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The Brussels Post, 1913-7-17, Page 7®e1v4a.a,1 411/Wh1wWa,eltla I•wwr+r.11.1 ro 0 011c of thcGarrisoll; : Or, A rlysterlous Affair. WAS A CONFiRMED DYSPEPTIC Now Finds It a Pleasure to Enjoy Meals here 18 a case which seemed us bpd and as hopeless as yours can possibly he. This is the experience of Mr, I/ j, Brown; 384 Bathurst St„ Toronto, in hie own Words ; (RI AMER ;tYJ,—(Oont'd), Dante with a fresh terror for lits In-"Oentleinnn-lllaveMuch pleasure in BY inn o'el(w)c we had walked oioeo tern°, mentioning to you the benefits received upon .twelve tulles, unit were compelled The whole bog in this !tart appeared tofroniyourNe-Arn-Co Dyspepsia Tablets to mall 0 halt for u few =Mutes ,to ec- /tare sunk in, terming a great funnel- and can cheerfully recommend them. I mover one breath, for the last mild or shaped depression, whieh terminated in simply had confirmed dyspepsia trills all .two •ivo had boon breasting the long, the center in ,a 011001er rift or opening its wretched sympkonis, anti tried shoat wearying slope of the Wigtown hills, about forty paces in diameter.. It war, • From the summit of this range which le a whir/pool—a perfect nlaolstrom of slur!, all the advct.tlsed euree wills no success. nowhere morethan a thousaim feet el eloping flown on every side tothis silent , You have in Na-Dru-Co Dyspepsia ![eight, we 'could Hoe, looking northward, and awful (harem Clearly this wus the' Tablets the best curative agent I could such a icon° of benzine:es-and desolation .spot which,. under the name of the Ifolo and. ' It is now such ,apleasire to enjoy as COul 1110111(1 be metalled in 0117 coup. et Creo, bore such a sinister roputatlon , meals with their aonsec cent nourish- ' tw, Right away to tee horizon etre-toted among tho ruotlos, : I could not .wonder 1 the broad expand° of thud and. of'water 'at its hnlitwseing' their imagination, for metitthatIwanttotueuthonthisforthe mingle([ and ntixnd.to001)10r in the.W1ld. noel cbaos, into it portion ofsome world in the preemie of formotiuu. Ilmw and 'there Ices the tale-oolo1•ed endue° of 11110 great. munch there hud burst out patellae of. Moldy yellow Puede and of ..livid greenish acute, 'which only served to heighten and lntonoify the gloomy effect of the dull," anelanohoiy expanse. On the side -near- esL to 00 001110 abandoned peat cuttings showed that ublgiclteua nlau had been at week there. but beyond these few patty: soars there was 1(0 0180 anywloro-of be - 111 all life, Not even a crow or a seagull flapped their way over that hideous desert, 'this is the .greet bog of Cree, which may bo seen in the 111a1/0 to extend over a tonoidorable surface of the ehire of Wigtown It is a salt-watermarsh form- ed -by an inroud of the sea, and so inter. seated " le' it with dangerous swamps and trancherows pitfalls of 11111114i 111114,• that no nuui wouldventure through it -1101000 • he had theguidance' of one of thefew peasants who eetalu the eeeret of. its paths. An we approached the fringe of meanie which. marked its ' border, a foul, dank smell rosO uli from the stagnant wilderness, as from impure water and de- eitying vegetation—en earthly, note:m t smell which poisoned the fresh upland air. So forbidding and gloomy was the 80pect of the place that our stout crofter hesitated, and it was all that we could do to pomade him to proceed.' Our 'lurcher, however, not being subjected to the delicate int reesions of our higher or - methadone, still ran yelping along: with. uta 11090 on the ground and every fibro Of Ito'body quivering with excitement and eagerness, Thera was no difficulty about picking. .our way through obe morass, for wher- ever the flue -eonld go we throe could follow. If we could"liave had any doubts as to Our degas guidance they would all have been removed now, for in the soft, black oozing soil we could distinctly trace the tracks. of the whole party. From them we could Seo that they had walked abreast, and, furthermore, that each was about equidistant from the other, (nearly, then, no physical force had beau used in taking the general and his companion. along, The compulaion had' bean psych- ical and not matortal. Once within the swamp we had to be careful not to deviate from the narrow track, which offered a fine foothold. On •each lido lay shallow sheets' of stagnant water overlying a treacherous bottom of semifluid mud, which rose above the sur- face hero mud there in moist, sweltering banks, mottled • over .with oocaaional patches of unhealthy vegetation. Great purple andyellow fungi had broken out . in It dense eruption, as though Nature sero afflicted with a foul disease, which manifested itself by this',Orop of plague epote. Here and there dark, oral -like oreatnreo ecutttod 00roes our path and hideous floeh-oolered worms wriggled and writhed amid the 4iokly. reeds. Swarms •of buzzing piping insects rose up wt every step and forrued a dense cloud around our hoade, mottling on our hands and faces and inoculating us with their.: filthy venom. Never had I ventured into so Pestilent and forbidding it place. Mae raunt Hoatherstono strode on, however, with a set purp000 upon his swarthy brow, and wo-couldbutfollow -him, deter- mined to stand by him to the endof the .adventure. As wo advanced tho path grow•narrower end narrower until, He we saw by the. traits, ourpredeceeeore had been con. polled to walk in single file; Fullerton woe leadipgus with the dog, Mordaunt behind him, while I brought up the rear. The peasant bud been sulky and surly for n little time back,hardly answering when spoken to, but he now stopped short and positively refueed to go a step far- thee. • "It's nocanny," he said; "besidee, I. ken where it will lead us Mel" "Where, then?" I asked. .'ehtthe .Hole o' ()roe," he answered. "It's no far' frau hero I'm thinking." "'Phe Hole of Creel What is that., then?" "It's a great muohlo hole in the. ground that gangs awn' doun eo duop that nee - body could ever reach the bottom. In- decd- there' are folk who say that it's just a door leadin' intact the bottomleee Pit. Miele Youhave boon there then?" I -asked. "Been there!" ho cried. ' Wbat would I be dolt' at the Hole o' Oree? No, I've never been there, tier any other man in lea senses." • "How do you know about it, ,then?" • "My great grandfeethor had. been there, and that's how I ken," Fullerton answer- ed,. "Ho was fou' one Saturday Matt and he went for a b01. He, dldna ltico tae talk aloof it -afterward, and he wouldna' tell a' what befell him, but he was aye feared. 0' the very name, He's the first Fnllar- 1011 that's been.at the• Hole o' Oree, and he'll bo the last for 2110. If ye'il tab' my advice yo'll just gie the matter up and gang hanle again, for there's no guid tan. be got oot o' (hie place." "Wo shall go on with you or without you; Mordaunt anewere1. Lot us have 70100' dog and to can pi01t you up ou our way back.' " Na., ea." he cried; "I'11 no bac my dog seared wi' begles and running down Au1 Nick as if he were a -hare, The dog abed] bide wi' uta" "The dog shalt go,withns," said 1n7 00 010 0 111011, with! !tis 0700 blaeiug. "Wo Vise no time to argue with you Here's a live.pouttd note, Let us have the dog, or, by !leaven, I shall take i1. 111 forte ,and throw you inthebog if you binder. ns.' X could realize the Hoatheretone of forty emus'pgo 011011.3 saw the florae and sud- den wrath which lit up the :features. of itis 0(111. Either the bribe or the threat bad the 11011'0d otfeeti for the fellow grabbed at the money with, ono hand while with tltn other he surrendered the leash wi tteh hheld the is atop0 �uvohoontinueditt0make oartrome wny into the utmost recesses of the great swamp, Teo tortuous path grow less Itn1 lees (Wilma as ere proceeded, and wan even•aovered ineilaces with water; but the inereostng exeitemont of the honed and the sight of the scop Medina -eke In the mud, atimnlat0tl-ns 10 push on. At lest, rove of high • afters' struggling through a g bulrushes, we came on it shot the. gloomy horror of whloh might have furnished Outing Shoes For Everybody THE PERFECT SHOE FOR SUMMER SPORTS , ASK YOUR DEALER. 1 ( mere weird or gloomy scene,! or 0118 11101'0 worthy of the avenue which led to it, could not be conceived. The stops. passed down the deelivlty which-enrromnd. ed tho abyss, andwefollowed them with. n sinking feeling in our hearts, as 00 raallzod that this was the end of our sea.rell.. A little way from the downward path was the return trail made by the feet of those who had come back from the chasm's edge. Our oyes fall upon Mese track at the Game moment, and we eaoh gave a cry of horror, and stood gazing ooechlesely at them, .For there, in those blurred foatmar]co, the whole drama was revealed. Five had gone down, but only three lied returned. None shall ever know the details of that strange tragedy, There was no marks of struggle or sigu of all attempt at oeca1e. We knelt at the edge of the Bole and endeavored to pierce the unfathomable gloom which shrouded it. A faint, sickly 'exhalation seemed to rise from its depths,. and there was a distant berrying, • clat- tering sound ae of waters in the bowels df the earth. A great stone lay embedded in the mud,' and this I hurled over, but we never beard thud or splash to show that it bad roaohed the bottom As we hung aver the noisome' chasm a sound did at lest' rise to our oars out of its murky depths. High, clear, and throbbing, it .tinkled for an instant outofthe abyss, to be succeeded by the same deadly still- nees which had preceded 1t. I do not wish to appear to be superstitious, or to euf down to.extraordinary. .eausee-that, which may have a natural explanation. That ono keen note may have been some strange water sound produced far down in the bowels of the earth. It may have been that or it may have been that sin - later bell of which I had hoard so muo11. Be this as it may, it was theonly sign -that rose to ue fromthe last terrible rest- ing -place of tho two who had paid the debt which had'solong -been owing. Wo joined our vetoes in a call with the unreasoning obetinaoy with which man will cling to hope, but no answer came .bank to us save a thousand hollow rever- beratioss-from the depths beneath. Foot- sore and heartsick, we retraced our steps and climbed the slimy slop,° once more, "What shall we do, Meedaunt?" I asked,. in a subdued. voice, "We can' but pray that their souls may rest 1st peace.' Young Heatheretono looked at ane with flashing eyes. 'llhie may be all according to 01.31111 laws," he cried, "but we eball see what the laws of England have ta say upon it. I suppose a chola may be hang- ed as well as any other man. It may not b0,.too late yet' to run them down. Here, good dog, good dog here!" He pnllod tho hound overand set it on the track of. the three: men. The .creature sniffed at it once or twice, and then, (nIling upon hie stomach, with bristling. hair and protruding tongue, it ]ay ehiver- fug and trembling, a very edibodiment of canine terror, "You see," I said, "it is no. 'Ilse C011. tending against those whohave powers at their command which we cannot even give a name to. There is nothing for it but to accept the inevitable, and to hope that these poor men may meet with some componeation • in another world for all that they have suffered in. this." ' "And be free from . all devilish .religions and their murderous .worshippers!" Mor daunt cried furiously. Justice compelled metoacknowledge in my own heart that the murderous spirit bud been sot on foot by the 011ristian before it was taken up by. the Buddhists, but I foraboro to remark upon it for fear of irritating my. companion. For a long time :I could not draw hien away from the seen° of his father's death, but at. last,' by repeated argumentsand reason- ings. I succeeded in making him rennet how useless and unprofitable any further effort° on our part- must necessarily prove, and In inducing him to return with me to Oloomber, . Ohl the wearisome, ted - Mus journey) It had seemed long 00011011 when we bad some slight flicker of hope, or at least of expectation, before us, tut now that our worst fears were fulfilled it appeased interminable. We »belned 11» our peasant guideatthe outekires of the. mareb, and haying restored hie dog we. let him find his 0011 way home, without Melling him anything of the results of our expedition. We ourselves plodded all day over the moors with heavy feet and heat, tar hearts until we saw the 111-omened tower ofOloomber, and 01 last, as the sun was setting, found ourselves ono more' beneath its roof. Thera is no need for me to enter into further details, or to describe the grief which our tidings conveyed to mother and to daughter. Their Mug expectation of some calamity was not sufficient to pre- pare them for the terrible. reality. For weeks my poor' Gabriel hovered between life and death, and though she "canto round at laet, thauks to the nursing of sister and the .professional skill of Dr. John. Easterling, of Strem ter, she has never 10 01110 day entirely recovered her former vigor,: Mordauut, too, euffored much for genre time, and it was only after our removal to and that he rallied from the shock which he had un- dergone. As to poor Mrs. Hcatherstone, neither medical attention nor change of nil+ can °vee have a pormauent effect upon her. Slowly and surely, but very placidly, she has declined in health and strength, until it ie evident that in a .very few weeksat the most she will have re- joined her husband and restored to him the ono thing which. he must have grud- god'to leave behind. The Laird of Brauksome cam° home from Italy restored iuhealth, with the result that wo wore compelled to return ono° more to ,edinburgh. The change was agreeable to ue, for recent, events hed omit a cloue! over 'our country life and had surrounded us with unpleasant associa- tions. Besides,a highly honorable and remunerative appointmout (u connection with the University library had become vacant, and had, through the kindness of the late Sir Alexander. Grant, been offered to my father, who, as may be imagined, lost no time in accepting so congenial a post, In this way we came back to Edinburgh very much more urn• portant people than w0 1pft it, and with no further reason to be uneasy about the details of houeekeeping. •But, in truth, the whole +household has boon dissolved, for I hero been marteed foe some menthe to my doer Gabriel,. and Bother ie to bo - come Mre. Heatheretone upon the 23rd of the month. If she mattes him as good a wife as his slater 11110 made to tee, we may both set auroohvoo down as torture ate men. These snore domestic epteedes aro, ae I have already explained,introduced only because I cannot avoid alluding to them. My object in drawing 11p this statement and publish1ng the &edenma whl011 corro- borates 1t, wee certainly not to parade my private affairs before tho Babb°, but to leave on record en authentic narrative of a meet remarkable series of events, This I. have endeavored to do in ae meth- odical a mannor ae passible, oxaggerat- Ing nothing end.suppresetng notdting. Tito reader has now tho evidence before him, and can Term his own opinions unaided by ma ns to the causes of the dlsnpponr- anon end death •of hales Smith and of itch" Earthier lteatheretane, v,d., O.D. 'Mime is only one point which is still benefit of others. The fact that a lot of prescriptions or so-called "cures" have failed to help you is no sign that you have got to go on suffering. Try Na-Dru-Co Dyspepsia Tablets and see how quickly this sterling remedy will give you 'relief and start your stomach working properly. If it doesn't help you, you get your money back, SSoo a box at your druggist's; Compounded by the National Drug and Chemical Co, of Canada, Limited, Montreal. 141 dark t0 are. Why the cholas of Gboolab Shah should have removed their vial= to the desolatte Hole of Oreo instead of taking their. lives at Oloombery ie, I con- fess, a mystery W me. In dealing with occult laws,.however, we muot allow for our owe complete ignorance of the sub - feet. Did we know mor° 7010 might see that there_wae sumo analogy between that foul bog and ..the sacrilege which bad been committed, and that their ritual and customs demanded that just such a death was the one appropriate to the "primo. On this point I should be. Sorry to be dogmatic, butat least wo must alley', that the Buddhist priests must. have had some very good cause for 0110 oouroc *1 action which they so deliberately carried out. Menthe afterward I.1edw a short para- graph in the Star of India announcing that three eminent Buddhists—Lal 1oo3nf, Mowdar Khan and itam Singhs-had just returned in the steamship Domed from a short trip to Europe. Tho very next item was devoted to an account of the life and services of Major-General Heatheretone, .who has lately disappeared from his country house in Wigtownehire, and who, there le too -much reason to fear, has been `drowned." I wonder if by chance there was anyother human eye but mine which traced a oonneotlon between those para- graphs. I -never showed them to my wife or to Merchant, and they will only know of their existence whoa." they read these pages. I don't know that there is 0117 other point which needs clearing up. Theein- telligent reader will have already seen the roaeonofor the general's fear of dark faces, of wanderings men • (not knowing how his pursuers might come after him), of visitors (from the same cause and be- cause his hateful bell was liable to sound at all times). Iiia broken Bleep led him to wander about the Roue° at night, and the lamps which he, burned in every room. were no doubt to. -prevent his imagination from 1700pling thedarknesswith terrors. Lastly, Rio elaborate precautions 001'0, 00 ho -has himself explained, rather the re- sult of a feverish. desire to do something than in the expectation that he could really ward off his fate. Science will toll you. that there are 110 such powers as those claimed by the. Eastern. mystics.. I, James Fothergill •V9est, can confidently avower that science le wrong. For .what is science? Sci- ence .is the conconeus of opinion of scientific men, and history has shown tbat it ie slow to accept a truth. Science sectored at Newton for twenty years, Sci- ence proved mathematloally that an iron ship could not swim, and science declared that a steamship could not cross the At- lantic. Lilco Goethe's Mephietopholee, our .wise professor's forte is to "stets vornein- en. Thomas Didymus is, to use hie own jargo5 his prototype. Let him learn. that if be will but cease to -believe in the in- fellibiltty of leis own methods, and will. look to the -East, from which all great movements come, he willfind there a school of philosophers and ofsavants who, working on different lines to hie own, are many thousandyears abead of hint in all the essentials of knowledge. - (THE END.). NOT TO BE SNUBBED.• Saluted His Fashionable Friend While Coming From Work. Circumstances forced James Keith tQ leave school and earn his living before he was sixteen years old. Like many another boy, he had no bent toward any' particular trade, and so took the first job that offer- ed. That happened to be with, a tinsmith ; and he . became an ex- pert workman. He was pretty well satisfied' with his job and with the money he made tut it, and he saw no reason why he should think any the less of himself because the useful work he did obliged him to soil his hands and sometimes his face. One evening as Keith, begrimed with dust and root, the result of a day's hard work on a hot'roof, was going home, he, met Mrs, Landon, an old friend of the family. Mrs, London had always liked Jim; for she honestly admired his cheerful spirit, his sturdy character, and his affectionate devotion to his widow- ed mother. This afternoon, however, +'tie had been calling upon some of 1'•t'r fash- ionable acquaintances who lived not far from Keith's home, and had un- fortunately absorbed a little of the spirit that prevailed among them. It may be that Jim was a little dirtier than usual; perhaps Mrs. Landon feared that her new friends would nob .understand if they should eco her speaking to• this sooty young workman, At any rate, as he approached, she tried' to avoid his eye. But time felt /himself quite as worthy of respect in his working clothes as in his Sunday suit. Nor had he any intention of passing an old friend of the family without greeting her, And so as he passed Mrs. Landon he took off :his hat, and said, •'good-naturedly,: "Good evening, Mrs. London! It's' the salve old Jim under All this dirt!" -g' Explanation. "Tile 'H' is silent in so many English `fords," "Maybe that is why the English drop it so often, STRANGE CLUBS, Tito Most Infamous and. Fauhous Pound in LODdOS. Po'i'haps one o clubs now in existence is the 131aelf 13can' Chili in London. The mem- bership of this select community ie strictly !united to 40 persons, eaoh member paying an entrance 'fes' of £10 and an annual subscription of. £!0. The, club assembles sonce a year, and at 1111000 annual meetings a bag is passed around containing 30 white beans and one black bean. The member who draws the black bean is beund by the rules to get married during the ensuing "twelve months, the coin,mfttce undertaking to furnish a house for hire and to defray the expenses of his wedding and a honeymoon. Before the meeting is cl"issolved, each of the re- maining 39 members has solemnly to swear that be will remain single until the date agreed upon for the next lottery. And then, again, there is the Sighing Club, an institution found- ed solely for the benefit of love swains. Silence is strictly enjoined at all meetings, and the members who silt in solemn conclave, each holding a piece of ribbon, a leek of hair, or some possession of his be- loved, aro required to sigh at least five., times .within a quarter of an. hour under penalty of a fine. Suicide clubs have been compara- tively common. The Man Killing Club, however, was a London insti- tution somewhat out of the ordi- nary, membership being confined t, persons who had slain opponents at duels. On guest nights a separate table was reserved for visitors, who had to- be friends of members and to have drawn, at any rate once, an adversary's. blood. But of all the curious clubs of bygone times perhaps the most famous, or rather infamous, was the Abduction Club. This was started in 1776 by a number of young Irish bloods, who banded together to arrartge for themselves forced marriages with wealthy heir - f the Moat eceelltrie WHEN IT'S HOT AND STICKY' Iced Tea is most refreshing. It cools and d invir✓orates without harmful results. 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The double bulb is then potted in the usual way; If aid has gone well, a single stem comes up, while the flower may he blue on one side and pink on the other, according to the cob ors of the bulbs. The result is highly mystifying to gardeners who are not in the know. The experi- ment is often carried out by the Dutch growers, and rarely fails, if carefully executed. WONDERFUL 13L001►IS, Bulb -Splitting Ilodilees Strange Results. A novel experiment is that of growing two hyacinth bulbs toge- ther, Two bulbs are selected which had coxae for interference. So abduction was made a capital offense and guilty members of the dub punished acoordingly. Another celebrated club that was started, but did not last, was also in London, where the : members were to meet once in three months solely for the'purpose of dining backwards. That is to say, the dinner began with •.cigars, coffee and liquors, and finished up with sherry and oysters. 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That which is best for one may not be best for another. In a general way, the best bog fa the one the farmer likes, provided it is what his mar - fret demands. Should his market want'a hog o1 the bacon type, then 0000 cr other of the breeds o1' that type would be boss in his ease, On the other hand, should the meet marketable be a ill;t, or lard hog then the best anima'1 for him to raise would bo one or other of the lard types. This is a matter which the farmer will have to decide for himself, writes W. H. Dalrymple. After the farmer has decided up- on the breed which he 'believes to be the most profitable for him to , raise, .however, he should then stick to that breed and endeavor to develop it toitsmost perfect con- dition. The most famous individual hogs and the most famous herds of animals have been built up, devel- oped and perfected only by sticking to the breed and getting the most - out of it, Take the "razorback," for in- stanco. Some writer has said that this breed of hogs "has no place in modern agriculture." If we con- . eider the razorback from the view- point of a breed. only, we fully agree with the . writer just quoted, but even this hog is susceptible to much improvement through an in- telligent system of grading by the use of males of improved breeding, and especially of the Iarger kinds," on the best of native females. In some parts of the extreme south the' woods are full of razor- backs, and the problem there is how to get ridofthem and at the. same time make the most out of them. Tile first step should be the conversion of all native male pigs into barrows. The second should be the selection of the best of the young native sows for breeding pur- poses. The third should be the purchase and use of pure-bred males of whichever breed and type the owner prefers. In a few gen- erations of judicious selection and grading . these hogs would be brought up to a class that would be profitable.. This seems to be the most intelligent and rational way of getting rid of. the hog which is said to `have no place in modern agriculture, A hog which is gaining in popu- larity is'the 'Hampshire, or thin- rind hog. This breed Is sometimes classed as a medium between the lard hog and the bacon hog, al- though it is generally considered as belonging to the former. It, is a good grazer and the quality of the meat is"very superior. Originally this hog came from Hampshire, England. L_J n the F Milk for Hogs. Sweet milk, skim milk, sour sk milk and buttermilk are of 21ract- calve -ectal value when fed''in the proportion; td,9,12.te-.hate pounds of milk to one pound of shelled"— corn. A bushel of shelled_ corn when fed with water produced ,an average of 11.9 pounds of pork, bus when fed with 153 pounds of milk the .average weight of pork pro- duced in the same length of time was 17,7 pounds. While this is no indication of the value of milk when fed alone, it seems to show that when fed with shelled torn, 153 pounds of skim mutt of little .or no market value on the average farm, produced 5.8 pounds of pork worth about 40 cents at last year's pried!. In many factories the secret of success has been found in the dis- covery and application of some method of turning former waste into a profitable by-product. The same principles can well lie applied to the farm, and farmers Have been slow in making this use of any extra milk. Care of lltc Colt.' It frequently happens during the .hottest weather of the summer the • colt's navel will become inflamed. Colts ranging from a few days to 'three or mare months old are sus- ceptible to the trouble. A variety of things may be the cause. Clean- liness of the quarters, however, is . one of the best preventives. A. mix- ture of one ounce 0f sulphate of zinc and a• quart or water Well mix - •ed and sufficient applied to the affected part threes times each day will usually bring relief. "Give me a drink of whisky, I'm thirsty." '(You should drink milk —milk makes blood,". "But I'm not blood -thirsty." "Why,"Bridget, t sl 1y don't you surely consider bllese windows washed? Said the lady of th(houae, reproach - billy. „Sure, I trashed '0001 nicely on. the inside, taum, s0 we can loud: ont,'r replied Bridget, `,but I in- tentionally left thine a little dirty on thii outside so think ign0r;,nt Jones olid',tdti renab :doer couldn't' look in," ,