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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1922-7-13, Page 6BY KATHARINE SUSArqNAH PRICHARD Copyright by Hodder and, Stoughton CHAPTER L The wagon had come to rest anion'g the trees' an hour or 'two befere sunset. It was a covered -in dray, and had been brought to in a little dealing of the scrubby undergrowth. Two horses had drawu it ell the way from the toast. Freed of their harness, they stood in the lee el a great gum, their flanks matted with the dust which had caked with the nin a sweat on them. The mongrel that had followed at their heeds lay stretched en the sward beside them. A red -dappled sew arid her calf were tethered ta wheel of the wagon, and. at a little dtistenee from them were two battered cratOS cif drooping. and 'drowsy fowls. On a patch of earth scraped clear of grass and leaves, the fire threw off 'teens of smoke and the dry, musky incense of burning eucalyptus and dcg -wood. It had smouldered; and a tveman, stooping beside it, was fee& ing it with branchea af brushwood and en.onq Heat be broke in her brande or atraes her knees. A man was busy in the interior of the wagon, moving heavy casks and pieces of furniture. He lifted them out, piled them on the ground, and spread a couple at aheepskina over therm Than he threw a sbe.enskin and a baenket of black and brown tweed cm the floor for the night's resting. It had been climbing the focthills Ler days, this heavy, old-fashioned ve- hlede, and the man and the woman had climbed with it, she driving the cow and calf,. he giving his attention to the horses and clearing the track. So slowly had. it toiled along that at a little distanze it looked like some weary, indefatiguable insect creeping „among the trees. The horees—a sturdy yoeng sandy -grey mare and a rawe weedy, weather -worn bay—seemed as much pant of it as its wooden frame, ironshod wheel's, and awning of grimy erideloth. 'They tugged, at their load with dull, death patience and obstinacy, although the bay had stumbled rather badly the -whole way. The man had pet his shoulder to the wheel, helping- the horses u'p the steep banks ansi long, dielpery sidings. He had stood tremb- ling and sweating with them -when the heavy places in the road were past, the veins knotted in his swarthy fore- head, the bare column of his throat gasping for the mountain air. There was the same toiling faculty in him that there was in the horses= an in- stinct to overcome all difficulties by exertion of the muscles of his back. The wagon had creaked g,arrudously an the long slopes, and stuttered and groaned up the steep hill sides. It had forded c,reeks, the horses splash- ing soberly through them and. sending the spray into the air en either side. It had crashed over the undenagowth that encroadred on the track, an ill - blazed stoek route abong the trees, and again and again the man had been obliged to lmaul aside fallen timber, or turn it where it lay, and cut away eaplings,, in order to make a new path. The wagon was filled with boxes and bags of food stuffs and pieces of furniture. Inside it smelt like a gro- cer's shop; and it had trailed the mingled odor of meal, corned meat, hemp, iron, seed wheat, crude oil and potatoes through the virgin purity of the forest air. Beneath, its floor, in wrappings of torn bags, -straw and hessian, were lathed a wooden plow, a broarl-bladed shovel, and half a dozen fanning andI carpentering tools. The fo-wls, a game rooster, a buff hen and a speckled pullet—hung in wicker baskets from 'wooden pegs, at the back. They and the cow and her calf had wakened strange e,chces in the forest, She rooster heralding, every morning at dawn this advance reuand of civil- ization. Be free from pain. 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"() Lord " e said, "we thank Thea foa. having brought us in safety to Our new home, We thank Thee for having beonght as oven the sea, through the storms and the troubles on the ship when there was nothing to eat but weevily biscuits, and the water stank, and there was like to be inntinywith the men in the elmated gang's. We— we thank Thee, this woman and 1. She is a good woman for a man to have with him when he goes to tint e'nds of the earth to -carve out a name and aplace for himself." paused thoughtfully foe a' rlict, merit; and then went on: - ..e, , When the vehicle had reached the ' summit ofthe- foothille, the track fell waveringinto the green depths of the forest behind it, a wale of broken ferns, slain saplings, blue gums and myrtles, mown down as with a scythe by its wheels. rhe timbered hills fell away, wave trim wa#e-, into the mists of the diatence, aud the plains stretch- ed' outward from them to the faintly glittering- line the sea made on the dim beldam. Somewhere ta the west on those grey plaiims against the shore of an inlet, was the township of Pert Southern from which they had come. Donald Cameron, after studying a roughly -made plan and the -wall of the forest about him, had taken the mare by her sandy forelock and turn- ed the wagon in among the trees an the far side of a giant gum, blazed with a erosseon which the congealing sap had dried like blood. Steering a 'north-westerly coaxse, the wagon had tacked among the treee and come to the clearing, And now that all preparations for the night were made, he toak the ani - mads to the creek for water. It ran at the foot of the long, low hillside and could be heard crooning and gurgling under the leafy murmur of the forest. Leaving the fire, the woman went to a fallen trunk, sat down and ga.zedinto the shadows gathering among the trees. A rosy andsaffron mist hung between their thronging bales. TlIae peaco of the after -glow held the hills, the 'chiming of insects and the shrill sweet calling of birds hasi quivered inte silence. Only a leafy whispering stirred the quiet. For a moment the fire af her clear spirit burn law. Hope an,d courage were lest in dreams. There was wist- fulness in her grey eyes as they went out before her, wistfulness and heart- ache. She seemed to be reading the serail of the future, seeing a dim, mysterious tinroiling of jays and vol. - rows with the eyes of her inner vision. The sun had set when Cameron re- turned. He- tetherefl the cow to the wheel of the wagon a-nd clamped rusty hobbles about the horses' fet- locks. Then he looked towards the "Mary''!" he called. " She did, net hear, and he walked towards hear. A man of few- w-ords.'Cameron did net speak as he searched his wife's face. "I—I was dreaming," she said, look- ing- up, sta-rtled at the sight of him. "You're not grieving?" he asked. There was a'. tremor in his voice, though its roughness almost covered that. "No, not grieving," she said. "But thinking what it will be to -us and our children, by and by, in this -place. It is a new country and a new people we're making, they saidi at home, and I'm realizing what they meant nOw.." "Aye. But its a fine co-un,try!" " Cameron's eyes travelled the length of the clearing, over the slope of the hill. They took in the silent world of the trees, the rosy mist that still glow- ed between their slender, thronging stems. There was pride and an ex- pres'sien of sated hunger in his glance. "It's all auass, this land about here," he said. Her eyes wandered too. "I have worked all my cla.ys, till now," he said, reviving a bitter mem- ory, "without so much as a plot of sour earth as big as y're handker- chief to call my own. Worked for other men, sweated the body and soul Oat of me . 1 . and new, this is mine . . all this c . .. hundred ' acres . . . a.rid more when I'm ready fax it, 1110T9', and more, and more. . . ." He paused a moinenI, all the emo- tion in him stirred and surging. Then; with a 'short -drawn breath that dis- missed the past and dedicated thought and energy to the future, he went on: I Marked this place when I came through to the Port with Middleton's cattle, last year. I'll run cattle—but I want to clear and -cultivate, too. Up there where there are trees now wiN be plowed fields and an orchaed soon. The house and barns '11 be on the brovr of the hill. By and by . . . we shald have a name and a place in the country." His wife's eyes were on his face. He had spoken an though he were taking an oath. • "No doubt it will be as you say, Donald," she said,, with a faint sigh. "But itis a strange lonely lane, in- deed, withotit tthe sight of a roof all the long miles we have come by. Never the sound of a human voice-, or the lowing of cattle," Donald Cameron did not reply. He was envisaging his schemes for the future. Not a man given to dreams, the thoughtful mood had taken him; his breath came ancl went in steady chatights. His face was .set to the ramild cf hi's musing; -there was -de- termination in every line of it, A gloomy face it -was, rough -cast, with deep set eycs,. His Wife's words and the sigh that went with them were repeated in a remote brain cell. "You should be giving thanks, not complaining," he said, bie gaze re- turning to her. "We must do that now —give thanbs for the journey dcconm plished." "I have said all that before; but have been thinking that it would da no harm to say it again now that we are ready to begin the new life, and will need all Thy help," and protection, Lord. We thank Tbee Itor having brou,ght us all the miles from the coast, and the beasts and the wagon, in safety --though the bay horse 1 bough7 .0 _I (m) ie a stotekeeper is turning out badly. He was a poor bargain at the best of it ----week in the knee and spring -halted Do Thou have a care of him, Lord, It will be a big lose to inc if he is no use . with all the clearing and carting there will be to do soon." Ile talked a little ion -ger to the AhnielitY no c'nvor but mating that, ha axes:god to be justlY dealt by as he 'himself dealt by ell men. Li the...platter of the by, he said that liec4di -I not think it Cod - fearing man1cAii, e'en treatsnI quito an well 'as,-trairder the circumstances, he might hayeltbeen; but he imputed no bkime-l-cereot to Middleldn's s tore- keeper--atat'0.400 thallkS, '44:;`a in. A man ofdansddie height, scparely built, Donald- Cameron had the, loo'sd.7 ,Sisung frame cdf •a 'farm laborer, , The woman ;beside him, al though her cadthes were as poor' and heavy as his, Was, ntore'- fine), ,and ,d'Oleatel'37 made., The hands, clasped before Ler were", I oh g and, slander. The prayer -ended, they rose from the grass. ,Ceineren'S eyes CQVrOaI irtS wife A ,gatst of tenderness swept • - - "There was rot what you might call much , sentiment aboutoer mating'," hp said... "But I d,oulat not it has come, Mary. ,c. "Yea, Donald." Tier clear eyes were lifted to his - "May I he a true and faithful wife 'to you." , 'Y're -net' regretting" at the long "Its not h---4.easaligebl. " awent from her—"'but that I'm not wanly of you," "Whist,'d die „said. "You're a wo- man—my wife, it's all done. with, the past," o he dentine -el ) MInard's ,Liniment for Burns eto. About the House The Dainty Girl's Charm List. She is not art all the girl with the per -feet features, dreamy eyes, long glossy lashes, -Cupid's bow mouth— you know the girl we all like to dream about and' wish we might be. ' She is the elegy c c. all the girls., they -copy her style an 1 her mode of hair - dress, they 111/1 to her fax ideas ,and the boyal—well, they are simply barified by her indescribable charm. This giri of whom we are talking, knows sarnething of the secret of personal daintiness and has ‚attained ,a degree ef artistry in. appearing lovely. Her careful toilet for the day really begins the evening before. Ranging by her dreesing table, in plain sight, is her Charm List and what a gay time she does have checking off each item. Fast there,is a thorough scrubbing oaf teeth, and the prescribed twenty strokes isa. brushing the hair. (They tell us that girls in. "the 60's" made it 1011 stroke -s!) Next, a nice awarm bath with a delicately perfumed bath soap which is refreshing and such a joy! After the bath, a sprinkling of talcum an shoulders, neek and arms. This gives y.011 Such a velvetY comfortable feeling and,then you are all ready fax the fresh sweet nightie and to cuddle down (like a contented kittne by the fire fax a refreshing slumber af at least eight hour. Each, garment fax the marrow is all arranged, buttons, hooks and eyes On, necessary mending done and every- thing nice and clean. No wonder she 'sleeps a "beauty sleep?" Our Dainty Girl revels, onee a.week, in a sudsy Ceremony that calls for a washbowl of beautiful frothy suds into -which go her frilliest bits a under- wear, dainty collars and cuffs, sheer blouses 'and dre.sses, arid best stock- ings. - She also 'has diseov-ered that her stacking bill is re-dueed almost in pro- portion to the frequency of the.wash- ings, so after each ahy's wear, they are treated to a dip in suds or clear -warm water. The voice of thrift pre- vails _even when they are brand new and it is such a temptation to put them on in ap their freshness from the box for:their first wear. They last longer'etoo, iatroduced to the waah bowl before their first wear. On d'o'wn the list is the weekly rnani- c-urre when her nails are filed,. cuticle removed and the buffer gives just -the mere suggestion of a shine. Very important is the matter of removal of all perspiratian odar, which sornetrinies persists in spite of perfect cleandiness. A 'special toilet prepara- tiori, used about once' a week after the bath, overcomes this difficulty. And you should see the Tdainfy Girl's tiny little brush, much snialler than a tooth brush, which she uses just fax her eyebrows, for she knows that her eyebrows must be brushed quite as rdigiously as her hair. And the matter of perfumery? one of the newest ideas is to select one's fragran,ce according to one's type. Who could think of the quaint girl who suggests hoop skirts and -bro- cades, dvi,tlhout thinking of the frag- rance of lav -ender buds?' The retiring, shy 'girl chooses the scent of the "mod- est" violet. Surely many types of girls may .use the fra,grance of the rose. The Damty Girl gathers the petals in rose Season, carefully dries them and fills attractive bags for her dressing -table drawers arid shirt -waist box. I-lere is her Charriel,ist: Evening beautifierse--Brash teeth; brush hair (twenty' • strokes); teeth; bniab hair (twen,ty, strokes); warm bath; thorough rib dawn; a spain,kle of tale -urn; a fresh nightie; apply cold 'cream when needed; apply hand lotion, 'garments ready fax to- morrow; completerelaxa ti on (at least eight hours', sleep), Morning, toilet --Receecisci before open, window; ,bruelt toct'n; drink glass of water; wash harale; 'press back cuticle of raile, eold -tv-ter an face; dash of prav.le'r en nose ti en, remove shine; brush eyebrows; dress hair becomingly. Once -a -week aids to loveliness— Manicure nails; clear skin -with cold cream; washbowl kuunday, special care of feet; weekly mending. Every two weeks—Shampoo hair. A Progressive Party. If you wonld have a pleasant and ecantornical variation freni the usual kind of summer party and woulsi give a "sociable" that all of your friend's -- the girls who are in business as well as those, who are keeping house ---Will enjoy, join with two of your friends and send out an invitation something like this: -- You are invited to take part ha a.n stirnmer frolic on Saturday, July Breakfaat at the home ef Miss-- at, 7 a.m., lainch,eon at Miss 'd home at 12.80, supper with Miss at hen home at 6 p.m. Be prompt. Wear tramping clothes. Of nurse you will decide with your friends mho of you will ditertain nt breakfast 'and who at the other two meals, and will write those n'arnes in the invitation. In planning for the food do not attempt elaborate menus. I-la-ve simple, -Wlioleathne dishes and see'tbait the thiel7ineade are weld bal- anced—that they make up an appetiz- ing and nutritious - Use as little china as possible. Paper .cups and dishes,' and paper napkins, of course, will simplify the cleaning up". The chief charm about breakfast will lie in getting abroad in the fresh, early morning air an,c1 inenakirig that usually hurried meal an oceasion fax social pleasure. Serve the meal in- formally. The best .plan is to set everything, on one- big table and let everyone help herself. 'AfterwardS, when those who have work to do have gone to it, round up the others and t,alre them for a tramp in the *erode and fields to gather flowers, grasses and foliage until it is time to go to the home of the friend who Will serve luncheon-. Use some of yoUr flowers and leaves to decerate the lunelfecin tables (sev- eral small tables Will make a pleasant change from'a large one) "and put the rest in water until the afternoon. Then take the company out of, doors arid let them work, the blosoems and the'foliage into baskets, tokens and bouquets to be used for dimier favors. If passible, serve dinner out of doors. It should be a mare srdbstarg tieul meal than.the others, for every-. one will have time to 'enjoy it faddy and at leisure. Close the day -With oldafashioned games, feats and forfeits, story -telling and singing. s, ; Of course, since net a little ef the fun of such a "se.ciable7 is in keeping' the guests doing things Oa of doors for the better part of a long- summer day, you must postpone the party if the weather is:Unfavorable. Worth Knowing. Dark shades will make you seem slighter: Soft fabrics are, more becoming to the stout woman than stiff, wiry Ones. 'Voile is now dotted the same as swiss. Batiste is printed in attractive small all-over patterne. Tub silks are being worn again. Shiny surfaced silks will make you appear larger than dull -finished fabricssuch as crepe silk. Cut fibre silk crasswise. 'It falls into mere graceful folds on the crosswise thread. Always stitch skirt 'Or urese seams from the top down. If: tind seam is etitehed down find .pn.e.:11P, the gar raent fa apt to tvvivt8 you lelesen the upper tension of ,your -sewing Mac:lime, you care ma- ehine-stitch for basting. The top thread can eaMly,bearnlietl if the 'ten - men is loose enough. • As seen as you tut a g,annent, ,run a stay thread ,b -n hand along the bias edges o,f ihe ieco. It will prevent them from sir t 1 Had iour Iron Today? Iiii1111 1 PI8, 0.11 - ° e iclous airceeec BST lunch is two packages 'of Little Suri -Maid Raisins and a glass of rnilk. „ , Tastes, good when you're hungry. Nourishes yet' keeps you cool., a 'Raisin's /.5 pi pr cent fruit sugar, s in practically predigested form,fur- nishing 1.560 calories of energizing iiiitrinient per pound. Doesn't fax digestion so 'doesn't - heat the blood, yet energizes almost immediately. ' Big men eat little lunches eon - serve their , thinking power.. Don't oirereat and lag behind the. leaders. Get two .packages of Little Sun - Maids now. 11' e'tween-lifeal Sc Everywherv Little Rd Packages. REMISP.M12., Do you know tb,at dipping a pink dress ,1n. light blue dye -will turn it lavender; that pink over yellow gives apricot; 'that yellow 017QT blue gives green? ' ktlittle black dye mixed with any color will gray' the dolor. In dyeing, allwa.ys choase a shade darker than the original garment. A Summer Dish_ The most popular dish of the sum- mer—ice careann--wthen flavored with raisins, is not only a ceding confection, but one that helps to take away the listlessness caused by warm weather. The cooling qualities of ice erearn'are but a temporary relief, it is pointed out; aombined with the delicious flavor of raisins it is t-rudy a delightful, healthful dish. ' The 'sugar in raisins is isa pr.acti- caddy predigestexl Term, and is t-urnecl into energy almost immediately. This revitalizing quality of the raisin makes `this fruit -food a been to vrann weather fatigue and listleissziess. Minfird's 1,Initrieni for dandruff. Quite True. work,of a choir director is hard but it is sof wholly 'without humor. Reicently a man was telling of his experiences with the boy choir of an Engish Cathedral. "I was teaching them," he said., "to chant the laitaay and flattered myself that we were get- ting along unusually wen when I no- ticed the words they were chanting for the response. ' Every last one, of them was aaying, Lord, have mercy upon us, Misers:1:de Singers!' Surely it was true eneugh of most of them." Theearliest records of Korea go back ta 1122 He Probably/Got His Wish. ' Tommy, though very- young—he is only four—has a precocious apprecia- tion of the pleasure.s of the table. His sister, who is a few. years older, has recently been suffering from one of the common maladies of childlaiood, and as she became convaleicent, Tom- my frequently observed the most. tempting delicacies being carried into the sick room, from w,hieh he was still eXcluded. He decided to, put in a word for himself. The next time he saw his mother 'bearing a tray of es- pecially appetizing feed to the in- valid's door lie made his plea. ,"mother,'" he, said, "may .1 ,have the measles -when Violet's, finished with them?" ' • Locid RADio Agent WANTED If we are not represented in your locality write at once for our propo- sitiona. Make „some real profit on Radio Apparatus now. We furnIstr Cornplete Coneert,Fladio RecelviNg Sets. Automate Telephones and Time Recorders, Ltd. Radio Dept-, 140 Victoria 5t., Toronto ee Supplies Beekeepers will fiii, oy iodking up our catalog, everything need- ed for the production" of heney, 'Ruddy Mfg. ,Co. Ltd.. 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CO., Ritehener, Ont. 11,3Abglit.r sum tiG FUllt:41TURI SHOE OP Metal teocts LITTLE Al ENTION , PAID - TQ WASIrtMATERIALS Steady Expansion Will Pollow, increase of Exploitatiora and CapitaL Canada With ranitertais on which:. to 'draw hie here - 'barer°. 'paid little 'attendee,' to the for the manufacture ail byenroductar meal, -glycerine, isinglass, and fish oils are in constant daily use and 'their niantifactareineCanada at the present time is on' a some'whadt limatecI cede,. Caviare is, one, of the ni,ost simper - teat fish. by-products Used; 7,084 pauralsof this commodity being nut., up in .1919, A good sized sturgeon' gives finm 5 to 35 Pounds. of Caviare, which fetehica from. $.1 to 85 a pound on the American market:, Sefore the War this nrc,au'ot was 8)11pped.rfrern the . inland lakes, oil 'Canada to New York, where it was prepared and lerwarded to Hamburg to he finished.and ,siold as RusSitari caviare:. Now the sturgeon roe is •transported to Sandusky` and Toledo, Ohio, vrhere it is fintsfaed fax the Amercan meat:ea. 'Various-. kinds of Fish Oil. Thenearre several kinds, of fish oil, ,aniong the mOre Pramlinealt, 'being odd- . ldver, herring, whale, porpoise, seal ansi,.blalclEllst. COE Jiver oil is the - meat Widely known,ansi ta manufac- itiu.ried in Digby county, .Nova Scotia. It is made from livers ,coolted• while practically:fresh, and, sold as halide cod liver oil, ''Cod, herring a.nd por- poise oils are used tor tanning; seal and -whale ails' for burning iti.:minees lamps;' and refined whale'and pornolise oila fax lobrioatiqn. The, waste .from the ir_aneiactare of oil cam. be -Made into cattle meal ,eoncentrates, hog 'feed poultry scratch feed, dog biscuitaand a• go orl • fertilizer. isinglass and glycerine are not of verY great ,iing,ortance Olyceri•ne, which is, siondetimes made trem dog fish, is produced isa ,Canada ars a by- product ef soap manufa.eture.- The ' beet isinglass is made train - the animas of s,turgeoce. These are ,slnippe,d. from - Lake Erie to the United States fax manufacture: In addition, the, Had - scads Bay- Company annually able a small quantity from. Northern Ontario and Norther:en Manitoba to be sold at .public anotiraleineLy-opnr.dioodnu,cEtsuglaaid,; w • A° '1‘,. The production of whale by -neo - ducts is confined to the /Faaific coast, where large numbers of these mana mails are still to be found, From the sperm whale, which is' the niest im- portant, sperm oil,- epermacett wax and featilizer including bonemeal are ob- tained: from other vaniebles, Whale oil, and whalebone or baleen. A fair sized wh.a.le will yield, approximately six tans of oil. During 420, about ' 80,000 gallons a whale oil,, worth ap- proxixniaUeiy $100,000, were ,exparted., In. addition, 2,500 pounds of whale meat, valued at'nearly $20,000, left the country during the same period, going almost entirely to the tatted States, Fiji .and Samoa. • The fish by-product industry of Can- ada is as yeria a primary stateof,, de- velopment. Thereis arn unlimited . supply of raw material for manufactur- ing purposes, goosi. transportation faeilthtiesa close proximity to markets and a steady den -land. The lack of ex- ploitation and capital haseretarded Nies, industry to .some,extent, but, with businesa, conditione ascsimreng a more normal aspect, there' Should be a Steady expla'nelen. - Mixed Menus. National feeds' are a most hater -est - nig' study., Sect1and's 'oats, , taken in ."parritob." form . Why, oats'? 13ecausre they are heating,: and, Scot- land is a nel country.' Ireland's', na- tional , 'food is the potato. Why? -13e- cause Irish soil suits its cultitratien. Enigiand'snational' food is roast beef. - Why? Weld, the English were ever a. buccaneering ram, and tt'ae. lighter' al- warys.'r•e,quires .red meat, ", T,b,e Hindu's naticrnal Iced is 'rico, 1)6,m -use' it .supplieue isa small' foam.' aii, extraordinary amount Of energy and Staying power. That is, exactly what a hat -conntry.requireav • The national food of Qermairyn is pork—in any fonia—becatia,e, pork is .always the food, of the clever and cruel: That is -not , a hit at our late eneinie,s, but a faei.' Our Fronch frien cis bay e no , out- standing national:foot], but are''' the . greatest vegetable eaters in the,' world. mat, unfortunately,li a eign ot loss' of virility. Historians and scieutst.' have ,commented on the fact when ln- vestigating the decline and, fail of nor • dons). Italians like oily foods. That is be cause they axe not great meat eaters, and they make up , 'the denciency of protein arid. c.arbehydrates with ail, ItUss,ia'S national fo.ocl is 'rye. Tha is due to economic circumslences. It IS easy to grow, cheap,)and :nourishing. It has been c.alled "serf food,".(1114. Oat' explains, Much The . United States JIV:1, no 'national food; but it is cpmer to note how Viet, venal Is ,the demand there fax 111'!,, pared foods, quickly eaten and autoltir. digitated,' That indiKISAVi 'tate "na41031, kri a hurry."