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 trespassing, found her limping about on three legs and reported the find to the game warden. That official came and investigated and seeing that the break was a bad one, he shot her, intending to catch Red Buck and take him to a local deer park, but he had reckoned without his host, for Red Buck at once took to his heels, or rather hoofs, and disappeared so completely that the warden could not even find him. The farmer finally discovered that one of his cows which was running in the pasture was being regularly milked. At first he could not account for it, but he finally laid the theft of milk to the motherless fawn.

As the cow was farrow and not giving very much milk, he forgave the offender. Finally, Red Buck got lonesome and took up his abode with several calves on the farm which were pastured out in a small lot. He could almost always be found there running with the calves.

When the children at the farmhouse discovered this, they at once set to work to make his acquaintance. This was a long and arduous task, and it took several weeks, but they

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 finally had the fawn so he would eat out of their hands. Thus Red Buck had grown up the first summer more as a domestic animal than one of the Wild Kindred.

When the open season on deer came round late in November, the farmer knew full well that the children's pet would be one of the first to be killed because he trusted man, so he took pity on him, and at the risk of being fined himself, coaxed Red Buck into a stable and kept him until the open season was over. After that, he was turned loose again.

When his playmates, the calves, were brought up to the barn, Red Buck wanted to come with them, but this the farmer refused.

So while they were snug and warm in the barn, Red Buck lived on the outside, and fought the cold and the storms the best he could.

The farmer placed a pile of hay for him in an open shed and also allowed him raw turnips and other vegetables. But he was not the tame little creature he had been in the summer. Instead, he was larger, wilder and more im-

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 petuous and determined in his ways. His favorite retreat was a clump of hemlocks half a mile from the house.

Late in the winter, he ceased coming to the farmhouse and the children greatly missed him. During the following summer, he was rarely seen. Occasionally, he would be discovered with the cows, but he never came back to his old haunt among the calves.

The following autumn, he had been a very respectable spike horn buck and had mated with a female deer of his own age. They had yarded with several older deer in the Great Bear Swamp which was the favorite retiring place for the deer in the Berkshires. This was a tract of almost impenetrable swamp, five miles across. Here the deer had been quite safe for the winter.

If the children could have seen the tiny fawn that trotted after Red Buck's mate the following spring, they would have been delighted.

That fall, Red Buck had fared rather badly. He had been shot at several times and had escaped to the great swamp the last day of the

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 open season badly wounded. But the deer is very hardy. Buck shot he does not mind if they do not strike a vital spot. So after a hard week of recuperation he was almost as good as new, full of fight and more wary than ever. He had learned much about his worst enemv, man, and it was to stand him in good stead in the future.

The next great event in his life was in the following autumn when he engaged in a deadly fight with his natural enemy a savage old buck who had dominated the Berkshires for several years. For an hour they had struggled in deadly antler play, striking and thrusting, advancing and retreating. Then their horns had been locked together as though with bands of steel. For three days they had thrashed and tugged, snorted and stamped, gnashed their teeth and foamed, tearing up the turf and streaking their sides with foam, but all to no effect. Then, at last, when there had been great danger that they would both die of slow starvation the older buck's horn on one side had broken and the combatants were free. For

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 an angry five seconds they stood glaring at each other, then they had fled in opposite directions as fast as their feet and legs could carry them. They had seen enough of each other for all time.

During the fourth open season, Red Buck had been very wary, so he had returned to the Great Bear Swamp at the first sound of shotguns, and had escaped for that year.

Now in his fifth year, five days before the open season, he was the largest, proudest buck in the Berkshires, a king among the Virginia deer of New England. Much is said and written about four hundred pound bucks hut they are rarely seen. Red Buck was a prize that any hunter might well have been proud of. He probably weighed about three hundred and fifty pounds, which is a very large buck. His coat was a glossy, reddish brown, with the red predominating, so that in some lights he really looked red. He was deep-chested and powerful. His hind quarters were heavy, and the muscles on his rump were wonderful to look upon.

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 His forearm was like whipcord as were all his muscles. When he ran, these same muscles slipped so easily under the hide that it looked as though all of his splendid mechanism was oiled and greased. No human-made machine ever ran so smoothly. His antlers were large and shapely, and his eyes were dark and full of fire.

His face was clean cut and his nostrils wide. Altogether he was a wonderful running machine, one of the best ever designed by nature. So it was a rather remarkable undertaking that the Renegate Pack assayed when it undertook to run Red Buck down. But they were hungry and his three hundred pounds of deer meat looked good to them.

The Renegade Pack were five outlaw dogs. They had gotten in badly with the Berkshire farmers by their deprivations as sheep killers. In fact, that was what had made them outlaws. They were led by a large collie whose name, when he had been a respectable dog, was Shep. The collie is only a generation or two removed from the wolf, so he will slip back into the wolf

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 state more readily than any other dog. Put a collie pup into a den of wolves and in the autumn, this full-blooded dog will be hunting with the wolf pack just like one of them. This, although the collie is one of the most lovable of dogs.

The Renegade Pack had formed the wolf habit of hunting in a pack. They hunted rabbits and foxes and always caught their quarry if it did not hole. They had also hunted sheep and calves and made many raids on chicken coops, although this was not really in their line.

The largest of the pack was a half-blooded Newfoundland and Siberian blood hound named Bruiser, weighing perhaps seventy pounds. The rest of the pack were two hounds of doubtful breeding and a bulldog, named Towser. He it was who always came in at the kill and got a death grip and did not let go until the fun was over.

The Renegade Pack started Red Buck on Wednesday morning, five days before the open season. He had often seen them either alone

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 or in the pack and he despised them, one and all. They were a lot of mongrels. They could not catch him and if they did he could fight them all to a standstill, so Red Buck did not much worry when the pack started him. He just trotted along in front of them keeping well out of their way, but not paying much attention to them. They would soon discover that he was not their sort of game and let him alone.

If Red Buck did not hurry for the pack, neither did the pack seem inclined to hurry him, but they kept him on the move. They spread out in a fan shape, with the hounds on either wing and Shep in the middle. Shep, Bruiser and Towser all ran by sight, and the hounds on the wings would pick up the scent if they lost sight of their big game. For the first two or three hours Red Buck thought it more of a joke than a real dead earnest race for life, something that was annoying but not serious. If he stopped to browse they were sure to catch up with him when Shep would begin barking. This so annoyed him that he would at once leave his browse and trot away

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 to another birch. But all birches were alike to the pack and the great deer would no sooner begin nibbling at the tender twigs than he was admonished by Shep's sharp barking to move on. After about three hours Bed Buck decided that he would lie down for a spell in a thick clump of spruce. He was no sooner ensconced in a comfortable bed of dead leaves than the pack appeared. Three heads were thrust out from as many hiding-places in the thicket and three pairs of sinister eyes glared through the semi-gloom at him. As though this was not enough Shep set up his high-keyed barking and old Bruiser a deep baying. Then a fit of rage came over Red Buck. He sprang to his feet and with an angry snort charged at them.

But he could not charge in three directions at once, so he selected old Bruiser upon whom to vent his rage. But the dog ran into some thick cover and soon eluded him. Just as Red Buck lost sight of the big dog he felt a sharp twinge in his hind leg just below the gambrel joint. This was getting serious. He wheeled

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 sharply just in time to see Shep slip between two trees and out of his reach. The dog, with his wolf cunning, had struck for the deer's large ligament seeking to hamstring him. Six inches higher and he would have accomplished his design.

Red Buck was quick to recognize this great danger, so he broke from cover to the open fields and he did not allow himself to be caught in this way again.

Still snorting and boiling with rage, and with the slight wound on his shank reminding him that he had no mean adversaries to face, Red Buck adopted a new policy. He would show these mongrels a hit of speed.

It would be an easy matter to put a few miles between himself and them, and they would probably tire of the chase once they saw how fleet he was. So he galloped away like the wind and the last he saw of the pack that afternoon they were forty rods behind following persistently. He ran steadily for three hours. He skirted the entire Hoosac Mountains, swam the Hoosatonic River three times

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 and did what he could in other ways to muddle up his trail for the Renegade Pack. When he at last felt free he put in half an hour browsing and then lay down to rest, this time in an opening in the woods where he could watch from all sides. To his great disgust, at the end of the fourth hour he heard the hounds baying in the distance and in another half-hour the entire pack were up with him. They did not approach too close, but circled about baying or yelping. With an angry snort Red Buck sprang up and charged them. First at this dog and then at that one, but the wary canines always kept close to cover and dodged behind trees and turned sharp corners.

After several futile charges he gave up this mode of attack and made for the Great Bear Swamp. That thick cover had always been his stronghold and he thought it would save him now. He did not think the pack would follow him there. Men never had.

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 larches, balsams, soft maples and osier, with a great growth of laurel. But the ground was rather treacherous, for it was interlaced with dark patches of water covered with green moss. Red Buck knew all these bogs and he carefully avoided them. He had learned them through many a sad flounder in their depths. It was a swamp that few hunters cared to penetrate, so it was with much confidence that the great buck fled to its very heart. He lay down on a mossy hillock under a large larch to await developments. He felt sure as long as he kept quiet he was safe from his pursuers, but he was mistaken. In an hour's time he heard the hounds crying at the edge of the swamp on his trail, but their baying did not stop there. Instead it came steadily on to the very heart of the swamp, and in another half-hour the pack were besieging him again.

True they did not come very close, but it was just menace enough to anger him. So he got warily up and ran for the further side of the swamp.

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 him. He had not really shown the pack his best pace in the run of the afternoon. There was still time to put fifteen miles between him and his tormentors.

So Red Buck again fled precipitately, this time going to the north. He selected the most rugged country he could find and made the trail as difficult as crossing rivers and roadways and running in thick cover could make it. By nine o'clock he was rather tired himself. By this time he was near the Vermont line, so he decided to rest for a couple of hours and then to take his late supper.

For a full hour he was unmolested, then to his great surprise the disgusting cry of the hounds again floated to his keen ears. He got up hurriedly, browsed for a few minutes until his tormentors came up and then doubled back southward, going over nearly the same trail that he had made to the north. The Hoosacs were his home and he felt safer there, even though it was also the home of the Renegade Pack.

Red Buck, reached the Hoosacs by eleven

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 o'clock and had an hour's respite from his pursuers, but by midnight he again heard the yelling of the hounds and in another half-hour they were up with him. So he sprang up from his comfortable bed and fled on through the dark night.

As the haunts of men were forsaken he took to the open country where the running was easier and gave them a stiff chase to the south.

Residents of Stockbridge heard the full cry of the pack in the small hours of the morning. As daylight was breaking the great deer again doubled back along the mountains toward his home haunts. All day Thursday he fled and the pack pursued. He was not much afraid of the mongrels, but flight seemed his only course, and he did really dread having them corner him in close quarters, for the wound on his shank still stung.

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 tire. It was not so much the running that tired him as it was this persistent relentless menace behind him. This thing that would not let him rest. Their yelping and baying tired him as much as did the running. That night the pack adopted a new plan. Shep and one of the hounds ran the quarry while the other three dogs lay in the deep woods sleeping. This night was a repetition of the night before. First the buck led them to the Vermont line, then he doubled back to the Hoosacs and in the small hours of the morning he was very close to the Connecticut line running in the open country.

The two dogs and the hunted deer reappeared on the slopes of the Hoosacs Friday forenoon when the trail was taken up by Bruiser, Towser and the other hound. This was an unfair advantage, but it could not be helped. The warfare in nature for survival is a cruel, stern warfare without mercy or ethics. So all that day the King of the Hoosacs had the fresh pack on his heels. Several times he turned to fight them. They were now minus

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 Shep, and lie was the most to be feared of them all, but it was almost a hopeless task to fight them. When he charged they merely slunk away. If he charged one, another was at his heels snapping at his vital spot, the great cord above the gambrel joint. So after chasing them out and in through dense cover for half an hour he decided that this tired and fretted him more even than running, so he again took to his fleet limbs.

He swam rivers and climbed mountains, plunged into deep swamps and through bramble patches. He doubled and turned, or ran for miles in a straightaway, but all to no avail. No matter how hard or how fast he ran, sooner or later he would again hear the baying of the hounds.

Friday evening found him again hugging the skirts of old Hoosac, hoping vainly for a respite from his pursuers, but there was to be none. Here Shep and the other hound again took up the trail and the great Buck again fled through a starless, moonless night running in the open country. By daylight he had crossed

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 into New York, where he again doubled toward home. By this time his flanks were covered with sweat and he galloped heavily. He took even the low fences with difficulty.

He did not at once strike for the Hoosacs but kept to the south. By the middle of the forenoon the other three dogs picked up the trail on the skirts of old Graylock and the first two dogs retired for the day. Fresh from their night sleep the new pack pressed the old fighter 1 hard. Now for the better part of the way they were running by sight. The great buck could no longer gallop, though he still trotted at a good clip. But even so he was occasionally obliged to quicken his pace to keep the yelping dogs from his heels. All through Saturday they pursued him. He crossed the great divide and came down its eastern slope, crossing rivers, plunging through deep chasms and climbing steep banks, but he could not shake his pursuers. Finally a wonderful thought came to him. He would flee to a lake to the east, which was two miles in length, and if he could put that much water between himself and

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 the pack he felt sure they could not follow. Eagerly he plunged into the cool water which was skimmed with ice along the shores, but even this refuge was to prove treacherous, for the pack quickly skirted the lake and when Red Buck, badly spent from his long swim, staggered up the bank on the other side they nearly got him, and he received another wound in his shank, this time from Towser. Fortunately for him the bulldog did not get a good grip, and he simply lost a little hide. Otherwise his fate might have been settled then and there. So he wearily turned his antler-crowned head back to the home land and fled.

But his great strength was waning. His flanks were white with foam. His breath came through his widely distended nostrils with whistling gasps. Every mile or two he was obliged to turn and fight off the pack. By evening he wearily climbed the sides of old Graylock and looked back at his pursuers. To his dismay he saw that Shep and the other hound had joined them. He now for the first time felt wild, desperate, hunted. This thing

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 which he could not fight was closing in on him gradually. They had taken his strength, his courage. His fighting spirit was slowly waning. Out and in among thick cover, into deep gulches, in thick tangles of swampland all night he ran heavily, recklessly. He was no longer afraid of breaking a leg. The only thing he now feared was this fearful yelping, yawning danger which hung like a dead weight upon his foam-streaked flanks.

When the first faint streak of dawn appeared in the east he came to bay at a wedge-shaped crevasse in a sheer cliff. It was an ideal spot for a fight to the finish, one that nature must have provided for him.

When the Renegade Pack closed in they saw him there, his hind-quarters wedged in, with the wall on three sides presenting only his sharp cutting hoofs and his many-pronged antlers. His head was lowered, his legs were wide apart because of weakness, but his eyes blazed and as the pack came close he stamped and snorted with the fury of battle.

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 such close range, whimpered with joy. It was his time. He would get the death grip, so he lunged straight at the desperate fighter without even recognizing the danger. Like a sledgehammer the buck's hoof descended and Towser rolled upon the ground with a broken back. This put him out of the fight, and he crawled away into the bushes to die a few hours later. This event made the pack more careful, so they sprang and snapped and worried their quarry for another hour, but at last one of the hounds ventured too close and the great deer's hoof descended fairly upon his skull.

It cracked it like a ripe nut and the hound joined Towser behind the firing line among the mortally wounded.

Two hours later the other hound got a fatal antler thrust that passed nearly through his body and put him out of the battle.

The fight now lay between old Bruiser and Shep on the one hand and the King of the Hoosacs on the other. How it would have ended is uncertain, although the dogs would have probably worried their quarry to death,

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 had it not been that Tom Remmington, one of the game wardens of the Berkshires, had heard of the chase that morning and taking his Winchester had gone out to investigate. A traveler on the country road had reported that five dogs were running the King of the Hoosacs and that he was nearly all in. "They will get him in another half day if you don't get them," had been the report. So Tom had slipped five cartridges into his Winchester and gone to investigate.

He had taken two snap shots at a bob cat which he had bounced in a thicket, so he finally arrived on the scene with three cartridges in his rifle. He was guided to the spot by the deep baying of old Bruiser.

For half an hour he could not locate the fight, due to the echoes which rolled along the mountainside in a deceitful manner, but when he finally rounded a cliff and came in full sight of the fray it was a battle royal that met his eyes. The great deer was down on one knee, he was wedged as far as possible into the crevasse, while old Bruiser had him by the nose

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 and Shep had a firm grip on his free fore legs. They were holding him like a vise and were in the act of pulling him down. Two careful shots stretched the dogs by their intended victim and left the King free from the Renegade Pack. Slowly he arose, snorting and stamping at his new enemy. For he recognized this man with the thunder-stick as his most deadly foe. Yet this enemy had seemed to deliver him from the grip of the dogs. He could not flee without running straight toward the man. Yet he could not stay there; he had learned it was dangerous to stand still in the sight of man. So he trotted slowly toward him.

The warden's first impulse was to give him the remaining bullet in his rifle. He was a prize. He could let him lie until the morning when the open season would be on. He raised his gun. Then he noticed how spent the King was. He could barely move one leg by the other. Then another thought came to him. He could not shoot a deer with a rifle even if it had been a day later. Then, too, he was the

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 game warden; if any were to keep the law he must set them the example. So he dropped his Winchester to the ground and took off his hat and saluted as the antlered King trotted slowly by him. As the deer passed he gave the warden one fearful hunted look that he did not forget for many a day. Then he turned and trotted away to the cool fastness of Great Bear Swamp to recuperate his strength and courage in hiding. There he slept and ate and slept again until the open season was passed. So perhaps his long flight which caused him to lay low during the open season saved for another year the finest set of antlers in the Berkshires for their rightful owner.

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long winter sleep is one of the tender and beautiful phases of nature, although it seems so cold and cruel. Really Mother Nature takes the very best care of all her children during this time of rest and recuperation.

Every twenty-four hours man retires to his bed for sleep in order that he may regain his strength and repair the waste of the day, so nature tucks her plants and flowers to sleep once a year in certain climates in order that they may rest and get ready for new life and growth.

First the North Wind, who is the evil spirit of winter, strips the dead leaves from all the trees. Then they are like ships that have furled their sails, so that they may withstand the great blows of winter and not be broken or blown down. Thus the North Wind helps them where he seeks to harm. He also scat-

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 ters the seeds of plants and trees in every direction. Such seeds as those of the maple which have wings can fly a long way. In this manner the forest spreads and little new trees spring up miles from the parent tree. The birds also have been carrying seeds all through the summer and autumn, so that the earth has been well stocked with new seed in readiness for the coming of spring.

In many of the hollows the dead leaves are piled high, covering with warm leaf blankets the arbutus, the hepatica, the anemone, and many other wild flowers. Some trees there are which do not shed their garments at all, or they do it so gradually that we do not notice it.

These are the non-deciduous trees, such as the hemlock, the pine, the spruce, and all the other evergreens.

Every second year they shed their cones which contain the seeds, and thus keep up the forest.

At last when everything is in readiness, when the dead leaves have covered the wild flowers, and the trees and bushes are ready, there comes

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 the new snow. It is as soft and white as wool, and as clean as Mother Nature can make it. Then all the dead weeds and grasses along the roadside take on new beauty. The pines and the evergreens are festooned with great white plumes, and even the elm twig, as Lowell says, is ridged with pearl.

What a pleasure it is then to take a long tramp in the deep woods and behold this beauty and loveliness. We will find an army of chickadees at work in the woods. They are all busy hunting and eating the aphis, or bark louse, and they do a great deal of good.

The trees look quite different from what they did in the summer when we threaded the forest, but the promise of life is still there.

They are even growing in the winter-time, although we do not think so. Under the old bark the new bark is forming and all the wonderful processes of nature are going on just as though it was summer-time, only more slowly. Even before the dead leaves fell the new leaf buds were forming at the base of the old leaf

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 stem. This was largely what made tHe leaf fall.

The old was pushed one side by the new, just as nature is always doing.

The partridge could tell you all about it, for he has been budding ever since the middle of last November. You will often find him stripping off the new buds in the alder bushes, and in the apple orchards, even before the first snow comes.

I love to think that all the time they are sleeping under the snow, warm in their white blankets, that the flowers and shrubs are dreaming of springtime and the touch of the first warm sunbeams of April.

The skunk cabbage, which most people despise, is one of the first wild flowers to awaken. It is this homely plant that hears the first call of spring, while the snow is still deep on the ground. It is a very common thing to find the skunk cabbage in bloom within ten feet of a snow-bank. It has a creamy white blossom, wrapped in its green folds, and this first spring flower is a favorite with many botanists.

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 The arbutus, which has been safely hidden in the dead grass, is also a light sleeper and wakes early. That flower, too, I have gathered, on a sunny slope of the pasture land, almost within arm's length of a snow-bank.

Along the brookside the pussywillows are swelling while the winter is still with us. Some times the January thaw will bring them forth. Dear little cats of the brookside. How often have your furry faces cheered me in winter.

The sugar maple is the first of the large trees really to feel the touch of spring. Then its sap will go leaping up into its branches each day as the sun mounts, and scurrying back into the roots at night.

This is the season of maple-sugar-making, which was known to the American Indians long before the coming of the white man. But there is a wise little woodpecker, called the Yellow Bellied Sap Sucker, who learned the secret of the maple even before the Indians. Perhaps the Indian saw him at work and tasted the sap, and so discovered the secret.

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 sugar maple this bird will select a tree with a sunny south exposure and go up and down the south side, pecking little well-s in the bark with his sharp beak. These well-s are always deep enough to reach the white wood, and the sweet sap.

By the time he has made a score of well-s the first one will be full of sap.

So up and down the tree he goes all day long drinking the sweet sap until he can hold no more.

Some cabinet-makers claim that it is these sap well-s drilled in the sugar maple that make the beautiful wood called bird's eye maple.

But I am not sure as to that.

Most of the wild flowers, however, are not so hardy or so courageous as the skunk cabbage and the arbutus, and they prefer to await the call of Pan and the coming of the South Wind. Just as the North Wind announces the coming of winter, so the South Wind announces the coming of spring. Chinook he is called in the west, where he comes with great suddenness, causing the landscape to change in a single day.

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 But here in our New England he comes more gradually. Often the South and the North Winds fight for possession of the land for several days. But soon the old blusterer is driven back, and the South Wind has things all his own way.

Then he comes dancing over hill and dale, calling low sweet strains to all the wild flowers, trees and shrubs. Up from their leaf mold beds the flowers come dancing, fragrant, and new as a new day, sweet and smiling as only spring can make them, miracles of beauty and loveliness. Then the birds sing, the brooks babble, the sunbeams dance, and all the world is glad.

Glad for the new life, glad for the new joy and the new hope. "We knew the South Wind would not forget," they all seem to be saying. "We knew Mother Nature would keep us safe and sound until another spring."

She certainly did keep them well, just as she keeps all her promises both to flowers and to men. So well she kept them that this latest

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Section 7 :(a) the Australian Capital Territory (Planning and Land Management) Act 1988, subject to subsection (3);
 * (b) the Autonomous Sanctions Act 2011;
 * (c) the Consular Privileges and Immunities Act 1972;
 * (d) the Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities Act 1967;
 * (e) the Foreign States Immunities Act 1985;
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 * (g) the Overseas Missions (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1995;
 * (h) the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910;
 * (i) the Australian Capital Territory National Land (Leased) Ordinance 2022.

(3) Nothing in this Act affects the status of the land as National Land under section 27 of the Australian Capital Territory (Planning and Land Management) Act 1988.

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"V'eileh HaMishpatim (And these are the laws) that you must place before them."

(Exodus 21:1)

Our Sages taught: [The words "before them" indicate that in regard to all Torah laws,] woman is equated with man (Kiddushin 35a). The Mekhilta (21:1) comments:  It might be that the students study but fail to comprehend. [Scripture] therefore states: that you must place before them" - spread it out before them as a fully set table.

[AEMuNaH]
Know! the essential reason for exile is nothing other than a lack of AEMuNaH (faith), as is written (Song of Songs 4:8), "Come, gaze from the peak of AMaNaH." And emunah is synonymous with prayer, as in (Exodus 17:12), 'his hands were emunah," which Onkelos renders: "[his hands] were spread out in prayer."

And [prayer] corresponds to miracles, the supernatural. For prayer transcends nature; the natural course dictates a certain thing, but prayer changes nature's course. This is a miracle. And for this, one needs faith. A person has to believe that there is a M'chadesh (an Originator) with the power to originate as He sees fit.

Now, the quintessence of faith, and thus prayer and miracles, is only in the Land of Israel, as is written (Psalms 37:3), "Dwell in the Land and cultivate emunah." The principal elevation of the prayers is there, as in (Genesis 28:17), "This is the gate of heaven."

Because of this, when Avraham erred in saying (Genesis 15:8), "How shall I know [that I will inherit it]" - thus blemishing his inheritance fo the Land, which corresponds to faith/prayer - the exile in Egypt. And it was specifically "Yaakov and his [twelve] sons who descended into Egypt" (Joshua 24:4; see Genesis 46), for they correspond to the "twelve versions of prayer" (Zohar III, 170a).

And, [God] exiled them  the Land of Egypt is the antithesis of [the Land of Israel, the place of] NiSiM (miracles), as is written (Exodus 14:27), "And the Egyptians NaSiM (were fleeing) against it. For [Egypt] is not the place of miracles.  It is also not the place of prayer, as in (Exodus 9:29), "When I go outside the city I will spread out my hands [in prayer].

[Our Sages taught:] All exiles are known as MitZRayIM (Egypt), because they MetZeiRIM (cause anguish and suffering) to the Jewish people (Bereishit Rabbah 16:4). Thus, when a person blemishes faith / / prayer / the Land of Israel, he descends into exile.

This is the meaning of what our Sages taught: The Mashiach son of David will not come until the [last] penny is gone from the pocket (Sanhedrin 97a) - i.e., gone are the atheists who have no faith in miracles and explain away all miracles as natural phenomena. And the quintessence of miracles is in the Land of Israel, for the Land of Israel drinks first (Taanit 10a). Its drink is from the t'home (depths), which connotes the miraculous and amazing, as in] (Ruth 1:19), "the entire city TeiHoMe (was amazed)." Something that is miraculous amazes everyone.

And this is (Psalms 42:8), "Deep calls to deep." There are "upper miracles," which correspond to the upper t'home, and there are "lower miracles," which correspond to the lower t'home (Shemot Rabbah 5:9).

{'''I saw the Angel of Rain. It had the appearance of an egla (ox) and prita sifevatei (its lips were split open). It was standing between t'home (the deep) and t'home''' (Taanit 25b).}

Encompassing all miracles, both t'home, is an angel that has "the appearance of an EGLa (ox)." This corresponds to EeGuLim (circles), which is an aspect of faith, as is written (Psalms 89:9), "Your faith encircles you." "And its lips were split open" alludes to prayer, as in (Psalms 51:17), "Lord, open my lips." Thus, [the angel] encompasses all miracles.

This is the meaning of, "until TiKhLeH PRuTaH min haKIS (the [last] penny is gone from the pocket.)" For there are people who conceal all miracles, which are encompassed in the angel whose "lips were PRiTaH." They m'KhaSim (conceal) [all miracles] with natural explanations. When this is TiKhLeH (gone), and there is aboundant faith in the world, then Mashiach will come. For the redemption existentially depends upon this [abundant faith], as is written, "Come, gaze from the peak of Amanah."

[Truth]
Yet it is impossible to come to faith except through truth. As is brought in the Zohar (III, 198b): "And justice will be a belt for his hips, and faith a band for his loins" (Isaiah 11:5). What then is the difference between justice and faith? The answer given there is: [justice] is called faith when it is bound with truth.

[Wisdom]
{"Behold, You want truth in the inner parts; in the innermost places teach me wisdom" (Psalms 51:8).}

Yet it is impossible to achieve truth except through attachment to the tzaddikim and by following their advice. The peron who accepts their advice has the truth etched inside him. As is written, "Behold, You want truth" - when truth is what you desire - "in the inner parts, in the innermost places, teach me wisdom. For the advice received from [the tzaddikim] is an aspect of marriage and union.

But when one accepts advice from the wicked, this corresponds to a marriage the kelipah (husks). [As Chavah said] (Genesis 3:13), "The Serpent advised me" - this being a euphemism for marriage. Her acceptance of the Serpent's advice is likened to a marriage. Through marriage, the Serpent polluted her [and all her descendants]. However, with the revelation at Mount Sinai, this pollution ceased (Shabbat 146a). For it was there that they received the six hundred thirteen counsels of holiness (Zohar II, 82b) -.

And why is advice called marriage? This is because the kidneys advise (Berakhot 61a), and the kidneys are reproductive organs, producers of sperm (Zohar III, 235a). We can therefore conclude that by accepting advice from a person, it is as if we are receiving seed from him. And [the nature of the union] depends entirely upon the nature of the person : whether wicked or righteous.

This is the reason the Torah is maTiSh (saps) one's strength (Sanhedrin 26b). It is also called TuShiyah (insight), for there are six hundred thirteen counsels, as in (Proverbs 8:14), "Mine is counsel and insight." Advice is therefore likened to marriage, as aspect of matrimonial union, which also saps one's strength.

{"I have planted for you a sorek (a vine), an entirely true seed" (Jeremiah 2:21).}

The tzaddik's advice is "entirely true seed." This is the meaning of, "I have planted for you a SoReK" - this alludes to the redemption, as is written (Zakhariah 10:8), "eShR'Kah (I will whistle) to them and gather them in." How will this be achieved? [They will be gathered in] through "entirely true seed" - the advice of the tzaddikim brings to truth. For through this [advice, justice] becomes faith, because it is bound up with truth. And this brings the redemption, for he receives the drops of the tzaddiks' intellect through the advice which he accepts from him.

This is the meaning of, "Behold, You want truth, [then] in the inner parts" - the kidneys -"...teach me wisdom." Let me merit receiving the drops of the mind, the drops of the intellect [of the tzaddikim], through the advice I will accept from them. Then I will merit the truth, for the drops of the intellect are called "entirely true seed."

[Tzitzit]
{"Shem and Yafet took the garment and put it on both their shoulders. Walking backwards, they then covered their father's nakedness.  They faced away from him and did not see their father naked" (Genesis 9:23).}

Know! Through [keeping] the mitzvah of tzitzit, a person is protected from the Serpent's advice, from a "marriage of wickedness," from immorality. Tzitzit protects against immorality, as is brought in the Tikkuney Zohar (#18): Shem and Yafet took the garment and put it on both their shoulders" - this is a reference to tzitzit, "and did not see their father naked: - for tzitzit covers over nakedness. But ChaM - the personification of the evil inclination, for he is m'ChaMeim (heats) a person's body to sin - is cursed. As is written (Genesis 9:25), "Cursed is Kanaan"; and, as in (Genesis 3:14), "Cursed are you [the Serpent] more than all the animals." Thus "the garment," the tzitzit, is a protection against the Serpent's advice, the Serpent's pollution.

This corresponds to (Genesis 49:22): "Ben porat aley ayin (a fruitful bough by a well)." It was because of the tZItZit, similar to (Song of Songs 2:9), "meitZItZ (he looks) through the cracks," that [Yosef] merited being a fruitful bough. For he was protected form the Serpent's marriage, from a union of, and merited [instead] to a union of holiness.

And this is "PoRat" - it connotes union, similar to (Genesis 1:28), "P'ru u'Revu (be fruitful and multiply)." [And "aley AYIN,"] because immorality stems primarily form the AYNayim (eyes), as our Sages taught: Shimshon strayed after his eyes (Sotah 9b). It is also written (Numbers 15:39), "You will not stray after your heart or after your eyes."

Thus, the tzitzit - the eyes = is a protection against the Serpent's advice. A person is then able to receive advice from the tzaddik, which is "entirely true seed."

[The Oath]
This is the explanation:

'''Rabbah bar bar Chanah recounted: This merchant said to me, "Come, I will show you Mount Sinai." We went and saw that it was encircled by scorpions as tall as chamrei chivarta (white mules). I heard a Heavenly voice saying, "Woe to Me that I took an oath! But now that I have taken an oath, who can nullify it for Me?" (Bava Batra 74a).'''

Rashbam:

[merchant - an Ishmaelite trader:] took an oath - about [the Jews being] exiled, as attested to by numerous verses in the Prophets:

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Come, I will show you Mount Sinai - This is an allusion to advice, for [at Mount Sinai] the Jews received the six hundred thirteen counsels.

we saw that it was encircled by scorpions - In other words, there is the advice of the Serpent, the counsel of the wicked, which makes it impossible to receive the advice, the "true seed," of the tzaddikim.

as tall as chamrei chivarta (white mules) - This alludes to the tzitzit, which protects against the Serpent's advice, against immorality.

{'Rabbi Meir said: Not having the white threads on the tzitzit deserves greater punishment than not have the t'kheilet'' (sky-blue threads). Liken this to a king who issued instructions to two of his servants: one was told to bring him a seal make of clay, the other was told to bring him a seal made of gold. Each transgressed the king's order and failed to bring the seal. Whose crime was the greater? Say, then, that the servant who failed to bring the seal of clay deserves the greater punishment, for clay is more readily available''' (Menachot 43b; Rashi, loc. cit.).}

As our Sages taught: Which deserves greater punishment, the white or the blue? They explained: Liken it to someone who commanded that he be brought a gold seal - i.e., the blue threads - and a clay seal - i.e., the white threads. [Interpret this] as follows: ChaMRei refers to ChoMeR v'tit (clay and lime); chivarta is white, since nowadays this is the principal [requirement of the] tzitzit.

'''I heard a Heavenly voice saying, Woe to Me that I took an oath! -''' The Rashbam explains this [as God's oath] concerning the exile. For through the tzitzit one can come to the advice of the tzaddikim, to truth. And with truth a person can achieve faith. And faith brings the redemption, as explained. This is why [Rabbah bar bar Chanah] heard God regretting the exile: The tzitzit - the chamrei chivarta - caused all this.

[The Laws]
This is the explanation [of the opening verse]:

{"V'eileh (And these) are the laws that you must place before them."}

V'eileh - Wherever the term v'eileh (and these) is used, it comes to add. This alludes to: Yosef, guarding the Covenant, and the tzitzit.

are the laws - This corresponds to "entirely true seed," as in (Psalms 19:9), "God's laws are truth." One merits receiving the counsel of the tzaddikim - the aspect of truth.

that you shall place before them - That is, when [justice] is bound with truth.

And this is: woman is equated with man.  For "man" and "woman" allude to the joining of truth and faith, and it is on this that the redemption depends.

And this is: '''It might be that the students study but fail to comprehend. [Scripture] therefore states: "that you must place before them" - spread it out before them as a fully set table -''' This is a reference to the redemption. For in the future, all wisdoms will be revealed as a fully set table, as in (Isaiah 11:9), "And the earth shall be filled with knowledge..."

[Miracles]
(Excerpts belonging to this lesson.)

'''Prayer is synonymous with faith, which in turn is synonymous with miracles. This is because a miracle is supernatural, it is something for which one needs to have faith.''' {See [section 1] above.} Because of this, prayer is beneficial for memory, for, as mentioned, prayer corresponds to faith. But forgetfulness entails having had something in mind, its lapsing from memory and being no longer a part of us. {This can be likened to [seeing as pre-determined] the movements of the constellations, which follow a prescribed pattern day after day. And this is the very opposite of faith. Whereas, if a person believes that there is One who daily renews everything in accordance with His will, who perpetually sustains and supports everything, and who is above [the limitations of] time, then forgetfulness has no place.}

See now the wonders in the words of our Sages: The [letters] mem and samakh which were on the Tablets were held in place through a miracle (Shabbat 104a). Mem-samakh corresponds to forgetfulness. Concerning this our Sages taught: Someone who reviews his lesson one hundred times cannot be compared to someone who reviews his lesson one hundred and one times (Chagigah 9b). For mem-samakh has a numerical value of one hundred, [alluding to the fact that] for the first one hundred times the Angel of Forgetfulness reigns. This is what our Sages brought out so artfully: "The [letters] mem and samakh" - the one hundred of forgetfulness - "were held in place through a miracle"; miracles being the very opposite of forgetfulness. For, as mentioned above, miracles are synonymous with prayer and faith, [faith] being the very opposite of forgetfulness.

Know!...tzitzit protects against immorality...on both their SheKheM (shoulders)...a reference to tzitzit. [See section 4, above.] This is (Genesis 37:13), "Your brothers are shepherding in SheKheM" - an allusion to the tzitzit, which protects against immorality. [The tzitzit] corresponds to guarding the Covenant, which in turn applies to Yosef. Yaakov therefore said to Yosef, "Your brothers are shepherding in Shekhem" - which is your aspect. "Come, let me send you to them."

This is the meaning of: "I have planted you a sorek, an entirely true seed"...for then, one receives the drops of the tzaddik's intellect through the advice which he accepts from him.  This "SoReK" alludes to the ShuRuK, which the Zohar (Tikkuney Zohar #56) calls "three drops." Conceptually, ths is the same as the three mochin (brains). For the drop emanates from the brain and descends to the kidneys, the organ in the reproductive system which prepares the seed. Similarly, the intellect is also formed in the mind and descends to the kidneys, which advise.

And the three mochin correspond to (Isaiah 6:10), "Make the heart of these people gross, its ears heavy, and cover over its eyes; lest it see with its eyes, hear with its ears, understand with its heart and repent and be healed." [The prophet] says this of one who refuses to attach himself to the tzaddikim, 'lest he see...and repent.'

But when a person attaches himself to the tzaddikim and accepts their advice, this is the concept of "the kidneys advise," for they are reproductive organs. He receives the drop/brain that seperates into three drops - three brains. And then, 'He will see with his eyes, hear with his ears, understand with his heart' - these corresponding to the three brains - 'and repent and be healed.' This is:  "I have planted you a sorek, an entirely true seed." Understand this.

This is the explanation of Rabbah bar bar Chanah recounted etc. [The connection to prayer] is also alluded to in Rabbah bar bar Chanah's opening words, "This merchant said to me." The Rashbam explains that this is always an allusion to socher Yishmael (an Ishmaelite trader). For yiShMAel connotes prayer, as is written (Genesis 16:11), "[You shall name him Yishmael] for God has SheMA (heard) your affliction," which Onkelos renders: "for God has accepted your prayers."

[Prayer] is also synonymous with faith. This is [alluded to by the word] SoCheR, which connotes S'ChoR s'chor (round and round) {corresponding to the concept of makifin.} And this corresponds to faith, as in, "Your faith encircles You."

This is also the meaning of (Ruth 3:9), "Spread, therefore, K'NaFekha (your garment) over your maidservant." For the holy tzitzit - the KaNFey (garment corners of) - mitzvah - corresponds to guarding the Covenant and to a union of holiness.

And this is the explanation fo what the prophet Hagai asked (2:12), "If one carried consecrated meat in the K'NaF of his garment, and [this meat in] the corner came in contact with bread..." For desecrating the Covenant diminishes one's bread, as is written (Proverbs 6:26), "For a harlot, a man is brought to [go searching for] a loaf of bread." Understand this.

"His bow held firm...from there the Shepherd, the evan (Rock) of Israel" (Genesis 49:24). [Onkelos renders "AEVaN" as a composite word,] AVhan u'VeNin (father and sons), corresponding to prayer - Yaakov and his sons.

[Strength]
It is a segulah (special remedy) for someone who is ill to gaze at the tzitzit. This is the hidden meaning of the verse (Genesis 48:2), "Behold, your son Yosef is coming to you." For these words hint to the tzitzit: to the amount of strings, loops and knots, {as explained in the Pri Etz Chaim}. This is: "Behold, your son Yosef is coming to you" - corresponding to the tzitzit, as a result of which, "Yisrael was strengthened."

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Credit to Translators
This text is being typed in wikisource but the original translation from the Hebrew was done by Moshe Mykoff and Symcha Bergman and can be found in the LIKUTEY MOHARAN SET (15 volumes). The set also includes annotations by Chaim Kramer and is considered the first authoritative translation of Rebbe Nachman’s magnum opus, containing all his major lessons. Presented with facing Hebrew text, full explanatory notes, source references and supplementary information, plus a variety of charts which assist the reader with kabbalistic teachings found in the text. Volume 1 contains Reb Noson’s introduction to the original work, brief biographies of Rebbe Nachman and Reb Noson, and a bibliography. Published by Breslov Research Institute in Jerusalem in 1993 & 2012 by editors: Moshe Mykoff & Ozer Bergman.

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 which is to be found in searching out the secrets of nature.

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Nature is omnipresent, and the study of her affords the best discipline for the mind, for she only yields her secrets to the man of truthful spirit who works with patience.

All that can be said under this head is to be found in the Book of Wisdom, written probably at a period not very distant from the Christian Era, when, as we have seen, there was an enthusiasm for natural knowledge. Of wisdom this writer says:

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S/21441 6 August 1990

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Canada, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Malaysia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America and Zaire: draft resolution

The Security Council,

Reaffirming its resolution 660 (1990) of 2 August 1990,

Deeply concerned that that resolution has not been implemented and that the invasion by Iraq of Kuwait continues with further loss of human life and material destruction,

Determined to bring the invasion and occupation of Kuwait by Iraq to an end and to restore the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Kuwait,

Noting that the legitimate Government of Kuwait has expressed its readiness to comply with resolution 660 (1990),

Mindful of its responsibilities under the Charter of the United Nations for the maintenance of international peace and security,

Affirming the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence, in response to the armed attack by Iraq against Kuwait, in accordance with Article 51 of the Charter,

Acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations,

90-181892379Z (E)
 * 1) Determines that Iraq so far has failed to comply with paragraph 2 of resolution 660 (1990) and has usurped the authority of the legitimate Government of Kuwait;
 * 2) Decides, as a consequence, to take the following measures to secure compliance of Iraq with paragraph 2 of resolution 660 (1990) and to restore the authority of the legitimate Government of Kuwait;

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 * The Harveian Oration 1911

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Jil. 48 No. 14

Akta-Akta Parlimen yang berikut, yang telah diluluskan oleh kedua-dua Dewan Parlimen dan dipersetujui oleh Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong, adalah diterbitkan menurut Fasal (5) Perkara 66 Perlembagaan:

The following Acts of Parliament, passed by both Houses of Parliament and assented to by His Majesty the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, are published pursuant to Clause (5) of Article 66 of the Constitution:


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S/21441 English Page 2  Decicdes thaat all States shall prevent:  The import into their territories of all commodities and products originating in Iraq or Kuwait exported therefrom after the date of the present resolution; Any activities by their nationals or in their territories which would promote or are calculated to promote the export or trans-shipment of any commodities or products from Iraq or Kuwait; and any dealings by their nationals or their flag vessels or in their territories in any commodities or products originating in Iraq or Kuwait exported therefrom after the date of the present resolution, including in particular any transfer of funds to Iraq or Kuwait for the purposes of such activities or dealings; The sale or supply by their nationals or from their territories or using their flag vessels of any commodities or products, including weapons or any other military equipment, whether or not originating in their territories but not including supplies intended strictly for medical purposes, and, in humanitarian circumstances, foodstuffs, to any person or body in Iraq or Kuwait or to any person or body for the purposes of any business carried on in or operated from Iraq or Kuwait, and any activities by their nationals or in their territories which promote or are calculated to promote such sale or supply of such commodities or products;  Decides that all States shall not make available to the Government of Iraq or to any commercial, industrial or public utility undertaking in Iraq or Kuwait, any funds or any other financial or economic resources and shall prevent their nationals and any persons within their territories from removing from their territories or otherwise making available to that Government or to any such undertaking any such funds or resources and from remitting any other funds to persons or bodies within Iraq or Kuwait, except payments exclusively for strictly medical or humanitarian purposes and, in humanitarian circumstances, foodstuffs; Calls upon all States, including States non-members of the United Nations, to act strictly in accordance with the provisions of the present resolution notwithstanding any contract entered into or licence granted before the date of the present resolution; Decides to establish, in accordance with rule 28 of the provisional rules of procedure of the Security Council, a Committee of the Security Council consisting of all the members of the Council, to undertake the following tasks and to report on its work to the Council with its observations and recommendations:

To examine the reports on the progress of the implementation of the present resolution which will be submitted by the Secretary-General;

To seek from all States further information regarding the action taken by them concerning the effective implementation of the provisions laid down in the present resolution;

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S/21441 English Page 3  Calls upon all States to co-operate fully with the Committee in the fulfilment of its task, including supplying such information as may be sought by the Committee in pursuance of the present resolution; Requests the Secretary-General to provide all necessary assistance to the Committee and to make the necessary arrangements in the Secretariat for the purpose; Decides that, notwithstanding paragraphs 4 through 8 above, nothing in the present resolution shall prohibit assistance to the legitimate Government of Kuwait, and calls upon all States:  To take appropriate measures to protect assets of the legitimate Government of Kuwait and its agencies; Not to recognize any régime set up by the occupying Power;  Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Council on the progress of the implementation of the present resolution, the first report to be submitted within thirty days; Decides to keep this item on its agenda and to continue its efforts to put an early end to the invasion by Iraq.</li> </ol> - - - - -

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 There is not enough exercise in such a life for any high measure of health; but a high measure of health is only necessary for unhealthy people. The slug of a fellow, who is never ill nor well, has a quiet time of it in life, and dies all the easier.

I am sure I would rather be a bargee than occupy any position under heaven that required attendance at an office. There are few callings, I should say, where a man gives up less of his liberty in return for regular meals. The bargee is on shipboard—he is master in his own ship—he can land whenever he will—he can never be kept beating off a lee-shore a whole frosty night when the sheets are as hard as iron; and so far as I can make out, time stands as nearly still with him as is compatible with the return of bed-time or the dinner-hour. It is not easy to see why a bargee should ever die.


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Number Page XXXV. On the Injustice of compelling the People of India to adopt a Foreign Language and Character • 1 XXXVI. On the Proceedings of the Civil Courts .... 7

XXXVII. On the Prospects of English Settlers .... 26

XXXVIII. On the Necessity for a Commercial Code ... 57 / XXXIX. On the Policy of Interference in the Internal Admi- nistration of the Native Powers. . . .71

/^ XL. On the Intercourse between the English and the Natives 106

XLL On the Character of the People, — General Observations. 121

XLIL Same subject, continued, — Falsehood, — Forgery, — Perjury 160

XLIII. Same subject, continued. — Litigiousness, — Litigation, &c. . 187 XLFV. A slight Sketch of the Administration of Lord William

Bentinck 216

XLV. Suggestions for the New Government. — Qualifications of

a Grovemor-General 228

XL VI. Suggestions for the New Government .... 245

XLVII. Present State and Future Prospects of Oude. . .260

XLVIII. On the Mode of Administering the Government of Oude,

when it shall fall into the Possession of the English. 280

XLIX. On the Usury Laws 290

^ ^L. On the Ruin to Trade caused by the existing System of

British-Indian Customs 296

U. Character of the People. — Ingratitude,— Domestic Servants 310

LII. Same subject, continued. — Honesty, — Morality. . . 324

LIII. Same subject, continued. — Miscellaneous Observations. 335 l^^-LIV. On the Landed Tenures, and Expediency of introducing

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 Half-way between Willebroek and Villevorde, in a beautiful reach of canal like a squire's avenue, we went ashore to lunch. There were two eggs, a junk of bread, and a bottle of wine on board the Arethusa; and two eggs and an Etna cooking apparatus on board the Cigarette. The master of the latter boat smashed one of the eggs in the course of disembarkation; but observing pleasantly that it might still be cooked à la papier, he dropped it into the Etna, in its covering of Flemish newspaper. We landed in a blink of fine weather; but we had not been two minutes ashore before the wind freshened into half a gale, and the rain began to patter on our shoulders. We sat as close about the Etna as we could. The spirits burned with great ostentation; the grass caught flame every minute or two, and had to be trodden out; and before long, there were several burnt fingers of the party. But the solid quantity of cookery ac-


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 complished was out of proportion with so much display; and when we desisted, after two applications of the fire, the sound egg was little more than loo-warm; and as for à la papier, it was a cold and sordid fricassée of printer's ink and broken egg-shell. We made shift to roast the other two, by putting them close to the burning spirits; and that with better success. And then we uncorked the bottle of wine, and sat down in a ditch with our canoe aprons over our knees. It rained smartly. Discomfort, when it is honestly uncomfortable and makes no nauseous pretensions to the contrary, is a vastly humorous business; and people well steeped and stupefied in the open air are in a good vein for laughter. From this point of view, even egg à la papier offered by way of food, may pass muster as a sort of accessory to the fun. But this manner of jest, although it may be taken in good part, does not invite repetition; and from that time


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 forward, the Etna voyaged like a gentleman in the locker of the Cigarette.

It is almost unnecessary to mention that when lunch was over and we got aboard again and made sail, the wind promptly died away. The rest of the journey to Villevorde, we still spread our canvas to the unfavouring air; and with now and then a puff, and now and then a spell of paddling, drifted along from lock to lock, between the orderly trees.

It was a fine, green, fat landscape; or rather a mere green water-lane, going on from village to village. Things had a settled look, as in places long lived in. Crop-headed children spat upon us from the bridges as we went below, with a true conservative feeling. But even more conservative were the fishermen, intent upon their floats, who let us go by without one glance. They perched upon sterlings and buttresses and along the slope of the embankment, gently


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 occupied. They were indifferent, like pieces of dead nature. They did not move any more than if they had been fishing in an old Dutch print. The leaves fluttered, the water lapped, but they continued in one stay like so many churches established by law. You might have trepanned every one of their innocent heads, and found no more than so much coiled fishing-line below their skulls. I do not care for your stalwart fellows in india-rubber stockings breasting up mountain torrents with a salmon rod; but I do dearly love the class of man who plies his unfruitful art, for ever and a day, by still and depopulated waters.

At the last lock, just beyond Villevorde, there was a lock-mistress who spoke French comprehensibly, and told us we were still a couple of leagues from Brussels. At the same place, the rain began again. It fell in straight, parallel lines; and the surface of the canal was thrown up into


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 an infinity of little crystal fountains. There were no beds to be had in the neighbourhood. Nothing for it but to lay the sails aside and address ourselves to steady paddling in the rain.

Beautiful country houses, with clocks and long lines of shuttered windows, and fine old trees standing in groves and avenues, gave a rich and sombre aspect in the rain and the deepening dusk to the shores of the canal. I seem to have seen something of the same effect in engravings: opulent landscapes, deserted and overhung with the passage of storm. And throughout we had the escort of a hooded cart, which trotted shabbily along the tow-path, and kept at an almost uniform distance in our wake.


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14 up in 1593, there were those of middle age who could tell racy stories of Caius, the co-founder of the college, against whose iron rule they had rebelled. ‘Charged not only with a show of a perverse stomach to the professors of the Gospel, but with Atheism/ the last days of Caius’s noble life were embittered by strife and misunderstanding. Doubtless the generous souls among them had long since learned to realize the greatness of his character, and were content to leave 'the heat of his faith to God’s sole judgement, and the light of his good works to men’s imitation’, with which words, half a century later, the inimitable Fuller concludes a short sketch of his life. I like to think that, perhaps, one of these very rebels, noting the studious and inquisitive nature of Harvey, had put into the lad’s hand the little tractate, De libris propriis, from which to glean a knowledge of the life and works of their great benefactor.

The contemplation of such a career as that of Caius could not but inspire with enthusiasm any young man. No one in the profession in England had before that time reached a position which I may describe as European. An enthusiastic student and the friend of all the great scholars of the day; a learned commentator on the works of the Fathers; the first English student in clinical medicine; a successful teacher and practitioner; a keen naturalist; a liberal patron of learning and letters; a tender and sympathetic friend—Johannes Caius is one of the great figures in our history. Nor need I dwell, before this audience, on his devotion to our interests, other than to say that the memory of no Fellow on our roll should be more precious to us. Four years hence, on October 6, will occur the quater-centenary of his birth. As well in love as in gratitude, we could celebrate it in no more appropriate manner,

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rain took off near Laeken. But the sun was already down; the air was chill; and we had scarcely a dry stitch between the pair of us. Nay, now we found ourselves near the end of the Allée Verte, and on the very threshold of Brussels we were confronted by a serious difficulty. The shores were closely lined by canal boats waiting their turn at the lock. Nowhere was there any convenient landing-place; nowhere so much as a stable-yard to leave the canoes in for the night. We scrambled ashore and entered an estaminet where some sorry fellows were drinking with the landlord. The landlord was pretty round with us; he


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 knew of no coach-house or stable-yard, nothing of the sort; and seeing we had come with no mind to drink, he did not conceal his impatience to be rid of us. One of the sorry fellows came to the rescue. Somewhere in the corner of the basin there was a slip, he informed us, and something else besides, not very clearly defined by him, but hopefully construed by his hearers.

Sure enough there was the slip in the corner of the basin; and at the top of it two nice-looking lads in boating clothes. The Arethusa addressed himself to these. One of them said there would be no difficulty about a night's lodging for our boats; and the other, taking a cigarette from his lips, inquired if they were made by Searle and Son. The name was quite an introduction. Half-a-dozen other young men came out of a boat-house bearing the superscription, and


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 joined in the talk. They were all very polite, voluble, and enthusiastic; and their discourse was interlarded with English boating terms, and the names of English boat-builders and English clubs. I do not know, to my shame, any spot in my native land where I should have been so warmly received by the same number of people. We were English boating-men, and the Belgian boating-men fell upon our necks. I wonder if French Huguenots were as cordially greeted by English Protestants when they came across the Channel out of great tribulation. But after all, what religion knits people so closely as a common sport?

The canoes were carried into the boat-house; they were washed down for us by the Club servants, the sails were hung out to dry, and everything made as snug and tidy as a picture. And in the meanwhile we were led upstairs by our new-found brethren, for so more than one of


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 them stated the relationship, and made free of their lavatory. This one lent us soap, that one a towel, a third and fourth helped us to undo our bags. And all the time such questions, such assurances of respect and sympathy! I declare I never knew what glory was before.

"Yes, yes, the Royal Sport Nautique is the oldest club in Belgium."

"We number two hundred."

"We"—this is not a substantive speech, but an abstract of many speeches, the impression left upon my mind after a great deal of talk; and very youthful, pleasant, natural, and patriotic it seems to me to be—"We have gained all races, except those where we were cheated by the French."

"You must leave all your wet things to be dried."

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 land we should find the same." (I cordially hope they might.)

"En Angleterre, vous employez des sliding-seats, n'est-ce pas?"

"We are all employed in commerce during the day; but in the evening, voyez-vous, nous sommes serieux."

These were the words. They were all employed over the frivolous mercantile concerns of Belgium during the day; but in the evening they found some hours for the serious concerns of life. I may have a wrong idea of wisdom, but I think that was a very wise remark. People connected with literature and philosophy are busy all their days in getting rid of second-hand notions and false standards. It is their profession, in the sweat of their brows, by dogged thinking, to recover their old fresh view of life, and distinguish what they really and originally like, from what they have only learned


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 to tolerate perforce. And these Royal Nautical Sportsmen had the distinction still quite legible in their hearts. They had still those clean perceptions of what is nice and nasty, what is interesting and what is dull, which envious old gentlemen refer to as illusions. The nightmare illusion of middle age, the bear's hug of custom gradually squeezing the life out of a man's soul, had not yet begun for these happy-star'd young Belgians. They still knew that the interest they took in their business was a trifling affair compared to their spontaneous, long-suffering affection for nautical sports. To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. Such a man may be generous; he may be honest in something more than the commercial sense; he may love his friends with an elective, personal sympathy, and not accept them as an adjunct


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''During his sojourn in Russia in 1917 President Masaryk wrote a book which has just been published in London under the title “The New Europe”. The manuscript was re-written by Mr. Masaryk during his stay in Washington and represents his views on the fundamental problems raised by the war, as he saw them in October 1918. In the last pages of the book—which has been printed for private circulation only—is found Masaryk’s peace program. We are happy to be able to re-print it.''

(1) The Congress of Peace could convene at once, the war being morally and strategically finished—the nations become convinced that force shall not decide the fate of nations and humanity; even militaristic Prussia must confess that, non-militaristic nations are equal to it in bravery, in the spirit of sacrifice and even in military ability.

(2) The Congress of Peace should be composed of representatives of all belligerent nations, not merely of the governments. Admission should be granted to the representatives of all nations whose fate is being decided and who have a claim to self-determination.

(3) The antiquated and insincere diplomatic rule that states should not interfere in the internal affairs of other states should not apply in the coming peace congress; if democracy is truly humanitarian and if the strengthening of international feeling is not to be a mere phrase, then political boundaries must not be a shield to arbitrariness. This terrible war arose just because states have for such a long time avoided interference in the internal affairs of their neighbors.

(4) All secret agreements must be excluded.

(5) Theocratism must be abolished in all the states of Europe; the churches must be free, they must not be abused for political purposes. The American way of arranging the relations of the state and the church can serve as a suitable model.

(6) All states must abolish standing armies and employ for their defence in case of necessity a system of militia (abolishment of militarism).

(7) Navigation of the seas outside of territorial waters must be made free to all nations. Exceptions are made by international agreement. To landlocked nations access to the sec; must be secured by an international agreement; an ex-territorial harbour and duty free passage of goods will be granted at the nearest shore.

(8) Commerce is free; protection of industry and commerce against unfair competition must be regulated by international agreement.

The doctrine of the old liberalism demanding absolute freedom of trade is often exacted in a very abstract way and is deduced from conditions prevailing in western, civilized industrial Europe (principally England and France). Freedom of trade may be abused by the stronger to the subjugation of the weaker, just as war can; the subjugation may be even worse and more demoralizing. In that manner Austria—Hungary threatened Roumania and Serbia by a tariff war. Every country in the agricultural state endeavors to be come an industrial country and to be economically independent; industrialization implies the growth of a railroad system and of means of communication in general, and that again presupposes a certain degree of scientific education of the nation, practical and theoretical. Every country will want to protect itself against exploitation. From this wider cultural standpoint we must consider the watchword of free trade, and international commerce must be wisely and justly regulated for all nations by international agreement.

(9) The most difficult task of the Congress will be the just settlement of territorial questions. Owing to German aggressiveness and the Pan-german push towards the East the national questions are most acute in the East of Europe: Prussia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkans and Russia must be politically reorganized. The re-construction of the East is the primary aim of the war and of the peace. In the West there are no acute disturbing national questions: the nations of the West have thir states and well-established forms of government, they have their old civilization—France and Belgium will have to rebuild their destroyed cities and villages, to repair their factories and fields, but in the East new states, new forms of governments must be created and the


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 of the station to which he has been called. He may be a man, in short, acting on his own instincts, keeping in his own shape that God made him in; and not a mere crank in the social engine house, welded on principles that he does not understand, and for purposes that he does not care for.

For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so. And for certain the one is a great deal better for the health. There should be nothing so much a man's business as his amusements. Nothing but money-grubbing can be put forward to the contrary; no one but

durst risk a word in answer. It is but a lying cant that would represent the merchant and the


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 IV CONTENTS.

Number Pfege

LV. On the Gaols in India 371

LVI. On the Police 378

LVII. Propriety of Interfering with some of the Native Customs 385

LVIII. On the Native Army 414

LIX. Vakeels, or Native Lawyers 444

LX. On the Conversion of the People • 463

LXI. On Caste • 470

LXII. Intercourse between the English and the Natives • 470

LXIII. Miscellaneous Observations 507

Conclusion 516

APPENDIX.

A. Narrative of Peer Buksh 532

B. Character of a Commissioner 536

C. Occurrences regarding the Temple of Snigrampoor. . 538

D. The Noozeed Afiair 541

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 banker as people disinterestedly toiling for mankind, and then most useful when they are most absorbed in their transactions; for the man is more important than his services. And when my Royal Nautical Sportsman shall have so far fallen from his hopeful youth that he cannot pluck up an enthusiasm over anything but his ledger, I venture to doubt whether he will be near so nice a fellow, and whether he would welcome, with so good a grace, a couple of drenched Englishmen paddling into Brussels in the dusk.

When we had changed our wet clothes and drunk a glass of pale ale to the Club's prosperity, one of their number escorted us to an hotel. He would not join us at our dinner, but he had no objection to a glass of wine. Enthusiasm is very wearing; and I begin to understand why prophets were unpopular in Judæa, where they were best known. For three stricken hours did


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 this excellent young man sit beside us to dilate on boats and boat-races; and before he left, he was kind enough to order our bed-room candles.

We endeavoured now and again to change the subject; but the diversion did not last a moment: the Royal Nautical Sportsman bridled, shied, answered the question, and then breasted once more into the swelling tide of his subject. I call it his subject; but I think it was he who was subjected. The Arethusa, who holds all racing as a creature of the devil, found himself in a pitiful dilemma. He durst not own his ignorance for the honour of Old England, and spoke away about English clubs and English oarsmen whose fame had never before come to his ears. Several times, and, once above all, on the question of sliding-seats, he was within an ace of exposure. As for the Cigarette, who has rowed races in the heat of his blood, but now disowns these slips of his wanton youth, his case was still


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 more desperate; for the Royal Nautical proposed that he should take an oar in one of their eights on the morrow, to compare the English with the Belgian stroke. I could see my friend perspiring in his chair whenever that particular topic came up. And there was yet another proposal which had the same effect on both of us. It appeared that the champion canoeist of Europe (as well as most other champions) was a Royal Nautical Sportsman. And if we would only wait until the Sunday, this infernal paddler would be so condescending as to accompany us on our next stage. Neither of us had the least desire to drive the coursers of the sun against Apollo.

When the young man was gone, we countermanded our candles, and ordered some brandy and water. The great billows had gone over our head. The Royal Nautical Sportsmen were as nice young fellows as a man would wish to see, but they were a trifle too young and a


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 thought too nautical for us. We began to see that we were old and cynical; we liked ease and the agreeable rambling of the human mind about this and the other subject; we did not want to disgrace our native land by messing an eight, or toiling pitifully in the wake of the champion canoeist. In short, we had recourse to flight. It seemed ungrateful, but we tried to make that good on a card loaded with sincere compliments. And indeed it was no time for scruples; we seemed to feel the hot breath of the champion on our necks.


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A/45/368 S/21426 2 August 1990 English Original: English and French

General Assembly Forty-fifth session Items 71, 142 and 144 of the provisional agenda

Review of the implementation of the declaration of strengthening of international security development and strengthening of good-neighbourliness between states

Peaceful settlement of disputes between states

Letter dated 2 August 1990 from the Chargé d'Affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

I have the honour to transmit the text, in English and French, of the statement by the Twelve States members of the European Community on the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait (see annex).

I should be grateful if you would have the text of the present letter and its annex circulated as a document of the General Assembly, under items 71, 142 and 144 of the provisional agenda, and of the Security Council.

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A/45/368 S/21426 English Page 2 Annex Statement by the Twelve States members of the European Community on the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait The Community and its member States have followed with apprehension during the last weeks the increase in tension in the dispute between Iraq and some Arab countries. They have welcomed the diplomatic efforts that the Arab countries and the Arab League itself were deploying and refrained from any stance and initiative in order to preserve such initiatives from any interference.

Following the breakdown of talks held at Jeddah under Arab auspices, the Community and its member States are now gravely concerned at the latest development in the dispute and, in particular, at the military aggression carried out by Iraq against Kuwait, which is not only a hostile action to a neighbour country, but also a dangerous threat to peace and stability in the region.

The Community and its member States strongly condemn the use of force by a member State of the United Nations against the territorial integrity of another State; this constitutes a breach of the Charter of the United Nations, and an unacceptable means to solve international differences. They therefore fully support the resolution adopted today by the Security Council.

The Community and its member States call upon all Governments to condemn this unjustified use of force and to work for an early re-establishment of the conditions for the immediate resumption of peaceful negotiations. In this light, they ask for an immediate withdrawal of Iraqi forces from Kuwait territory.

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from the terror we had of our good friends the Royal Nauticals, partly from the fact that there were no fewer than fifty-five locks between Brussels and Charleroi, we concluded that we should travel by train across the frontier, boats and all. Fifty-five locks in a day's journey, was pretty well tantamount to trudging the whole distance on foot, with the canoes upon our shoulders, an object of astonishment to the trees on the canal side, and of honest derision to ail right-thinking children.

To pass the frontier, even in a train, is a difficult matter for the Arethusa. He is somehow or other, a marked man for the official eye. Wherever he journeys, there are the officers


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 gathered together. Treaties are solemnly signed, foreign ministers, ambassadors, and consuls sit throned in state from China to Peru, and the Union Jack flutters on all the winds of heaven. Under these safeguards, portly clergymen, school-mistresses, gentlemen in gray tweed suits, and all the ruck and rabble of British touristry pour unhindered, Murray in hand, over the railways of the continent, and yet the slim person of the Arethusa is taken in the meshes, while these great fish go on their way rejoicing. If he travels without a passport, he is cast, without any figure about the matter, into noisome dungeons: if his papers are in order, he is suffered to go his way indeed, but not until he has been humiliated by a general incredulity. He is a born British subject, yet he has never succeeded in persuading a single official of his nationality. He flatters himself he is indifferent honest; yet he is rarely taken for anything better than a spy,


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48 management of underlings (and by various forms of legal fraud and oppression, families are ruined, and lives lost), &c. &c.

5. Put down the vicious, who rebel against the higher social relations, and offend against parents, senior brothers, &c.

6. Seize on bandits, who belong to brotherhoods, or to clubs and societies, and who swear attachment to each other.

7. Seize sharpers and vagabonds, who make themselves the terror of the neighbourhood, and who carry weapons about them, and try to get into quarrels, and insult the desolate, and injure the feeble, &c.

If these, my instructions, be but roughly regarded, tranquility will prevail amongst the people; if they are nicely guarded, a complete renovation of the public manners will be the result.

I desire that all my officers, gentry, and common people will not consider this as vague loose moralizing; nor view this document as a paper issued for form's sake; but in deed and in truth respectfully receive it, and act upon it, and the good effects will long be felt, and my hopes will appear to have been substantial, and well founded.

2d Year, 11th Month, 8th Day.
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 and there is no absurd and disreputable means of livelihood but has been attributed to him in some heat of official or popular distrust

For the life of me I cannot understand it. I too have been knolled to church, and sat at good men's feasts; but I bear no mark of it. I am as strange as a Jack Indian to their official spectacles. I might come from any part of the globe, it seems, except from where I do. My ancestors have laboured in vain, and the glorious Constitution cannot protect me in my walks abroad. It is a great thing, believe me, to present a good normal type of the nation you belong to.

Nobody else was asked for his papers on the way to Maubeuge; but I was; and although I clung to my rights, I had to choose at last between accepting the humiliation and being left behind by the train. I was sorry to give way; but I wanted to get to Maubeuge.


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