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PURSUED BY FIRE
BY CHRISTINE, STEPHIENS,
Sotto years ago, Hugh Dunkirk, a injunctions Sandy readily promised to
brawny Srstet:man, with his wife, remember.
Jeanette, and half a dozen children, All went well with, the boy while
took passage in the latter part of the day lasted, but when night came;
March, for Ausbra:ia, and after a long though Sandy was brave, yet he felt
and stormy voyage, arrived alt Free- a little uneasy, as be lay under the
mantle, thechief port.. of the Swan cart listening for he nrs to: the various
River colony in Westo
Australia: They sounds which can to him on the still
had started from their native land in air. But at last everything sic t in
the expectation of being able' to `easily eluding Sandy. P
got to one of the Eastern colonies, Wien he awoke it was dawn. A
where they had planned to settle. eurioue odor was in the air and the
Like many others, ignorant of the sky looked hazy. Sandy felt uneasy,
vast' distances to be traversed between end, climbing a gum tree .heaze
`comparatively new colonies,. and the long and nnxiousl . g d
insuperable difficulties hi crossing the y around.
eon meet, they were sadly disappoint-
ed in their object, p
They might have v talion ships around
to the Eastern ports, but they had but
little money. Hence the necessity of
first earning some.
The•
Away to the northeast and bearing
down toward him, great volumes of
smoke were rising tar beyond the hori-
zon.' It was a bush -fire, and, knowing
how rapidly these conflagrations tra-
vel, Sandy made all haste to put the
horses to the cart, hoping, as he had
vti p n y of land to settle so much the start, ,to outstrip the
upon, and abundance of: employment to flames.
be fbund "over the hills"' in cutting The
sandalwood and drawing it to. the sea- • animals were fresh,dashed and, at
a ung d scent the danger, off a
ports; and Hugh Dunkirk, with an- rapid ac
other follow -emigrant, an Irishman by p pace,
the name of Hinny Col£ee, started for An hour passed, the murky clouds
the fartherdistricts of. Swan liivr, had climbed to the zenith and the
beyond the Darling Mountains, glare of the flames `already showed
After a tedious journey through the itself upon them,
bush, the two emigrants arrived in t It was a hot day in midsum er and
the vicinity of Banladong, sixty mi ethe horses now gave signs "of great
from Perth, and at once set about' yet they pulled on at Sandy's
building ,huts in mid -forest for their shouts of encouragement.
families. He repented not having thrown off
Through the kindness of a fellow- tha load at the start, but it seemed too
countryman, a pair of horses was great a sacrifice them, and now he felt
"turned out" to Hugh Dunkirk, who he could not stop; but, believing that
was to pay for them in sandalwood,'ithe horses might guide themselves in
whish brought a good price. '
Hugh Dunkirk and his Irish friend
bad settled near an abundant growth'
of these odorous trees and immediate-
ly began cutting and drawing the tiro -I
ber to Perth. It took five days to make
the round trip.
Both emigrants had large families,
which early showed signs of thrift,
and many sacks of paint -wool and wat-
tle "gum" were sent down to Perth;
on top of the loads, picked by their,
nunbio fingers.
Dinny's children were :all young;
and as yet of no assistance in the san-
dal -wood business; but Hugh was
more fortunate, his oldest son, Sandy,
being a great, strong, blue-eyed lad of
fifteen, brave, light-hearted and merry.
During the time that his father was'
tak!ns
own to Perth, Sandy ,
would prepare another, and also look
after the family. In fact,.Sandy was
the chief man about the hut, for Hugh
Dunkirk spent but little time at home,'
his home being on the "twa-horse",1
team.
But there came a time, about a year
the narrow road, he fell to throwing
off the load as they ga:loped along.
He had nearly cleared the cart,
when, crash! the wheels' struck a.tree
upon one side of the track, and the
next moment Sandy was alone in the
road with the wreck of the cart.
For one moment the horror of the
situation nearly overwhelmed the boy.
Then a ray of hope flashed into his
heart. If he could but reach the big,
thick oven i
he might yet live.
It was fifteen miles from the "la
n the clearing he felt that
ANOTIIER EPIC OF SEA HEROISM
After drifting about In the Atlantic for 11 weeks without sails the half-
starved crew of the General Smuts, a British vessel, belonging to Nova Scotia."
was rescued by the Dutch liner Volendam. The boat, it is said could not.
have lasted another 36 hours. Photo shows Capt, Charles Rose (left), of the
General Smute. shaking hands with Capt, J. D. Ronnlg. of the. Volendam.
dislodging several bandicoots and
lizards in his unceremonious entrance.
Here he lay more dead than alive,
for the next few hours, while the
flames went roaringpast the clearing
and lapped up the long, dry grass.
The oven had, indeed, saved his life;
but Sandy felt himself well-nigh
roasted in his snug quarters,which
got heated quite through,
When, however, he at last ventured
forth, it was nearly night. Only a
portion of the clay chimney marked
the spot where the little hut had stood,
and all around the country was a
black, dreary ruin.
Not a sound could be heard, save
now and then the falling of a tree. A
sickening smoke filled the air; and,
after quenching his intolerable thirst,
Sandy once more crept into the oven
to pass the night.
The next morning he set out for
home, picking his way over still smok-
ing logs, and scorching stones and
earth.
Hunger now began to pinch him
sorely. It had been two nights and a
day since he had tasted food, and it
would be two days yet ere he could
reach home
1 But Sandy possessed good Scotch
et faith, as well as grit. God would not
1 -have saved him from imminent death
e, by the flames to be starved at-last—
and in this firm belief he struggled on.
r Toward night he came upon a wom
, bat, much charred indeed, yet it was
of no time for fastidiousness of appetite, •
l- though the creature was both tough
w and strong. What he could not .eat
he carried along with him for the
d next day's rations.
d I have no need to assure the reader
r that Sandy's safe return was hailed
d with thankful joy by the humble
s Scotch family.
stopping place, and surely he had a
ready gone two-thirds of the distant
It was a race for life, and Sand
y
set off after the horses with wild fea
urging hint on.
On he ran. And now he was n
alone in the race. Opossums scramb
ed from their nests high up in hollo
trees, and joined the hurrying throng
bandicoots and wombats scurrie
along; dingoes howled dolefully, an
izaids and snakes crawled from thei
siding places; birds flew overhea
filling the air with wild scream
after the settlement, when Hugh coul
no longer make his journeys to Perth
That disagreeable disease, known i
colonial phrase as "bunging," an
caused by the stigs of a poisonous fly
attacked our hardy Scotchman, render
ing him for the time blind and help
less. This was the beginning of sum
rater—the last of November, y
"But dinna ye be worritin', fa.
thee," said Sandy cheerfully. "I can
do almost as weal as a mon,"
So it was concluded that Sandy
might accompany their Irish neighbo
down to Perth, taking his father's
place.
The second night out was passed, as
had been the custom, at a deserted hu
where some colonist had, years before
started a home in the midst of the
"bush,"'
It was a little A -shaped hut, with
sloping roof, thatched with the "black -
boy" grass so common to the country
and some distance from it was a great
"pug" oven, wherein the settler's wife
had cooked the family 'possums and
"damper."
And the existence of this old, un-
couth oven proved a very godsend to
Sandy.
It happened in this wise. On thers
second trip, one of Dinny's. hoes'
took sick, so Swidy mast needs make
his third journey alone. The twentieth
of December dawned clear and warns.
handy mounted his load and rode
away toward Perth, with numerous
cautions from his mother Lo be care-
ful and not run into danger, which
d while, ever and anon, a terrified ka
garoo went leaping past, fleet as
n race horse,
di But there was not a moment for re
gret. The roar of the flames coul
-, now be distinctly heard rushing on
The air was thick with stifling smoke
and Sandy was ready to drop wit
Queen Mary's Laundry.
Twenty seven years ago two Cam
beige undergraduates' vowed venge-
ance ou their laundry. .Every;' week
they sent their shirts to be washed and
ironed, and every week the shirts
were ratunpod in a pitiful condition,
with frayed cuffsand holes. Some-
times they didn't comae back at ale
Finally one of the young men put for -
wand a daring scheme. He suggested
that as both had a little"capital they
should start a laundry of their own,
where they mulct have their shirts
done as they wished.
They procured a small room in
North-West London, and engaged a
couple of girlie, who were given strict
instructions about the way shiles
should be laundered.
Friends of the Cambridge youths ad-
mired their shirts and collars, and
asked 1f they might send their own to
the laundry, The two partners were
not pleased with the idea, and warned
their friends that they would charge
high prices.
High prices were agreed upon, and
five more girls were engaged. ` The
laundry was now old enough to be
christened, so it was called the. White
Heather.
Ta day
the laundry stretches from
one end of the road in which it stands
to the other, and is the moat exclusive
in the world. Over five hundred girls
are employed, all picked for+their care-
ful and skilful work. Garages are at-
tached to house the many motor -yam.
Among its customens are the King and
Queen and the Duke and Duchess of
York,
Xing George sends everything in the
way of shirts, collars, nooks, handker-
chiefs, and so on, to the lauudny, and
Queen Mary has a section set apart
Yor her own special requirements% It
s a small apartment attached to the
main room, and no one exoapt those
erectly responsible for washing and
ironing her delicately embroidered
Wises is allowed to become aware of
what the Queen sends.
he "What matters it, faythor, gin we
e lisle last the two beasts?" said the
• grateful mother. "Hae we not our d
_ boy back again, bless God?"
d -But the "twa boasts" fortunately
escaped and went on to Perth, where
Hugh Dunkirk afterward recovered
h thein.
fatigue as the scorching breeze swept
- over him.
Right ahead was the water -hole,
[ where the teams were wont to stop
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Sun -Power Motors.
If sun motors become ' a mechanical
uocess it is possible that areas like
the Sahara may develop into centres
f industry,.-
In Southern
California the: experi-
ment has got beyond its trial stage.
Various inventors have made solar en-
gines capable of producing tremendous
power. One .used at the Pasadena os-
trich farm looks like a huge umbrella
with a piece of the top SWAM off. In
the concave interior are 1,788 mirrors,
and in their centre a boiler of steel
covered with heat alesorbing material.
It is possible to ,obtain 1501b. of
Meese pressure in one hour from cold
water, and the engine driven by this
pressure is capable of pumping water
at the rate of 1,400 gallons a minute.
Tbore Is always water if you go deep
enough, and the sun motor will go on
Pumping as long as the sun shines.
Wireless provides work directlyfor
bout 40,000 people,
rad drink. Dashing forward, Sandy, G;
ropped to his knees and drank
ager.y.
Then,,
fun in!
p g g into it, the boy wet.
imself from head to feet; then on
gain at full run, with the terrified I
hrong crying and howling around
Int. It was a fearful scene!
Sandy had nearly two miles to go
nd the heat was getting intense; bit
here was no stay for his over -strained
ady. Life had never seemed half so
ear to hint as now, and he exerted
very muscle.
Signs of approaching the clearing
were passed. The pool at which he
curd not stop to cool his parched
hroat, nor wet his burning head; the
reat Cape li:acs, whose blooms were
beginning to wilt in the scorching
heat, and now the lofty dead gum tree,
standing on the borders of the clear-
ing, greeted his eyes, and poor Sandy
staggered across the clearing, patting
and trembling in every limb, and
throwing himself fiat before the oven
with a fervent thanksgiving, wriggled
himself b
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Fred—'•i i al
an pale for what I know,
and not for what l do."
Fannie -Don't you get any salsU•y?"
Safety First,
Paszenger—"Not so fast, Pat, or
there 'll be an accident."
Pat—"Sure, I always hurry over this
part of tits road: lee so mighty dan-
gerous!"
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Transport is the basic Industry of i
Workers in the artificial silk fac-
cries seem to be almost immune from
nfluena, because of the chemicals
ackward thlougI its mouth, civilization,=Colonel W. Aside
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GTT.I'
RIDGE•
New Series byWYNNE FERGUSON
e4uthor ',, 1rguroir on auction Bridge'
Copyright 1425 bp•}Ioyln, Jr,
ARTICLE No. 26
In the great majority of hands the
proper lead is not difficult, Every now
and then, however, a player will hold a
hand that puzzles hiin as to the lead.
The correct decision in such cases means
a game saved or at least a trick or so.
The, writer noted three' such bands the
--other evening and in every one of them
the correct opening lead made a tre-
mendous difference.
Hand No. 1
Hearts — K, f,• 7, 2 •'
Clubs—Q, J,8, 4 t Y: ,
Diamonds—:A B:
Spades — A, Q, 9, 4 -' • Z
No score, rubber game. Z dealt and bid
one diamond, A doubled, Y bid three
diamonds, and 13 three spades. Z bid
four diamonds A four spades, Y five
diamonds and B and Z passed, A doub-
led and all passed. What should A
open? This is certainly a difficult 'hand.
If he hadn't forced his partner to bid by
his informatory double of one diamond,.
the ace of spades would be the logical
opening, betas B's bid is in answer to
As,double, A is not justified in assum-
ing'that B holds the king of spades.
Both the club and heart leads are ques-
tionable so the proper lead seems to be
the four of diamonds. The fact that A
holds three suits, all of which he would
prefer to have led to hen, .makes the
trump opening with this hand the ideal
one. As a matter of fact, it was the only
opening that would have saved game.
With this opening the five diamond bid
was defeated -one trick.
Hand No. 2
Hearts - K, J 6, 2
Clubs -8, 3, 2 z Y
Diamonds—K, Q, 10, 6 ' : A B :
Spades—Q, 6 Z
No score, first game. Z dealt and bid
one club, A and Y passed and B bid
one spade. Z and A.passed and Y bid
Hearts—none
Clubs -6, 5, 3
Diamonds— K, 8,6
Spades —10,'6, 5
four clubs, 13 bill four spades, Z loub-
led,.A passed, Y bid five clubs, 13 and -
Z psod nd ll
Whatasshed,ouldA Adopen?
ubleIan thisaband the
trump opening seems the ideal one.
With the trump opening, the five club
bid can be defeated two tricks. With•
arty otheropening, it can be defeated
only one trick. • Note that in both of
these hands the bidding of both op-
ponents indicated -very dem ly that
they held practically all of the trump
strength, so that a trump opening
would not cause A's partner to lose a
trump trick. Don't make trump open-
ings unless having three suits well ago-
tected and unless you know that the
opening will not make your partner
lose a trump trick. They are perfect in
hands as just given out, but should be
used with great discretion.
[land No, 3
Hearts;—none -
Clubs -6,`5 Y
Diamonds—K,J,10,8,4,3 : A 13
Spades— K, 10, 9, 8, 2 : Z ,
No score, rubber game. Z dealt and bid
four hearts, A and Y passed, B doubled
and all passed. Whatehould A open?
A should open the spade suit. If Z's
preemptive bid of four hearts is correct;
it should indicate weakness in spades,
the other major suit. If that is correct,
A would be leading up to weakness in
Z's hand, always a good play. The only
other choice A has is the diamond lead
and that seems a bad opening. A has a
minor tenace in diamonds and should
wait for -a lead in that suit from B,
There really seems no choice but for A
to lead spades. The lead should be either
the eight of spades, fourth best, or the
ten of spades, the top of the interme-
diate sequence. The spade opening will
defeat the four heart bid by,two tricks
but the diamond opening _ will enable
YZ to make five odd in hearts, quite
difference.
Problem No. 13
Hearts —.I
Clubs -4, 2
Diamonds —10, 7, 3
Spades—A, Q, 9
Y t.
A B:
Z
Hetes — none
Clubs -A, Q, 10, 8
Diamonds =-,' Q, 2
Spades -I1, 7
There are no trumps and Z is in the lead. How can YZ win eight of the nine
tricks against any defense? Solution in the next article. g
Hearts-- none
Clubs— K, J, 9. 7
Diamonds —J, 9, 5
Spades —J, 8
MEN AND WOMEN OF TODAY
Peter Pan—Business-Mani moving into a flat of her own in May-
The
ayThe original of Sir James Barrie's fair. ,
Mise TCnollys has never known what
it is to hear the postman's knock or to
have tradesmen calling at her "door„
immortal chara.oter, Peter Pan, has
juet gone into business as a London
Publishes, Ile is Mr. Peter Davies,
whem Sts James adopted twenty years
ago.
He was playing in Kensington Gar-
dens whir hie three brothers, Sir
James saw` them, joined in their ramps
with boyish zest, and eventually made
Peter the hero of his fairystery that
has spread ids+ charm through the
would.
No Time Limit.
Of all bores the Chairmen at a pub-
lic meeting who, instead of introduc-
ing the speaker of the evening ina
few well-chosen words, insists on mak-
ing a long speech on his own account,
is the worst,
Sir, Arthur Balfour, K.B.E„ recently
told a goon story about a chairman'
whe took forty minutes to Introduce a
lecturer, and ended up with: "And now
I will call upon the lectures' to give us
his address,"
The reply n as full of meaning.
"My aslslress," lie said, "is No. 4
Blankish Road. My time le up, and
T air going now."
FromPalace to Flat.
After spendaasg .years In the service
of royalty,: the Hon. Charlotte lenalys,
the. companion 01 the late Queen Alex-
andra, recently' left Marlborough
[louse to begin, at the age of ninety-
one,
inetyorae, what for her will be an entirely -
new Idler
Iver since her girlhood Miss Knoiiys
has lived in royal homes—Marlborough
Tiotse, g. sun, Win,deo r Gas LIE,
and .Buckingham •Pakcee ;Now she is
Edison Big Chief.
Though nearly eighty years old,
Thomas Alva. Edison, the world -fa -
MOWS inventor, -still works eighteen
hours a day. A well-known explorer,
discussing him' recently, said that he
asked an Eskimo, and, later a South
Sea Ielender, who was. president of
tate United States. Both answered,
"Edison."
"Jerks, M.D."r,
Title is what some of the more ir-
reverent epietts in the medical word
call: Sir James Canine, the famous
British surgeon and advocate of physi-
cal culture, who has just retired:
Up to quite recently he held a weekly
"'hyaena drill" class Der men over
fifty yeasts of age, so strong le his be-
lief in therejuveaatiug powers of
exercise. Looking in et the clans not
long ago; I found Sir James, who is
wee over seventy, skipping as blithely
as a lamb.
He Should Know.
-Sir Harry'Lauder, who in his time
has =emended higher salaries than
any .s'ther news+isc-hall artiste, recently
remarked to t:omeene I know that, al-
though he !'s" •reputed to be a wealthy
male he is "really not very rich."
All the Milk- about my wealth," he
tweeted, ' is nonsense! I've a pound
to lend, a pound to spend, and a pound
to spare, and I just live .to -tray as 'I've ,
always d<re."
REG'LAR FELLERS—By Gene Brynes.
THANKS FOR
THE COCOANUT
MARSHMELLERS:
NOW I'LL 'TELLY0o
ABOUT THE 9l
`'(EAR OLE TRAPPERS
SON UP MOWN
1
"NO Y WONT
WASH MY 14ANS" HE
SAID AN 141G MOTHER
SAID, :IF YOU D1DN'
HAVE ANY 14ANS'(0)D'
BE GLAD TO .W2SIO 'E1 • I
AN' THAT SCARED
lee AN' HE BEAN To _ _.•--•
THINK usuPpoGinv S i
\ D%DN' HAVE AN`!
\HAND'S S4"ip�r I L
SO TNG TRAPPER HAte
WAR TRAPS w1T N
B1& TEETH ALL OVER
TI -16 WOODS'taeGUlGED
BY STICKS' AN THINdS
AN ONE DAY THE Pock
Lit: lets WANDERED OFF
111 THE tn100D5 AN' CAME
TO A PILE of LEAVES: HE
PUT 1-1I5 HANDS RIGHT
DOWN !N moss LEAVE$
AN' AN' AN' B$icR•,
SUS' LiKE THAT
(Copyright. 1925, by The Boll Syndicate, Inc,)
Blabbermouth Fooled 'Ern This Time.
THE PURTIEG'
VIOLET `101
EVER 9AW J
RMn
—J
FRONTIER COLLET
BLAZED NEW TAIL`
"EDUCATION TO.'TIE'
WORKER AT HIS
WORK."
Thousands of Labourers in
Country's Outposts Have -
ProlFlted by Unique
Institution.
One of the teeenes of its rat anal
-life upon winch Canada prides itself
is education.. Educetdou in -Canada,.
both primary, and secossd+ary,- bears:
favorable comparison with the elder,
long-established countries, which Is
very gratifying im view of ,the many
to'c4 leme confrontingCanada, In this :
canneatLcsc as a broad Gauntry of
sparse lyo+lnria+tion. It, has long been
the Dominion's .beast .that a university,
edwce•Lion is within ,the' grasp of a,
child of the humblest Canttdi+an house
hoed, a condition whteh holds' good in
few abet- countries,. But Canadian
education -extends. beyond ;this and•
goes out to the workers of the cauuia-y
�wlzo' have-lacleed eclucatignel oppose
tunny isa their youth -dr neglected 'it. '.
In this regard it le lnteree+thig.to'nabe
the very valuable work which is being
performed ins -Canada by that unique
organization the Frontier College.
The objective of the 'frontier Col-
lege is explained in the slogan it hills
voiced Mein its inoeption—Education
to the Worker at•his Work. In par -
seance of this objective, that band of
Canadian educationalists, which con-
stitutes the directorate=ef the Fnon•tier
College has: in the past quarter of O.
century, sent some nine hundred men.
graduates and undergraduates of.
every Canadian 'university end some
United Slates universities, to more
than six hundred frontier locations in
Canada ae instructors. lu this period,
more than one hundred thousand
workers in the aut-of4he-way plaoes
of the Dominlon'have been 'given the
opportunity of receiving instruction,
improving themselves, and fitting
New Educational Field, ••
The Frontier College has blazed a
new educational trail and entered as
entirely new field of scholastic endeav-
or. A teacher or instructor -on the
staff of the' Frontier College 10 only
lnoidemtally a teacher, though he be
the poseeesor 'of 'a university parch-
ment, Eseen•tialiy he is "a worker
among workers, _Penetrating into the
frontier points of the Dominion, into
the lumber woods, mining camps, rail-
road Construction gangs, or among in-
dustrial worleers in a factory, he is by
day uudistingnishable from his intend-
ed pupils,' working and living with
thein, He handles axe and saw, Shovel
and peek, crowbar and concrete mixer,
and engages in other phases of the
elementary manual wank whiolt is be-
ing performed in the country's out -
posits, Directorate and instructors are
alike convinced, as a result or their
years of experience, that this malted
of living and working, with the men is
quite the best plan et reaching those
of the camps and bunkhouses,
A toed of a quarter of a million Wren
have been classed as frontier workers
in Canada, it being .estimated that
fully fifty per cent, of them are under
the age of twenty-five years. Many of
them have lacked early schooling,
most are but, poorly equipped .educa-
tionally, and in addition there are the
workers who have come to the Do-
minion from abher countries,
In dealing with Eugileti speaking
men the Instructora' tusks range all
the way from purely elementary work
among the absolutely illiterate to
tutoring for ntatriculatioat, ' Annong
the foreign -barn the work deals large-
ly with the teaching- of English When
a pupil can read and write, some In-
struction is given in civics and social.
right and' responsdbilittos, geography
and the outline of history showing the
etruggles for responsible government.
The Prevention of Deafness.
1. Never attenipt 10 renesee ear wax
with a toothpick, match, hairpin ar
other hard lestrument... Use a soft
doth.
2. ('ililt]ren have a fcn.:lites 'fo_
s i put-
ting stnell things—peas, butters; cors
and the like in the nose and eons.
Teach them not. to
•8. lnserts cf sabot:; kinds may get '-
in Lhc ear. The right thing to ;tlo is
to flood -them out with warm .:water.;
sone:.inies sweet oil. Never attempt
to pick them out: Geta physician.
4. Neglected desessedetonsihr, anti
adenoids in childhood arc a prolific
contributing tolike in admits Wizen a
child becomes a mouth -breather it le
t sigh•vf .,denotds and enlarged:ton-
Si s and a physician sheltie be ecu -
suited.
16. Earache ' and slight. Jdeafness in
ch flaxen is not to be coil g.deyort 'with
indifference. The been, hope of cure is
an early treatment,
The Sky.
Dear God, let me believe it is a bowl
Painted in blue wiht cloud and star
Patterned by giants; that were better
hart seeing crowded worlds, pricked
£i011.1 011 $oiel'.' -'
—El lsabe th Morro w.
The real 'difference amongstmen is
between those who are prepared to
give more than they get and those who
want' to get more than they give.
-Mr: Baldwin.
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