The Seaforth News, 1917-10-11, Page 6Kilt11
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Mothers and daughters of all ape are cordially invited to write to this
elepartment. Initials only will be published with each question and its answer
Pe a means of Identification, but full name and address must be given In each
letter. Write on one side of paper only. Answers will be mailed direct If
stamped and addressed envelope Is enclosed,
Address all correspondence for this department to Mrs, Helen Law, 233
Woodbine Ave., Toronto,
Reader:—j. "Anzac" stands for the
Initial letters of "Australia (and) Now
Zealand Army Corps." The name was
first coined at the Dardanelles. It has
no reference to Cannda, for there were
no Canadian troops, just the Arme
Medical Cops, at the Dardanelles. 2,
To remove paint from elothing, sat-
urate the spots two or three times
with ,equal peas of ammonia and
turpentine, and then wash out in soap
euda. 8. Nothing whitens the hands
so effectively as rubbing. L. slice of
lemma on them mice or twine a day.
This is also a good wayto remove
stains from the fin.gere.
Worker ;—To decorate a table for a
Red Cross luncheon, inetead of a table -
loth use "runners" of heavy white
stuff which can afterward ba made in-
to nurses' unifoems. At intervals
down the table arrange large creases
of Ted paper. In between, you
might place measuring glasses, filled
with red and white flowers. Bon-
bons may be in the shape of pellets
end placed in pill boxes, which mor-
tars might hold salted nuts and olives.
Instead of napkins, use squares of
cheesecloth, folded bandage fashion;
these may be saved, washed and
sterilized and. imed for covers for
medicine glasses,
One of the Girls:—For your Hal-
lowe'en party:
Begin with the One -Yard Dash.
Measure off one yard on the carpet,
give each boy a potato, which must be
laid on a line. At a givee signal
each contestant gets down on hands
and knees and pushes the potato with
his nose until he reaches the other
line. There should be a simple little
prize for the winner.
11 both boys
IThe uic 1 ace sfol'
and girls, Each person is given six
!needles and a spool of thread, and the
one Who first threads then. all wins
' the contest.
jump. Hang three doughnuts in a
Next comes the Standing High ' e
doorway, ibout four inches higher
than the menthe of the contestants
Tie their hands behind them and see
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Please write for particulars,
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who first bites a doughnut.
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spoon. The water must be consumed . -.,-.7,e-meztAleraitimeeterfketa
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given a half glaesful of water and a =red
a spoonful at a time, and the one who t "i7
!finishes first ie the winner. If any
!is spilled, that contestant is barred
• out, •
The Bun Race is great fun. A
, clothes -line is stretched across the rem -
room, and from it are hung sugar buns
at a height just reaching each player's
mouth. The players stand in line
with hands behind them, and at a sete----
given signal begin to eat the buns.
The bobbing of the line makes this Le ---
very difficult.
Last comes the Rainy Day Race,
Each contestant is given a shoe -box
containing a pair of over -shoes and
tied with string. A closed umbrella is
also handled to each. When the start- —
er counts three the boxes must be
untied, the over -shoes put on, and the I
umbrellas opeeed. The contestants
then walk across the room as rapidly
as possible to a set line, remove the
over -shoes, replace them in the boxes,
tie the boxes, and close the umbrellas
before they walk to their starting
place. The one who arrives there first
wins.
GOOD HEALTH QUESTION BOX
By John 13,•Iluber, M.A M.D.
Dr. Huber will answer all signed letters pertaining to Health. If your
question is of general interest it will be answered through these columns
if not, it will be answered personally if stamped, addressed envelope is en-
closed, Dr. Huber will not prescribe for individual cases or make diagnosis.
Address Dr, John 11. Huber, care of Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Adelaide
St., Toronto.
"Thc Atm, of society is in the hands of the mothers."
ENLARGED TONSILS.
In children having adenoids there quinsy, diphtheria, scarlet fever,
is mouth wreathing and narrow &est- measles, or in fact any nose and throat
edness and thus poor lung expansion inflammation. Sometimes the tonsils
—by which the child becomes starved become so enormous that they actually
for oxygen and an easy candidate for touch in the act of swallowing; also
consumption; snoring.; open mouth; a in such children there is the "throaty"
vacant dull expression of the face; voice, as if the mouth were full of
unpleasant, toneless modifications of food; and there is a dry cough in some
a naturally pleasant voice, such as the cases. Much stuttering begins thus.
"nasal twang"; inability to pronounce The glands in the neck beneath the
certain letters; earache and other ear skin are also liable to become swollen
affections, even deafness, by shutting and tuberculosis all too often follows.
up. the Eustachean tube, whici. leads
from the pharynx to the ear, and QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
which should always be open; mental Baby is Restless.
deficiency, making a dunce of a na- I am nursing my seven weeks old
turally bright child; frequent attacks baby every three hours and whenever
of coryza (nasal catarrh); nosebleed; she wakes at night. She seems very
irregular tooth and jaw formation; restless at times.
stunted growth; convulsions; and a Answer — Possibly the feeding
generally nervous condition, so that "whenever she wakes at night" is the
an ordinarily good child is accused of cause. Babies on the breast do bet -
wanton misbehavior or crass perver- ter on 8 hour intervals during the day
sity. Such are signs of adenoids. and 4 hours at night. 6 and 9 a.m.,
In addition to what I have already 12 m., 3, 6 and 10 p.m. are right.
stated deformities appear. The na- After the third month discontinue the
tural and uniform ,levelopment of the
face is hindered, leading to the nar-
row jaw with crowded teeth and the
high -arched pallet. And it takes the plenty of water.
highest skill of those de?itists who
have made a specialty of "ortho- Cocoa.
dontry"—teeth straightening—to COT- Can one drink cocoa daily without
rect those jaw deformities. In the injury to the health?
chest there are likely to be alterations Answer—Assuredly, once a day. A
of shape; in some cases the pigeon most nutritious beverage. Just a tri -
breast, but in most eases the forma- fle heavy in the dog days however,
tion of a hollow at the lower end of since it has a considerable fat con -
a breast plate which the child makes tent. Not as stimulating as tea or
obvious when the parts are sucked in coffee, but more nourishing. It is
with each inspiration, therefore preferable in cases tvhere
• 'When enlarged tonsils are found M tea and coffee excite the nervous eye -
children adenoids are sure to be pre- tem, causing palpitation, tremors and
sent also in 90 per cent. of the eases. insomnia. This is not to say, however,
Tonsils are sometimes enlarged from that tea and coffee are to be abjured
birth; but they usually become so by for most of us. When taken in modera.
successive attacks of tonsilitis, or tion the latter are wholesome.
2 a.m. nursing repast. Try if a little
water to drink will not soothe the baby
at night; babies should always have
Trying to get something for nothing
through premiums, prizes and trading
stamps, is a trap that catches many.
In the end the purchaser pays foe the
premiums as well as the goods.
"If thou hast much, give plenteous-
ly, if thou haat little, da thy diligence
gladly to give of that little, for so
gatherest thou thyself a good reward
in the day of necessity."—Tobit
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keeps your btuldings from
the costly, patched -up
class. Not only ends those
constant repairs thatgrow
worse year by year, but
retains for generations
their value when first
erected. Don't waituntil
your buildings have cost
you twice their value in
repairs. Pedlerize now
with Pedlar's Corrugated
Iron Siding. Easily and
quickly put on. Booklet
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A bull is half the herd, if he is a
purebred capable of transmitting his
good qualities. But if he is a poor
sire, he is more than half—he is near- ;
ly all of it. At the Ohio station a
bull whose darn had a high official re-
cord and whose grand -dam had a re-
cord of large production, sired daugh-
ters which showed an average gain
over their dams of 1,902 pounds of
milk and sixty pounds of fat the first
year. Their average yearly differ-
ence was more than 1,100 pounds of
milk. Another sire selected from one
of the best herds in the state showed
a decrease of 687 pounds of milk and
thirty-nine pounds of fat. His sire
and dam had no official records.
Bitterness in cream and milk is a
frequent trouble during fall and win-
ter months. If milk is bitter when
it is drawn, the trouble is with the
cow or her feed. Very often cows
give bitter milk toward the close of
their lactation period. The old dry
weeds of winter pasture also give rise
to a bitter flavor in milk. The remedy
in this case is to keep the cow from
such pastures.
Scalding Poultry
Dressed poultry for long-distance
shipments had best be dry -picked, but
for near -by markets or home consump-
tion scalding is perfectly proper. In
fact, scalded birds sell best to home
trade.
The water must be as near the boil-
ing point as possible, without boiling.
Care must be taken in scalding, The
logs should first be dry-picked,eso that
it will not be necessary to immerse
them in hot water, which would change
their color and cause them to lose
their brightness. Neither the head
nor the feet should touch water. If
the head is allowed to get in hot water
it will present a sickly appearance.
The market generally accepts fowls
that are either scalded or dry -picked,
with the exception of broilers; with
the latter, dry -picking alone is al-
lowable. Scalding also increases the
tendency to decay, It is claimed
thatescalded fat fowls do not cook so
well as if dry -picked.
arif
snow is on the groued, There aro
fences to repair, roam to examine
for leaks, and general fixing up of the
entire house. The runs, too, need a
good cleaning up and spading.
All the old hem, not intended to
winter over, should be sent to market
while the prices are good.
Now is a good time to lay in imp -
plies for the winter, especially such
as Incubators and brooders, and to
secure new blood thut may be needed
in the flock, Orders are more
promptly and carefully filled now then
Intel' on when there is o. general rush,
Winter is feet approaching, and
• every edvantage should bo taken of
the fine weather for doing each out-
door work that can not conveniently
be done when the weather is cold or
ECONOMIC PRO6UCTI ON OF HEM' IN
RELATION T 0 FOOD PRODU.CTION
By Henry G. Dell, Agronomiet.
(0c:included from last weak) '
The Canadian farmer is a manufac, eggs on the leaves of the healthy
hirer, and he is interested 111 every- plant. The maggot hatches on the
thing that will add to the efficiency leaf mul bores into the stalk. Hav-
el: his crepe. He finds hlinself short ing damaged the 'wheat the maggot
of sufficient manure to cover all of his gbes into a dormant state known 118
wheat areae and the areas of the other_ the "flaxseed" etage, This flaxseed
important crops, such as corn, pota- Pontine in the etubble, coming out in
toes, etc., Mince, ho ,supplements the the fly form early in Auguet. The
plantfood of the soil and manure by life of the aclult,fly is but a few days,
the addition of suitable fertilizers, probably but a week or leas, as a rule
Probably no phase of wheat -growing a great mass of flies appenr about the
lins a more important bearing on the seine time; If the wheat is sown after
economic production of the '1918 crop the flies appear by the time the wheat
than proper fertilization. is up they are gone and the crop ere.
„Now, what are fertilizers? They capes the attacks of this ineecte Now,
; late sown wheat is at a &advantage,
in that it has but a short time to make
sufficient growilrto withetand the cold
weather of enettunn and winter. By
the addition of 200 to 400 lbs, of
fertillzer per acre at the time the
wheat is seeded, there is added suffici-
ent available plantfood to enable the
eixswthpto make this strong. healthy
g
'The wheat crop suffers material
losses in some sections from attacks
of smut. This is a fungous disease
which spreads throughout tho growing
plant and- comes to it fruiting stage
about the time the wheat grains are
filling. The spikelets of the infested
crop, instead of containing well-filled
kernels, contain sacks filled with lit-
tle black seed-lilce biedies known as
spores, which are actually tho seeds
of this disease. The wheat crop can
readily be freed of smut disease by
treatment with formalin, as indicated
in the publications of nearly all of the
agricultural experiment stations.
The profitableness of the use of
fertilizers in producing more and bet-
ter wheat is established, 11 18 the
; logical practice in connection with the
use of good seed and proper soil till-
age.
The moulting season is surely mite are carriers of available plantfood
ting a rusty, unattractive appearance jest the same plantfood as is carried
tin the fowls. They need a tonic; a ln farm manure. Fertilizers are
, eve pieces of rusty menin the meek_ composed of materials gathered 'from
ing water will have a good effect, aea and mine and air, as well as from
About five per cent old -process oil- the by-products of various industries.
meal added to the mash is good medi- You speak of bread carrying pro-
tein, carbohydrates and ash. Well,
fertilizers supply nitrogen, which is
the basis of protein, potash, which
causes the formation of starch and
other carbohydrates, and phosphoric
acid, which hastens the growth of the
crop. ' Therefore the fertilizer in-
dustry is closely linked with the farm-
er's important calling 111 producing the
food of the world.
• The Value of Fertilizers.
Now, does it pay to fertilize wheat?
This depends upon four things:
(a) The productiveness of the sail;
(b) The yield of wheat obtained;
(c) The price of wheat;
(d) The cost of fertilizer.
I have already dealt with the first
factor, in last week's instalment of
this article.
The yield of wheat is directly de-
- pendent upon the supply and balance
By Ruth 111. Boyle of plantfood. The oldest fertilizer
"My son and two of my nephews tests in the English-speaking world
have enlisted. My daughters are mak- havo been conducted by Rotharnsted
ing surgical dressings for the Red Experiment Station, England, where,
Cross. I am kept. so busy at home as an average of 51 years, there was
that I can't be of any use, and it is obtained an increased yield of 18.1
hard to have to go 011 from day to day
bushels per acre from fertilized wheat
just as if there wasn't a great war
that we have to win, Yet there over wheat grown without fertilizer.
doesn't seem to be anything that I can
do to help."
She was a farmer's wife, and she
was managing a home for six hard-
working, healthy people. She didn't
realize it, but her part in winning the labor has increased in cost; seed and
war was probably as important as fertilizer have likewise increased. A
that of the son who had enlisted and eareful study of the situation shows
the girls who were making surgical that the advantage is still with the
dressings. • 1 farmer. A very small increase in
This 15 nee a woman -'--a horne yield will pay for a liberal application
economics teepert—who is giving her
time and her tarent to the Government of fertilizers " on wheat.
to find means of conserving the food • Time will not peewit my going into
which ite• so necessary and so scarce the adaptability of the analyses of
in the world just now, explained it to fertilizers used by various experiment
me : - stations, but a careful charting of the
"War," she said, "depends on wealthyields of wheat obtained et Ohio
Now, there isn't any wealth except
shows that acid phosphate can be used
that which comes out of the woods
out of mines,the sea, out of the and at material profit on wheat. It is
off the farms. So you see the fate of strongly advised by the experiment
the world hangs on the farm, the f,ar... station. .
mer, and the farmer's wife—and not A similar study shows that nitrogen
the least is the farmer's wife. It is and phosphoric acid give material pro -
the woman of the house who plans fit at present wheat prices and fertie
whet Is to be eaten. If she plans
our own. countrdy„and the men at
the le lizer costs. Complete fertilizers, or
fe
front can be those carrying potash as well as nitro -
eine at this time. Sunflower -seed,
mixed with the grain feed occasion-
ally, will add luster to the feathers.
Canonize all the surplus young cock-
erels during October.
It is net uncommon on farms to al-
low the poultry to roost outdoors in
summer, on trees or wherever they
may find a satisfactory perch, and this
is often permitted away into the win-
ter months. The practise is not a
good one, especially after the fall
weather starts. If the stock hae not
already been placed in the houses, it
should be done at once. Exposed
hens never have good egg records
during cold weather,
Kitchell Pends
At present wheat prices, such in-
crease in yield is full of interest to
the farmer. But he asks, can such
increase beefhade economically? Farm
No woman can think for a moment gen and phosphoric acid, also give a
of the lads—most of them Just in their profit at present prices. On sandy
twenties, remember that — "some- soils 01' 011 soils containing a high
where” at the front, and not feel 1111- percent. of muck, potash is especially
polled to starve herself, if _necessary,
desirable.
in order that they may have plenty, -
Fertilizers have en important bear -
Rut no such sacrifice as that is,neces-
sary. What does the nation Mile you. ing on the next factor in economic
to do ? •wheat production, which is insecteand
A few simple things—to save wboat, disease control. The most destructive
to save meat, to save butter, to use insect effecting the wheat crop is the
perishable fruits and vegetables as
Hessian Fly. This insect lays its
far as possible in Order to conserve ,
those that can be shipped long dis-
themes.
tar Far -Flung Battle Line.
This does not mean that you must "God of our Fathers known of old
not give your family all they need;
God of our far-flung battle line,
in order to keep them In proper,
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
health, they must have plenty of
wholesome food, But it does mean ; Dominion over palm and pine."
substituting corn and other grains for ,
Thus wrote Kipling of the British
wheat, whfoh is needed acroso the sea, Empire twenty years ago when he
It means using cheese and fish and all
possible substitutes for meal:.
penned the "Recessional." It was pos-
It
means that although you inay use but- sible then for Britain to talk about
ter as usual for the table, you must her "far-flung battle line." But what
not use it in *cooking, Above all, it about that battle line to -day, Britain
means the elimination --of waste. There has over two million men in France;
should be nothing left on the plates, her navy has controlled the sea sinte
and the left -overs should be served at
the outbreak of the war. There is a
another meal,
British expedition in Mesopotaniia, a
Plan your meals with the needs of
your country in mind, and you are British expeditionary force at Salo -
serving your country as truly as any nika, another expedition hi Pales-
soldler in the trenches. And then it tine. British monitors and British ar-
may be some consolation to you, when tillery are operating with the Italians
you think of your own boy "some-.
near Trieste, and British armored
where" under the colon, to know thet
you, with thousands of other women,• oars are supporting the Russian
are using your skill and your wits in armies on the Eastern front.
order that he ..enay be well provided
for. An inventor of a new electric brake
for automobiles claims it will stop a
To paraphrase an old saying, a. good car moving at a speed of fifty miles
dtain is Tether to be chosen than great an hour within forty-five feet without
ditches,
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Five Important. Factors.
The fertilizer industry, like all other
huiustries is encountering enormous
difficulties arising from the present
war. Its nitrogen carriers are used
as a basis of explosives. Potash
from Europe, as you know, is now 01117
a memory, and submarine activities
, have greatly aggravated the shortage
• of sulphuric acid used in the manufac-
ture of acid phosphate: Nevertheless,
the fertilizer industry is vigorously
endeavoring to supply the Canadian
farmer with as much available plant -
food as can be assembled and manufac-
tured, so that he may do his part in
overcoming the food shortage.
Let me again emphasize these points
to all growers of wheat—points which
are established beyond a question by
careful experimentation and actual ex-
Perience—that the largest crops of
best quality wheat can be produced
by giving careful attention to the fol-
lowing five important factors:
(1) Thorough drainage of the soil;
(2) Thorough preparation of the
seed -bed;
(8) Selection of suitable varieties of
wheat and good quality seed;
(4) Adequate fertilization;
(5) Control of insect pests and dis-
eases.
Attention to these five details will
enable Canadian wheat -growers to do
still more, efficient work in the cam-
paign for increased food crops, and
thereby render great service to
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the world's histmy.
Most economical gains on hogs are
secured while the pigs are young, and
for that reason it is advisable to
finish hogs as early as possible,
weighing 200 pounds when marketed.
Gains on adults are expensive, and
feeding them during too long a period
loses money.
Weaning time is the critical stage in
the life of fall pigs. Three weeks be-
fore weaning teach them to eat, sup-
plying a box or creep which admits
thee little ones only. Feed a little
middlings and :Aim -milk, adding lat-
er, some sifted ground oats,
Pigs may be self -fed from six weeke
onward. It is best, however, to start
self-feeding at about ten weeks of age,
With paddocic feeding a eelf-feeder
will save fifty per cent. of the labor.
On pasture, with running or a con-
tinuous supply of water. nearly seven-
ty-flve per cent of the labor may be
avoided,
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Neuralgin.
Neuralgia may be caused by mai-
nutritien, impoverishment of the blood,
1111 excess of protein in the diet, auto-
intoxication through the absorption
from the colon of the products of
putrefaction, An 01111001)11 English
physician defined neuralgia as the cry
of It hungry nerve foe better blood.
The best way to secure better blood is
to eat pare food end live an active
outdoor 11f%,
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, For temporaey relief of almost any
.form of neuralgia hoot is the best of
all remedies, It cannot lie too often
repeated that heat kills pain, . Appli-
cations of heat may be made in a
great variety of ways., as by hot
foraentations, het -water' hags, hot
poeltices, photophore, incandescent",
electric light, arc light and .dirithermy,
!The last-named riemedy is a modifica-
tion of the wireless electricity and is
especially useibl in muses of deep-
seated neuralgia, visceral neuralgia,
which cannot always be relieved by ex-
' ternal hot applieetions, 13y means of
!diathermy heat may be supplied to
any internal part, no matter how
deeplet seated.
In making hot applications for relief
f neuralgia it is important to remain-
ber the water must be as hot as the.
patient can bear, The application
should m
be so hot as to aim it neces-
sary to!take it off and put it on two
or three times until the petient's skin
can bum it. Commencing the anplica-
tion at about 110 degrees Fahrenheit,
the skin will gradually acquire a toler-
ance for beat until a temperature of
115 to 120 degrees Fahrenheit can be
borne. Continue for fifteen or
twenty minutes, and immediately fol-
low by the application of a towel or
compress moistened in water at 80 de-
grees for one minute. Then dry and
cover with dry flannel,
Teeth a Factor in Health.
Good teeth are necessary for health.
What adds more to the beauty of the
human face than a mouth full of fine
The first teeth need great care..
First, the mother should sec that the
mouth is not overcrowded so that its
form may he maintained for the sec -
y conic.
The baby teeth 500 softer than those
that come after, and therefore acids
must be scrupulously avoided, particul-
arly in mouth washes, as they will de-
stroy these important teeth, which
should be -kept in the mouth as long
as they are in good condition.
If you suspect your tooth prepara-
tion of being acid, you can buy a few
cents' worth of -litmus paper from
your druggist, and by dipping a very
small piece of this into your mixture
O reddish tinge will appear on the
paper if there is any acid present, If
acid, forbid the use of the preparation.
If a tooth powder is used it should be
well shaken up with water before malt-
ing the acid test.
Plain chalk with a soft brush or rag
will do very well to cleanse the teeth
of children both night and morning.
The mouth should be well rinsed with
water after each meal, and just be-
fore retiring it is well for both adult
and child to rinse the mouth with a
strong eolution of !baking soda. This
destroys the acidity that might have
been generated in the mouth from
foodstuffs. ,
The teeth and gums should not be
abused. 'Sound and healthy gums are
necessary to maintain the health of.
the teeth.
The teeth represent live parts of the
body and must be guarded against
abuse the same as we all appreciate
the eye has to be protected,
Took Him Literally.
A clergyman in a remote part of the
Scottish Highlands was speaking at
length to his congregation of the
many things round us that are shroud-
ed in mystery and of which we know
little, As he warrried to his theme, he
became eloquent, and frequently re-
peated the oft -quoted saying of
Goethe;' "More light! Oh, for light!'
His eurprlse may be imegined, when,
after one of those utterances, the old
beadle, who had been dozing since the
commencement of the sermon, woke -
with a start, then got up, tiptoed soft-
ly into the vestry, seized two addi-
tional candleseand, ascending the pul-
pit stairs, placed them be/side the two
already there, ami in 8 loud whieper,
honed all over the church, exclaimed:
"Ye mann do wi' these, for there's
ram mair!"
What the Letters Meant.
A story which is going the rounds
just now would seem to show that Mr,
Winston Churchill's leappy-go-lucky,
slap -dash method:4 were developed
quite early in life.
When he was a boy at HavroW, his
Mother, glancing through his pocket-
book, save a number of entries of small
sume, ranging from 2s, 6c1... to 58.,
against which were the lettere "P.t."
Thinicing this must mean .the Pro-
pagation of the Gospel, she :Aced her
son why he did not give a lump sum
and a larger amount to so deserving a
cause,
"That is not for the Propagatioij of
the Gospel," he replied. "When I
cermet remember exactly on what I
spend the money I put G,' which
means 'Probably drub.'"
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