
achievement.
The 3"ear lies before us- a mystery as
great as the mystery of all mysteries
death. V.'e meet it with high resolve,
but every day in our life in n aiity
marks a similar anniversary, and every
night witnesses the end of a year, a
step taken irrevocably from time p -ward
eternity, for there, and there
only, can we meet face to face that
shrouded shape, the future, which for
ever t'ees as w e approach. If we w. .uld
truly live well, the vears, whether
spent in work or modi'ntion. in p'ea
ure or pain, should i .'i l u something
more than material good, w h: ! is as
evanescent 'us the morning mi -ts. The
outlines of our lives are drawn for ns
by circumstances, training, heredity
find other imluerc-es a!ve ,v r eontrol.
but day by day we arc filling in the
lifhtand shade, the coloring in the pie-
tr.re. and it is the coiorii
will
make or mar the beauty of that crea
tion that shall hang in the gallery of
God. Lou V. Chapix.
KOur
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I more
the new yeah comltm.
AoJ W;tl II lanlr '.-, H ' a lion I
Other t,tbrtti i ,..
Ever inc a t.:ru- ,m, NVw
Ycr'(..liv, the -t -5 .l.voniri . ,. - U-.-n
tl-- .lay upon h I . r C. S
we.tr -f t.-n. iut i'jtrl ul ii.-if-.-'
I w ill o;J w ith v ; rn.e; ; '.
whi 'h is -'. wl but ..urvlV Me.i ,. .'
--gs - ;t-:M'n, n n-t ; t f
f-of- i ot Vl 'e a I- at n-v see
gsveu its own way t t"ii a
hold a jtcrvon like :. vi.-e. .V 1 ' .1
is :i pk.y upon wor ! which I
thought of. The fi.r:uT ,ov rvf.-rr .e.g
to in in its v.r.j'lu'.t -rate.'. ;.... u-.-l .
latter mean, rig :.n ii.-tra. s. :r m
carpep.t,T. tor -.re tv bv ov;r-s i :v s l ..
like arid lath rthiiu pre .ieie t ! ,i g
a iob of niaue :,;ti ing. 'I he :v ,
d mbY aeti-
ub'.e aetion The term n. ,v be
nn-TM-l aud thev gt there uist the
tmn
ktttlse.l
Lust year I revolved that I w ! ! rr
tri-iit h in household exjenvt, ni.o so I
agreed to give ni v w ife c rt.m iut.mi!
of money every wn k am; let her p.
vide for the table. Thut is the in. u : .1
was certain tin first wtvk. btif mv w ife '
j says that after that it was fn qn- ntiv
: decidedly ni.ei rtain. he hadn't
riiiich exterieiiee hut he did nobiv
She 5aid one .lay that site wished 1
' would give her the name of koilc great
i wholesale gnccr, a nan.e that nm!J
' 1h a synonym f t the choicest . f every
tluntr. so that when I'eulern asKeil In i
i ! i'i f.' Tfflv -Pi 4
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' - hti . v. -t. .- . - w
J'ii yrr:;K
IHi: BlICHKll UIli.X 1 HAVK 11IAT Hl.AN!'
what l'rand of an article she wanted.
she wouldn't be at a loss and displ.iv
her ignorance.
I told her to nbvavs ask for II. K
L ooper s goiHis. i l iiat :-.: t tne iruue 1
gave her at all, but that name will ; ,
I don't propose to give adveiti ii.g
worth 5-14 er agate line for nothiic' i
The plari worked delightfully. When
she would inquire for some good olives,
and the clerk would ask her upcrei ;
iously what )rand she pref. rred. sh-
would remark, as jx rt as y u pi. a .e;
"II. K. CiM,p, r's, if you have th. m."
Nine eases out of ten they tlidtft have
anything so god. but. the salesmin
would treat Iter with the gleatc .t n.n-
Il o?li lu,- '-
aiM treat Iter with tin- greatest con- " . ' I n d t o trv
oration localise she apjn-are.l to be JleKlt i ,.... th
ill the business prcttv well hers.df. jJri'" ''' I ' ' ' v 1 i
,1 not try to work MI' ai.v old shop y A y .f Ui'u
sid
up
a nd
worn picKics or lasi vear s yeasv ea noa
, , - , . 1
Rut, alas! one dav she went into a
meat market and in lo r most uhimtious
voice said: 1 would Iiko some liver. i
" hat sort, madam.
"Why, I su)iosed that liver was all
alike."
"Oh.no. We sell several varieties "
"Well," answered Marie in d"-jM rn
..... ...
tion, "y ou ia;y give me II. K. ( toper's
Arid this is a true story and wrtiiy
of all peoji'e to 1m b lieved.
As near rs I can iint out, Adam i a
the first man to tarn over a new l. if.
I have a suspicion, though, that he
turned over a good many before he got
his winter's supply of eh'tiiing all made
Up. Adam must have reversed his culTs
on Wednesday, and that was, of course,
n tnviiie.ir of lc:tves As ri man once
said to me, facetiously, w hen h. diseov-
ere.l me trying to re verv mv cuiT-
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without attracting af'-rdion. Khmd
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EXAMiNi'NO ONK VKAKS MY.rtW.U.
""-' ..v ............ , ...
having f.-rgotten to do it m the h.ivt.-oi
my toilet .reparations: "One ipA turn
f deserves anot her."
J I like to turn htt a new ler r.nee in
! awhile. I get SO tired of the old one.
It is so --taired. fnd b! ttted, ar: 1 die. .1-
1 ored. It is torn in so many place-, and
i it i-, written so full "f mistake and
failures.
Tb.-re pre the 35 1 "X" rnar 1.-
which ind). ;.?e the clays dr. ring ' '
I'ii' t '. ear upon whleli I w a n e(u,. -. . ; -
er- --s ar:d ir i ia bb . ' . i- ! ., 1 '
dozen near the top ! the pr.ge tnai . '.
"XX." That was while we -,..' n. c. .
ir;g into t h i.e w hoii- ;.i.dgttiig .. ' -
tie ). Then there's the .ntry .bmiirv
2, where I began :moi.;i. ' ;ig:.i;i. are:
a;;t, ;-, i little A:,, like :' - g ;. in,. t.
which :na:k the nunn- r f t;m. -. I
have -'hi k. d" aVut thini,- ourl;.g tl. -
pa-t year.
It's a po.r. dirtv. mi--' ra' 1 -. b..d'y
kcj.t. :.lt get her too f;iith:i:I o:d. 1
is interlined ami eriss-cros--d, b-:t it
isn't i. legible. Lvcry eatry stan.L. out
bold did clear, and I carft crav a .-'.:-
gle or, e ri th- tn. lean o-il.v l rn tie-
'rr"-"-i'K,kir:g chroolei .- i ut of sight ..j :
begin with a eleaii. fresh, n-,-w p..,;..-
on the other haf.
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