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'''Genesis 19:25 Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house. They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!”

Lot went outside to meet them, shutting the door behind him. “Please, my brothers,” he pleaded, “don’t do such a wicked thing! Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you, and you can do to them as you please. But do not do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”

“Get out of the way!” they replied. And they declared, “This one came here as a foreigner, and he is already acting like a judge! Now we will treat you worse than them.” And they pressed in on Lot and moved in to break down the door.

But the men inside reached out, pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door. And they struck the men at the entrance, young and old, with blindness, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.

Lot Flees to Zoar

Then the two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—a son-in-law, your sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, because we are about to destroy this place. For the outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that He has sent us to destroy it.”

So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.” But when Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters. And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORD’s compassion for them.

As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”

But Lot replied, “No, my lords, please! Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die. Look, there is a town nearby where I can flee, and it is a small place. Please let me flee there—is it not a small place? Then my life will be saved.”

“Very well,” he answered, “I will grant this request as well, and will not demolish the town you indicate. Hurry! Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you reach it.” That is why the town was called Zoar.

And by the time the sun had risen over the land, Lot had reached Zoar.

The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Luke 17:20–37)

Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens. Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.


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Runo IX]

From the stove the old man mumbled,

Cried the greybeard when he saw him,

“Who among mankind may’st thou be,

Who among the roll of heroes?

Seven large boats with blood are brimming,

Eight large tubs are overflowing

From your knee, O most unhappy,

On the floor in torrents gushing.

Other words I well remember,

But the oldest I recall not,

How the iron was first created,

And the unworked ore was fashioned.”

Then the aged Väinämöinen

Answered in the words that follow:

“Well I know the birth of Iron,

And how steel was first created.

Air is the primeval mother,

Water is the eldest brother,

Iron is the youngest brother,

And the Fire in midst between them.

“Ukko, mightiest of Creators,

He, the God above in heaven,

From the Air the Water parted,

And the continents from water,

When unborn was evil Iron,

Uncreated, undeveloped.

“Ukko, God of realms supernal,

Rubbed his mighty hands together.

Both his hands he rubbed together,

On his left knee then he pressed them,

And three maidens were created,

Three fair Daughters of Creation,

Mothers of the rust of Iron,

And of blue-mouthed steel the fosterers.

“Strolled the maids with faltering footsteps

On the borders of the cloudlets,

And their full breasts were o’erflowing,

And their nipples pained them sorely.

Down on earth their milk ran over,

From their breasts’ o’erflowing fulness,

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 1. On how many occasions to date did Secretary Buttigieg utilize government aircraft and/or privately chartered aircraft? "a. How much did these trips cost federal taxpayers?"

2. For each occasion, please determine the purpose of the trip and whether the trip was solely dedicated to the stated purpose. If any trip was not solely for official government purposes, please list the personal, recreational, or other purpose of the trip.

3. To what extent were all applicable federal travel regulations and agency travel policies and procedures appropriately followed for all of Secretary Buttigieg’s travels to date?

"a. In each of the instances in which a chartered flight was used, were the appropriate travel authorizations, cost estimates, justifications, and approvals performed?

b. In each of the instances in which a chartered flight was used, what justification was provided for not flying commercially? Were these justifications approved according to Department policies and procedures?

c. For each of the chartered flights taken by Secretary Buttigieg to date, what was the total cost of travel for Secretary Buttigieg and all other individuals onboard? What was the cost for each individual onboard for each chartered flight?

d. For each of the chartered flights taken by Secretary Buttigieg to date, who were the other passengers on board each flight? Who was in charge of booking the flights? Were all policies and procedures, as required by the Federal Travel Regulation and the DOT Travel Manual, in addition to other relevant requirements, followed for each of the passengers onboard and by anyone involved with booking or planning the travel? Were the appropriate policies and procedures followed for any passengers who were not federal government employees?

e. In any instances in which regulations, policies, or procedures were not appropriately followed, what was the approximate cost incurred to the government as a result?

f. Is there a mechanism for Secretary Buttigieg to reimburse taxpayers for the costs incurred?"

4. Did any DOT personnel raise concerns internally about Secretary Buttigieg's repeated use of privately chartered flights? If so, how were such concerns addressed?


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'''22  But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

Early the next morning, Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD. He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.

So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.

Lot and His Daughters

Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains—for he was afraid to stay in Zoar—where they lived in a cave.

One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth. Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”

So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.

The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”

So again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.

Thus both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today. The younger daughter also gave birth to a son, and she named him Ben-ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites of today. Abraham, Sarah, and Abimelech

Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar, Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.

One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”

Now Abimelech had not gone near her, so he replied, “Lord, would You destroy a nation even though it is innocent? Didn’t Abraham tell me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her. Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet; he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not restore her, be aware that you will surely die—you and all who belong to you.”

Early the next morning Abimelech got up and summoned all his servants; and when he described to them all that had happened, the men were terrified.

Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought such tremendous guilt upon me and my kingdom? You


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 5. To what extent has DOT conducted oversight of executive travel, including Secretary Buttigieg's travels by chartered flight? Have any violations been identified, and if so, what actions were taken in response?

American taxpayers deserve assurances that their tax dollars are not wasted by the government's highest officials. I am committed to both holding Secretary Buttigieg accountable for any fraudulent use of government aircraft, and ensuring compliance with DOT policies and procedures. Therefore, I appreciate your prompt and thorough review of these issues.

Thank you for your attention to this important matter.


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Milk on land, and milk on marshes,

Milk upon the peaceful waters.

“Black milk from the first was flowing,

From the eldest of the maidens,

White milk issued from another,

From the second of the maidens,

Red milk by the third was yielded,

By the youngest of the maidens.

“Where the black milk had been dropping,

There was found the softest Iron,

Where the white milk had been flowing,

There the hardest steel was fashioned,

Where the red milk had been trickling,

There was undeveloped Iron.

“But a short time had passed over,

When the Iron desired to visit

Him, its dearest elder brother,

And to make the Fire’s acquaintance.

“But the Fire arose in fury,

Blazing up in greatest anger,

Seeking to consume its victim,

E’en the wretched Iron, its brother.

“Then the Iron sought out a refuge,

Sought for refuge and protection

From the hands of furious Fire,

From his mouth, all bright with anger.

“Then the Iron took refuge from him,

Sought both refuge and protection

Down amid the quaking marshes,

Where the springs have many sources,

On the level mighty marshes,

On the void and barren mountains,

Where the swans their eggs deposit,

And the goose her brood is rearing.

“In the swamps lay hid the Iron,

Stretched beneath the marshy surface,

Hid for one year and a second,

For a third year likewise hidden,

Hidden there between two tree-stumps,

’Neath three roots of birch-trees hidden,

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'''Genesis 21:16 have done things to me that should not be done.” Abimelech also asked Abraham, “What prompted you to do such a thing?”

Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’ Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife. So when God had me journey from my father’s house, I said to Sarah, ‘This is how you can show your loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”

So Abimelech brought sheep and cattle, menservants and maidservants, and he gave them to Abraham and restored his wife Sarah to him. And Abimelech said, “Look, my land is before you. Settle wherever you please.” And he said to Sarah, “See, I am giving your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is your vindication before all who are with you; you are completely cleared.”

Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they could again bear children— for on account of Abraham’s wife Sarah, the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household. The Birth of Isaac

Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised. So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.

And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him. When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him. Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.” She added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

Sarah Turns against Hagar (Galatians 4:21–30)

But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son, and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”

Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael. But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned. But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”

Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba. When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes. Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.


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'''24  Then God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, “What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he lies. Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.” Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

And God was with the boy, and he grew up and settled in the wilderness and became a great archer. And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

The Covenant at Beersheba

At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do. Now, therefore, swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or descendants. Show to me and to the country in which you reside the same kindness that I have shown to you.”

And Abraham replied, “I swear it.”

But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized, Abimelech replied, “I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, so I have not heard about it until today.”

So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant. Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock, and Abimelech asked him, “Why have you set apart these seven ewe lambs?”

He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.” So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath. After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God. And Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for a long time. The Offering of Isaac (John 3:1–21)

Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!”

“Here I am,” he answered.

“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”

So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.

On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. “Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told his servants. “The boy and I will go over there to worship, and then we will return to you.”

Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. He himself carried the fire and the sacrificial knife, and the two of them walked on together.

Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!”

“Here I am, my son,” he replied.

“The fire and the wood are here,” said Isaac, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”


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January 13, 1915. obtain the address of the office-boy's grandfather, and call upon him to learn whether he will agree to exert his grandparental influence in the direction already outlined.

5. From J. H. B. to Uncle Edward, Brother Theodore and Cousin Bob, Co-Directors.

I enclose copies of correspondence relative to the Blenkins' crisis, which is rapidly assuming a gravity which I cannot affect to view with indifference. I beg you to proceed immediately to Midgely, and support his endeavours with the united weight of your diplomatic abilities.

6. From A. M. to J. H. B.

I learn from a sure source that the Office-Boy's grandmother has already died three times. The grandfather is alleged to be non compos mentis. Mr. Blenkins is mobilising his office papers. This is highly significant.

7. From A. M. to J. H. B.

Further to my despatch of this morning, I have the honour to report that Mr. Robert Bullivant suggests that we should offer Mr. Blenkins another twenty pounds a year and have done with it. Mr. Theodore Bullivant is firmly opposed to any diplomatic weakness at this juncture, in view of possible demands from the Book-keeper, whom we suspect of a secret entente with Mr. Blenkins. Your Excellency's uncle demands peace at any price. Should I take the unprecedented step of making a direct approach to Mr. Blenkins?

8. From J. H. B. to A. M.

No. The resources of Diplomacy must first be exhausted. In view of the urgency of the crisis, I authorise you to pass over the Office Boy and open pourparlers with the Senior Typist with a view to obtaining a mise en demeure from Blenkins.

9. From A. M. to J. H. B.

The Senior Typist has met with a reverse from an experimental hair-dye, and will not be visible for a week.

10. From J. H. B. to A. M.

Approach the Book-keeper.

11. From A. M. to J. H. B.

I have the honour to surmise that no definite purpose will be achieved through the diplomatic channel of the Book-keeper. He states that he prefers to keep himself to himself. Mr. Blenkins has already asked for his office cuffs, and a final severance of relations is imminent. I have not yet handed him his cuffs, which I have ventured to sequestrate on the ground that they are spotted with our ink.

12. From J. H. B. to A. M.

Retain the cuffs pending diplomatic action from Mr. Theodore.

13. From J. H. B. to Brother Theodore.

I enclose copies of correspondence relative to Blenkins' attempt to claim possession of our ink-spots. If in your opinion this constitutes a casus belli, I beg your to approach him with such menaces as are not inconsistent with the continuance of diplomatic relations.

14. From T. B. to J. H. B.

In view of the gravity of the crisis, I have taken legal opinion. If the cuffs were not only spotted with our ink, but were also clipped with our scissors, then they are ipso facto and ad hoc to be considered as neutral territory within the meaning of the Statutes of International Office Law.

15. From J. H. B. to A. M.

You should immediately ascertain, through the proper channels, if and (or) when and (or) how Blenkins clipped the cuffs. In the meantime you will convey to him that we should not be disposed to view with indifference any attempt on his part to violate the frontiers of neutral territory.

16. From A. M. to J. H. B.

Blenkins has gone!

17. Chorus of the Diplomats.

The resources of Diplomacy were strained to the uttermost.

Sergeant.

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 Rh I have mentioned that Kernin is a lawyer, and Jones a railroad man and Popley a banker. But I needn’t have. Any reader would take it for granted. In any fishing party there is always a lawyer. You can tell him at sight. He is the one of the party that has a landing net and a steel rod in sections with a wheel that is used to wind the fish to the top of the water.

And there is always a banker. You can tell him by his good clothes. Popley, in the bank, wears his banking suit. When he goes fishing he wears his fishing suit. It is much the better of the two, because his banking suit has ink marks on it, and his fishing suit has no fish marks on it.

As for the railroad man—quite so, the reader knows it as well as I do—you can tell him because he carries a pole that he cut in the bush himself, with a ten-cent line wrapped round the end of it. Jones says he can catch as many fish with this kind of line as Kernin can with his patent rod and wheel. So he can too. Just the same number.

But Kernin says that with his patent apparatus if you get a fish on you can play him. Jones says to Hades with playing him: give him a fish on his line and he’ll haul him in all right. Kernin says he’d lose him. But Jones says he wouldn’t. In fact he guarantees

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Rh of the profoundest Oriental scholars of his day, and being also conversant with European literature and science, he was peculiarly qualified and entitled to deliver an authoritative opinion. Accordingly, in a memorial and remonstrance against the establishment of the Sanskrit College in Calcutta, addressed to Lord, we find the following emphatic passages:—“This seminary” (the proposed Sanskrit College), “similar in character to those which existed in Europe before the time of Lord Bacon, can only be expected to load the minds of youth with grammatical niceties and metaphysical distinctions of little or no practical use to the possessors or to society. The pupils will there acquire what was known two thousand years ago, with the addition of vain and empty subtleties since produced by speculative men, such as is already commonly taught in all parts of India. The Sanskrit language, so difficult that almost a lifetime is necessary for its acquisition, is well known to have been for ages a lamentable check on the diffusion of knowledge; and the learning concealed under this almost impervious veil is far from sufficient to reward the labour of acquiring it. If it had been intended to keep the British nation in ignorance of real knowledge, the Baconian Philosophy would not have been allowed to displace the system of the Schoolmen, which was the best calculated to perpetuate ignorance. In the same manner, the Sanskrit system of education would be the best calculated to keep this country in darkness, if such had been the policy of the British Legislative.” And when, to the useless, the frivolous, and the puerile acquisitions of Sanskrit lore, which, instead of truly bracing and invigorating the mental faculties, tend rather to dilute and rarefy them info a vain and subtilizing spirit of error, we add the louring pride thereby engendered, the callousness of feeling, the total insensibility to the wants and miseries of man, together with the defence which it involves and entails of all that is blasphemous in literate pantheism and all that is revolting in the popular idolatry;—we have a picture in which the resemblance of each better light is wholly shrouded and eclipsed by the reality of the darksome shadows.

Whether, therefore, we look at the wholly uninstructed majority, or the partially instructed minority of the people of this land, we cannot help concluding that the work of education, in any right and proper sense of that term, has, with very few isolated exceptions, yet to be begun. For, by education, we mean that process by which the faculties are not only developed but improved and set to work in the right way—which does not teach merely but train—which regards oral precepts, however excellent, when unaccompanied with wholesome restraint, discipline, and good example, as altogether insufficient guides for child-


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'''Genesis 23:9  Abraham answered, “God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two walked on together.

When they arrived at the place God had designated, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, atop the wood. Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.

The LORD Provides the Sacrifice

Just then the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!”

“Here I am,” he replied.

“Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me. ”

Then Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram in a thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son. And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”

And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time, saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son, I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies. And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

Abraham went back to his servants, and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba.

The Sons of Nahor

Some time later, Abraham was told, “Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor: Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram), Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”

And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor. Moreover, Nahor’s concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah. The Death and Burial of Sarah

Now Sarah lived to be 127 years old. She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.

Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites, “I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

The Hittites replied to Abraham, “Listen to us, sir. You are God’s chosen one among us. Bury your dead in the finest of our tombs. None of us will withhold his tomb for burying your dead.”

Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites. “If you are willing for me to bury my dead,” he said to them, “listen to me, and approach Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end


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 Rh to haul the fish in. Kernin says that more than once—in Lake Rosseau—he has played a fish for over half an hour. I forget now why he stopped; I think the fish quit playing.

I have heard Kernin and Jones argue this question of their two rods, as to which rod can best pull in the fish, for half an hour. Others may have heard the same question debated. I know no way by which it could be settled.

Our arrangement to go fishing was made at the little golf club of our summer town on the veranda where we sit in the evening. Oh, it’s just a little place, nothing pretentious: the links are not much good for golf; in fact we don’t play much golf there, so far as golf goes, and of course, we don’t serve meals at the club, it’s not like that—and no, we’ve nothing to drink there because of prohibition. But we go and sit there. It is a good place to sit, and, after all, what else can you do in the present state of the law?

So it was there that we arranged the party.

The thing somehow seemed to fall into the mood of each of us. Jones said he had been hoping that some of the boys would get up a fishing party. It was apparently the one kind of pleasure that he really cared for. For myself I was delighted to get in with a crowd of regular fishermen like these four, especially as

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Portal:Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation

 * Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation (1987)
 * Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation, Amendment 1 (1989)
 * Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation, Amendment 1, Approval (1989)
 * Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation, Amendment 1, Letter (1990)
 * Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation, Amendment 3, Letter of Approval (1992)
 * Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation, Amendment 3, Letter of Certification (1992)
 * Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation, Amendment 3 (1992)
 * Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation, Amendment 3, Certification of Results (1992)
 * Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation, Amendment 3, Certification of Approval (1) (1992)
 * Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation, Amendment 3, Certification of Approval (2) (1992)
 * Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation, Amendment 2 (1995)
 * Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation, Amendment 4 (2002)
 * Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation, Amendment 4, Certificate of Results (2002)
 * Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation, Amendment 5 (2002)
 * Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation, Amendment 5, Certificate of Results (2002)
 * Resolution Recognizing the Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation (2004)
 * Resolution Recognizing the Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation, Minutes (2004)
 * Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation, Amendment 6 (2004)
 * Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation, Amendment 6, Certificate of Results (2004)


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'''26 of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site.”

Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. So in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham, “No, my lord. Listen to me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. I give it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead.”

Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land and said to Ephron in their presence, “If you will please listen to me, I will pay you the price of the field. Accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there.”

Ephron answered Abraham, “Listen to me, my lord. The land is worth four hundred shekels of silver, but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”

Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.

So Ephron’s field at Machpelah near Mamre, the cave that was in it, and all the trees within the boundaries of the field were deeded over to Abraham’s possession in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city. After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site. A Wife for Isaac

By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way. So Abraham instructed the chief servant of his household, who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh, and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling, but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.”

The servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”

Abraham replied, “Make sure that you do not take my son back there. The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there. And if the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there.”

So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.

Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor’s hometown in Aram-naharaim. As evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water.

“O LORD, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “please grant me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham. Here


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'''Genesis 24:36 I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water. Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”

Rebekah Is Chosen

Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor. Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.

So the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jar.”

“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.

After she had given him a drink, she said, “I will also draw water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink.” And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.

Meanwhile, the man watched her silently to see whether or not the LORD had made his journey a success.

And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels. “Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”

She replied, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor.” Then she added, “We have plenty of straw and feed, as well as a place for you to spend the night.”

Then the man bowed down and worshiped the LORD, saying, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”

The girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things. Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring. As soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.

“Come, you who are blessed by the LORD,” said Laban. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.” So the man came to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and feed were brought to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of his companions.

Then a meal was set before the man, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told you what I came to say.”

So Laban said, “Please speak.”

“I am Abraham’s servant,” he replied. “The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys. My master’s wife Sarah has borne him a son in her


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374 hood and youth—which systematically aims at making its subjects moral and virtuous as well as learned—which habitually inculcates the great truth, that a conquest over the evil passions and desires of the heart is a mightier achievement far than any triumphs over the ignorance of the head—which studiously and decidedly prefers purity of life, and integrity, and sincerity of conduct to all the merely bookish knowledge in the world—which, taking the word of the ever-living God for its guide, lays its foundations deep in religious culture, and, by imbuing the youthful mind with the love and fear of the true God, teaches most effectually the love of our neighbour, together with all due respect for his personal rights and social privileges.

In the present article, we have restricted ourselves to the subject of education and its kindred or collateral topics. But though we have done so, it has been purposely, and not because we are ignorant of, or indifferent to, other subjects which are intimately linked with it, or inseparably interwoven with its effective operation and success. We allude particularly to the reign of terror and insecurity that is abroad under the tyranny and oppression of the zemindars, the guilty connivance of a corrupt and unprincipled police, and the briberies, perjuries, and law-form mockeries of our Mofussil court of justice. We not only admit, but solemnly record, our deliberate conviction that the whole of this system—most iniquitous in its results though not in the intention of our rulers—demands revision, reform, remodelling. Moreover, we candidly admit that, without such revision and reconstruction of the Zemindary, Police, and Judicial systems, education itself, however vigorously set on foot and prosecuted, will be, in a thousand ways, baulked, thwarted, neutralized, and evacuated of its legitimate fruits. True it is, most true, that if an enlightened education could everywhere be communicated, it would eventually tear off, and “flutter into rags,” a vast deal of the present external organism, that is wielded in crushing and prostrating the energies of the people. In this respect we fully concur in the sentiments so honourably and creditably expressed by a young native gentleman—himself a zemindar—at a public meeting of the Native inhabitants recently held in the hall of the Free Church Institution, to vote an address of thankful acknowledgment to the Governor-General, on account of his enlightened educational enactment of the 10th October last. “Educate the people,” said he,“ and you will find them manfully resisting the oppressions of the zemindar. Educate the people, and they will cease to be victimized by the Darogah. Educate the people, and they will burst asunder those fetters by which they are now bandaged and trampled on.”

That such would be the ultimate effects of a sound and whole-


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Rh some system of education, we have not the shadow of a doubt. Our only doubt is, as to how, or in what way, such a system could be generally established, with hopeful prospects of efficiency and success, in the face of the all-pervading, all-grinding demon of oppression that now stalks forth in all the lordliness of unchallenged supremacy, over the length and breadth of the land. Some would, consequently, have us wholly to suspend educational operations, until this evil demon in its multiplex forms is exorcised and fairly expelled from our borders. Others, on the contrary, would have us wholly to refrain from agitation on the subject of oppression, and proceed exclusively with educational measures. Now, in our sober judgment, both these extremes are wrong, and both equally to be avoided. Why should not administrative reforms, in the police and judicial departments, advance hand in hand with reform and extension in the educational departments? Why should the one be done and the other left undone? Rather, why should not both be prosecuted simultaneously? If both systems have, in point of fact, been allowed to grow up to a full maturity of evil—if both, acting and reacting on each other in a mutually strengthening process of mischief and misery—are leagued together in a terrible conspiracy against the welfare and prosperity of unhappy millions, why should we, in such an emergency, keep dallying and loitering in blank unprofitableness, or waste precious time in tracing their respective genealogies—in settling antiquarian questions as to which may be regarded as the cause and which the effect, which the antecedent and which the consequent, which the parent and which the child? Be the primary source or origin what it may, it is but too palpable that both systems now are inextricably blended in reciprocal influences for evil. And ought not this to be enough to persuade us to seek earnestly for the rectification of both, and plead unweariedly for the expansion of both in rectified and improved forms? Administrative reform can come from Government alone. Let us, then, unceasingly refresh the memory and stimulate the conscience of a not unwilling Government; let us accept, with cheerfulness and candour, any reformational instalment as a pledge of sincerity and good-will on its part; and let us ever wisely view such instalment as a stepping-stone of facility towards the ultimate attainment of more beneficial measures, under the ascendancy of more auspicious circumstances. Educational reform, on the other hand, is, to a certain extent, within reach of every member of the community at large. Each one, who has a will, may find a way of doing something; and that something, under whatever drawbacks or discouragements, each one is sacredly bound to attempt to do. However insignificant the result of individual


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{|
 * c.||The Secretary shall correctly record the proceedings of all meetings. He shall make out the order of business for the Principal Chief, shall notify all committees of their appointments, shall have custody of the records and all papers of the Governing Council, which records and papers shall be open to inspection in his presence at reasonable times, by any member of the Governing Council desiring to read them. He shall keep a correct list of all members of the Governing Council and the tribe, shall authenticate all actions of the Principal Chief and Second Chief, shall call the meeting to order until a Chairman pro tempore is selected. He shall render a written report at the annual meeting and at the expiration of his term of office. Upon his death, resignation, expiration of term, or removal from office, the records and all papers in his possession shall be turned over to his successor. He shall issue notice of all meetings and conduct general correspondence, as directed by the Governing Council or the Business Committee.
 * d.||The Treasurer shall receive all monies and other assets of the tribe and keep all tribal monies entrusted to his care in one or more special accounts and all disbursements therefrom shall be made pursuant to resolution or ordinance of the Business Committee with two approved signatures on each check. At any time that such an account shall amount to more than $50.00, he shall file a bond satisfactory to the Business Committee and the Governing Council. The cost of such bond shall be paid out of tribal monies. He shall render a certified written report at the annual meeting and at the expiration of his term of office. Upon his death, resignation, expiration of term or removal from office, the records and all papers in his possession shall be turned over to his successor.
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 * d.||The Treasurer shall receive all monies and other assets of the tribe and keep all tribal monies entrusted to his care in one or more special accounts and all disbursements therefrom shall be made pursuant to resolution or ordinance of the Business Committee with two approved signatures on each check. At any time that such an account shall amount to more than $50.00, he shall file a bond satisfactory to the Business Committee and the Governing Council. The cost of such bond shall be paid out of tribal monies. He shall render a certified written report at the annual meeting and at the expiration of his term of office. Upon his death, resignation, expiration of term or removal from office, the records and all papers in his possession shall be turned over to his successor.
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SECTION 2. The Business Committee shall have power to appoint subordinate committee and representatives, to transact business and otherwise speak or act on behalf of the tribe in all matters on which the tribe is empowered to act now or in the future and to hire and employ legal counsel to represent the tribe, the choice of counsel and fixing of fees to be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior or his authorized representative, as long as such approval is required, provided that, the Governing Council shall have a veto power after actions by the Business Committee; provided further that, such veto power shall only be binding upon the Business Committee by two-thirds (2/3) majority vote of the Governing Council.

SECTION 1. There shall be a Grievance Committee which shall consist of three (3) members of the Governing Council who shall be elected by secret ballot.

SECTION 2. The Grievance Committee, under such procedures as shall be provided by the Governing Council, shall hear complains of misconduct in office by members of the Business Committee and upon a showing of probable cause that misconduct in office has occurred, shall call a special meeting of the Governing Council to act upon such complaints and shall undertake such other duties as it may be assigned by tribal law.

SECTION 3. The Governing Council shall have power, by a two-thirds (2/3) majority vote by secret ballot taken after giving the accused a hearing, to remove him from office. The Chairman of the Grievance Committee shall preside at all meetings of the Governing Council called by the Grievance Committee for the purpose of considering the removal of a Business Committee member.


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 SECTION 4. Grievance Committee members may be recalled from office according to rules and procedures to be established by ordinance of the Governing Council.

SECTION 1. The judicial power of the Sac and Fox Nation shall be vested in one Supreme Court of the Sac and Fox Nation consisting of five (5) Justices and such inferior courts as may be established by tribal law.

SECTION 2. The courts of the Sac and Fox Nation shall be courts of general jurisdiction and shall further have jurisdiction in all cases arising under the constitution, laws, and treaties of the Sac and Fox Nation. The Supreme Court of the Sac and Fox Nation shall have original jurisdiction in such cases as may be provided by law, and shall have appellate jurisdiction in all other cases.

SECTION 3. The Justices and Judges of the Sac and Fox Nation shall be selected by the Business Committee and confirmed by the Governing Council, provided that, Justices and Judges may be appointed by the Business Committee to hear a specific case at the request of the Supreme Court. A special appointment shall continue only until a final decision in the specific case has been reached.

SECTION 4. The Justices and Judges of the Sac and Fox Nation shall serve six (6) year terms beginning at the date of their confirmation in office and until their successor shall be duly confirmed and installed. At the expiration of his term of office, each Justice or Judge, at his option, shall be considered by the Governing Council for reconfirmation to a new term of office without opposition.

SECTION 5. Justices and Judges of the Sac and Fox Nation may be removed from office in the same manner that Business Committee members may be-removed from office upon a showing of habitual neglect of the duties of office, oppression in office for personal gain or advantage, or conviction in any court of a felony or other crime involving moral turpitude. In no case may a Justice or Judge be removed from office because of his decision or vote in any case before the court.

SECTION 6. The Tribal Courts are hereby specifically authorized to review, in any case before them, the actions of the Governing Council, The Business Committee, or any other tribal officers, agents or entities to determine whether those actions are prohibited by Federal or tribal law or this constitution. If it be found that the action complained of is not within the scope of authority delegated to that body or person by this constitution, or tribal law enacted pursuant to this constitution, or that the action is being undertaken in a manner prohibited by this constitution, tribal law, or Federal law, the courts are authorized to declare any such legislative on executive action unconstitutional and void, and to enter injunctive relief against unlawful actions by any executive officer or body of the Sac and Fox Nation.

SECTION 7. This article shall be effective upon enactment of enabling legislation by the Governing Council. Until this article becomes effective, the judicial power of the Sac and Fox Nation shall be vested in a Sac and Fox Tribal Court system as created by legislative action of the Business Committee. The Business Committee shall have authority to contract for the operation of the Court of Indian Offenses pursuant to


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 law either separately or in conjunction with any other tribe or tribes within the jurisdiction of that court, and to modify the court created by this article in order to utilize an intertribal court system in conjunction with other tribes in the Anadarko Area Office jurisdiction, such modification to remain in effect so long as the Sac and Fox Nation is a participant in such intertribal court system.

SECTION 1. Any person elected to membership on the Business Committee shall not be less than twenty-one (21) years of age and shall be a member of the Sac and Fox Nation. At the time of his election, he shall reside within the geographical boundaries of the State of Oklahoma. Any member of the Business Committee removing from, the State of Oklahoma shall automatically forfeit his office.

SECTION 2. In order to provide for staggered terms of office, in the first regular election under this constitution, the Principal Chief, Second Chief, and Committee Member shall be elected to a four (4) year term of office, and the Secretary and the Treasurer shell be elected to a two (2) year term of office. Thereafter, each member of the Business Committee shall be elected to a four (4) year term of office, and the Secretary and the Treasurer shall be elected to a two (2) year term of office. Thereafter, each member of the Business Committee shall be elected to a four (4) year term of gee and shall serve until his successor shall be duly elected or appointed and installed in office.

SECTION 3. Any person elected to membership on the Grievance Committee shall be not less than twenty-one (21) years of age and a member of the Sac and Fox Nation. At the time of his election he shall reside within the geographical boundaries of the State of Oklahoma. Any Grievance Committee member removing from the State of Oklahoma shall automatically forfeit his office.

SECTION 4. In order to provide for staggered terms of office, in the first regular election under this constitution two (2) members shall be elected to a four (4) year term of office and one (1) member shall be elected for a two (2) year term of office. Thereafter, each member of the Grievance Committee shall be elected to a four (4) year term of office and until his successor shall be duly elected or appointed and installed in office.

SECTION 5. Regular elections of members of the Business Committee and members of the Grievance Committee shall be held in each odd-numbered year pursuant to an election ordinance prescribed by the Governing Council.

SECTION 6. No person shall be a candidate for more than one (1) office at any one election, or shall any person hold more than one elective office at any one time.

Vacancies in any elective office shall be filled by appointment of the Business Committee until the next regular election. At the next regular election the vacancy shall be filled by election for the remainder of the unexpired term, provided that, if less than a quorum of the Business Committee remain in office, the Governing Council shalt appoint the new Business Committee members for the unexpired terms at a special Governing Council meeting called by the highest ranking elected tribal official.


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Rh endeavour, it is always another atom added to the momentum of onward improvement; and, however insignificant when viewed prospectively in reference to the grand design of national regeneration, it is sure to be viewed with peculiar satisfaction in retrospect, as one of the units in that mighty aggregate of influences, which contributed to ensure so glorious a consummation. Let us, then, each and all of us, resolve to discharge aright his own individual part in this great work; and let the recorded utterances of a wisdom that may be pronounced oracular, incite us to perseverance in such a course. Let the cutting reflection of shame us, as rational beings: “He that knoweth not that which he ought to know, is a brute beast among men; he that knoweth no more than he hath need of, is a man amongst brute beasts; and he that knoweth all that may be known is as a celestial being amongst men.” Let the sententious aphorism of our great English moralist quicken us, as accountable beings: “He that voluntarily continues in ignorance is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces; as to him that should extinguish the tapers of a light-house might justly be imputed the calamities of shipwreck.” Let the generous sentiment of Sir  encourage us, as philanthropic beings: “Whatever be our learning, we ought to communicate it freely; imparting knowledge is only lighting other men’s candles at our lamp, without depriving ourselves of any flame.” Let the weighty remarks of a living statesman, in reference to the circumstances of another land, accommodated and applied to those of India, alarm us, as social beings: “Consider, too, the rapid progress of time. In ten years from this hour—no long period in the history of a nation—all who are nine years of age will have reached the age of nineteen years; a period in which, with the ten years that follow, there is the least sense of responsibility, the power of the liveliest action, and the greatest disregard of human suffering and human life. The early years are of incalculable value; an idle reprobate of fourteen is almost irreclaimable; every year of delay abstracts from us thousands of useful fellow-citizens; nay, rather it adds them to the ranks of viciousness, of misery, and of disorder. So long as this plague-spot is festering among our people, all our labours will be in vain; our recent triumphs will avail us nothing. To no purpose, while we are rotten at heart, shall we toil to improve our finances, to extend our commerce, and explore the hidden sources of our difficulty and alarm. We feel that all is wrong; we grope at noon-day as though it were night, disregarding the lessons of history and the word of God, that there is neither hope nor strength, nor comfort, nor peace, but in a virtuous, a wise, and understanding people.”


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 Rh I hadn’t been out fishing for nearly ten years, though fishing is a thing I am passionately fond of. I know no pleasure in life like the sensation of getting a four-pound bass on the hook. and hauling him up to the top of the water, to weigh him. But, as I say, I hadn’t been out for ten years. Oh, yes, I live right beside the water every summer, and yes, certainly—I am saying so—I am passionately fond of fishing, but still somehow I hadn’t been out. Every fisherman knows just how that happens. The years have a way of slipping by. Yet I must say I was surprised to find that so keen a sport as Jones hadn’t been out—so it presently appeared—for eight years. I had imagined he practically lived on the water. And Colonel Morse and Kernin, I was amazed to find, hadn’t been out for twelve years, not since the day—so it came out in conversation—when they went out together in Lake Rosseau and Kernin landed a perfect monster, a regular corker, five pounds and a half, they said; or no, I don’t think he landed him. No, I remember, he didn’t land him. He caught him—and he could have landed him, he should have landed him—but he didn’t land him. That was it. Yes, I remember Kernin and Morse had a slight discussion about it—oh, perfectly amicable—as to whether Morse had fumbled with the net or whether Kernin—

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SECTION 1. There shall be an annual meeting of the Governing Council the last Saturday of August of each year.

SECTION 2. The purpose of the Governing Council meetings shall be to give information and to discuss any matter pertaining to the Sac and Fox Nation. However, decisions on the issues discussed, and any actions taken with respect to the authority reserved to the Governing Council by this constitution shall be made only by a subsequent general election held in accordance with, and within the time Specified in the election ordinance, which election shall be open to al members of the Governing Council.

SECTION 3. Regular meetings of the Business Committee shall be held at a regular time and place to be designated by the Business Committee which will then announce and give public notice of the meeting at least five days (5) days prior to the meeting.

SECTION 1. The Business Committee shall provide for its own rules of procedure and three (3) members of the Business Committee shall constitute a quorum to transact business at any meeting.

SECTION 2. The Governing Council shall provide for its own rules of procedure and sixty (60) members of the Governing Council shall constitute a quorum to transact business at any meeting.

SECTION 3. Once a quorum is established, a meeting may proceed until adjournment; provided that, if said meeting is recessed for more than eight (8) hours, a quorum must be established to conduct any further business except adjournment.


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 And here I had reckoned without my host, although (as I thought) so clever; and it was much but that I went down into the great black pool, and had never been heard of more; and this must have been the end of me, except for my trusty loach-fork. For the green wave came down like great bottles upon me, and my legs were gone off in a moment, and I had not time to cry out with wonder, only to think of my mother and Annie, and knock my head very sadly, which made it go round so that brains were no good, even if I had any. But all in a moment, before I knew aught, except that I must die out of the way, with a roar of water upon me, my fork, praise God, stuck fast in the rock, and I was borne up upon it. I felt nothing except that here was another matter to begin upon; and it might be worth while, or again it might not, to have another fight for it. But presently the dash of the water upon my face revived me, and my mind grew used to the roar of it; and meseemed I had been worse off than this, when first flung into the Lowman.

Therefore I gathered my legs back slowly, as if they were fish to be landed, stopping whenever the water flow too strongly off my shin-bones, and coming along without sticking out to let the wave get hold of me. And in this manner I won a footing, leaning well forward like a draught-horse, and balancing on my strength as it were, with the ashen stake set behind me. Then I said to myself, "John Ridd, the sooner you get yourself out by the way you


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The Sac and Fox Nation shall not:

Amendments to this constitution may be proposed by a majority vote of the Business Committee or by a petition signed by thirty percent (30%) of the members of the Governing Council and if approved by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be submitted to a referendum vote of the adult members of the tribe, and shall be effective if ratified by a majority vote.

All resolutions and ordinances currently in force shall, insofar as they are not inconsistent with this constitution, remain in full force and effect until such time as they may be changed by the appropriate tribal authority.


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NCLE Jim! Uncle Jim!” Janey's voice rose to heights falsetto with excitement. She dashed into the study where Mr. Warriner was enjoying a post-luncheon pipe in the company of his guest, Mr. Robert Dixon, and landed in a breathless heap in her uncle's lap. “What do you think has happened? I'll give you three guesses. Take a long, long time to think, Uncle Jim, for it's about the most bee-yu-tifullest thing that ever was. I'd rather have it than go to the moving pictures every night. Oh, do hurry: but I know you can't guess it if you tried for a hundred years.” At the end of her breath, Janey stopped.

“All right,” said Uncle Jim. “Three guesses. I'll split with you, Bob. Let's go at this problem psychologically. Now, what in your opinion would be the summit of earthly bliss to a sulphitic young person of the female persuasion? I bet I hit a bull's-eye every time. The balloon man is making his annual raid on Scarsett.”

“No,” said Janey, in a contemptuous tone. “Much better than that. Your turn, Mr. Dixon.”

“There's a hand-organ in town with a monkey,” Mr. Dixon replied promptly.

“Oh, ever and ever so much better than that,” Janey commented. “Now you, Uncle Jim.”

“Somebody's given you a new doll, cat, bird, white mouse, guinea-pig, rabbit, squirrel, Gila monster, roc, dodo, phœnix, megatherium, minotaur, Jurassic bird or carnivorous dinosaur.”

“Uncle Jim,” Janey said reproachfully, “you know as well as you know your name that I don't understand some of those long words. But the others, I'd perfectly love to have.” And, indeed, her little expressive face had responded as sensitively to this catalogue of wonders as a dark stage to the touch on the keyboard of the electrician's hand. But now, obviously, she could contain herself no longer. “Mrs. Carroll is going to give 'Midsummer-Night's Dream' on her place. It's for the new hospital. Just think of it, Uncle Jim and Mr. Dixon! They'll act it right out on the back lawn among the trees. And she wants me to take part in it—and she says—”

Janey stopped, petrified. For her remarks, instead of eliciting the enthusiasm which she expected, were cut short by twin explosions of dismay.

“The professional—heaven be thankit—takes a rest in the good old summertime,” said Mr. Dixon, “but the amateur is always with us.”

“Civil war in our midst again!” was Uncle Jim's equally disappointing comment; “and the Nortons and the Delanos on speaking terms for the first time in three years.” He did not stop even there. “Stung for ten dollars' worth of tickets!” he concluded ruefully.

Janey's face revealed every atom of the outrage of these speeches to her finer feelings. She had not expected it from either of them. Certainly not from Uncle Jim, on whom she had always depended for sympathy in the exploration of a constantly enlarging ten-year-old world. Even less did she expect it from Mr. Dixon who—

Mr. Dixon had been their guest for over a week, now. He was a press agent. When, just before his arrival, Janey asked Mr. Warriner what a press agent did, that gentleman, temporarily sardonic, replied that he wrote fairy tales.

Never before was guest of the Blair household anticipated with such rapture and received with such deference by its smallest inmate. At first, Janey could not make up her mind what a writer of fairy tales should look like. Finally, she decided he should be a combination of King Arthur of the Round Table, Uncle George of the Rollo books and Hop-o'-My-Thumb.

But, in point of fact, Mr. Dixon resembled none of these pleasing personages; at least, not according to the illustrations in Janey's fairy-books. He was very tall and lank, with the most extraordinary forehead that Janey had ever seen. It began, like everybody's else, just above the eyebrows and continued, unlike anybody's else, straight back between two clumps of fine, yellow hair, until it became his neck. He had an irregular, homely face, mainly furnished with a pair of big blue eyes that had a perpetual look of not trusting anything that they saw. Indeed, even Janey soon realized that, with him, skepticism was a prevailing state of mind. He did not even believe things that he read in the newspapers.

Immediately after dinner on the day of his arrival, Janey approached Mr. Dixon with a modest request that he tell her one of those fairy tales which Uncle Jim said he wrote. At this, Mr. Dixon sighed deeply. “Tell your Uncle Jim that I don't hold down any such easy job as writing fairy tales. Tell him I have to create worlds.”

Mr. Dixon was the first to recover after Janey's news. “What kind of a part have you, Janey?” he asked, politely.

“I don't know yet,” Janey answered, importantly. “I hope it's Hermia, or Helena or Hippolyta, though I wouldn't mind being Queen Titania. I asked Mr. Carroll about it and he said it was a thinking part. That sounds very 'sponsible to me, doesn't it to you, Uncle Jim? Do you suppose I'd have to think every moment?”

Both of Janey's listeners became very grave. Mr. Dixon quite palpably choked over this situation.

“Oh, and I almost forgot!” Janey went on. “Uncle Jim, Mrs. Carroll told me to ask you if you'd be Theseus and Mr. Dixon, Bottom?”

Again the simplest of remarks precipitated explosion. “Jim,” Mr. Dixon said, sternly, “it's the tall uncut for mine if you drag me into that bunch of amateurs. Remember I'm subject to epilepsy, kleptomania and tri-facial neuralgia.”

“Don't worry, son,” Mr. Warriner reassured him. “I'd rather participate in an Indian massacre myself. Be sure that you don't repeat that to Mrs. Carroll, Janey,” he interjected, hastily. “I'll write her a note.”

“Who is this trouble-provoking Mrs. Carroll, Jim?” Mr. Dixon asked.

One of the trouble provoking summer people,” Uncle Jim answered in an aside that Janey could not get. “Married to a man thirty years older than herself, round-shouldered with money—handsome creature—with wonderful gray eyes—no children—no brains—running over energy and temperament—ought to have gone on the stage—takes out in giving amateur shows on a really ripping scale—does an enormous amount of entertaining—great fun—I like her.”

“Uncle Jim, how do you learn a thinking part?” Janey asked.

“I'm afraid, Janey,” Uncle Jim answered, in what seemed an unnecessarily indirect way, “if there are any grown-up people in the play, you won't be likely to have a grown-up part. You'll probably be one of the fairies. Don't you remember Moth and Cobweb and Mustard-Seed and Peas-Blossom?”

“Uncle Jim” Janey said in an insulted tone, “of course I remember them. I always remember everything you read to me. In some ways,” she went on meditatively, “I'd rather be a fairy than anything else, although the fairies don't have so much to say. Now I guess I'll get the Shakespeare book and read 'Midsummer-Night's Dream' to Caroline. She's so little I 'spect she won't understand much of it, except when we get to the fairies. But I shall tell her that she must listen to every drop, for maybe when she's a big girl like me, somebody'll want her to take a thinking part, too.”

She came home after her first rehearsal a chastened person. “I've found out what a 'thinking part' is, Uncle Jim,” she announced. “It's where you don't have to say anything but just stand round. I'm not Helena nor Hermia nor Hippolyta nor Queen Titania. I'm not Moth nor Mustard-Seed nor Cobweb nor Peas-Blossom. I'm just a fairy that waits on Queen Titania.”

“What did they do to-day?” Uncle Jim asked, “and who's going to be in it?”

“Well, they didn't do so very much,” Janey answered. “They sort of walked 'round and read their parts out of their books. Oh, Uncle Jim and Mr. Dixon, I know you'll wish you'd said 'Yes' to Mrs. Carroll when I tell you something. There's a whole lot of really truly actors and actresses in it.”

“Tempts me almost beyond my strength,” Mr. Dixon said with an inflection that Janey considered very peculiar. “Where'd they get the Thespians, Jim?” he asked of Mr. Warriner.

“There's an actor-colony over in West Scarsett,” replied Uncle Jim.

“My eye—how that increases the quiet charm of this place for me,” commented Mr. Dixon. “Go on, Janey, tell us the worst.”

Janey did not need exhortation. “There's two of the most beautifullest ladies I ever saw in my life going to be Helena and Hermia. One's a blonde and the other's a brunette. And they just love each other, Uncle Jim. They always walk with arms round each other's waist.”

“Touching!” said Mr. Dixon. “Almost affects me to tears. Utterly unconscious, of course, of the picturesque effect!”

Janey bristled. “They know now,” she said with emphasis, “for I told them they looked sweet—just like Snow-White and Rose-Red in the tale.”

“And what did they say to that?” Mr. Dixon asked curiously.

“Snow-White said: 'Isn't she the cute little tad!' They're not really truly actresses, but their sisters and brothers are on the stage and they know all about it—they tell everybody how to do everything.”

“Charming type!” Mr. Dixon put in ominously. “I recognize it at once. Go on.”

“The lady who's going to be Queen Hippolyta is a really truly actress. Her p'tend name's Muriel Merle—Elsa Morgan told me—but her everyday name's Mrs. Dolan. She said she's played all Shakespeare—every speck of him with—with—now what was that name? Oh, yes, I know—Irving.”

“Press!” snorted Mr. Dixon. “Theresa Dolan understudied Terry a season. She played Portia once. And James—believe me—in point of pre-digestion, no breakfast-food has anything on the scenery when Theresa tears loose.”

And there's the most wonderfullest little girl to play Queen Titania. She's a really truly actress, too. Her p'tend name's Little Pearla.”

“Welcome little stranger!” Mr. Dixon groaned. “She was the Little Eva of that first experience of mine—just after I came out of college, you remember, Jim—Uncle Tomming through the West. And of all the insufferable, offensively precocious Little Pearla—” But he pulled himself up. “Go on, Janey!”

“Just think, Uncle Jim; she's only twelve and she's acted in ever so many plays—I mean drammers—that's what she called them. Let me see—what was that hard one? I said it over and over until I learned it. Oh, yes, 'Pelleas and Melisande' and 'Ten Nights in a Barroom' and 'The Tempest' and 'The Working-girl's Revenge' and 'Pinafore' and 'What's the Matter with Sarah?' But I've left the best to the end. There's the sweetest lady going to play Puck—Mary Miller—and—” “Mary Miller!” exclaimed Mr. Dixon, “now you're shouting, Janey. You want to keep your eye peeled for that young woman, Jim. You're going to hear from her. Plenty of class to her as an actress and a perfectly good human being.”

“Then there's a young man who's a really, truly actor—he's the prettiest man I ever saw in my life, except Uncle Jim; his name's Henry Macy—”

“Henry Macy!” Mr. Dixon interrupted again. “He's another come-on, Jim. Keep the other eye nailed to Macy!”

“Miss Miller and Mr. Macy and Mr. Carroll and me—we all talk a lot together. You see every one of us loves Shakespeare. Of course, they've read a great many more plays than I have. But, then, I've read more of Lamb's 'Tales from Shakespeare' than they have.”

“Oh, sure! I forgot!” said Uncle Jim. “Carroll's a first edition shark. He's bug on the Shakespeare Sonnets mystery. Writes an article occasionally.”

“He took Miss Miller and Mr. Macy and me into the library and showed us his Shakespeare books,” Janey said. “I told him that you bought me a little book with a Shakespeare play in it every time you read one to me and then he showed me some books—just like the one Shakespeare first published—I can't remember the names, but you told me all about them once.”

“His Shakespeariana is great!” Uncle Jim said, “the Wilmerding first folio—a half dozen quartos—and all the modern stuff a rich amateur can own.”

“Oh, it's such fun rehearsing.” Janey returned to the real subject. “Everybody is so nice. Everybody loves everybody else.”

“Wait!” was Mr. Dixon's last interpolation.

“There's going to be a rehearsal every other day for a week or two,” Janey concluded joyfully, “then every day. We children are only expected to come twice a week, but I asked Mrs. Carroll if 1 could come every day and she said I could if I'd be good. Oh, I'm so happy!”

It was evident from other signs that this was the star experience of Janey's life. Every night she lugged the big Shakespeare off the book-shelf and pored over “Midsummer-Night's Dream” until bedtime.

“Do you know the whole play now, Janey?” Uncle Jim asked more than once.

An interval of a week went by without mention of Scarsett's most important social event. Then, one day, Mr. Warriner overheard his sister admonishing Janey.

“I don't know why you've got to go to those rehearsals every afternoon,” Mrs. Blair was saying. “Besides, you must be under foot all the time.”

“Mother, I'm not!” Janey said indignantly. “I run errands all the time. Oh, do let me go.”

“Oh, let her go, Miriam,” Mr. Warriner pleaded. “It's an experience of a lifetime. She won't forget it as long as she lives.”

“But, Jim, I hear her reciting those long speeches every night before she falls asleep,” Mrs. Blair said.

“Well, a little Shakespeare won't hurt her,” responded Mr. Warriner.

“How are the rehearsals going on, Janey?” he asked the next time he and his friend and his niece were together.

“Well,” said Janey in a judicial tone, “not so good as they might. You know those two that I called Snow-White and Rose-Red?” she went on patiently.

“Yes,” said Uncle Jim and Mr. Dixon together.

“They're mad at each other and they won't speak.”

Mr. Dixon did not seem surprised. “What's the alleged offense?” he asked.

“Snow-White said that Rose-Red hogged the stage.”

“Which, without doubt, she did,” Mr. Dixon said promptly.

“And Rose-Red says that all Snow-White does is stand around and flirt with the men.”

“Which, without doubt, she does,” said Mr. Dixon. “Does anybody else speak?”

“A lot do,” Janey declared indignantly. “Mr. Macy speaks to everybody, and so does Miss Miller. She's so sweet and dear. She tells all the children just what to do. And she answers every question they ask, though she laughs at us all the time. And when nobody needs her, she reads 'As You Like It' to me and we decide just how we'd put it on if we were going to give it. But Mrs. Dolan doesn't speak to Theseus any more—to any of the Theseuses,” Janey corrected herself; “they've had a lot. Mrs. Dolan didn't like the way the first one helped her down from the throne. So he had to be Wall. Then they got another Theseus and he was too short. Then they got another one and Mrs. Dolan said she wouldn't play with him unless they had his Adam's apple removed. I heard her say to-day that she'd about made up her mind to throw up her part. The Theseus they've got new is—well, Mrs. Dolan said he snuffles all the time and she hates him. They speak,” Janey concluded, “but not very often.”

“Up-stage!” Mr. Dixon commented, “Theresa always gets up-stage. What's wrong with that angel-child, Little Pearla?” he inquired blandly.

“Why, Mr. Dixon, how did you know anything was wrong?” Janey asked in surprise. “Little Pearla is mad, too. She says she's got to have a spot. She says she's never acted without a spot. What's a spot, Mr. Dixon?”

“It's a round circle of light, Janey,” Mr. Dixon explained. “Stage people choke to death if it isn't administered in large doses.”

“Then,” Janey went on in a puzzled tone, “she doesn't like the little girl who's playing Peas-Blossom—she's Mrs. Carroll's niece. I don't know why, for she's a perfickly bee-yu-tiful little girl and dances—oh, Uncle Jim, wait till you see her dance!”

“Bob,” Uncle Jim remarked thoughtfully, “we made a great mistake in not getting into this affair. Those rehearsals must be a scream.”

But Mr. Dixon only shuddered.

The next day Janey brought a lugubrious face into the library. “Oh, Uncle Jim,” she said soberly, “I feel drefful. I'm afraid they're not going to give ' 'Midsummer-Night's Dream' after all.”

Uncle Jim stopped working. Mr. Dixon, who had been busy at the secretary, dropped his pen. “What's up, Janey,” he asked. Somehow Janey got the impression that Mr. Dixon knew just what she was going to say; was even anticipating it with amusement.

“Well,” Janey went on, “I was reading in the library to-day and Mrs. Carroll came in. And she looked awfully white and tired and sick and she laid down on the couch and burst out crying and she said that if anybody else in the cast got mad with anybody, or asked her to do something that no human being could do, or threatened to throw up her part, she would drown herself in the pond.”

“And what did Mr. Carroll say?” Uncle Jim asked.

“He said, 'My dear, I told you so, but you would do it.' And she said, 'Peter, if you say, “I told you so,” again to me, I'll bite you.' And he said; 'All right, my dear, I won't.' And she said, 'As heaven is my witness, Peter, “never again.”' 'And he said, 'Connie, this is the fifth time.' And she said, 'I know it is and if I ever mention the word 'theatricals' again, just send me to the asylum and divide my things. I'm fit to be tied now. But do, for goodness sake, help me out of it, Peter. This is the last time I'll ever ask it of you. I don't know what to do with that Dolan woman. I can't speak to her without frothing at the mouth—I despise her so. And as for that toad of a Little Pearla—she belongs in a bottle marked poison. You can manage them better than I can, Peter, and if you don't do something, I'll have to call it off. And I'd rather die than give in to that Dolan creature.”

“What did Mr. Carroll say to that?” Mr. Dixon asked.

“He said, 'Connie, I'll do it again, but it's the last time. I feel like a Christian martyr thrown into an antitheatre of wild beasts.”

“I love Carroll,” Mr. Dixon said, thoughtfully. “We are kindred souls. What is he like, Janey?”

“He squeaks,” Janey said promptly. “His voice squeaks and his shirt squeaks and his shoes squeak. And his hair is funny.”

“Toupee,” said Uncle Jim in a swift aside to Mr. Dixon. “Lives in a frock-coat,” he went on; “puts it on in the morning when he gets up and never takes it off until he goes to bed; also a straw hat. Oh, Carroll's great.”

“Uncle Jim,” Janey said in a heartbroken voice, “do you suppose they'll give it up?”

“Give it up!” Mr. Dixon answered her. “Give it up! Why, Janey, such a thing never happened in the history of civilization. The cast may be decimated by war, disease, death and the chance of a professional engagement, but the play, somehow or other, always comes off.”

And indeed, it looked as if Mr. Dixon said sooth. For Janey returned from the next rehearsal, an embodied smile. “The play is going to be given, Uncle Jim,” she said, joyfully. “Poor Mrs. Carroll went away to a sanatorium yesterday afternoon. She's got to rest up before the performance, and Mr. Carroll is taking care of the rehearsals. He's so nice. He listens to every complaint so politely, and then goes right on. He says funny things, too, so everybody laughs. Everybody loves him. You'll see why. To-day, before the rehearsal began, I was with him, reading in the library, and he sent for Mrs. Dolan to come up there. And when she came, he told her that Mrs. Carroll had fallen sick, and at first he was afraid that he would have to give up the show, and then he thought that with her help everything would go all right. And Mrs. Dolan was awful cross and she said that she couldn't do any more than she was doing and that she was thinking of getting out of the whole business anyway and she never had lowered herself to play with amateurs before and she never would again. And Mr. Carroll said he didn't mean that she was to work harder, only he had a favor to ask her, There was a reporter coming to see her to-night to write something about her for the Sunday paper. And Mr. Carroll asked her if she would be sure to see the reporter because it made the show seem so important to have Muriel Merle in it. And Mr. Carroll asked her if she had plenty of pictures of herself because he said the reporter would want at least a dozen. And, oh, Mrs. Dolan has been so nice to everybody ever since.”

Janey stopped almost out of breath.

“Then Mr. Carroll sent for Little Pearla and he told her that he was sorry she couldn't have the spot, but as it was an out-of-doors afternoon performance, he didn't see how it could be done. And he asked her what kind of flowers did she like, for he was going to see that she had a bushel sent her at the performance. And, oh, Little Pearla's been so good ever since; only,” Janey concluded sorrowfully, “she doesn't speak to any of us children any more.”

“The returns are not all in, yet,” Mr. Dixon remarked. “How'd he square Rose-Red and Snow-White?”

“I don't know what 'square' means,” Janey said, severely. “I was just going to tell you some more. He sent for them next. You know they don't speak any more. Mr. Carroll told them that he wanted to have a picture of them on the front page of the program, the way they used to walk with their arms round each other's neck and their heads together, because they looked so beautiful that way. And he said to go to a photographer and have them taken and charge it to him. And, oh, they've been so sweet to each other ever since, and now, all the time, they walk the way they used to, with their arms 'round each other's waist. That's not all,” Janey added quickly, as Uncle Jim showed signs of interrupting.

“Then Mr. Carroll told one of the maids to go 'round to all the gentlemen in the cast and tell them to please help themselves to anything they wanted in the sideboard at the end of the rehearsal. And the moment it was through, they all rushed into the house. Rose-Red said: 'Ain't it vulgar to beat it like that—all for a club sandwich and a stein of suds?' What did she mean by 'suds'—not soap-suds?”

As usual, nobody paid any attention to her question.

“I do love Carroll,” said Mr. Dixon. “If he needed the money, I'd go over and offer him my job. It would be an insult to his abilities, though. He's an impressario [sic]—he is!”

As Mr. Dixon prophesied, the play was produced and on the actual date first set for it. Like all other amateur events, it was a success from every point of view—artistic, social and financial.

From one until two o'clock of the fateful afternoon, a line of motors, traps, carryalls, buggies, wagons, barges and bicycles bore from every point of the compass upon the Carroll place. They amalgamated at the entrance, turned into the driveway, continued past the house and stopped at the out-of-doors playhouse. That playhouse received the approval of both Mr. Warriner and Mr. Dixon; for the stage lay at one end of a deep hollow, grass-grown and tree-encircled, which formed a natural amphitheater. The August sky stretched a roof above it that, one moment, sagged low with billowy clouds and the next stretched taut a plane of shining blue. Near the entrance, Mrs. Carroll, completely restored, bloomingly beautiful, trailing a triumphant gown, welcomed—

(“Shirtwaists and muslins and foulards and pongees and Peter Thompson suits and automobile coats and middy-blouses and sweaters and mandarin coats and even Doucet and Paquin,” was the way Mr. Dixon summed it up)—welcomed and welcomed and welcomed—welcomed until the mellow blast of a horn sent the audience scurrying to the benches—welcomed until there came winding through the trees at the back the long, vari-colored procession of the cast, a lithe and beautiful Puck dancing joyously ahead.

All the possible mishaps of the amateur show manifested themselves with relentless inevitability. The professionals, letter-perfect, of course, showed at their best. The amateurs ran the entire gamut from whispering ineptitudes to blatant self-consciousness. Sometimes the orchestra, discoursing Mendelssohn, came in at the right moment, but the cast never did. Cues got misplaced, but always found themselves sooner or later. The prompter proved to be utterly inadequate and ultimately vanished. He was not missed, however, for—but that comes later.

Notwithstanding—

“I'm sorry Bill Shakespeare isn't here to see this,” Mr. Warriner said, in the first pause. “No sarcasm intended. I think it would warm the cockles of his heart. I have never seen a better setting for those lines.”

“Yes,” Mr. Dixon agreed, and he was quite as serious as his companion; “there's a charm about the amateur show that the professional never has—a kind of innocence like the beauté du diable in woman—it gets, somehow, an effect of unpremeditation. Gad, how I do love Shakespeare!” he concluded abruptly.

Perhaps of all the details that helped produce the effect Mr. Dixon noted, no one was more striking than the band of children who attended Queen Titania. Ranging from a two-year old baby, who was wheeled on in a flower-covered basket, who babbled and bubbled and kicked and jounced through the entire scene, to children of ten years, it was rainbow-color as to tarlatan costumes, gold as to gauzy wings, slender wands, pointed shoes, absolutely natural as to expression and posing. Most noticeable of them all, a tiny sea-green fairy flitted constantly back and forth; for not even the principals were so busy as she.

It was she who marshaled the children into files and marched them into the wings just before the cue to their entrance sounded. It was she who, landing them safely in the wings again after the scene was over, pulled out star-spangled skirts to pristine freshness, perked up drooping wings, straightened fairy crowns and rearranged tumbled curls. It was she who, in-between-times, flew from grown-up to grown-up, handing out properties for scenes yet to come and gathering in properties from scenes just ended. It was she who received the barking puppy, banished prematurely from the interlude of “Pyramus and Thisbe,” and quieted him to sleep. It was she who carefully lighted the lantern with which Moonshine illuminated that tragedy and who prudently blew it out the moment it returned to her hand. It was she, in fact, who, after the disappearance of the prompter, whispered lost lines to more than one frenzied amateur wrestling with stage fright.

Of all this, both Mr. Warriner and Mr. Dixon took amused cognizance, although their only comments were surreptitious nudges. It didn't pass unnoticed, however.

“There!” suddenly came to their ears from the row back of them, in the midst of the first Oberon and Titania scene. “That little green fairy is the one Mary's been talking so much about—Janey Blair. Isn't she a darling? Henry Macy is just as crazy about her! They say she's the most amusing little thing—precocious in a sense—the kind of child who reads everything—but a perfect baby in many ways—and so willing and obedient. Mary says that she's been more interested than anybody else to make the play a success. She says Janey knows every part in it—she has one of those wonderful parrot-memories that children sometimes have. And she's never missed a rehearsal. Mary says, in the worst of the fight, when Dolan simply refused to go on, that child would say Hippolyta's lines in order to give Theseus a rehearsal. And sometimes, when Hermia was talking to the men, she'd say, 'Oh, Janey, you do this scene for me—you know it as well as I do.' And Janey would do it, too.”

During an intermission in which everybody stood up to ward off cramp, Mr. Dixon caught a glimpse of the owner of the voice. “It's Mary Miller's mother,” he said in an undertone to Uncle Jim.

The voice took up its comment when the fairies made their next appearance. “Look,” it said, “isn't she a dear? Now, watch her carefully this time! She's got those children safely on and now she'll begin to act. Mary says she always does that. Look at her—look at her! Isn't she too killing for words? Take my glasses and get that expression. She's absolutely convinced that she's a fairy. Mary says she acts hard in every scene until it's time to get the children off. Then she stops being a fairy and becomes a stage-manager again. You wait now. There—there—didn't I tell you? Isn't she a darling? Look at the way she's manœuvering to get them started! Isn't she the cunningest duck? I think she's the best thing in it.”

The Warriner party waited after the play was over only long enough to congratulate Mrs. Carroll on its success. Then they whipped Janey—an utterly exhausted Janey—tarlatan costume, starry crown, gold wand, rouged cheeks and all, into the motor. Janey snuggled up into her mother's arms, closed her eyes and relaxed.

“Janey,” Mr. Dixon said, after they had pulled themselves out of the snarl of equipages at the gate, “there's considerable thought to a thinking part as you interpret it.”

“Well,” Janey sighed, “I've made up my mind that it's harder to take a part and think all the time than take a part and just act.”

Perhaps somebody else thought so, too. A few days later an express package, addressed to Miss Jane Elizabeth Blair, arrived at the Warriner house. This was so unusual an event that the whole family gathered around Janey to watch her open it. From the paper wrapping dropped a wooden box. Out of this came a case of leather, faded, scratched and old. Janey unhooked the clasp with trembling fingers. Inside, strung on a delicate gold chain, lay a flat, round locket of an antique style, studded with enamel and pearls.

“Oh,” gasped Janey, “how bee-yu-tiful! Is it really for me? Yes, my name's written in that little circle. 'Janey, from P. A.C.' P. A. C.—P. A. C.,” she repeated. “Peter A. Carroll,” she added, in an inspired burst. “Oh, wasn't that good of him! But there's something else. I don't understand it. Multum—what is it, Uncle Jim?”

Uncle Jim took the locket. “Multum in parvo,” he said. “That's Latin, Janey?”

“And what does it mean?” Janey asked.

Uncle Jim hesitated. “It means,” he said, slowly, “that a very little girl may have a very valiant spirit.”

title: Janey Takes a Thinking Part


text: Talk:Janey Takes a Thinking Part

title: Talk:Janey Takes a Thinking Part


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This constitution shall be effective when approved by the Secretary of the Interior and ratified by a majority vote of the adult members of the Sac and Fox Nation voting at an election called by the Secretary of the Interior for that purpose, provided at least thirty percent (30%) of those entitled to vote cast their ballots under the rules and regulations which he may prescribe pursuant to Section 3 of Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act of June 26, 1936, (49 Stat. 1967).

I, /S/ Ross D. Swimmer Assistant Secretary - Indian Affairs by virtue of the authority granted to the Secretary of the Interior by the Act of June 26, 1936, (49 Stat. 1967), and redelegated to me by 209 D.M. 8.3, do hereby approve this Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation. It shall become effective upon ratification by the qualified voters of the tribe in an election in which at least thirty percent (30%) of those entitled to vote cast ballots; provided, that nothing in this approval shall be construed as authorizing any action under this document, that would be contrary to Federal Law.

Washington, DC

Date _____________


text: Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation

title: Constitution of the Sac and Fox Nation


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Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Pangilinan

Respondents, 16 Filipino nationals who served with the United States Armed Forces during World War II, seek United States citizenship pursuant to §§ 701 through 705 of the Nationality Act of 1940, as amended in 1942. Under § 702 of the Act, the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization was authorized to designate representatives to receive petitions, conduct hearings, and grant naturalization outside the United States. In August 1945, the American Vice Consul in Manila was designated pursuant to § 702 to naturalize aliens. The Philippine Government, however, expressed its concern that a mass migration of newly naturalized veterans would drain the soon-to-be independent country's manpower, and so the naturalization officer's authority was revoked for a 9-month period between October 1945 and August 1946. Respondents would have been eligible for citizenship under the provisions of the 1940 Act if they had filed naturalization applications before the Act expired on December 31, 1946, but did not do so. More than 30 years later, they petitioned for naturalization, claiming that the 9-month absence of a § 702 naturalization officer violated the 1940 Act and deprived them of rights secured by the Fifth Amendment. The naturalization examiner, in all of the cases consolidated here, recommended against naturalization, and the District Courts rejected the naturalization petitions. On respondents' appeals (some of which were consolidated), heard in two cases by different Ninth Circuit panels, the Court of Appeals ultimately held that the revocation of the Vice Consul's naturalization authority violated what it characterized as the 1940 Act's mandatory language, and that the naturalization of respondents was an appropriate equitable remedy.

Held:

 * 1. Neither by application of the doctrine of estoppel, nor by invocation of equitable powers, nor by any other means does a court have the power to confer citizenship in violation of the limitations imposed by Congress in the exercise of its exclusive constitutional authority over naturalization [p. 876]. Since respondents have no current statutory right to citizenship under the expired provisions of the 1940 Act, the Ninth Circuit lacked authority to grant the petitions for naturalization. The reasoning of INS v. Hibi, 414 U.S. 5—which held that the same official acts as those alleged here did not give rise to an estoppel that prevented the Government from invoking the December 31, 1946, cutoff date in the 1940 Act—suggests the same result as to the "equitable remedy" theory in this case. Even assuming that, in reviewing naturalization petitions, federal courts sit as courts of equity, such courts can no more disregard statutory provisions than can courts of law. Congress has given the power to the federal courts to make someone a citizen as a specific function to be performed in strict compliance with the terms of 8 U.S.C. § 1421(d), which states that a person may be naturalized "in the manner and under the conditions prescribed in this subchapter, and not otherwise." Pp. 882-885.

 * 2. Assuming that respondents can properly invoke the Constitution's protections, and granting that they had statutory entitlements to naturalization, there is no merit to their contention that the revocation of the Vice Consul's naturalization authority deprived them of their rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and under its equal protection component. Respondents were not entitled to individualized notice of any statutory rights and to the continuous presence of a naturalization officer in the Philippines from October 1945 until July 1946. Moreover, the historical record does not support the contention that the actions at issue here were motivated by any racial animus. Pp. 885-886.

 * 3. There is no merit to the separate arguments of respondents Litonjua and Manzano, including the argument that the Government did not introduce any evidence in their cases concerning the historical events at issue. It is well settled that the burden is on the alien applicant to establish his eligibility for citizenship. Pp. 886-887.

796 F.2d 1091, reversed.

SCALIA, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which REHNQUIST, C.J., and BRENNAN, WHITE, MARSHALL, STEVENS, and O'CONNOR, JJ., joined. BLACKMUN, J., concurred in the result. KENNEDY, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of the cases.

Robert H. Klonoff argued the case for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Solicitor General Fried, Assistant Attorney General Willard, Deputy Solicitor General Wallace, and Marshall Tamor Golding.

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Donald L. Ungar argued the case for respondents. With him on the brief for respondent Pangilinan et al. were Robert A. Mautino, Bill Ong Hing, and Susan Lydon. Robert A. Mautino filed briefs for respondents Litonjua and Manzano.