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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Signal, 1851-12-25, Page 1about as much ebaace of success agmyself. I eagle, a low deaeose wall to the left encir- OatO I tried to speak to him, but he turned ,les a piece of rising ground, on winch a aside, mad avoided in with a scantier that comfortable but plain ma°sioo•bonse stands. tbero could be oo mialakiag. 'Phis surprir The lands are evidently farmed by an ea - 0d me, for I Iiad so roaaou to •oppose that he perienred a,ri• ulturi,t W ever seen face before. and without being A paragraph fin one of the papers at last nus sseparpecies ested py any ewrns or nti fic labour Ile rare threw some light on the matter. 'The Bou- carried on in the scientific operty short gstetiere had never been so friendless or un- drive bangs the wayfarer to the village of protected as people had imagined: In all Templetuohy, the appanage of " Loog lir- ber fie was accompanied or ra- chard,' and the dullness of the place is re- ther followed by her father ; whenever she tieird by nothing either by the way of bu- #topped, then' he stopped also, and neverodnens or gossiping. The pies that creep was he distant more than a dozen yards. L .at rare inlet vats through the omg street are wonder that be was not recognized by bun- more sedate and stolid than their kindred in deeds, but I eonelnde he made some change livelier localities ; the policeman at the Bar- in bis attire or appearance, from time to rack seems as if nothing but a decent mur-i time. Ooe morning this strange pair were der could excite his professional feelings proceeding ou their ramble, as usual, when, into activity ; and the yawn on the face of passing through a rather secluded etteet, the sleepy butter, whose imagination must the Bouijurturn made a sudden hound from Gave lave been originally very great to ' the pavement, sprL,g into a post rbaise,tbe think he could drive a trade here, takes door Uf which stood u,,,•g, sod was immedi- sure, aA immense time in settling down,that ' fatly whirled away, as fast as four borsrs one legius to feat for the safety of the vie - could tear—lessing the old man alone with bei to ennui. Mete isa parish church, a lin despair, and the basket ofMlowerslibel up..n the art of Parladio, a mystery of Three months have pawed army sines the ugliness, and without the charity of an ivy disappearance of the Ba//u-ti,re; but on- branch to corer its nakedness; and midway, ly a few days syice I found n, If one eve- in the line of dwellitas, there is an open or ring very doll at one of Il.ose'•hrillianl res lane on the left, which requires tbe, open eeptiona" for %:itch karts is ro famous. 1 sesame of a local guide to bring a knowt- was making for tate door, with a view to an edge of the Part that this cul dr sac ii the early departure, when my how,* detainedsite of a ckipel. The budding is maall,the me, for the purpose of presentiu.; me to a ground darkened by some trees and enelos- lady who was monopolizing all the admire -j ed walls, and, when I entered, the hrat,and • • 1. 2. 3. • INr • ,res 1 • 01,jk yiih; • f,g rev s e TOWNE aturc. 1 • • Tttg tiaiATEST POSSiBLE GOOD TO THE UBSATEt8T POtiyIRl.li NU7*BILR•" LiOURR'1CH, COUNTY OF HURON, (C. W.) THURSDAY, DEC. 25, 1851, •.'ty is liar m ver able\ too curios,. ?SE PRE U r esY ctors of Itis diaatres, rbcs 'LO Wyr ( oat appropriate d tt(Itaad- Troll i• jj aeeoanf; and f where tI.t at ergs•, •I bar the tbet.tres, 1lermance might I sinus . n'W bar ow terms• Tlut uo- nor 't turfs fab; a sueeeeded in I use , ilt://;:e7:7144,(76141;•10,thirl' pr ,andbewasfel • o.Shot 411 eonlemnt. There isT In of the drains. der _ttI*wholipelb: t 1 ,a• pdI agd to let ee could never dei - Parr Mligd 17*. c would rather be Ro- W tJ /i She refused the part • ▪ t liir of t'.orfto J.tea min• 1:bede iown seenuto. to be an alma on ber git oyes, a M, limey be , le Jia im _aria f rte &f items was e +unit d that where there was pretty !h%i, A mss' onmety, imagination world not he but, at thin into H Tn hive believed iii the ronAieting ,,1 t ; •i lryra almet lleetnanee, would be to romp addressed • the tone]Mi ththat 'she was the stolen with Ilii a Jai tic old of noble parent/t reit up by an a girl. Sba a 4r aA s refer; but t.,il' Ibr•r father was of dowers, * ilafiy+ 2t11tailor of Jfasnlute MLitt, who lived a con- dor less than ate of Ile Jam- t.ted life of enntinuel drunken,•, nn the it of his Jaugh'cr's industry; that !.r with the d,fcreate tont t1r pernhrr was a deceased durbess---but, o,n fount, done r. to a more Pr- i other band, was aline, and carried on flourishing business of a hlanehtms ruse. or the private life of the young lady If, it was reflected in such a magic mir- of s;:ch contradictory imposs'liilitiee,• m delirate &scuuinn hall open the subject 1 nne IuJ no choice but to disbelieve e everything,. di fly along the Ifculi1W iE die 'sample of some oder why I feral were slur; riser onp yi erring io tl ; `e► RECOLLECTIONS OF A I'1)1.1('I:- OFFICER. /LINT JACkso . Farnham hops are world famous, or at least famous in that liege portion of the world where Englisli ale is drunk and where- on, I have a thousand time, heard and read, • • TWELVE ANi) SIX PENCE aT TM, any 01 TMa 1aaa. NUMBER XLVI. suddenly genrrnns Flint Jackson, though hnw to set about it was a matter of gone siderable difficulty. There was no 10O pretence for a s,•arch-warrant, and I doubt.• ed the prudence of proceeding upon my own responsibility with 0 astute an old fns as Jackson was represented to be ; for sup - of the pleasant Sorry village, in and about tilers, he had by this time is all probability which the events I rias about to relate oc- bur - ',sent the stolen property away—to London curred, is, I may fairly pressume known lien all likelihood ;and should I End nothing, to many of the readers. I was ordered to'tlac consequence of ran,ac:fog lin house Farnham, to investigate a caof burglary,' merely because be had provided a former se committed in the house of a gentlemen of-saervent with legal assistance would be aeri- the name of ltursley, during, the tem -I us. Coder throe circumstances I carob porary aboeoce of the family, which t" beadyuarters for iuslrsctious, and by re- turn of post rcceiseu orders to prosecute the Aad completely nonplussed the unpracticed _ injury thuraigl Iv, but cautiously, and to con- 1)ogberrys of the place, albeit it was not a sider time as nothing so long as there app - riddle at all difficult to read. The prem; -. penned a chance of fsaiag Jackson with the sea, it was quickly plain to me, had been Built of receiving Ile on Another broken not into, but out of ; and a watch suspicious cirrumstaaoe that I have omitted to notice in its place was that tbe Guilford being set upon the motions of the very ape- solicitor tendered hail for the prisoners to pious and clever person left in charge of any amount, and named Enoch Jackson as the house and property, it was speedily one of the securities. Bail was, however discovered that the robbery had been elfec- refused. led by herself and a confederate of the There was no need for over-hurryintthe ....;cess, as the prisoners were committed name of Dawkins, her brother-in-law.— to the Surrey Spring Assizes, and it was Some of the stolen goods were found se- now the season of the bop-hnrrest—a de- lightful at his lodging; but the moat ralu- hghtful and b,lvrions period about k'arttham able portion, consisting of plate, and a small wbpn the weather i, titin and the yield abun- quantity of swelter dant 1, Irowerer, lost no lino w snaking 1 y, had disappeared ; it diligent amt minute ioquin as to Uiq clarac- had yuestiouless been. converted into money ter and babies of Jacksoe, and the remit a, considerable sums, in sovereigns, were was a lull conviction that nothing but the n open t Dawkins and the woman, fear of heti denounced as an accomplice ! tarok Pertly. \ow, as it had been +heirmiserly, *run - hearted rogue 10 pet himwlfcould have induced such ato charges in ly ascertained that ;;tither of the r^soaers detente of the imprisoned burglars. lion of tine -venin---she was the newly indeed the only principal object that struck the view was a spar; • ` One day a new impulse were given to married bride ofa coons German Barnn of ,!Igo;a.i,ar . ,latisg and remain , • a gauss sa PI c easary aglowt -1 e aimmtserie; gnwip by the appearance of the Bou- great wealth, and noted fora certain wild kind of genius, and utter scorn of conven- tionalities. The nest instant I found my- self introduced to a pair of eyes that could never he mistaken. 1 dropped into a va- cant chair by their side, and entered into I conversation. The Barone observed that she had met Inc before, but could not re- member where, and in the same breath ask- 1 e. men was a lover of &were ase in a steriina batof some expensive and of a mike bordering on the mi- lk It could tint be, doubted that! fits of her light labmm were sufci- crit to tcaLle her to multiply sorb finery to din wily extent had she chosen; but in aria tbe adnptioa of a bonnet nr a hat, in ✓ t d g' ctlon In the tittlehe ♦ s ' rittdte, i• considered an assumption of a suix•rier genie, and c . , p?bi coo ra :• rra rap or t • , w .,,,.Qua ^ of Ilse wearer, is resented ruy1,' • as impertinence. In l'aris, indeed, the Yeety belie/41,w I are only two classes of woman—those wi %cr. i s„t her a1 I bOSa .y,, and those without; and these stars r{. _a `the •::r relation to clic another as t h, ,:ogres, ,r :r ri,.:•s into which the world m ter. and to flet t be lis le 1 the pnwrn that be, and t a ,.,,,,atter t0 tbei powen that want to be. Under these ei eco u, h aa- I , it may bre sepl,osed that th w•,i f rail\ s cumdtncrs T 1pou t lstttsa. I.i• fug a+ surmises were many and marvelous. Th ss one summer's .lay - u lits!' Nofputirrr•was becoming proud — y a means of rxi.tcnep . lady; but how 7 why 7 and, ahoy d so frac fwd ioii•itrnal + :131m,1i;c w• ;;yr s never mor lid impres,ir•n of unrrriii/y• pant ands! over+ molt inventir likened to a a sa h, or a naiad,' . 7 pur r..y part, i s:;w unthin `in aiiy o the eertaiiu ,omettiog that her., t: ” er int•itiLatin • tVi'e p n"-itl.y, in thrmsekrs, o hack to the theatre, y a tes'eeoad lkyabl.t; ntain6 could have des - at once, with the stransr, iudescri senses .1,6,11;n hosed 2U.te strop„ intrrcst which I Intl to ja,cint fun. of tint ctiaadr lte1 s—close I krh in tat gut; and it would have require and perfumed air -out-heists, a. • fiddler.' souieAiing msec pcteut t!,an t straw hat Lvesimg often evening 1 saw the sone however reo ,wettish in cro,vn, and audriou• sir{, rally at the same., place --and, it in brim—to base gluten ma belief in be say w readily uuagined, became este of the I ,ac•se coo,tant of her. ',. atelle. I learned, , truth and g0odaess, Apr presence, for the too, u many facts rearing to her as 4,euW I aecuslamed kw 11411°",'in the afteinoo or evening; became to me—I will not say be learned wire most was mstery. tier ?ct gear and +suasive ..de' of necessity, but certainly a habit; and a habt sine ng 11 swtiieicntydesrntk when ,( be Aow4 (a mode which has sins, Irr- I f ,prod I (mud both ll y I liad left Farabam uace the burglary, it wino\ t toe afternoon, whilst pondering the ma an iron fence, and with a tnagaified bead- • stone. There were two Ines down in a wide pit, and I . feared to ask them What they were about, or for whom their offices were meant, . . the courtesy of Ian guage of Sbakspearebs clown, " Cudgel th brains no more about it, for your dull as will not mend his pace with beating." I was rather an anomaly that the greatest y theiP - d be in connection with I muttered something about lot we cap Paint M Oat too A dist Logy dis la of hfe es • as ty in any shape, and admired a boquet interest in the village should be the grave. re which she held in her hand, I And this is truly so, for in this quiet and st- th 'I he Baronne selected a flower, and asked . eluded spot the remains of the dramatiet,the d me if it wan nota peculiarly fines cimen. I orator, and the statesman, are destined to out wording,and abrupty I o tobacco f which as sufrscat\i a nerefull rtbelesipclers p y Pe , be f L assented ; ani the flower, not fain redo- rc c I+eerfornie lone $ pose, and r►irhiti a week from hence will coming from a servant to tier former mos ' I trived to edge ourselves in ; and my com- fy minded, 1 did not return it. The confer- have been trasaferred to Templetuohy all ter, suggested nothing. I had carefully panion stealthily pointed out the group, who be; sation changed to other subjects, and short- that is mortal of Richard Lalor Shirt. The reck,lned the number of sheeta of paper r-1 ly after the Baronne took her leave with grave -digger had his triumph when he, sent into the cell, now on recounting them e her husband. They left Paris nett day for rudely ;moralising, said that his work made found that three were a missing. '1'l1e e t the Baron's family estate, and I have never all classes equal, and yet there was a rever- turnkey returned immediately, and asked ed to his name. l le was a w — I seen them since. emtial t• M ia, the Ira , gnarkd- y bealluded to the for the two other letters she had written.— heavy -\rowed, iron Jawed fellow of afoul e 1 learned, subsequently, that some strange trig house' and to ' the master' that was g lrsixty, with greedy set eyestaaglowis with older The woman denied having written any ler and greedy instincts. His wife older e stories had obtained cirehlation respecting gone.—S•rs nders, other, and forproof pointed to the torn app y e. the • previous life of the Bayonne. What- ' p elan he, nod so deafa arehtl as the door fever they were, it is very certain that this fragments of the misting sheets lying on of a dungeon, wore a simpering, imbecile A IIoAVEh's `OL[LOQCT.—Oh dear! the floor. These were gathered u and "took of wonderment, it seemed to me, at the f ' or some other reason has made the proles1 , presence of such unusual and abundant cheer 1 %ion of Bovqucture most inconveniently , der! Wisat a world this is!—This brought to nue, but 1 could make nothing J'he young people. who lodged with Jack- - popular in Paris. ]•oung ladies of all ages ored+ as Chaleapeare very beautifully re- con - out of them, every word hav,og been carr- nothing' were really a very fiADI, honest, good - d) that can, with any degree of courtesy, be +hat's is all a cattle slow, for man's dila- lastly run through with the pen, and con -I looking couple, though not then appearing tion sen -and -and woman's too." That's a vented into an unintelligible blot. 'fie to advantage—the countenance of Henry — . included in that category, and of all deg mss B' Itrrgers being limbed and inflamed with - ofbeauty.short of the hunch -back, may be -act' :haksprarcps right! This here is a request contained in the actually written r' seen in all directions intruding their flowers cry—a very checkered life. Inter was one simple enough in itself, mere - with fatal pertinency upon inoffensive lour-! Tins world is given to fault-finding, Ire_ ly. ` that Mr. Jackson would not on any D. gens, end making war upon button iciest enjus,—\ow here's my wife --kicked up account fail to provide her, in considera- a I that never did theta any harm. The you°- great row, just because I mea( to }Jed with tion of peat services, with legal assistance evereoet boots and hal on the morrow.' The first nine words t gest of the young girls, 1 find, are beings y ° ' when 'he were strongly u I trained to the calling, who are all destined,' ew T wanted to get up Tery airly m the gy ndcrlined; and I made out I to marry distinguished fore; ccs roornin,' and start ofiimmejitl on 'portant after agood deal of trouble that the word manifest there was a receiver near at hand' ter, and at the same time enjoying the pret- whn had purelased tt,e missing ,riches. -1 tint fwd ehcerfulcst of rural sight, that of Dawkins and reedy were however, dumb hop-1'rkiog'tlw apothecary at whose Louse 1 was loetgiap we will call him her. Mor - as stones upon the subject ; and nothing j gun; he tens a 'Wel-high—tapped me sod - occurred to point suspicion till early in the I denlj on the shoulder, and looking sharply evening previous to the second examination of the prisoners before the magistrates, when Sarah reedy asked for pen, ink, and paper for the purpose of writing to one Mr. Jackson in whose servi'e she, had formerly hied. I happened to be at tle'prison, and of course took the liberty of carefully unseal -I og her note and reading it. It revealed nothing ; and save by its extremely cauti- t round. ] perceived be had something be deemed of importance to communicate. What is it !' 1 said quickly. ' The oddest thing in the world. Then'% Flint Jackson, his deaf old woman, and the young people lodging with him, all drinking and bozzing away al yon ale house.' ' Show them to me, it you please.'' A few minutes brought us to the place of boisterous entertainment, the lower room were seated together near the farther win- dow, and then Int me to ,myself. The appearance of Jackson entirely an: awered to time popular prefix of Flint altach- g° 06 w Ina t fa s ro a art lCll corse wnno,tha° vulgarised by bad Unita - madefair fare and a trader noise bare suppose, y e made me -1 will ant say "cad and bfisd," from some distant and facetious covptrry. business, She's very particular to inquire what business it is that calls Inc out so &Hy' tis) was sing -inlay her own graceful i„_ stiaet-•or whim, if you will. it was some - Ling aro pad natural, asnuti•d many, wail, it daplea fd none. T1t stcrnct of stotlt- broken, even, could Dot chose but be de- corated.; Accordingly, this new Nydia of Tbessalj went out with her basket one day, awoke salt mortuug, and found herself fa - foul. as tbe remainder Eddie line would ;annuals, 1 should have mentioned before, Bat a but most deliciously io ens senses, and most friend. calling neon me the morning after luxurinnsly wide awelc! my meeting with the Marmite saw the Bat to corse to the eatasttephe— flower which she had planed in my hand ” One morn we missed her in the accustomed standing in a glass of water on the table.— soot"— e \rat only, indeed An iluck me"Dky. , from 'arrteitomed' and thing ofea the languag: e of o flowersyou 1n'ow Ianasi:-; !,rnhahle spots, but from uoarcoatnme 1. el. unprobable, and even impossible sent‘—all mamas, there sou much discussion, of which were dilly searched—was she :Moe - wow ysti&aLes, as to who Ibis Queen ed. In short, she was not to he found at if Mr. edam be. -where she by d— a11m All was amazement on the Boulevards eat was known of ber Hardened old f1,... s turned 1 d t e. More than their rouge, and smite of the teras eie°t--You may guess 1 thee.* wig bounds --true_ ea der steps far* 11;11 oigbl Ns is, m via. Iia disposed of, s`s was grams;! 111' old man, rested** el". took with a ecoisieace,llat • ' him as •' perest Or 111".. ..4 alwaysaw_` emptied sor hems M tattiarae, M 61ielr jaw Al Ard \tier YtlaNyd 10 Iles•1Wt this is da ltdtste 004‘111.- . 1, Aaw +te ou "" Yitin yory sselasgeP"'twestT t 1LIF + . s .sir tis, . rib(y"Pk • w„ a.., Ike IDA VWIllus 41.4".' 'tar d!M 1011WOr tkaah .• . 41, • pa a nn er younger ones went about with dropping moustaches, whir for want of the are, bad fallen into the ' yellow leaf.' A few days sufficed, however, for tbe cure of thew senlimenlalisfa A clever little monkey at the Hippodrome, and a condemns who stood OS Ma head while be ate his dinner, became the immedidie oh: jean of istarest, and Hermance seemed to be forgssttea. i was ogre of the few wbn retained any hope yf finding her, and m wanders s for that purpose, without as , dee, isfortstajlion, or Atdiratios, see *Ow something absurd. In the course walks, I met an aid mos, who wes Mai her father, whom I The copresident of quite ar &—ieat to amens ase till Its lit odea._ •ad with Something,' was the reply. Whet, then, is t11^_ meaning of this 1' 'SECRECY. THIE :RAVE OF SiIIEL. h Within six miles of Templemnre, but nearer to the county of Kilkenny, is a small village. called Tcmpletuohy, which the car- nal visitor °erect Miters, and which offers nothing to excite the interest of a stranger either as regards its meal situation or the attractions of 11e neighborhood. It is ap- proached from the Kilkenny side,tbrnngh wild and extensive bog, where in winter a dull mist °bcenres the mew, and makes it impossible to keep warm, even if wrapped up in a Huston, drew::;aught ; and when at length snore avenues of darkfir are ,pprba pi - ed• it i• found that they 11 lead to deso- late vintage! hog, and they dsly renter the landscape eves more desolate. however dbe road bogies to assume more of a beaten Rpnbsee—the fog gels lighter —the i•o- Mkls fa tint so extreme. -20d, earning an but I won't tell 'er. She's no right to in- terfere into my business.—I don't in'efcre in hers. 1 don't never ask her where elm buys groceries and provisions, and geta trust ed for 'em. 1 don't care where she buy 'em—if she only gets 'em without throwing away the money for 'em. And then 5 he finds fault wi' Inc for spendin' so much mo- ney for ticker. But what am I pin' to dew 1—Licker's cash. It can't be bort without the dimes: --She says It hurts me, and makes my hands peel --says that it would take a great deal of new milk • to make a man's band peel had. What o' that 1 Hain't be men that sells ticker got to live 7 How eau they pay rent if nobody patronizes 'pmt That's a gnestion that goes to my heart drink,and that of his wife's clouded with frowns, at the situation in which she found herself, and the riotous conduct of her hus- band. Their brief history was this :—they had both been servants in a family lising not far distant from Farnham- fir Thom,. Lethbridge's, 1 understood—when about three or four months previous to the preeeut time Flint Jackson, who bad once been in ' pretence' had been partially effaced, and an attorney's office, discovered that I lenry ' account' substituted for it. Rogers, in consequence of the death of ,a distant relative in London, was entitled to She need not have wasted three sheets property worth sornetbinr, like JC1,500._ of paper upon such a cors osical request 'there were, however, rogue law-ditLealties as that," observed •the turnkey. 'Old in the way, which Jackson, offered, if time Jackson wouldn't shell nut sixpence to save business was placed in his bands, to her or anybody eke from the gallows.' overc me fora cnnoideratinn, and in. the s6r' meantime to supply board and loOgin sail • ' I am of a different opinion ; but tell aasch necess,•ery sums of money as Leary me, what sort of a person is this former Rogers ,night require."illi this brilliant master of Ier's ?' prospect in view service became at once All I know about him ie that he's cross utterly distasteful. The fortunate legatee ail forgrained, old curmudgeon, living about a I one of thennifl ladies'nmaids, adpretty, MarLibriskt' mite out of Farnham, who scrapes money I eyed bivuette ; and they were both urged in the boons of holy matrimony on the very day the' warnings' they hall given expired, Since then they had lined at Jarlaon'a bows to daily ezpeetaIion of their •fortune; with which they prnp;uan.d to start in the public line. } ;cling myself 1, I called boldly fora pot astd a pipe, and after some • R contrived to seat myeelfwieh. in ear -shot of Jackass sad bis party.— They promoted a amp study. llenr, Rogers was borzteromiy excited. and cot only drinking freely himself, but treating a dosed of fellows round him, the coo of which be front time to tune called upon e Oki }fiat,' as he courtenusty styled La ansient friend, to discharge. ' Come, fork oat, 01.1 FIlat!' be cried again and amain. ' It 'II be all right you knew, in a day or two, and • few balfpar0 ever. Shell out, old fellow 1 What lipli- ke, so you're \app, 1, Jackaos complied with an affectation of aequiesreet reify ludic root to behold It was evident that each a%ecessiee pull at his puns was like wrenching a tooth o his head. and yet while t lite a arrer. When T think of the high ' rents that tavern keepers have to pay, 1 Oars go and take seething just to help 'em along.—I've thought a good deal about this lately,—they've vis on What's -his -name's rent heron they way, and 1'N Just go over and give him a small lift. OI. dear. this is ea cberker'ed life. agwrriktoa `Art Jensempse \'ALtTAIILP.—A Yankee has . invest- ed a method to eats. " Locale your a room m infested by these animals, and on Mine. oat the light. Tbea strew over your ow some strong smelling cheese, three or four red herrings, some barky meal or new malt, and a sprinkling of dried codfish. Keep a- wake till you find the rats at work, r)nrn nsake o grab." .f....•— "1”."" •.:••• : •y,,a • t• together, by lending small suns upon notes - of -hand at start dates, and at a tbansikew interest. Flint ,Tackson folk about here) call him. ' A t all events, forward the letter at once, and to -morrow we shall see—what we shall see. good -evenings' It turned out as I antfCipated. A few minutes after the prisoners were brought into the justice-roo , a Guilflore solicitor of murk local celelh ity arrived, and an- nounced that he ap)iiared for both the in- eulpated parties. Ile wag allowed a pri- vate conference with them4 at the close of whri it he stated that his clients would re- q. their defenre. They were at one, committed for trial, and 1 overheard the solicitor assure the woman that the ablest roonsel on the kirgtit would be retained in their behalf, 1 had no longer a doubt that it was my duty to know anmethiwg further of this tom• '"dare as.44,.,. .••J.yw. 11,.• • • t 1 • tl/