The Clinton News Record, 1935-07-18, Page 7`'THURS.,'JILTLY 18, 1935
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THECLINTON NEWS -RECORD
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Edited By Mabel R. Clark
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A Column Prepared Especially for . Women—
But Not Forbidden to Men
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THE HOLLYHOCKS
I know' • a .little shadowy lane where
all the afternoon
The • .birds and bees and ;butterflies
keep.. the sad wad' in tune;
And at its end, where great trees
meet in converse overhead,
' There is :.a cottage, shingle-eaved,
with'oid,vines proudly spread,
And near its little Dutch -stone walk,
bordered with pinks and phlox,
Like soldiers in the sun they stand,
the royal hollyhocks,
They guard their little battlement in
rank and rank of pride,
Yet nod to every friendly guest who
cares' to step.' inside;
They tean with greetings chivalrous
when through the gate I pass,
And beckon as if asking me to run
*across the grass;
A row of old-time gentlemen'in ruff-
les and bright stocks;
'I see them standing there, the brave
and stalwart hollyhocks.
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Prim are their bows and prim their
days, old-fashioned is their name,
' Yet who would lose their. courteous
'nod, their pink and •scarlet flame?
Take all the roses of the world, the
lilies of the land,
But give me this old-fashioned ;spot
and its old-fashioned band.
I love the ,old-time pinks, sweet peas,
and simple four -o' -clocks,
But best of all I love the tall and
stately hollyhocks!
--Charles Hanson Towne.
There is a charm about an old-
fashioned garden which sort of grips
the heart. I think it is because of
the memories which one has' of
childhood and the old-fashioned flow-
ers which bloomed in profusion, a
sort of wild profusion, 'perhaps, but
'bhey are inseparately bound up with
our memories and nothing, not even
the most exquisite of hothouse
blooms, can move us like the sight of,
• a chimp of sweet wiliiam, • or the
whiff of the 'scent of sweet unary or
of some otheo •old-fashioned flower,
rarenow in the modern garden.
A woman said tome not long ago,
• "I don't care at all for common
flowers, I want something unusual."
But that i$ not my taste in flowers
rat all. I love nearly all the oldtfash-
icned, common flowers. What could
be lovelier than the many kinds at
bright marigolds, they have a dozen
or more names; but they are all of
• one family and marigold is a lovely
name in itself. They bloom so pro-
fusely, they take so little care, they
are equally good for brightening up
the garden and for cutting for the
house. Some folk object to the smell
of them, but it is a' clean, wholesoreu
smell and it Won't hurt you a bit. The
only •objection I have to therm is that,
while they last so long after cutting
they do get messy in the water. How-
ever, ,if you change the water often
and wipe off the •stems they are all
right. I had thein in the house last
fall until the snow came. That is
the sort of 'flowers I like, flowers
Which will blooms, and keep Ibloorning.
I'd rather have a niee bed of gay -
marigolds,_ brightening the dull days
or on 'sunny days storing up sun-
shine for more dull days to come,
than have half a dozen ceitturyplantc,
which may or may not put out a sin-
gle bloom during one's lifetime.
And •I have never ceased to mourn
the passing of the odd -fashioned and
fragrant Jnne rose, the sort which
used to •grow in everybody's garden,
never had a whiff of spray in their
lives and used to grow so luxurously
and bloom so profusely that they
scented the whole country side. A
rose garden in those old days was
really a rose garden. It had both
beauty and fragrance.
Nowadays a rose garden, usually,
is not so much a place of :beauty and
fragrance. A great many of the neiv-
er rases have no fragrance, and while
I grant you many of them are beau-
tiful, they are mostly, aside from
the climbers, a one -!blossom beauty..
There is no profusion about them.
They are cut .back until, the foliage
amounts to nothing, • practically, and
only a certain number o'f buds' ole al-
lowed to develope, so that the speci-
men may be perfection.
Of course, the old roses only last-
ed a few days and they were done,
hut, my, what a few days it was;
Now, of course, the roses keep bloom.
ing longer, and who can Insist a
rose? But, what with slugs and
bugs and things it is difficult to grow
roses at all, let alone other things.
Anyway, I am glad that the culti•
vation of gardens is becoming more
and more the habit in both town and
country places. Nothing adds so
lurch to the hominess of home as a
garden. Trees, shrubs and flowers
and a well -kept lawn gives an air of
refinement and comfort to a house, no
matter how plain and unpretentious
the house itself may be. All children
should be nurtured in homes where
gardens are cultivated. Perhaps we
should put it, alt homes where chil-
dren are nurtured should have gar-
dens. They have a refilling and eciu-
cative influence.
REBEKAH
Roses Old and New
Although this is the day of the'
hybrid scentless rose, the sweet-
smelling ungrafted' Irish rose' has
not been driven from the Dominion.
its delicate perfume still permeates
the summer evening air in many 'a
Canadian garden' and flourishes as
'of old. The hybrid may ,be more
beautiful to the eye'ieet it lacks
that fragrance which lends an inex-
pressible charm to the home garden:
Holland is a country which has devel-
oped the hybrid to a very high de-
gree of perfection and from there
Canada gets an immense quantity of
rose bushes every year. In 1934 bhe.
total importation into Canada. was
285,000, .Holland alone supplying
125,000 bushes. Great Britain sent
90,000, and the rest came from Den.
mark, France, Belgium, Italy and
the United States. The beginner in
rose growing would do well, to keep
to hybrid perpebuals for season or
two before attempting to grow hy-
brid teas, which, though more con-
tinuous bloomers, are less hardy and
less vigorous in their habit of
growth. Safe varieties for the be-
ginner are Hugh D•iekson, red; Mrs.
John' Laing, pink; Trau Karl Deus -
chid, white. Climbing roses - need
careful protection but are worth
growing. Some of the hardiest, men,
tinned - in "Spring Werk in the Rose
Garden" issued by the Dominion De-
partment of Agriculture, aro Dbr-
athy Perkins, pink; Flower of Fair-
field, red; Goldfinish, cream white;
Tausendsehon, pink; Paul's Scarlet
climber, and the bright red Blaze, the
Iatter two blooming throughout the
season under some conditions.
WHAT A DIFFERENCE
Summer Boarder—"What a beauti-
ful view that is!"
Farmer --"Maybe. But if you had
to plow that view, harrow it, cul-
tivate it, hoe it, mow it, . fence it
and pay taxes on it, it would look
darned ornery" Montreal Star,
c d h ScMoe
OF THIS
Gattabian ebirat, osurittiitt
and Lift Insugance Companies in Canada.
Edited by
GRANT FLEMING, M.D,; Associate Secretary
FLATULANCE
(Flatulence or "gas" is.a'term that
'.is used by the public to account for
discomfort in the abdomen which
may be due to a digestive upset, a-
rising outof an emotional distur
bane, gall -bladder . disease, eppeu-
dicitis, ulcer of the stomach ex duod
enum, etc.
Many people talk about gas form-
ing in their. stomachs. .The only way
in which gas could form would be
if the food, not being able to escape
from the stomach, ' should ferment..
This rarely occurs. The gas • suppos-
ed to be formed in the stomach is air
which is swallowed usually togeth-
er with food and drink.
The taste of some foods is apt to
return. This does not mean that
the particular food which is thus re-
tested is difficult to digest. Some-
times a portion of food regurgitates,
' Such a happening is not serious, and
''thesour.taste experienced is quite
normal because the gastric juice of
the healthy stomach is sour or acid.
The rumbling' of gas in the abdom-
en is due to the shifting of gas in
the - intestines. Fermentation . in the
large bowel is a common cause of
this flatulence, and the fermentation
is very often the result of constipa-
.'cion,
There is a strong emotional factor
In many cases. The individual is
distressed, or embarrassed by the
liaise. The emotional upset may
lean to a marked distension of the
abdomen even in the absence of fer-
mentation.
From this brief outline, it will be
seen that abdominal discomfort,
which may be called flatulence, like
abdominal pain may arise from any
one of several causes. It may be,
the. only symptom- which the patient
enper.iences. It' is obvious that the..
only treatment which can be of real
value is that which strikes at the
cause.
Many of these cases, are relieved
When regular bowel elimination is es-
tablishtd - through toilet habit, diet'
and exercise. Certainly, the frequent
use of laxatives will not correct the
trouble. The only way to help where
emotional upsets are the cause is to
deal with the emotional condition.
• finally, a warning is not out of
place as to the danger of blaming alt
abdominal: distress on the stomach
or bowels. There are other Minor -
tent organs which may be at- fault.
Diet is important, but what you eat
may not be the cause of the trouble.
Questions concerning Health, ad-
dressed to the Canadian Medical As -
sedation, 184 College •Street, Toron-
to, will be answered personally by
letter. -
Gathering, Keeping and
Marketing Eggs
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Care of Children
A Plea for the Children
inc Nelihberhood Workers of To-
ronto Plead For Help' in Provid-
ing Holiday For Needy Ones
Do you live in the country? Are
there trees, flowers' and sunshine?
Hiave you a house large enough to
hold a little girl -or perhaps a -little
boy -or two?
Have you a garden where they
could play—where they could hear
birds sing, and watch squirrels
scampering about the trees?
Over 800 little boys mid girds are
daily dreaming of the "kind lady"
who will make it possible for them
to leave the city streets during the
hot weather. Will you wave your
magic wand and make their dream
come true?
There are over 600 applications on
hand now. The eases have been in-
vestigated and the children are really
in need of a holiday.
Is it because little girls are made
of "all things nice" that so many
hostesses ask especially for them?
Oris it because they have flaxen
curls and big blue eyes? Seventy
percent of the letters coming into
the Neighborhood Workers office ask
for a Iittle girl. Yet there are so
manylittle boys. Bright little lads,
eager for a chance to lookinto a
bird's nest, ar to watch a young colt
gallop . around a field. Who'll take
a little boy?
"The Fresh Air Camps are filled
to capacity" explained.F. N. Staple-
ford, General Secretary of the N.W.
A. "We must find private homes
for these children if they are to get
a holiday at all."
The Ni W1.A. undertakes to have all
children medically examined before
they leave the city. There is a
clothing centre where mothers are
taught to make over used clothing.
Some of them work every day for a
Deep, roomy nests, provided for
the hens, will reduce. egg breakage,
Eggs should be collected at least
once daily, and • during very cold
and very warns weather collections
should be made at noon and night to
avoid freezing or heating.
The eggs should be taken at once
to a cool cellar, where there is fair-
ly miffs= low temperature. It may
be advisable to open one or two win-
dows and substitute, screens covered
with cheesecloth for ventilation to
carry off exceesive moisture or od-
our, Dirty eggs should be cleaned
with coarse 'sandpaper, but not wash-
ed. Stains may be removed with a
little vinegar on a clean cloth. Wash-
ing eggs destroys the proteetive coat-
ing and lowers the grade.
Clean pine shavings have proven
to be the best nest material at the
Dominion Experimental :Station, - at
Harrow. Ontario. Shavings facilitate
cleaning and form a better cushion
in the nest than, hay or cut straw.
At this season of the year shells
are more likely to be brittle and the
contents to be of poorer quality, due
to hair cracks and •so called "grass"
er dark yolks, and careful candling.
is advisable if the best prices are to
be obtained. Candle and grade ao.
cording to the Canadian Standard Egg
Grading Regulations' and pack
wholesale shipments in clean fillers,
andg ood cases.
For a special high-grade trade
eggs may be packed In neat cartons
with an attractivesticker, or. seal
guaranteeing the contents.
Canada Gets Sponges
From The Bahamas
Canada gets a considerableportion
of her sponges "A la nature" from
the Bahamas, British West . Indies,
and also, during the winter season,
large quantities of fresh tomatoes.
Canada, in fact; is one of the best
customers of the .Bahamas, the Ie.
lands 'sailing nearly' as •much goods
to Canada as the United Kingdom or
the United States, their best cus-
tomers. The Bahamas' have a wide
variety of exports which include, in
addition to raw tomatoes and sport.
ges, such commodities. as lumber,
fresh fish, •salt, hemp, eascarilla
bark, marine curios, -hides and skins,
couch shells and tortoise shell. Can-
ada scoured 18.5 per cent of the Ba.',
hamas imports Tor the , year 1984.
The United States got 36.7 percent,
United Kingdom 25, per cent, other
countries 19y8 per cent.
FOUND A USE ALSO
"Did ye hear about Sandy McCul-
loch findin' a box of corn plasters?"
"No, did he ?'t
"Yes—so he went and blought a
pair of tight shoes."
--Sydney .Bulletin.
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OUR RECIPES FOR TODAY
For hot weather no dessert
i$ so refreshing. as Junket
'served with fruit, and the best
part of it is that during the
hot weather fruit is usually
plentiful. A. simple Junket
with either raw or 'stewed
fruit is a welcome finish to a
July dinner and every member
of the family Can share, from
grandad to baby. Here are a
few recipes easy to follow:
JUNKET RECIPES
Junket, the simplest of the
milk desserts, is made by ea-
agulating Luke -worm milk with
rennet and adding the desired
'sweeting and flavouring. Ren-
net or junket, as it is eonunon-
ly called, is sold in both tablet
and poevder form, - the latter
eontainiing sugar, flavouring
and colouring in addition to
the rennet. Junket is delicious
served with crushed fruits or
:with whipped cream.
Junket No. 1
1 junket tablet
* 1 tablespoon cold water
* 2 or 3 tablespoons sugar
* Pinch of salt
* 1 quart of milk
* 1 tsp. vanilla or other flav-
ouring; Colouring if 'desired.
* Crush tablet and dissolve in.
* cold water. Add sugar and
* salt to milk and heat to ince-
* warms. Renttve from heat and
• add tablet and • flavouring.
• Pour into dessert dishes and, let
* stand at room temperature for'
si, 20 minutes, Then chill.
* Junket No. 2
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Household Economics
week 'under the guidance of an N.
W.A. worker, in order that their
kiddy may be clean and decently clad
when it goes to its "dream home."
All transportation costs are - ,paid
by the Neighborhood Workers Asso-
ciation. All they ask you to do is
provide board androom for a ehlle
or two, for two weeks, somewhere
within a radiu's_. of 150 miles of To-
ronto.
One very kind lady has written in
"I suppose nobody wants little col -
mired children I will take two little
coloured boys." And so two little
darkey lads are going to be given 'a
glimpse of paradise.
There is a little boy, eleven years
old who has been i11 all winter. The
doctor pronounces him well again
now but he's very thin. Tvra weeks,
or a month in the country would
work wonders for him.. Who will
fatten him up?
There is a mother who works
frightfully hard, cleaning offices.
She has a little boy and girl, ages
9 and 7. They have no place to play.
There are lads 13 and 14 years of
age--twho would leve to 'see a form
—a real farms, with horses, sows and
chiekens.
A father was killed in an accident.
The mother has been ill—there is a
little girl 18 years old. The mother
is afraid to let her go away—since
the accident. Would somebody offer
them two weeks' rest in a cool shady
spot—away from their cares and
worries'? _ -
Hostesses are safeguarded in every.
respect. The kiddies are only those
recommended by the various agen-
cies. They have all been examined
by a Doctor from the 'City Health
Department. They axe taken care of
until they are met at the train by
their "Fairy Godmother."
Prospective hostesses are asked to
send with their invitation a letter
from their clergyman, or some well-
known citizen, of their district, to P.
1'..Stapleford, General Secretary of
the'N.W.A., 22 Wellesley Street, To-
ronto.
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* 1 quart milk
* Heat milk ,to lukewarm. Re-,
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* room temperature. for 20 min *
* utesr Then chill. "
* Caramel Junket
* .Follow the recipe for Junket. '
* No. a, omitting sugar and ad- ?
* ' (ding one-quarter cup • caramel *
* . syrup. Caramel syrup anay 'N
* bb made with one cup of sugar *
* and one ctlp. 'of water. Melt *
sugar in heavy saucepan, or *
* frying pan, and when the sug- *
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* 'add boiling water. Cook for
* 10 minutes. until mixture is *
* slightly thickened.
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The Vegetable Garden
The value of vegetables in reduc-
ing the 'food costs in the tart) ]tome
is not fully realized and because of
this there are cornpartively few good
vegetable gardens around the average
form home. A crop value of 880 fon
one-quarter of an acre of land in
different vegetables is certainly not
excessive, and taking for example one
province alone, namely Nova Scotia
where there are 50,000 faint and gar-
den holdings capable of producing
crops worth this amount for house-
hold use only, the total amount
would be equivalent to 51,500,000.
There are, of course, many essential
details to which close attention must
be given if success in vegetable
growing is to be achieved but the
management of these details is' no:
beyond anyone who can form reason-
able judgments in his undertakings.
Further, in the questions as to size
of garden, location, preparatory till-
age, maintenance tillage, commercial
fertilizer, 000i and warm -season vege •
tables, good seed, plan of garden,
plats of planting, vegetables recom-
nde andittu ora t items
me d het of p n ,
full infatuation is given in the pub-
lication "The Vegetablle Gas'den" by
- u eeinten e st f .the
W. S. Blair, s p d t o
Dominion Experimental Farm at
Kentville, issued by the Dominion
Department of - Agriculture, Ottawa,
Why Poison Ivy
Irritates
Struck by the, mystery that, sur
rounds poison ivy, 1)r. G: Albert Hili
of Wesleyan University determined
to find oat wherein its potency lay.
In some earlier experiments' -he had,
used 800 pounds of leaves without
making much progress. Ile decided
to use the .bark instead in lots of 35
pounds. From it he obtainedresults
that he described :before the chemist
gathered in Cleveland.
Dr. Hill finds that the "poison" in
poison ivy is urushiol, and that it is
identical with the toxic principle in
Japan lac. Urushiol does not evener-
ate easily. This explains why poison
ivy must be touched to procluee skin
irritation.
Dr. Hill, warns against the reckless,
burning of poison ivy plants. The
tiny smoke particles carry on their
surfeee droplets of oil which ' may
alight on the skin with the expected
results. Poisoning nasty also follow
the handling of tools which have been
in contact with the plant. But, Dee
Hill scoffs at the, nation 'that skin
erupts merely from ileing near the
THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED
TO THE POETS
Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes
Gay, Sometimes Sad- But Always Helpful
and Ins pirulg-
UNSOCIABLE
A limey ,on a bush'and a bird in a
tree-
These axe the. things that call to me.
In blue hot clays by the long green
water •
Where the marsh hawk sways poised
high for slaughter,
And redwings rook on slender reeds,
And I shall not count how the days
accrue, -
Nor care for sun ,or for crusted
.drouth,
While the well is deep, and the cider -
new,
And the sweet grass drips from the
horse's mouth.
--11Vlary Finette Barber .in New York
While undisturbed, the dab -chick Sun. - •
feeds-
When lanterns crimson, purple, blue,
Wink through fluttering screen's 'at
you—
Who would rush to, an afternoon tea
From berries on a bush and birds in
a tree?
NOT MEd
—Millicent Payne' Bridgett.
BAKERY WINDOW
Any passerby can 'steal
Tantalizingwhiffs—
Greed, forever at my heel,
Lifts its head and sniffs,
Quivers, tugging at its lead—
Rolls, crusty brown!
Cinnamon, poppyseed . . .
Down, greed, down!
Futile admonition for,
Leash about to snap,
In we gaanbel and the door
Closes like a trap.
Out the amble, pennies gone,
Flourishing a bag—,
Poppy -seed,. cinnamon ... ,
Wlag, greed, wag!
—Mildred Weston, in' The New York
Sun.
IIOW DEAR TO 011R HEARTS
"How dear to our hed9'ts is the
steady subscriber
Who promptly renews at the end
of each year; .-,,
Wlho seeds in her name and money
quite gladly,
Who casts round our sanctum a
halo of cheer.
She never says, 'Stop it, 1 cannot
afford it,
I'ni getting more magazines now
than I read."
But always says, `iSend it, our
folks seem to like it,
We think it a help, and in fact
• a great need.'
We inwardly bless her, we outward-
ly thank her—
That steady subscriber who writes,
"Yes, indeed.'" --Exchange.
dLD DOG TRAY
The morn of life is past,
And evening comes at last—
It brings the a dream of a once
happy clay;
Of merry forms I've seen
Upon the village green,
Sporting with my old dog Tray;
Old dog
Tray's evor faithful;
,
Grief cannot drive him away,
He's gentle, he's kind, I'll 'never,
never find
better friendthan old dog
o
Tray.
The poems I called my own
Have vanished ,one by one --
The loved ones, the dear ones, have
allpassed away;
Their happy smiles have flown,
Their gentle voices gone,
I've nothing left but old dog Tray.
When thoughts recall the past
His eyes are on me cast,
I know- that he feels what my break-
ing heart would say:
Although he cannot speak,
T Il vainly, vainly seek
A' better friend than old dog Tray.
SUMMER
This is the half of year to .be
In an old frame house. I want to go'
Where homely things are enough to
see—
Cows and trees and geese in a row,
The sea's too vest and the mountains
)sigh,
And the city loud --and the hills
are best,
Hills that lie low beneath the sky
With room for clouds to go oves
the crest. -
I shall lie out there, where the world
is wide, '
And watch the loaded,.`ereaking
twain
Tip perileesly'down a mown hillside,
And hear the silence "come up it-
iw.• I gain..
WHEN I THINK OF YOU
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Dear, when I think ofyou, I, too,
must think
Of things that always were a part
of you, - -
All glad and beautiful—of open flies, -
Of autumn sunshine melting
through the ' blue -
clear sky upon the yellow fallen
leaves, -
Of books, and rare old pictures, and
ref flowers,
Of starlight and 'of moonlight, and
of songs
Well sung --that glorify the com-
mon hours.
And dear, I find that when I think of
you,
My thoughts are freed from all the
false and wrong,
My being is uplifted, like as one
Who in some dim cathedral hears
the song
And prayer of unseen suppliants
and there
Exalted with a new sweet sense of
true
And better things, may go away
transformed,
Thus, dear, my thoughts are, when
I think of you.
-Grace Noll Crowell.
SLOW AND SWIFT `
Observing others' faults and flaws,
, As slow may I be known,
But swift and keen to stop and pause
And to detect my own.
Slow with the outward, sharp re-
buke,
Quick with the searching, inward
holt,
Slow in my speech may I be heard,
Whoever found among,
That no regretful, hasty word
May e'er escape my tongue;
That I may neer unwisely speak,
To bring a blush upon my cheek.
Slaw to condemn, I feign would be,
And to encourage, swift;
Where help is needed, )teen to see,
Both quick and strong to lift;
And regulate my pace, or speed,
Just by the urgency of need.
I would be slow, and dint of sight,
Men's evils to pursue;
But swift to see, and take delight
brought Where good is rou-ht to view:
Eyes dulled where ugliness besmirch
But sensitive in beauty search.
--,Tohn D. Smith
THE LOST FRIEND
Though he that ever kind and true'
Kept stoutly step by step with you
Your whole long gusty lifetime
through
Be gone a while before,
Be now a moment gone before,
Yet doubt not, soon the seasons shall
restore
Your friend to you.
Ile Itas but turned a corner—still
lie
pushes on with right good -will
Thro' mire and marsh, by hough and
hill
That self -same arduous way,
That self -satire upland, hopeful way,
That you .and he, through many a
doubtful day, -
Attempted -still
He is not dead, this friend -not dead,
Bust, in the path that -mortals tread, -
Got some few trifling steps ahead
Arid nearer to the end,
So that you, too, once past the bend
Shall meet again, as face to face, this•
friend
You fancy dead.
Push. gaily en, strong heard;! The
while
You travel forward mile;, by mile,
He loiters with a backward smile
Till you 'tan overtake,
And strains his eyes' to search his
wake
Or, whistling as he sees you through the brake,
halts at a stile.
„+li --R. L. Stevenson