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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1910-8-4, Page 7+44 +++++++++++- +++++++++++++ 9-++++++++++++++. 11 8E1RET OF NFA POWEP; Or, A TRUTH NEVER OLD. 44++++++¢++++++•4++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++ CHAPTER I, There is nothing to kill just now', Tt:Ss an. August morning. It fa except. rabbits, which he Scorns, so all old English manor house,. There ho falls foul of his wife a list of poo - is a breakfast -room hung with old plc she has invited, whack. is course, gi'ded leather of the times of the on the ire. fast; table,ve, of t bled in Stuarts; it has oak furniture of the pe the breakfast; tabic, scribbled in pcharl on a sheet of note;papor. same period; it has leaded lattices "Always the same thing 1" he with stained glass in some of their says as he glances over it. "Always froines, and the motto of the house the very worst lot you could: get in o1.1 1 ranch, day bon vonlou, together, and there isn't one of the emblazoned there with the crest of husbands or one of the wives I" a heron resting in a Drown. Thence 'Of course there isn't," says windows open onto a green, quaint, Lady Usk, looking up from a loci- lovely garden which was laid out etv newspaper which told her that by Monsieur Beaumont when he he- friends were all where they planned the gardens of Hampton were not, and fitted all the caps of court. Thera are clipped yew -tree -scandal on all the wrongheads, walks and arbors and fantastic and yet from some mysterious ren forms; there are stone terraces and sonave her amusement on account steps like those of Haddon, and of its very blunders. there arra peacocks which pane and "I do think," he continues "that perch upon them; there are beds nobody on earth ever had such ab - full of all the flowers which blos- selutely indecent house parties as Borned 'in t Stuarts,andbirds dart and butte - yours !" fl� �pas above them; there are "You always say these absurd things." huge old trees, cedars, lime, horn- "I don't think they're absurd. dam; beyond the gardens ±here aro look at your list; everybody asked the woods and grassy lawns of the that he may meet somebody whom home park, he shouldn't meet!" The place is called Surrender "What nonsense 1 As if they court, and is ono of the houses of didn't all meet everywhere, every George, Earl of Usk; his favorite day, and as if it mattered I" house in what pastoral people call " Zt does matter." autumn, and what he calls the He has not been a moral man shooting season. • himself, but at 50 he likes to faire Lord Usk is a well -made man of la morale pour les autres. When 50, with a good-looking face, a lit- wo are compelled to relinquish ilo spoiled by a permanent expres- cakes and ale ourselves, we begin aims of irritability and impatience, bcneatly to believe them indiges- which is due to the state of his title for everybody; why should liver; his eyes are good-tempered, the be sold, or be made, at aril his mouth is querulous; nature "It does matter," he repeats. meant him for a very amiable man, "Your people are too larky, much hue the dinner -table has interfered too lark -y. You grow worse every with, and in a measure upset the year. You don't care a straw good intentions of nature—it very what's said about 'om so long as often does. Dorothy,•his wife, who they please you, and you let, em is by birth a Fitz -Charles, third carry on till there's the devil to daughter of the Duke of Derry, is pay," a .still pretty woman of 35 or 36, in- "They pay him; I don't—and they clined to an embonpoint which is like it." the despair of herself and her "I know they like it, but I don't maids; she has small features, .a choose you should give 'em an op - gay expression, and very intelligent pe tunity for it." oyes; she does not look at all a "Oh, nonsense." great lady, but she can be one when "Not nonsense at all. This is is necessary. She prefers those house is a kind of Agapemone, a merrier moments in life in which it scrt of Orleans club." is not necessary. • She and Lord "You ought not to be bored in it Usk, then Lord Surrenden, were then." greatly in love when they married; "One is always bored at one's sixteen years have gone by since own place. I tell you I don't like then, and now it seems very odd to your people. You ask everybody each of them that they should ever who wants to meet somebody else; have been so. They are not, how- and it's never respectable. It's a ever, bad friends, and have even joke at the clubs. Jack's always at the bottom of their hearts a last- saying to his Jill, 'We'll get Lady ing regard for each other. This tisk to ask us together,' and they is saying much, as times go. When do. I say it's indecent." they are alone they quarrel consid- "But, my clear, if Jack sulks Drably; but then they are so sol without his Jill, and if Jill's in bad - dam alone. They both consider form without Jack, one must ask this disputatiousness the inevitable them together. I want people to result of their respective relations. enjoy themselves." 'They have three sons, very pretty "Enjoy themselves! That means boys and great pickles, and two• flirting till all's blue with some - young and handsome daughters. body you'd hat if you'd married The eldest son, Lord Surrenden, her. '+ rejoices in the names of Victor Al- "What does that matter so long bert Augustus George, and is gen- as they're amused7" orally known as Boom. • "What an immoral woman you They are now at breakfast in the are, Dolly. To hear you—" garden -chamber; the ehinals old "I only moan that I don't thick Chelsea, the silver is Queen Anne's, it matters; you know it doesn't • the roses are old-fashioned Jac- matter; everybody's always doing geminate, and real cabbage ros- it." 01, es There is a pleasant scent from "If you'd only ask some of the flowers coffee cigarettes, and women's husbands; some of the g , newly -mown grass. There is a lit- men's wives—" ter of many papers on the floor. "I couldn't do that, dear. 1 There is yet a fortnight before want people to like my house!" the shooting begins; Lord Usk feels "Just as I say—you're so immor- that the fifteen days will be intol- al." orable; he repents a fit of fright "No, I am not. Nobody ever and economy in which he hail sold pays a bill for me, except you." his great Scotch moors and deer "Enviable distinction ! Pay 1 I. forest to an American capitalist; think 1 do pay! Though why you net having his own -hinds in Scot- cannot keep within your pin - land any longer, pride has kept money—" hila from accepting any of the "Pin -money moans money to buy many invitations of his friends to pins. I did buy two diamond pins go to them there for the Twelfth; with ib last year, 800 guineas but he has a keen dread of the en- each." sur g fifteen days without sport. "You ought to buy clothes." His wife has asked her own set, "Clothes! What an expression. but he hates her set; he does not I can't buy a child's freak even; it • smech like his own; there is only all goes in little things, and all any Dulcin Waverley whom leo does own money, too; wedding presents, Eke, and Lady Waverley will not come till the 20th. Re feels bored, hipped, annoyed. He would like to strangle the American who has bought Achnalorrie. Achnalorrie :fx, having gone, irrevocably out of his hands represents to him far the tinie being the one absolutely to be desired spot upon earth. Good heavens! he thinks, how can he . hetes been such a fool as• to sell it7 When he was George Rochefort, 41 boy of, snuclu promise, going up to Oxford from Eton, he hada clever brain, a lova of classics, Arid inucli ' iodination to scholarly pursuits, bet -he gradually lost all these tastes little by little—ire could not very well have said how—and now he never hardly opens a book and e he has drifted inter that odd, Eng - L !rabic of only counting time by the eea.sons the killing, jhings, MYER UP BY FIIS PHYSICIAN "FR )IT,A TIVQ6" T1l FAMOUS FRUIT MEDICINE, SAVED HIS LIFE. JAMea DINGWALL, Eco. Williamstown, Out., July eeth, rgo8.' "I suffered all my life from Chronic Constipation and no doctor, or remedy, I ever tried helped me. "Fruit-a-tives" promptlycured rue. Also, last spring I had a bad attack of BLADDER and KIDNEY TROUI3I,E and the doctor gave me up but "Fruit -a -times" saver] any life. I am now over eighty years of age and I strongly recommend "Bruit-a-tives" for Constipation and Kidney Trouble" (Signed) JAMES DINGWAhL. sec a box, 6 for h2.5o—or trial box,.250 —at dealers or from Fruit -a -byes Limited, Ottawa. all your fronds!" "I know you mean something odi- ous. My friends are all charming sumers of coarse roughagos. as pea people."straw, stommy clover, and barley "I'll tell yon what I do mean aria oat straw. They do not demand that I don't like the house made a painstaking care, save at weaning joke of in London; I'll shut it up:tirne. Thus, they are a sort of in- and goabroad if the•thing goes on.' expensive accessory, gathering up I: a scandal's begun in town in the! the loose waste ends, and convert - season it always comes clown here' to carry one; if there are two peo- ple fond of each other when -they shouldn't bo you always ask 'em down here and make pets of 'ere.'J quently given, but they are inade- As you're taking to quoting Ovid, I quare. The our dog is a nuisance; I may as well tell you that in his,; sheep surely will go through poor - time the honest women didn't do' lye built wire fences, if large flocks this store of thing; they left it to:, are maintained 00 small pastures; the light -o' -loves under the Porti- other stock prefer not to graze af- aeea." tel• sheep;: butthesereasons are in - really don't know what I've sufficient. If sheep were paying re- done that I should be called an honelatively, as they did formerly, they est woman I One would think you would not have been thus abandon - were speaking to the housemaids! ed. When sheep were in their zone wish you'd go and stay in some- ith, dairying had scarcely appeared body else's house; you always spoil things here." "Very sorry. I like my own shooting. Three clays here, three days there, three days t'other place, and expected to leave the game behind you and to say `thanks,' if your host gives you a few braces to take away with you— not for me if I know it, while there's a bird in the covers at my own places." "I thought you were always bored at home." "Not when I'm shooting. I don't mind having the house full, either, only I want you to get de - center people in it. Why. look at your list—they're all paired like animals in the ark. Here's Lady Arthur for Hugo Mountjoy; here's Iona and Mme. de Canino; here's Mrs. Curzon for Lawrence; here's Dick Wooton and Mrs. Feversham; here's the Duke and Lady Dolgelly; here's old Boaumanion and Olive Dawlish. I say it's absolutely in- dece t when you know how all these people are talked about." "If one waiteed for somebody not talked about one would have an empty house or 511 it with old fo- gies. My dear George, haven's you ever seen that advertisement about matches which will only light on their own boxes 7 People in love are like those matches. If you ask the matches without the boxes, or the boxes without the matches, you won't get anything out of either." "Ovid was born too early; he never knew this admirable illustra- tion !" "There's only one thing worse than inviting people without the people they care about; it is to in- vite them with the people they're tired of I did that once last year. u and Ger- de n Z asked Mme. Sauumu vase together, and then found that they had broken with each other two months before. That is the sort of blunders I do hate to make!" "Well, nothing happened7" "Of course, nothing happened. Nobody over shows anything. But it looks so stupid in 010, one is al- ways expected to know—" "What an inereaso to the re- sponsibilities of a hostess. She crust know all the ins and buts of ter acquaintances' unlawful affec- ti ns as a Prussian officer knows the French by -roads I How simple an affair it used to be when the Vic- christe- ing presents, churches or- , torr ian reign was young, and Lord phanages, concerts; and it's a]l!and Lady So -and -So and Mr. and nonsense, your grumbling about my Mrs. Nobody all came to stay for a bills to Worth and Elsie and Vi- week in twos and twos as inevitab- rot, Boom read me a passage out; y as wo buy fancy pigeons in of his Ovid last Easter, in which it I pairs!" describes the quantities of things "You pretend to regret those that the Roman women had to wear' days, but you know you'd be her- ard make them look pretty—a groat: ribly bored if you had always to creel more than any of us ever have —and their whole life. was anent over their toilets; and than they had tortoise shell stops to got down from their litters, and their dogs had jeweled collars; and liking to heves things nice is nothing new, though you talk as if it were re crime and we'd invented it!" tisk laughs a little crossly its she cornus to the and of her breathless sentences. ''Nose magister :eras," he remarks, "mighb certainly be in - writhed over the chamber doors of On tile Farm t0o+c3+004-c WHY NOT MORE SHEEP I Before the .days of the American tariff on sheep and wool, a flourish- ir,e business was doll with sheep through the greater part of Eastern Canada. The breeder of pure-breds is still inthe business, duties not interfering with his export trade; but on the farms of the mutton - producer. even the old sheep shed has disappeared; farmers them- ee' es hove forgotten the flavor of mutton chops, or leg of lamb, else surely there could be found a small flock somewhere back of the barns; and the children have to adopt a pig for pet, and wear factory -knit stockings and mittens. It was not always so. It is not, well that the sheep have gene from so many of our farms,. They are splendid gleaners, tleast eighty per cent. of the weeds in a pasture will be eradicated by sheep; very few weeds seeds, if any, escap- ing destruction. They get much in a pasture that all other stook refuse_ In winter, they are splendid ecu .ng them into a cash surplus The dispersion of farm 'flocks all over older Canada has an economic reason. Other reasons are fre- gu'out with mo." (To be continued,) d, To sit on a jury is what it sone- titnes needs. There is always room at the top and in a Masonic lodge a man has +o work up to it by degrees. A girl doesn't, litre the Idea of working for a living unless elm is married to a shiftless man. above the horizon, beef -making had so frequently and irregularly parti- al or total eclipse, that many men felt they could not rely upon it as their guiding star, and pork -pro- duction oscillated then as now. Now (le trying is developed into a highly - pr ofitable, permanent industry, beefmaking has probably become more restricted, but is more reli- ably profitable; pork production has shifted from fat pork to bacon, increasing the profit and constancy of the trade. But no such improve- ment can be noted in mutton pro- duction. The business stands too much where it did in the long ago. Lambs dropped in the spring are retained all summer and sold in the fall or early winter, when they are not especially desired. There is net a sufficient profit in the business, handled after this fashion, to con- tinue its prosecution. This is the quasi economic reason of the de- cline in popularity of sheep in Can- ada. But there is money, more money, 111 sheep and lambs than ever be- fore, if the methods of procedure were adapted to the present de- mands. What is wanted particular- ly is lampb, not mutton. The mar- ker wants Christmas lamb, Easter lamb, spring lamb, early summer lamb. This trade is almost as eas- ily met, and is highly profitable. The producer must plan his crop for the market he wishes to suit. If for Christmas :and the post - Christmas trade, they must be fall lambs for Easter, they must be January lambs, and so on. What misses for January will sell later on almost as good a market. But always the lambs must be £oiced, seal brought to market at from two tc• three months. At two months, the lambss can be brought ht to about forty ponnd is> and at three months sixty-five; the latter weight is get- ting rather heavy. For these fancy markets, the lambs at from two to three months will bring from seven and a half to ten doliars. A spring lamb, kept all summer, and mark- eted in the fall at 00 to 100 pounds, fee five or six cents a pound will bring no more, It is true hero, as elsewhere, that the wool produced by most sheep will pay for their keep. They are worth much as gleaners ; they are worth much as a source of wool and meat --supply to farms ; they are a delight to have abort the farm - home, and they will pay, and pay well to those amen who wi11 adapt them to the market demands.—Far- mer's Advocate. ... a' HANDS VP. Eleanor, aged six, had been go- ing to school only a few weeks. She had learned to raise hes hand if she wanted anything. One day she put this into effect when she was sent to the thicken -house to get the eggs. Just as she reached the chicken- house door her mother heard her say, "All you chickens that have laid an egg, raise your hands." An aeronaut is a man of the up- per class, 1�1 REASE is tfle turning -point to economy 1n wear and tear of wagons. Try a bar,, Every dealer .everywhere. The fmporie9 0.11 Co.,R„'tri, WEDDING SUPERSTITIONS. Why Ring is Placed t n Fourth Fine ger of Left Aland, Through popular superstitions may lack reason or reasonable ea - planation, they must have an ori- ei”, and this has formed the basis of quite an interesting book by T. Sharper ICnowlson, says the London Daily Mail, The question of the wedding ring and wily it should be placed on the fourth finger of the left hand ho tMOSS back to a writer in the Brit- ish Apollo" (1708). "There is nothing more in this," it is stated, "than that the custom was handed down to the present age from the practice of our ancee- tors, who found the left hand more eonvenient for such ornaments than the right in that it is ever less em- ployed; for the same reason they chose the fourth finger, which is not only less used than either of the rest, but is more capable of pre- serving a ring from bruises, having this one quality peculiar to itself, that it cannot be extended but in I company with some other finger, { whereas the rest may be singly stretched to their full length and straightness." The old fashioned notion that a shoe should bring luck at a wedding is another superstition curious to explain. "It was in the sense of confirm- ing a sale or exchange that the Jews understood the removal and giving of a shoe or sandal When the kinsman of Boaz consented to waive his claim upon the parcel of land which Naomi would sell in fa- vor of Boaz, he 'drew off his shoe,' for 'this was a testimony in Israel: "In a different sense the removal of a shoe marks the winding up of negotiations among the laws and or- ' dinances given in the book of Deu- teronomy, where the widow who is refused marriage by her husband's survivi. g brother is directed to `come unto him in the presence of the eiders, and loose his shoo from off his foot,' thus asserting her in- dependence and heaping upon him the blame for failure to comply with the law. "When the Emperor Vladimar proposed marriage to the daughter of Reginald she refused him with the words: ''I will not take off my shoe to the son of a slave.' "In Anglo-Saxon marriages the bride's father delivered her shoe to the bridegroom, who touched her on the head with it in token of his authority." LOCKJAW CAN BE CURED. 11at It Takes Quick Work and Plen- ty of the Anti -Poison. The popular belief that a wound from treading on a rusby nail is very likely to cause tetanus is quite correct. This is not because it is a nail or is rusty, but because by lying on the ground it has become infected with the germs of lock- jaw. Moreover, as the punctured wound caused by the nail bleeds but little and this blood dries up are' excludes the air, the most fav- orable conditions for the develop- ment of tetanus exist, for, as Kita- sato, the Japanese bacteriologist, proved, the absence of oxygen is most favorable to the growth of this germ. The germ itself looks very much like a tack, according to a writer in Harper''s Monthly; it is so viru- lent that its toxin in doses of 1.- 00,000 of a teaspoonful will kill a mouse. It has been found by ex- periment that rho poison le carried up to the spinal cord not by the absorbents or the blood vessels, as are other poisons, but through the motor nerves, fortunately an anti -poison or an- tidote has been developed, but so prompt is the -action of the poison that in an .animal two minutes af- ter the injection of a fatal dose of tee poison twice LA much of the re- medy is required as if ]t had been administered with the poison; after eight minutes ten times the amount and after ninety minutes forty times the original amount is necessary. i This antitoxin is entirely harmless. , As a result of antiseptic methods 'lockjaw is now almost unknown ex- ! eept after neglected wounds, in- stead of being frequent as it form- erly was. When it is feared the an- titoxin is used as a preventive and ;when it has developed as a cure. In. 'animals, for naturally horses suffer enormously more frequontly than man, the same antitoxin is used. In 103 horses that had operations per- formed on them, but were protect- ed by the antitoxin, not one devel- oped tetanus, whereas of eight cas- es unprotected by the antitoxin five developed tetanus. ARMY AERONAUT CORPS P1QDIr OF AIRMEN ARE NOW BEING TRAINED. Headquarters of the New Corps will be on the Grounds of Wal!.' Balloon Factory, Although no official announee- meat on the subject has yet been made by the British War Office au- thorities, it is pretty generally known that an army aerouautieal corps is in process of formation. The headquarters of the new corps will be at Farnborough, where, in :the grounds of the war balloon fac- tory, a site has already been se- lected. LARGELY EXPERIMENTAL. As the corps is an entirely new departure its constitution in the forst stage will be largely experi- mental, but it is regarded as cer- tain that the two 'balloon compan- RIP of the Royal Engineers and the London Territorial Balloon Com- pany will be incorporated. The of- ficers of the regular units will nae turally be found in the army, but the • territorial section will invite skilled aeronauts and pilots of both heavier and lighter than air ma- clunes, as well as experts in motor machines. PROGRESS ON FACTORY. • dt CHEAP MILK REFRIGERATOR. -- How It is Blade From a Wooden Box and a 'Tin. Pail. If milk is not kept cold it is a dangerous food for babies, for ev- ery minute that it is much above the temparture of ice the germs of disease increase in it at an alarming rate. Very many babies die of summer complaint merely because their milk has been allow- ed to stand for hours in a warm room. Many are unable to buy enough ice in summer to preserve milk in ordinary refrigerators for twenty- four hours. Most mothers, howev- er, buya five cent cake every morning and by following the sug- gestion of Dr. Alfred F. Hess can make at home at small cost an ex- cellent milk refrigerator that re- quires only a very little ice: "Obtain a box from the grocer, any wooden box a foot in depth will answer the purpose. Buy a tin pail with a cover, one deep enough to hold a quart bottle of milk and a slightly larger pail without a cov- er. Place one inside the other and stand them in the centre of the box. Now pack sawdust or excelsior be- neath and all about them to keep the heat from getting in; complete the refrigerator by nailing about fif- ty layers of newspaper to the under surface of the box cover. "Tire refrigerator is now ready .or use. In the morning as soon as the milk is received it should be placed in the pail and five cents worth of ice should be cracked and placed about the milk bottle, The cover should be replaced on the can argil the lid on the wooden box.! Every morning the melted ice should be poured off." Nothing short of hard cash will make an impression on a heart of stone. r� A woman isn't necessarily wise because she can fool a fool man. The trouble with some men is they have too many fool friends. Afla7 oris nee ith a saps a e lemo n or v oaill a, fer dissolving Irsaca sugar ian water rod ridding Ma 1 laaha delicious campbMita a. lir as bettor If cot cr than mad ple. Oe ,r 2 on. is bottle b recipe hook, Crerea t Mir. Co , Settle. Wm Ca a 9a Appreciation Langham Hotel, London. Gentlemen, -I wish to express my appreciation of the 38 h.p. Daimler which yon have delivered to me. Before ship- ping the car to Canada I made a three weeks' trial of it, cov- ering some 1,200 chiles. The car ran perfectly, and I never had the slightest trouble of any kind, and I think it quite lives up to the many claims you make for it. The silence, smooth- ness of running, and power of acceleration on hills is really remarkable. My petrol consumption was 16 miles to the gallon, includ- ing a great deal of driving in traffic. The tyres show no ap- preciable signs of wear, and I think it will prove Light on tyros. I am really delighted with the cam—Yours sincerely, (Signed) C. A. BOONE, of Toronto, Canada. "The Most Successful Cay of the 49 yeari909" The Daimler Motor �Ir.,,, colo) Hte , COVENTRY, ENGLAND. Excellent progress is being made at, the Government's airship and balloon factory at Farnborough, with the training of a special corps of military airmen. The idea is that there may shortly be urgent need for a body of mon qualified to handle and manipulate a regular sir fleet which may be created. With airship work it has been found that a great deal of the risk of in- jury to a vessel in starting and de- • scending may be obviated by em- ploying a special squad of trained men, TRAINED BODY OF AIRMEN. Colonel Capper, who is dealing with the training of this body of airmen, new gives them regular lessons in airmanship, demonstrat- ing his points with one or other of the airships of the factory. After they have become thoroughly pro- ficient in assisting at the departure and return of the airships, some of I the pupils are selected to make sbort aerial trips, in order to fa- eniliarize themselves with steering, observation work and the care of the ship's engines while they are running. HANDLING IN WINDS. Particular attention is being paid to the necessity of learning to han- dle the airships in gusty winds, practical tests being made to note the number of men required at the rcpes, and the best positions in which to hold the vessel, having re- gard to the direction of the wind. By this system of . training, should several more airships be ad- ded to the department, the crews will be ready for them without any delay. The airmen are mainly chosen from the engineering corps. es— WAR s-WAR ENDURANCE FOR FLEET. Rriiish Teasels During Manoeuvres Must Not Enter Port. The war endurance of the English fleet is to be put to a severe test during the forthcoming naval ma- nceuvree. Efforts are to be made to keep all the ships engaged with the exception of torpedo craft and submarines, continuously at sea during the four weeks the manoeu- vres last. No ship is to enter port save under very exceptional cir- cumstances. Communication with the shore will only be made by wire- less telegraphy and by a regular servieo of scouts and despatch ves- sels. The problem will not perhaps bo as great as appears at first sight. Every ship of any size in the navy is supposed always to carry food and general stores enough to last six weeks. It was known, too, that when Sir Arthur Wilson went to the Admiralty there would be less con- sideration than ever given to the luxurious life, and more than ever before to stern and Spartan pre- paration for war. The coaling dif- ficulty will not be serious. Every armoured ship can carry from 2,000 to 2,700 tons of coal, and, at an or- • dinary cruising speed of ten knots this is sufficient to carry them from 000 to 0,000 miles. For the shorter radius this allows for 700 hours' steaming, and if the ship -ria tinder nay for, say. sixteen hours a day or an average, the full sx,px'iy of coal week' last more than fusty days. Smaller craft, such as di esti u . e, will need to have their l,nnkens replenished of they are to remain at sea for anything like four weeks, and they carry onlytfrom 60 to 160 tons of fuel, The Adnuralty, no doubt, will charter tethers for this purpose, but the navy has its own vessels for conveying oil fuel. ^ And many a man hart been roped in with a inatrim inial tie. ll'a reefer to snake !gal enemy Chau it is t0 's 'lite Slkn..