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 Rh But this time he was an utter failure. He swam well, but they said he couldn’t teach.

So his friends looked about to get him a new job. This was just at the time when the bicycle craze came in. They soon found the man a position as an instructor in bicycle riding. As he had never been on a bicycle in his life, he made an admirable teacher. He stood fast on the ground and said, “Now then, all you need is confidence.”

Then one day he got afraid that he might be found out. So he went out to a quiet place and got on a bicycle, at the top of a slope, to learn to ride it. The bicycle ran away with him. But for the skill and daring of one of his pupils, who saw him and rode after him, he would have been killed.

This story, as the reader sees, is endless. Suffice it to say that the man I speak of is now in an aviation school teaching people to fly. They say he is one of the best aviators that ever walked.

According to all the legends and story books, the principal factor in success is perseverance. Personally, I think there is nothing in it. If anything, the truth lies the other way.

There is an old motto that runs, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” This is nonsense. It ought to read, “If at first you don’t succeed, quit, quit, at once.”

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 Rh If you can’t do a thing, more or less, the first time you try, you will never do it. Try something else while there is yet time.

Let me illustrate this with a story.

I remember, long years ago, at a little school that I attended in the country, we had a schoolmaster, who used perpetually to write on the blackboard, in a copperplate hand, the motto that I have just quoted:

He wore plain clothes and had a hard, determined face. He was studying for some sort of preliminary medical examination, and was saving money for a medical course. Every now and then he went away to the city and tried the examination: and he always failed. Each time he came back, he would write up on the blackboard:

And always he looked grimmer and more determined than before. The strange thing was that, with all his industry and determination, he would break out every now and then into drunkenness, and lie round the tavern at the crossroads, and the school would be shut for two days. Then he came back, more fiercely resolute than ever. Even children could see

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Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody

 * "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody" (1918), a record with the label Columbia 2560
 * "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody" (1926), as performed by Al Jolson in the musical short film A Plantation Act


text: Frenzied Fiction/Simple Stories of Success, or How to Succeed in Life


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Songs performed in film

 * "Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me" (1925), in the film Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and His Singing Duck

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Lyrics

 * "Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me" (1921)

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 * "Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me" (1921)

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Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me

 * "Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me" (1921), a recording by the Benson Orchestra of Chicago
 * "Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me" (1921), a recording by Ted Lewis
 * "Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me" (1925), as performed by Gus Visser in the film Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and His Singing Duck

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.—''A street. Entrance at''. and.

ENTER at ., singing. ENTER at. Both meet at.

. Here, here, stop all that noise.

Jerry. Noise ? What 's de matter wid yo head, man ? I'se singin'.

Tom {laughing). Singing?

Jerry. Why, man, I 'm some singer.

Tom. Where did you ever sing?

Jerry. Down at my gal 's house once.

Tom. Once is right.

Jerry. Say, I'se got some chicken, believe me, an' dis nigger am de only chile dat shines in her eye.

Tom. That's all right about the girl — we are talking about singing now. Say, did you ever sing in public?

Jerry. No; but I sang in a hall once — and before ten thousand people.

Tom. Well, did you make a hit?

Jerry. Did I make a hit? No, I made a home run. You see it was dis way, I sang dat pathetic little love ballad entitled "Will Yo Miss Me." A big, husky, overgrown son-of-a-gun in de gallery wid a brick in each hand said "I'll try not."

Tom. Well, how did you come out?

Jerry. De back door.

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 is particularly beautiful and deserves a place in every one's thoughts. One cannot have too many associations as he gazes at the starry skies, for each bit of even ancient gossip added to modern facts increases the pleasure in knowing different stars. This is particularly true if one does not own a telescope of any kind, indispensable as it may be to an astronomer.

The temple of Ceres, or Demeter, meaning "Mother Earth" (that is, not the whole solid earth, but the portion that produces vegetation), stands in the sacred city of Eleusis, on the Thracian plain, and all men who earn their living by the soil come here to do her honor. This temple was built on the spot where the Goddess met Triptolemus and taught him the use of grains, also how to plow, sow the seeds and gather the crops after they had ripened. Triptolemus then went forth and taught the nations of the world.

One day while Ceres was watching the harvests, Proserpine, her lovely daughter, disappeared.

Pluto, it seems, had come above the ground to survey the surface of the Sicilian land, for the roof of his kingdom had been considerably shaken on account of the struggles of the giant Typhon confined beneath the roots of Mount Etna. Poets claim that no sooner had the Underground God appeared than Cupid, the mischievous son of Venus, pulled a gold-tipped arrow from

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HE Blue Rock Dove, Columba livia, being the origin from whence all our numerous domestic varieties have sprung, demands at our hands a full description of its structure, markings, and habits. It is not the good fortune of many naturalists to have had similar opportunities of observing this beautiful bird in its feral condition to those that fell to the lot of that ardent ornithologist Macgillivray. As his description of the Rock Dove is unquestionably the best that has ever appeared, we shall freely avail ourselves of it in this chapter, and this the more readily as the admirable work from which we extract, "The History of British Birds," hag been long out of print.

"The Rock Dove," writes Macgillivray, "is a very beautiful bird, although its style of colouring is less gaudy than that of many foreign species. It is of a compact form, the body being rather full, the neck rather short, the head small, the feet short and strong, the wings rather long, the tail of moderate length.

"The bill is short, slender, and straight; the nasal membrane scurfy, the outline of the upper mandible straight for half its length, then arched and turned down; the edges soft at the base, the tip compressed, with the edges inflected; the lower mandible weak at the base, its sides nearly erect, the edges towards the end sharp, and the tip obtuse. Both mandibles are deeply concave internally. The mouth is only four-twelfths of an inch across. The tongue is very slender, seven and a half-twelfths in length, emarginate at the base, horny towards the end, and pointed.

"The eyes are rather small; the eyelids bare, and having in their vicinity a bare space of considerable extent. The nostrils are linear, wider anteriorly, two and half-twelfths long. The apeture of the ear is roundish or obliquely oblong, a line and a half in diameter.

"The tarsi, which are very short, and feathered anteriorly one-third down, have five entire and two lower divided scales, their hind part soft, without scales, but scurfy. The first toe has six, the second eight, the third fourteen, the fourth eleven scales. The claws are arched in the third of a circle, compressed, rather sharp.

"The plumage is generally compact and short; on the abdomen downy and blended. The feathers are mostly ovate and rounded; those of the lower part of the neck all round have their filaments flattened and shining. The wings are rather long and pointed; the primaries, or first ten flight feathers, are tapering;


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 happens, and the earth grows withered and drear. Of all the myths, Virgo seems the most charming when identified as Proserpine. Watch for the white flame of Spica as it rises just south of east on the 10th of April, for Spica shines on the ear of wheat in the hand of Ceres' daughter and is a symbol of the coming spring.

The red star Antares lies on the heart of the Scorpion and stands out conspicuously with a bright star on either side.

In Greek legend this is the same Scorpion which so frightened Phæthon, rash child of the Sun-god, when he was driving his father's chariot along the zodiac. The headstrong youth had experienced trouble enough in passing by the ferocious Nemean Lion, and he was just getting a free breath while driving by the Virgin and the Scales when he came to this terrifying creature sprawled along and almost blocking the sky path. Unable to longer control either himself or his excited horses, Phæthon turned the steeds aside and blazed a new pathway, which soon grew cold and left a gray ash across the sky. The strip burned out by the scorching heat of the chariot may still be seen at night and is claimed by some to be the Milky Way.

There is still another legend which tells how the scorpion came to be a constellation. In ancient Greece there was once a mighty hunter named Orion. Armed with only a club, this powerful and handsome giant was able to conquer any beast in the world but, unfortunately, he boasted so continuously that Juno resolved to teach him a lesson. One day while he was battling with a mon-

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Musical composition

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 ster in a swamp, a poisonous scorpion slipped up and stung him on the heel. The wound proved fatal, although he was afterward given a constellation as if in atonement for the rather mean advantage taken of so brave a hunter.

But the scorpion was also honored in the same way, only he travels across the sky in the summer months while Orion is seen during the winter. Thus the two are considerately placed so that they do not shine above the earth in the same season.

The constellation of the Scorpion lies southeast of Libra, the Scales, and is the ninth and most brilliant in the zodiac. The gigantic and clearly marked star design on his figure shows that the creature's head and outstretched claws extend upward and toward the west; the upraised tail, curving through the Milky Way and close to the horizon, lies south and eastward; while his feet touch the fainter stars to the right and left. In the vicinity of his heart lies a star so large and red and beautiful that it was named "Antares," which means "the rival of Ares" (the planet Mars). This star so impressed the ancient people of Greece that they built a temple in honor of it, where they might gaze upon it in solitude and worship it as if it were enthroned. This temple is one of the oldest found in Greece.

Pease, with the aid of the interferometer on the great 101-inch telescope on Mount Wilson, has measured the diameter of Antares and has found it to be a very enormous red sun. This figure taken in connection with the best determined value of its distance, indi-

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24 "Fight the case, you mean?"

He shook his head.

"Very unlikely. You see, he would have to have something to go upon."

Mrs. Kettering did not answer. Van Aldin looked at her sharply.

"Come, Ruth, out with it. There's something troubling you—what is it?"

"Nothing, nothing at all."

But her voice was unconvincing.

"You are dreading the publicity, eh? Is that it? You leave it to me. I'll put the whole thing through so smoothly that there will be no fuss at all."

"Very well. Dad, if you really think it's the best thing to be done."

"Got a fancy for the fellow still, Ruth? Is that it?"

"No."

The word came with no uncertain emphasis. Van Aldin seemed satisfied. He patted his daughter on the shoulder.

"It will be all right, little girl. Don't you worry any. Now let's forget all about this. I have brought you a present from Paris."

"For me? Something very nice?"

"I hope you'll think so," said Van Aldin, smiling.

He took the parcel from his coat pocket and handed it to her. She unwrapped it eagerly, and snapped open the case. A long-drawn "Oh!" came from her lips. Ruth Kettering loved jewels—always had done so.

"Dad, how—how wonderful!"

"Rather in a class by themselves, aren’t they?" said


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 reflections, that profound silence would be the wisest plan, and waited with impatience for Don Raymond's explanation.

They arrived at the hotel de las Cisternas. The marquis immediately conducted him to his apartment, and began to express his satisfaction at finding him at Madrid. Lorenzo interrupted him.

"Excuse me, my lord," said he with a distant air, "if I reply somewhat coldly to your expressions of regard. A sister's honour is involved in this affair: till that is established, and the purport of your correspondence with Agnes cleared up, I cannot consider you as my friend. I am anxious to hear the meaning of your conduct; and hope that you will not delay the promised explanation."

"First give me your word, that you will listen with patience and indulgence."

"I love my sister too well to judge her harshly; and, till this moment, I possessed no friend so dear to me as yourself. I will also confess, that your having it in your power


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 to oblige me in a business which I have much at heart, makes me very anxious to find you still deserving my esteem."

"Lorenzo, you transport me! No greater pleasure can be given me, than an opportunity of serving the brother of Agnes."

"Convince me that I can accept your favours without dishonour, and there is no man in the world to whom I am more willing to be obliged."

"Probably you have already heard your sister mention the name of Alphonso d'Alvarada?"

"Never. Though I feel for Agnes an affection truly fraternal, circumstances have prevented us from being much together. While yet a child, she was consigned to the care of her aunt, who had married a German nobleman. At his castle she remained till two years since, when she returned to Spain, determined upon secluding herself from the world."

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 intention, and yet strove not to make her change it?"

"Marquis, you wrong me: the intelligence which I received at Naples shocked me extremely, and I hastened my return to Madrid for the express purpose of preventing the sacrifice. The moment that I arrived, I flew to the convent of St. Clare, in which Agnes had chosen to perform her noviciate. I requested to see my sister. Conceive my surprise, when she sent me a refusal: she declared positively that, apprehending my influence over her mind, she would not trust herself in my society, 'till the day before that on which she was to receive the veil. I supplicated the nuns; I insisted upon seeing Agnes; and hesitated not to avow my suspicions, that her being kept from me was against her own inclinations. To free herself from the imputation of violence, the prioress brought me a few lines, written in my sister's well-known hand, repeating the message already delivered. All future attempts to obtain a mo-


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At Dawning

 * "At Dawning" (1906), a song written by Charles Wakefield Cadman
 * "At Dawnin (1928), a song written for the film Lights of New York, performed by Harry Downing

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Author:Charles Wakefield Cadman

Lyrics

 * "At Dawning" (1906)

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Author:Harry Downing

Cast member

 * Lights of New York (1928), as the master of ceremonies at the Night Hawk

Songs performed in film

 * "At Dawnin (1928), in the film Lights of New York

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 ment's conversation with her were as fruitless as the first. She was inflexible, and I was not permitted to see her till the day preceding that on which she entered the cloister, never to quit it more. This interview took place in the presence of our principal relations. It was for the first time since her childhood that I saw her, and the scene was most affecting: she threw herself upon my bosom, kissed me, and wept bitterly. By every possible argument, by tears, by prayers, by kneeling, I strove to make her abandon her intention. I represented to her all the hardships of a religious life; I painted to her imagination all the pleasures which she was going to quit; and besought her to disclose to me what occasioned her disgust to the world. At this last question she turned pale, and her tears flowed yet faster. She entreated me not to press her on that subject; that it sufficed me to know that her resolution was taken, and that a convent was the only place where she could now hope for tranquillity. She persevered in


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 her design, and made her profession. I visited her frequently at the grate; and every moment that I passed with her made me feel more affliction at her loss. I was shortly after obliged to quit Madrid; I returned but yesterday evening, and, since then, have not had time to call at St. Clare's convent."

"Then, till I mentioned it, you never heard the name of Alphonso d'Alvarada?"

"Pardon me: my aunt wrote me word, that an adventurer so called had found means to get introduced into the castle of Lindenberg; that he had insinuated himself into my sister's good graces; and that she had even consented to elope with him. However, before the plan could be executed, the cavalier discovered, that the estates which he believed Agnes to possess in Hispaniola, in reality belonged to me. This intelligence made him change his intention; he disappeared on the day that the elopement was to have taken place; and Agnes, in despair at his perfidy and meanness, had resolved upon seclusion in a convent. She


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 added, that as this adventurer had given himself out to be a friend of mine, she wished to know whether I had any knowledge of him. I replied in the negative. I had then very little idea, that Alphonso d'Alvarada and the marquis de las Cisternas were one and the same person: the description given me of the first, by no means tallied with what I knew of the latter."

"In this I easily recognize Donna Rodopha's perfidious character. Every word of this account is stamped with marks of her malice, of her falsehood, of her talents for misrepresenting those whom she wishes to injure. Forgive me, Medina, for speaking so freely of your relation. The mischief which she has done me authorises my resentment; and when you have heard my story, you will be convinced that my expressions have not been too severe."

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LONG experience, my dear Lorenzo, has convinced me how generous is your nature: I waited not for your declaration of ignorance respecting your sister's adventures, to suppose that they had been purposely concealed from you. Had they reached your knowledge, from what misfortunes should both Agnes and myself have escaped! Fate had ordained it otherwise. You were on your travels when I first became acquainted with your sister; and as our enemies took care to conceal from her your direction, it was impossible for her to implore by letter your protection and advice.

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 out upon my travels. My father supplied me liberally with money; but he insisted upon my concealing my rank, and presenting myself as no more than a private gentleman. This command was issued by the counsels of his friend the duke of Villa Hermosa, a nobleman for whose abilities and knowledge of the world I have ever entertained the most profound veneration.

"Believe me," said he, "my dear Raymond, you will hereafter feel the benefits of this temporary degradation. 'Tis true, that as the condé de las Cisternas you would have been received with open arms, and your youthful vanity might have felt gratified by the attentions showered upon you from all sides. At present, much will depend upon yourself; you have excellent recommendations, but it must be your own business to make them of use to you: you must lay yourself out to please; you must labour to gain the approbation of those to whom you are presented: they who would


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 have courted the friendship of the condé de las Cisternas will have no interest in finding out the merits, or bearing patiently with the faults, of Alphonso d'Alvarada: consequently, when you find yourself really liked, you may safely ascribe it to your good qualities, not your rank; and the distinction shewn you will be infinitely more flattering. Besides, your exalted birth would not permit your mixing with the lower classes of society, which will now be in your power, and from which, in my opinion, you will derive considerable benefit. Do not confine yourself to the illustrious of those countries through which you pass. Examine the manners and customs of the multitude: enter into the cottages; and, by observing how the vassals of foreigners are treated, learn to diminish the burthens, and augment the comforts, of your own. According to my ideas of those advantages which a youth destined to the possession of power and wealth may reap from travel, he should not consider as the least essential,


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 the opportunity of mixing with the classes below him, and becoming an eye-witness of the sufferings of the people."

Forgive me, Lorenzo, if I seem tedious in my narration: the close connexion which now exists between us, makes me anxious that you should know every particular respecting me; and in my fear of omitting the least circumstance which may induce you to think favourably of your sister and myself, I may possibly relate many which you may think uninteresting.

I followed the duke's advice; I was soon convinced of its wisdom. I quitted Spain, calling myself by the assumed title of Don Alphonso d'Alvarada, and attended by a single domestic of approved fidelity. Paris was my first station. For some time I was enchanted with it, as indeed must be every man who is young, rich, and fond of pleasure. Yet, among all its gaieties, I felt that something was wanting to my heart: I grew sick of dissipation: I discovered that the people among whom I lived, and whose


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 exterior was so polished and seducing, were at bottom frivolous, unfeeling, and insincere. I turned from the inhabitants of Paris with disgust, and quitted that theatre of luxury without heaving one sigh of regret.

I now bent my course towards Germany, intending to visit most of the principal courts. Prior to this expedition, I meant to make some little stay at Strasbourg. On quitting my chaise at Luneville, to take some refreshment, I observed a splendid equipage, attended by four domestics in rich liveries, waiting at the door of the Silver Lion. Soon after, as I looked out of the window, I saw a lady of noble presence, followed by two female attendants, step into the carriage, which drove off immediately.

I enquired of the host who the lady was that had just departed.

"A German baroness, monsieur, of great rank and fortune; she has been upon a visit to the duchess of Longueville, as her servants informed me. She is going to Strasbourg, where she will find her husband, and


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 then both return to their castle in Germany."

I resumed my journey, intending to reach Strasbourg that night. My hopes, however, were frustrated by the breaking down of my chaise: the accident happened in the middle of a thick forest, and I was not a little embarrassed as to the means of proceeding. It was the depth of winter; the night was already closing round us; and Strasbourg, which was the nearest town, was still distant from us several leagues. It seemed to me that my only alternative to passing the night in the forest, was to take my servant's horse and ride on to Strasbourg; an undertaking at that season very far from agreeable. However, seeing no other resource, I was obliged to make up my mind to it: accordingly, I communicated my design to the postillion, telling him that I would send people to assist him as soon as I reached Strasbourg. I had not much confidence in his honesty; but Stephano being well armed, and the driver, to all ap-


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 pearance, considerably advanced in years, I believed I ran no risk of losing my baggage.

Luckily, as I then thought, an opportunity presented itself of passing the night more agreeably than I expected. On mentioning my design of proceeding by myself to Strasbourg, the postillion shook his head in disapprobation.

"It is a long way," said he; "you will find it a difficult matter to arrive there without a guide: besides, monsieur seems unaccustomed to the season's severity; and 'tis possible that, unable to sustain the excessive cold"

"What use is there to present me with all these objections?" said I, impatiently interrupting him: "I have no other resource; I run still greater risk of perishing with cold by passing the night in the forest."

"Passing the night in the forest?" he replied. "Oh, by St. Denis! we are not in quite so bad a plight as that comes to yet. If I am not mistaken, we are scarcely five minutes walk from the cottage of my old friend


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 Baptiste: he is a wood-cutter, and a very honest fellow. I doubt not but he will shelter you for the night with pleasure. In the mean time, I can take the saddle-horse, ride to Strasbourg, and be back with proper people to mend your carriage by break of day."

"And, in the name of God," said I, "how could you leave me so long in suspense? Why did you not tell me of this cottage sooner? What excessive stupidity!"

"I thought, that perhaps monsieur would not deign to accept"

"Absurd! Come, come; say no more, but conduct us without delay to the woodman's cottage."

He obeyed, and we moved onwards: the horses contrived, with some difficulty, to drag the shattered vehicle after us. My servant was become almost speechless, and I began to feel the effects of the cold myself before we reached the wished-for cottage. It was a small but neat building: as we drew near it, I rejoiced at observing through the win-


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 dow the blaze of a comfortable fire. Our conductor knocked at the door: it was some time before any one answered; the people within seemed in doubt whether we should be admitted.

"Come, come, friend Baptiste!" cried the driver with impatience, "what are you about? Are you asleep? Or will you refuse a night's lodging to a gentleman, whose chaise has just broken down in the forest?"

"Ah! is it you, honest Claude?" replied a man's voice from within: "wait a moment, and the door shall be opened."

Soon after the bolts were drawn back; the door was unclosed, and a man presented himself to us with a lamp in his hand: he gave the guide an hearty reception, and then addressed himself to me:

"Walk in, monsieur; walk in, and welcome. Excuse me for not admitting you at first; but there are so many rogues about this place that, saving your presence, I suspected you to be one."

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 room where I had observed the fire. I was immediately placed in an easy chair, which stood close to the hearth. A female, whom I supposed to be the wife of my host, rose from her seat upon my entrance, and received me with a slight and distant reverence. She made no answer to my compliment, but, immediately re-seating herself, continued the work on which she had been employed. Her husband's manners were as friendly as hers were harsh and repulsive.

"I wish I could lodge you more conveniently, monsieur," said he, "but we cannot boast of much spare room in this hovel. However, a chamber for yourself and another for your servant, I think, we can make shift to supply. You must content yourself with sorry fare; but to what we have, believe me, you are heartily welcome."Then, turning to his wife—"Why, how you sit there, Marguerite, with as much tranquillity as if you had nothing better to do! Stir about, dame! stir about! Get some supper; look out some sheets. Here, here! throw


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 some logs upon the fire, for the gentleman seems perished with cold."

The wife threw her work hastily upon the table, and proceeded to execute his commands with every mark of unwillingness. Her countenance had displeased me on the first moment of my examining it: yet, upon the whole, her features were handsome unquestionably; but her skin was sallow, and her person thin and meagre: a louring gloom overspread her countenance, and it bore such visible marks of rancour and ill-will, as could not escape being noticed by the most inattentive observer: her every look and action expressed discontent and impatience; and the answers which she gave Baptiste, when he reproached her good-humouredly for her dissatisfied air, were tart, short, and cutting. In fine, I conceived at first sight equal disgust for her, and prepossession in favour of her husband, whose appearance was calculated to inspire esteem and confidence. His countenance was open, sincere, and friendly; his man-


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42 Bombay Civil Service, “the active and intelligent Educational Inspector of the Guzerat Division.”

"“That officer has described, in strong terms, the discouragement and loss of time sustained by him in his attempts to secure the voluntary consent of the people to the establishment of Schools under the grant-in-aid system, and the disappointment which frequently ensues on finding that, when the requisite consent has with difficulty been obtained, persons who have acquiesced in the measure have drawn back from their engagement on being called on for the payment of their subscriptions.”"

The present Director of Public Instruction in Bengal thus shows the want of permanence in aided Schools after they have been established:—

"“It may be useful here to record that from March 1855, when the grant-in-aid system was first brought into operation, down to the 30th April 1862, a period of seven years, the number of Schools for which monthly grants were sanctioned amounted to 479, and that during the same period no fewer than 162 of this number, or nearly 34 per cent, of the whole, were from time to time abolished. This statement may be taken as a fair indication of the great instability of Schools under private management, which depend for their support on a source of income so precarious as monthly subscriptions.”"

3. Cheap Books are still a crying want: Babu in the last report only echoes a general feeling when he states:—

"“A series of cheap elementary works for the use of our Patshalas is a standing desideratum. The prices of books hitherto in use have been considerably increased, and it is apprehended that the poorer classes of our countrymen, for whom these institutions are especially intended, can ill afford to purchase them. In the course of my inspection, I visited villages inhabited chiefly by the agricultural classes of the people. On addressing them for the establishment of Patshalas in their villages I heard it stated in several instances by them that the system of instruction of which I talked was too expensive to serve their purpose, that the purchase of books formed a great part of the expense of a School education, and that the means within their reach were too limited to procure it for their children. There was certainly much truth in what they said, and the only way to render our Patshalas suitable to the wants of those for whom they are intended, is to introduce a series of cheap books. The price of the first Book of Reading ought never to exceed half an anna, while that of tho last should always be within two annas.”"


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 ners had all the peasant's honesty, unaccompanied by his rudeness: his checks were broad, full, and ruddy; and in the solidity of his person he seemed to offer an ample apology for the leanness of his wife's. From the wrinkles on his brow, I judged him to be turned of sixty; but he bore his years well, and seemed still hearty and strong. The wife could not be more than thirty, but in spirits and vivacity she was infinitely older than the husband.

However, in spite of her unwillingness, Marguerite began to prepare the supper, while the woodman converted gaily on different subjects. The postillion, who had been furnished with a bottle of spirits, was now ready to set out for Strasbourg, and enquired whether I had any further commands.

"For Strasbourg?" interrupted Baptiste; "you are not going thither to-night?"

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36 villages and are destined to return to them as Teachers, and it seems possible that by giving them simple instruction as to the objects aimed at by Agricultural improvements and the gains to be anticipated from them, useful hints may be widely spread among the actual cultivators of the soil, and gradually influence them in a right direction.”

In a letter to the Bengal Government from the Secretary of the Landholders’ Association of the 21st October 1864, it is stated:—

"“The formation of an Agricultural class in some one or more of the Educational Establishments supported by Government under a Professor or Instructor well grounded in the principles of Agriculture and of Agricultural Chemistry.

“The class from which the Committee have the greatest hopes is that of the Talookdars and the sons of Traders and Artisans whose fathers have acquired moderate Wealth, and have invested it in the purchase of land. Many of the smaller Talookdars are resident on their properties, and many are understood to have portions of their land in their own possession, or at least under their own control, and if these men had the opportunity of attending an Agricultural class when at School or College, it may be hoped that some of them would apply the teaching they had received to the improvement of their crops.

“This seems to the Committee the most likely means of introducing improved modes of cultivation, and of gradually breaking down the prejudice which separates Practical Agriculture from Education, and if a certain number of these small Talookdars and sons of Tradesmen and Artisans should take to improvement and succeed, the most intelligent of the ryots would adopt the system which they saw to pay, and would learn, from observation and practical experience what they never could have been taught from theoretical education in the Schools.“"

The Secretary of the Agricultural Society recommends the study of Agriculture in the Normal Schools.

The Honorary Secretary of the British Indian Association, which is composed chiefly of Zemindars, writes:—

“The Committee deem it highly desirable that some arrangements should be made for rendering instruction in Agriculture a part of the general scheme of Education in this country. They admit that it would be premature to establish an Agricultural College. The maintenance of such an Institution would be attended with an expense which would not be justified in the present position of things. But the Committee think the object aimed at may be attained by the establishment of Agricultural Teacherships in Vernacular Village Schools in the way suggested by Babu Harimohun Banerjee, as it will bring a knowledge of improved Agriculture within easy reach of that class of the community who are directly engaged in the cultivation of the soil, and to whom it is likely to prove of the greatest use and importance.

“By way of supplement to the above arrangement, the Committee would recommend that greater attention may be directed to the study of the physical sciences in the Collegiate Institutions of the country, particularly to the study of those branches of science which are allied to Practical Agriculture. That alone can effectually remove the deep-rooted prejudices which now prevail in the country against Agriculture and the industrial arts generally. Chairs for some of the sciences already exist, and the Professorial staff may be strengthened in such proportion as may be deemed advisable. Each of the Colleges ought further to be supplied with a well furnished Laboratory, which, the Committee are informed, none of the Mofussil Colleges now possess to the desired extent. The Professors will then have opportunities to introduce practical experiments in illustration of the theories they teach.

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 "That is true, as you say, I had forgotten the chaise. Well, but Claude, you may at least eat your supper here? That can make you lose very little time; and monsieur looks too kind-hearted to send you out with an empty stomach on such a bitter cold night as this is."

To this I readily assented, telling the postillion that my reaching Strasbourg the next day an hour or two later would be perfectly immaterial. He thanked me, and then leaving the cottage with Stephano, put up his horses in the woodman's stable. Baptiste followed them to the door, and looked out with anxiety.

Tis a sharp, biting wind," said he: "I wonder what detains my boys so long! Monsieur, I shall shew you two of the finest lads that ever stepped in shoe of leather: the eldest is three-and-twenty, the second a year younger: their equals for sense, courage, and activity, are not to be found within fifty miles of Strasbourg. Would they were


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Rh The marked success that has of late attended the study of Sanskrit in an improved mode among English educated natives, shews that a corresponding movement may take place regarding the Persian and Arabic with Mahommedans. The Report of the Committee of Public Instruction for 1852, giving the detail of the reforms introduced by Pundit into the Sanskrit College, Calcutta, evinces what may be done—his reforms have been most successful.

Agricultural education, so important in its bearings as giving a practical direction to the education of the masses, is recognised as a vital branch of national education in Prussia and Ireland; boys who have to return to the plough from the School must have the subjects taught of a nature not to lead them to despise peasant life. In India as long ago as the beginning of this century, an able minute was written by the on the subject of Model Farms as forming a branch of Agricultural instruction, and he proposed appropriating a part of Barrackpore Park to the purposes of a Model Farm. Lord W. Bentinck revived the idea and enforced it in an elaborate minute. Adam in his Report refers to the question. It has been brought before the Bengal Government, by Babu Joykissen Mookerjee, who has made an offer of a considerable sum to Government to carry out the object. The following is some of the correspondence on the subject.

The Bengal Director of Public Instruction writes to the Secretary of the Bengal Government, May 27th, 1865:—

“His Honor will perceive that the measures recommended by the Landholders’ and Commercial Association are in the main directed to the same object as those proposed by Babu Joykissen Mookerjee, who advocates the formation of an Agricultural Department in connection with a new College for General Education to be established at, towards the maintenance of which he has offered a handsome contribution. The advocates of this course of action propose that arrangements should be made in connection with some one or more of our Colleges for General Education to provide systematic lectures on Agriculture and the sciences which bear upon it, for the instruction of the more wealthy classes of Native Society, who are the owners of landed property, and have a direct interest in its profitable management, in the hope that some of them may apply the teaching they receive to the improvement of their crops.

“If, however, a competent Lecturer could be found, it might be worth while to try the experiment of deputing him in rotation to the different Schools and Colleges, to deliver short courses of popular lectures, not as a part of the School business, but for the benefit of the general public, with the view of arousing attention and disseminating the idea that there is at least a possibility of increasing Agricultural profits by improved methods of cultivation, and by the exercise of greater care and discrimination in the breeding of cattle. In this way public interest may perhaps be excited, and the people led to discuss the suggestions made to them, and even prevailed on by degrees to bring them to the test of experiment.

“I am still, however, inclined to adhere to the opinion that, as far as regards the action of the Education Department, the manner in which most good is likely to be effected is by disseminating information in a very humble way through the agency of the Normal Schools for the training of Village School Masters. The pupils in these Schools are drawn from the country


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 back again! I begin to feel uneasy about them."

Marguerite was at this time employed in laying the cloth.

"And are you equally anxious for the return of your sons?" said I to her.

"Not I," she replied peevishly; "they are no children of mine."

"Come, come, Marguerite!" said the husband, "do not be out of humour with the gentleman for asking a simple question: had you not looked so cross, he would never have thought you old enough to have a son of three-and-twenty; but you see how many years ill-temper adds to you!—Excuse my wife's rudeness, monsieur; a little thing puts her out; and she is somewhat displeased at your not thinking her to be under thirty.—That is the truth, is it not, Marguerite? You know, monsieur, that age is always a ticklish subject with a woman. Come, come, Marguerite! clear up a little. If you have not sons as old, you will


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Rh extension of the present arrangements for instruction in science and the direction of the attention of our students in the Colleges to those branches of it which are allied to Practical Agriculture.

“With a view to rear up a body of qualified Teachers, it would be necessary, in the first instance, to provide for their instruction in the Normal Schools, which are now maintained for the training of Village School-masters. A Manual of Practical Agriculture in Bengalee may also be prepared, giving a description of the soils of Bengal, their peculiarities, the means of their improvement or the preservation of their vitality, the crops adapted to the soils, the advantages of drainage and irrigation, the leading principles of practical chemistry; in short, such ideas about Agricultural arrangements and the management of cattle as may be easily comprehensive to the masses, and the practical application of which may be beneficial to the country.

“By thus working at the two ends, that is, with the English Colleges at one end, and the Vernacular Schools at the other, some good, the Committee have reason to believe, may be effected, though they can conceive that improvement to the desired extent must be the work of time.”

In June 1863, an Agricultural class was opened in connection with the Calcutta Normal School, taught by Babu Harimohun Mookerjee, who reported of the studies in July 1867:—

“The pupils of all the three classes of the Normal School are admitted to this class, and are taught through the medium of lectures for an hour twice a week. The subject of study in this class comprises Elementary Botany, Agriculture and Horticulture. The first is taught by lectures only, there being no class book available in Bengalee. The lectures, however, are so framed, and the points discussed are so illustrated by the exhibition of specimens, that the want of a class book is to some extent obviated. Opportunity is also availed of every Saturday to take the more advanced pupils to the Royal Botanical Gardens for practical instruction, both in structural and systematical Botany and Agriculture. The lectures on Horticulture and Agriculture are devoted to the study of soils, the modes of improving them, the manures best suited to this country, the system of propagating and multiplying plants, the effect of climate on vegetation, and such other subjects as are generally included under those heads. In learning these subjects, the boys have the aid of a small treatise published by me, and that of certain manuscript notes which are intended for publication, whenever sufficient encouragement shall offer. These notes treat of the whole subject of Agriculture.”

Adam frequently refers not only to Agricultural, but also to Medical Education through the Vernacular:—

Previous to 1807, from fifty to one hundred native doctors used to attend the native hospital to study the practice there, and introduce it among their countrymen—one of them got so rich as to drive in his carriage.

A Vernacular Medical School of thirty students had previously existed under Dr. Jameson, a knowledge of Hindustani was required, they received eight rupees monthly during their course of three years’ study, and were afterwards posted to civil or military employ, on salaries of twenty or thirty rupees monthly, with pensions; instruction through Hindustani was given on Anatomy, Materia Medica, and Clinical subjects. Dr. Breton, another professor, published various Urdu works on Medical subjects.


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534 ones) $1⁄10$—$1⁄4$ in. long, linear-oblong to oblong or oblong-spathulate, acute, narrowed into short free petioles, entire or irregularly lobulate or pinnatifid. Flowers small, ⅛–⅙ in. diam., pale bluish-purple or rarely white, sessile or nearly so, 3—8 near the tips of the branchlets. forming small terminal heads. Calyx unequally 4-lobed; lobes short, oblong, obtuse. Corolla-tube very short; lobes spreading, dorsal the largest, oblong- obovate, anticous the smallest, linear-oblong. Capsule small, $1⁄12$ in. long, about twice as long as the calyx, linear-obovoid or narrow cuneate-obovoid, retuse at the tip.—Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 351; N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. (1888) vol. i. 20, t. 4 and 6; Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii. (1896) 520.

58. V. Haastii, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 213.—A prostrate or decumbent much or sparingly branched glabrous shrub, black when dry; stems woody, tortuous, 4—12 in. long; branches ascending, densely uniformly leafy, obscurely tetragonous, ⅓—⅔ in. diam. with the leaves on. Leaves closely quadrifariously imbricated, opposite pars connate at the very base, spreading or suberect, ¼–½ in. long, broadly oblong to obovate, obtuse, concave in front, not keeled at the back, fleshy when fresh, extremely coriaceous and rigid when dry; margins ciliate at the very base. Flowers small, white, most densely compacted in terminal ovoid heads ½–1½ in. long, formed of numerous reduced spikes in the axils of leafy bracts. Bracts oblong or ovate-oblong, about equalling the calyx. Calyx 4-partite; segments linear-oblong, obtuse. Corolla-tube longer than the limb, rather shorter than the calyx; limb exserted, ^in. diam., 4-lobed; lobes ovate, subacute. Capsule about equalling the calyx, ovoid-oblong, acute.—''Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xiii. (1881) 350.

Var. macrocalyx.—Much more copiously branched, prostrate and trailing, brown when dry. Leaves ⅓–⅔ in. long, obovate or broadly obovate-spathulate, obtuse, bright green and fleshy when fresh. Bracts lanceolate or linear, acute. Calyx-segments linear, obtuse or subacute, almost equalling the corolla. Corolla-tube longer than the narrow limb.—V. macrocalyx, ''Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xiii. (1881) 353.

Nelson—Mount Arthur, T. F. C. Canterbury—Mount Torlesse and Mount Dobson, Haast, T. F. C.; mountains above the Broken River, ''Enys! T. F. C; Mount Darwin and Mount Cook, Haast.'' Var. macrocalyx: Mount Rolleston and Waimakariri Glacier, ''Armstrong! T. F. C., Cockayne! Rangitata Valley, Armstrong.'' 3500–6500 ft. December–February.


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Veronica.] A well-marked species. The var. macrocalyx principally differs in its more branched and trailing habit, longer and narrower leaves, which are not so coriaceous when dry, longer and narrower bracts and calyx-segments, and shorter narrower corolla. Mr. N. E. Brown is inclined to treat it as a distinct species, but it appears to me to be connected with the type by intermediate forms.

59. V. epacridea, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 213.—A small much-branched prostrate or decumbent rigid shrub; stems woody, tortuous, 3–12 in. long; branches curved, ascending at the tips, densely leafy, obscurely tetragonous, ¼–½ in. diam. with the leaves on, glabrous or pubescent above. Leaves closely quadrifariously imbricated, opposite pairs connate at the base, spreading and recurved, ⅛–¼ in. long, broadly oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, concave in front, keeled at the back, rigid, very coriaceous; margins usually red, thickened, ciliate towards the base. Flowers small, white, densely packed in terminal ovoid heads ½–1 in. long, formed of numerous reduced spikes in the axils of leafy bracts. Bracts obovate or ovate to linear-obovate, ciliate. Calyx deeply 4-partite, segments unequal, linear-oblong, obtuse, ciliate. Corolla-tube long, narrow, equalling the calyx; limb small, ⅛ in. diam., 4-lobed; lobes ovate, acute, spreading or recurved. Capsule small, ovoid-oblong, exceeding the calyx.—''Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 350; Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxi. (1899) 380 (development of seedling)''.

60. V. Petriei, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii. (1896) 517.—A decumbent or prostrate sparingly branched woody little plant; branches ascending, 3–6 in. long. Leaves not close-set, spreading, ¼–½ in. long, oblong or linear-oblong, rounded at the apex, narrowed into a short broad petiole, flat, slightly coriaceous, glabrous or the margins minutely glandular-ciliate; the opposite petioles connate at the base and forming a, short sheath clasping the branch. Flowering branches clothed with numerous erect linear or linear-lanceolate foliaceous obtuse bracts, each branch ending in a narrow-oblong many-flowered spiciform head ½–1½ in. long. Flowers small, ⅛–⅙ in. diam., solitary and sessile in the axils of the bracts, which slightly exceed the calyx. Calyx deeply 4–5-partite; segments very unequal in size, linear, obtuse, minutely ciliate. Corolla hardly exceeding the calyx; tube


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Rh 1. While the pupils of English Schools have before them the prospects of a great number of prizes in the rich and numerous situations in every department opened to those who know English, Vernacular students have none of this, and even the order of Lord Hardinge of 1844, that in all Government situations and even in the lowest the man that can read or write should have the preference over one who could not, has remained to this day a dead letter.

2. The Grant-in-aid Rules requiring a contribution of help from the people is not applicable to Bengal, where the mass of the people have not the ability nor the willingness to contribute.

W. G. Young, Esquire, the first Director of Public Instruction in Bengal, in 1865, wrote as follows on this subject:—

"“That this system (of grants-in-aid), viewed as a means of disseminating education among the masses of the people of Bengal, has failed, and that unless the present rules be modified and the conditions on which grants are given be relaxed, it must continue to fail, is, I believe, the unanimous opinion, not only of the Inspectors and myself, but of every one practically engaged or interested in the work of popular education; and I may perhaps venture to add that this is also, I believe, the opinion of His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor.”"

Mr., Inspector of Schools, South Bengal, bore similar testimony:—

"“I do not see how it is possible for Government with this fact before them to come to any other conclusion than that their measures have failed, and that the education and elevation of the mass of the population cannot possibly be effected so long as Government limits its assistance by the terms and conditions laid down in the Grant-in-aid Rules. It appears to me that such rules are out of place in a country where the value of Education is utterly unfelt by the mass of the people, for the rules presume the highest appreciation of the value of Education, based as they are on the supposition that the people of this country are so desirous of an improved description of instruction, that they will actually pay, not only Schooling fees, but contributions from their private resources: why, this would be too much to expect in scores of places in England, with a civilisation which has been ever steadily growing for centuries, and where the people are blessed with the advantages that race and religion can confer.“"

Mr. H. Woodrow, Inspector of Schools, Eastern Bengal, wrote as follows:—

"“In these Districts grants-in-aid for Anglo-Vernacular Schools will probably succeed, but they have failed, and will utterly fail, for purely Vernacular Schools.”"

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536 cylindrical, longer than the limb, which is 4-lobed, the lobes spreading or reflexed. Stamens included. Capsule small, oblong, turgid.—Mitrasacme Petriei, ''Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xiv. (1882) 349, t. 30, f. 1.

61. V. dasyphylla, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii. (1896) 519.—A prostrate rigidly coriaceous woody little plant. Stems much branched, 2–6 in. long; branches short, 1–2 in. high, ascending or erect, pubescent, densely leafy, tetragonous, ¼ in. diam. with the leaves on. Leaves closely quadrifariously imbricate, opposite pairs connate at the base and forming a short ring clasping the stem, spreading above, ⅛–⅙ in. long, oblong or oblong-obovate, obtuse, very coriaceous, concave in front, rounded or obscurely keeled at the back; margins ciliate towards the base, cartilaginous above. Flowers large, ⅓–½ in. diam., solitary at the tips of the branchlets, sessile. Calyx 5-partite; segments oblong, obtuse, hispid-pubescent towards the base, margins ciliate. Corolla-tube short, broad; limb with 5 large rounded spreading lobes. Stamens 2; filaments short; anthers large, included. Ovary seated in a cupular disc. Capsule altogether included in the calyx, oblong, turgid, coriaceous, 4-valved.—Logania tetragona, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 188, 737; Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xiv. (1882) 347, t. 28, f. 2.

62. V. uniflora, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii. (1896) 522.—A small rigid prostrate little plant, much and closely branched branches ascending or erect, ½–1½ in. long, tetragonous, ⅙ in. diam with the leaves on. Leaves densely quadrifariously imbricated opposite pairs connate at the base, ovate-oblong, obtuse, very coriaceous, concave, margins ciliate below. Flowers solitary, terminal ¼ in. diam. Calyx 5-partite; segments linear-oblong, obtuse, hispid glandular throughout. Corolla 5-lobed; lobes rounded, spreading Stamens 2, included. Ovary villous at the top. Capsule included in the calyx.—Logania Armstrongii, ''Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xiv. (1882) 347, t. 28, f. 3.

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Veronica.] Probably only a small state of V. dasyphylla, but I retain it until further specimens can be examined. Buchanan's drawing of it is by no means good, the branches not being nearly so acutely tetragonous as shown by him. I have only seen one indifferent specimen.

63. V. macrantha, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 213.—A short stout sparingly branched erect shrub 1–2 ft. high; branches erect or spreading, rigid, terete or obscurely tetragonous, glabrous or faintly puberulous above. Leaves ½–1 in. long, obovate-lanceolate to obovate or broadly oblong-ovate, obtuse or acute, narrowed into a short stout petiole, obtusely serrate, very thick and coriaceous, smooth, flat, glossy, margins thickened. Eacemes few or many, axillary, 3–8-flowered; peduncle slender, usually longer than the leaves; bracts narrow-lanceolate. Flowers large, ¾ in. diam., pure white; pedicels shorter than the calyx. Calyx deeply 4-partite; segments lanceolate, acuminate, coriaceous, ¼–⅓ in. long. Corolla-tube short; lobes 4, broad, rounded. Capsule broadly ovoid, acute, equalling or slightlv exceeding the calyx-segments.—''Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xiii. (1881) 350.

64. V. Benthami, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 60, t. 39, 40.—An erect branching shrub 2–4 ft. high; branches stout, ringed with the scars of the fallen leaves, naked below, leafy above, younger ones bifariously pubescent. Leaves crowded towards the ends of the branches, sessile, opposite pairs connate at the very base, ½–1½ in. long, linear-oblong to obovate-oblong, obtuse, narrowed to the base, flat, coriaceous, veinless, entire or with a few coarse serratures above the middle, margins with a line of white down. Racemes terminating the branches, elongated, 1½–3 in. long, many-flowered, clothed with numerous leafy imbricating bracts ¼–½ in. long. Flowers pedicelled, not exceeding the bracts, ⅓–½ in. diam., bright-blue. Calyx deeply 5-partite; segments unequal, oblong-spathulate, margined with white down. Corolla-tube shorter than the calyx; limb 5-lobed, more rarely 3–6-lobed; lobes obovate, obtuse. Stamens 2, rarely 3, short, included. Capsule broadly ovoid, acute, about as long as the calyx.—''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 214; Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 350. V. finaustrina, Homb. and Jacq. Voy. au Pole Sud, Dicot.'' t. 9, fig. y.

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538 A very distinct and beautiful plant, excellently figured in the "Flora Antarctica." As pointed out by Hooker, abnormal flowers are frequently seen in which the corolla is 6-lobed, with 3 stamens and a 3-celled ovary. Other flowers have a 3-lobed corolla, but with the usual number of stamens and a 2-celled ovary.

65. V. erecta, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii. (1896) 517.—A sparingly branched shrub 6–18 in. high; branches few, slender, strict, erect, terete, sparingly leafy, puberulous above. Leaves in distant pairs, spreading, sessile, ¾–1 in. long, oblong-lanceolate or obovate-lanceolace, acute, entire or obscurely toothed, subcoriaceous, margins minutely puberulous or ciliate. Racemes 2–6, solitary in the axils of the upper leaves, 3–4 in. long, strict, erect, naked below; rhachis pubescent, as are the bracts and short pedicels. Flowers about ⅕ in. diam., often obscurely fascicled or whorled. Calyx deeply 4-partite; segments ovate-oblong, acute, ciliate. Corolla -tube short and broad, shorter than the large spreading limb; lobes 4, broadly ovate, acute. Stamens long, exserted; anthers large, broadly ovate. Immature capsule exceeding the calyx, compressed, oblong, acute.

66. V. Hulkeana, ''F. Muell. ex Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 213.—A slender erect laxly branched shrub 1–3 ft. high; branches spreading, sparingly leafy, terete, puberulous above. Leaves in remote pairs, spreading, 1–2 in. long, broadly ovate or oblong-ovate, obtuse or acute, obtusely or acutely coarsely serrate, rather fleshy when fresh, dark-green and shining, petiole ¼–½ in. long. Panicle slender, terminal, much branched, 6–12 in. long by 2–6 in. broad, finely pubescent; branches opposite, the lower ones again compound; bracts minute, $1⁄15$ in. long, broadly ovate, obtuse, ciliate. Flowers very numerous, small, sessile, ⅕–¼ in. diam., pale-lilac. Calyx rather narrow, 4-partite; segments ovate, obtuse, ciliate. Corolla tube very short; lobes 4, rounded. Stamens 2; anthers broadly ovate, yellow. Capsule small, oblong, obtuse, twice as long as the calyx. ''Bot. Mag. t. 5484; Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xiii. (1881) 350.

Var. oblonga, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii. (1896) 518.—Leaves narrow-oblong, 1–8 in. long including the petiole.

Var. Fairfieldii, T. Kirk, l.c.—Smaller and stouter. Leaves smaller, seldom more than 1 in. long, crenate-dentate, with reddish margins. Panicle shorter and broader. Calyx segments narrower, linear oblong, pubescent.—V. Fairfieldii, ''Hook. f. Bot. Mag.'' t. 7323.


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Rh ELIZABETH II 1971 CHAPTER 30 An Act to make provision for the greater protection of persons receiving unsolicited goods, and to amend the law with respect to charges for entries in directories.

by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1.—(1) In the circumstances specified in the following subsection, a person who after the commencement of this Act receives unsolicited goods, may as between himself and the sender, use, deal with or dispose of them as if they were an unconditional gift to him, and any right of the sender to the goods shall be extinguished.

(2) The circumstances referred to in the preceding subsection are that the goods were sent to the recipient with a view to his acquiring them, that the recipient has no reasonable cause to believe that they were sent with a view to their being acquired for the purposes of a trade or business and has neither agreed to acquire nor agreed to return them, and either—
 * (a) that during the period of six months beginning with the day on which the recipient received the goods the sender did not take possession of them and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so; or
 * (b) that not less than thirty days before the expiration of the period aforesaid the recipient gave notice to the sender in accordance with the following subsection, and that during the period of thirty days beginning with the day on which the notice was given the sender did not take possession of the goods and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so.


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 * The Legends of the Jews (1913) by Louis Ginzberg tr. with Paul Radin

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2c. 30 (3) A notice in pursuance of the preceding subsection shall be in writing and shall—
 * (a) state the recipient’s name and address and, if possession of the goods in question may not be taken by the sender at that address, the address at which it may be so taken;
 * (b) contain a statement, however expressed, that the goods are unsolicited,

and may be sent by post.

(4) In this section “sender”, in relation to any goods, includes any person on whose behalf or with whose consent the goods are sent, and any other person claiming through or under the sender or any such person.

2.—(1) A person who, not having reasonable cause to believe there is a right to payment, in the course of any trade or business makes a demand for payment, or asserts a present or prospective right to payment, for what he knows are unsolicited goods sent (after the commencement of this Act) to another person with a view to his acquiring them, shall be guilty of an offence and on summary conviction shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £200.

(2) A person who, not having reasonable cause to believe there is a right to payment, in the course of any trade or business and with a view to obtaining any payment for what he knows are unsolicited goods sent as aforesaid-
 * (a) threatens to bring any legal proceedings; or
 * (b) places or causes to be placed the name of any person on a list of defaulters or debtors or threatens to do so; or
 * (c) invokes or causes to be invoked any other collection procedure or threatens to do so,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £400.

3.—(1) A person shall not be liable to make any payment, and shall be entitled to recover any payment made by him, by way of charge for including or arranging for the inclusion in a directory of an entry relating to that person or his trade or business, unless there has been signed by him or on his behalf an order complying with this section or a note complying with this section of his agreement to the charge and, in the case of a note of agreement to the charge, before the note was signed, a copy of it was supplied, for retention by him, to him or to a person acting on his behalf.

(2) A person shall be guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction with a fine not exceeding £400 if, in a case where a payment in respect of a charge would, in the absence of an order or note of agreement to the charge complying with this section, be recoverable from him in accordance with the terms of subsection (1) above, he demands payment, or asserts a present


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Rh or prospective right to payment, of the charge or any part of it, without knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the entry to which the charge relates was ordered in accordance with this section or a proper note of agreement has been duly signed.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (1) above, an order for an entry in a directory must be made by means of an order form or other stationery belonging to the person to whom, or to whose trade or business, the entry is to relate and bearing, in print, the name and address (or one or more of the addresses) of that person; and the note required by this section of a person’s agreement to a charge must state the amount of the charge immediately above the place for signature, and-
 * (a) must identify the directory or proposed directory, and give the following particulars of it—
 * (i) the proposed date of publication of the directory or of the issue in which the entry is to be included and the name and address of the person producing it;
 * (ii) if the directory or that issue is to be put on sale, the price at which it is to be offered for sale and the minimum number of copies which are to be available for sale;
 * (iii) if the directory or that issue is to be distributed free of charge (whether or not it is also to be put on sale), the minimum number of copies which are to be so distributed; and
 * (b) must set out or give reasonable particulars of the entry in respect of which the charge would be payable.

(4) Nothing in this section shall apply to a payment due under a contract entered into before the commencement of this Act, or entered into by the acceptance of an offer made before that commencement.

4.—(1) A person shall be guilty of an offence if he sends or causes to be sent to another person any book, magazine or leaflet (or advertising material for any such publication) which he knows or ought reasonably to know is unsolicited and which describes or illustrates human sexual techniques.

(2) A person found guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £100 for a first offence and to a fine not exceeding £400 for any subsequent offence.

(3) A prosecution for an offence under this section shall not in England and Wales be instituted except by, or with the consent of, the Director of Public Prosecutions.

5.—(1) Where an offence under this Act which has been committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any


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4c. 30 neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary, or other similar officer of the body corporate, or of any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

(2) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, this section shall apply in relation to the acts or defaults of a member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director of the body corporate.

6.—(1) In this Act, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires,—
 * “acquire” includes hire;
 * “send” includes deliver, and “sender” shall be construed accordingly;
 * “unsolicited” means, in relation to goods sent to any person, that they are sent without any prior request made by him or on his behalf.

(2) For the purposes of this Act any invoice or similar document stating the amount of any payment, and not stating as prominently (or more prominently) that no claim is made to the payment, shall be regarded as asserting a right to the payment.

7.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Unsolicited Goods and Services Act 1971.

(2) This Act shall come into force at the expiration of three months beginning with the day on which it is passed.

(3) This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland. PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY C. H. BAYLIS, C.B.

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Rh Nay, but we will serve the. 22. And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses. 23. Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the God of Israel. 24. And the people said unto Joshua, the our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey. 25. So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. 26. And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the. 27. And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God. 28. So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.

Never was any treaty carried on with better management, nor brought to a better issue, than this of Joshua's with the people, to engage them to serve God; the manner of his dealing with them shows him to be in earnest, and that his heart was much upon it, to leave them under all possible obligations to cleave to Him, particularly the obligation of a choice, and of a covenant.

I. Would it be any obligation upon them, if they made the service of God their choice—he here puts them to their choice; not as if it were antecedently indifferent whether they served God or no, or as if they were at their liberty to refuse his service, but because it would have a great influence upon their perseverance in religion, if they embraced it with the reason of men, and with the resolution of men. These two things he here brings them to.

1. He brings them to embrace their religion rationally and intelligently, for it is a reasonable service. The will of man is apt to glory in its native liberty, and, in a jealousy for the honour of that, adheres with most pleasure to that which is its own choice, and is not imposed upon it; therefore it is God's will that this service should be, not our chance, or a force upon us, but our choice. Accordingly,

(1.) Joshua fairly puts the matter to their choice, v. 15. Where, [1.] He proposes the candidates that stand for the election. The, Jehovah, on one side, and on the other side, either the gods of their ancestors, which would pretend to recommend themselves to those that were fond of antiquity, and that which was received by tradition from their fathers, or the gods of their neighbours, the Amorites, in whose land they dwelt, which would insinuate themselves into the affections of those that were complaisant and fond of good fellowship. [2.] He supposes there were those to whom, upon some account or other, it would seem evil to serve the Lord. There are prejudices and objections which some people raise against religion, which, with those that are inclined to the world and the flesh, have great force. It seems evil to them, hard and unreasonable, to be obliged to deny themselves, mortify the flesh, take up their cross, &c. But being in a state of probation, it is fit there should be some difficulties in the way, else there were no trial. [3.] He refers it to themselves, "Choose you whom ye will serve, choose this day, now that the matter is laid thus plainly before you, speedily bring it to a head, and do not stand hesitating." Elijah, long after this, referred the decision of the controversy between Jehovah and Baal to the consciences of those with whom he was treating, 1 Kings 18. 21. Joshua's putting off the matter here to this issue, plainly intimates two things, First, That it is the will of God we should every one of us make religion our serious and deliberate choice. Let us state the matter impartially to ourselves, weigh things in an even balance, and then determine for that which we find to be really true and good. Let us resolve on a life of serious godliness, not merely because we know no other way, but because really, upon search, we find no better. Secondly, That religion has so much self-evident reason and righteousness on its side, that it may safely be referred to every man that allows himself a free thought, either to choose or refuse it; for the merits of the cause are so plain, that no considerate man can do otherwise but choose it. The case is so clear that it determines itself. Perhaps Joshua designed, by putting them to their choice, thus to try if there were any among them, who, upon so fair an occasion given, would show a coolness and indifference toward the service of God; whether they would desire time to consider and consult their friends, before they gave in an answer; that if any such should appear, they might set a mark upon them, and warn the rest to avoid them. [4.] He directs their choice in this matter, by an open declaration of his own resolutions. "But as for me and my house, whatever you do, we will serve the Lord, and I hope you will all be of the same mind." Here he resolves, First, For himself; As for me, I will serve the Lord. Note, The service of God is nothing below the greatest of men; it is so far from being a diminution and disparagement to princes and those of the first rank to be religious, that it is their greatest honour, and adds the brightest crown of glory to them. Observe how positive he is, "I will serve God." It is no abridgment of our liberty to bind ourselves with a bond to God." Secondly, For his house, that is, his faimily, his children, and servants, such as were immediately under his eye and care, his inspection and influence. Joshua was a ruler, a judge in Israel, yet he will not make his necessary application to public affairs an excuse for the neglect of family-religion. Those that have the charge of many families, as magistrates and ministers, must take special care of their own, 1 Tim. 3. 4, 5. I and my house will serve God.

1. "Not my house, without me." He would not engage them to that work, which he would not set his own hand to. As some who would have their children and servants good, but will not be so themselves; that is, they would have them go to heaven, but intend to go to hell themselves. 2. "Not I, without my house." He supposes he might be forsaken by his people, but in his house, where his authority was greater, and more immediate, there he would overrule. Note, When we cannot bring as many as we would to the service of God, we must bring as many as we can, and extend our endeavours to the utmost sphere of our activity; if we cannot reform the land, let us put away iniquity far from our own tabernacle. 3. "First, I, and then my house." Note, Those that lead and rule in other things, should be first in the service of God, and go before in the best things. Lastly, He resolves to do this, whatever others did. Though all the families of Israel should revolt from God, and serve idols, yet Joshua and his family will steadfastly


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Runo XV]

tender mother

In her home was always thinking,

“Where has Lemminkainen wandered,

Whereabouts is Kauko roaming,

For I do not hear him coming

From his world-extended journey?”

Ah, the hapless mother knew not,

Nor the hapless one imagined,

Where her own flesh now was floating,

Where her own blood now was flowing;

If he tracked the fir-clad mountains,

Or among the heaths was roaming,

Or upon a lake was floating,

Out upon the foaming billows,

Or in some terrific combat,

In the most tremendous tumult,

With his legs with blood bespattered,

To the knees with blood all crimsoned.

Kyllikki, the lovely housewife,

Wandered round and gazed about her,

Through the home of Lemminkainen,

And through Kaukomieli’s homestead;

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 at it! That’s the way to build a house,” said Eeyore proudly.

So they left him in it; and Christopher Robin went back to lunch with his friends Pooh and Piglet, and on the way they told him of the Awful Mistake they had made. And when he had finished laughing, they all sang the Outdoor Song for Snowy Weather the rest of the way home, Piglet, who was still not quite sure of his voice, putting in the tiddely-poms again.

“And I know it seems easy,” said Piglet to himself, “but it isn’t every one who could do it.”


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Rh

On the comb she looked at evening,

On the brush she looked at morning,

And at length one day it happened,

In the early morning hours,

Blood from out the comb was oozing,

From the brush was gore distilling.

Kyllikki, the lovely housewife,

Uttered then the words which follow:

“Lo, my husband has departed,

And my handsome Kauko wandered

In a country void of houses,

And throughout some trackless desert.

Blood from out the comb is oozing,

Gore is from the brush distilling.”

Then did Lemminkainen’s mother

See herself the comb was bleeding,

And began to weep with sorrow.

“O alas, my day is wretched,

And my life is most unhappy,

For my son has met misfortune,

And my child all unprotected,

On an evil day was nurtured.

On the poor lad came destruction,

Lost is darling Lemminkainen,

From the comb the blood is trickling,

And the brush with blood is dripping.”

In her hands her skirt she gathered,

With her arms her dress she lifted,

And at once commenced her journey,

Hurried on upon her journey.

Mountains thundered ’neath her footsteps,

Valleys rose and hills were levelled,

And the high ground sank before her,

And the low ground rose before her.

Thus to Pohjola she journeyed,

Asking where her son had wandered,

And she asked in words which follow:

“Tell me, Pohjola’s old Mistress,

Whither sent you Lemminkainen,

Whither has my son departed?”

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Runo XV]

Louhi, Pohjola's old Mistress,

Then replied in words which follow:

“Of your son I know no tidings,

Where he went, or where he vanished.

In his sledge I yoked a stallion,

Chose him out a fiery courser.

Perhaps he sank in ice when rotten,

O’er the frozen lake when driving,

Or among the wolves has fallen,

Or some dreadful bear devoured him.”

Then said Lemminkainen’s mother,

“This indeed is shameless lying,

For no wolf would touch my offspring,

Not a bear touch Lemminkainen!

Wolves he’d crush between his fingers,

Bears with naked hands would master.

If you will not truly tell me,

How you treated Lemminkainen,

I the malthouse doors will shatter,

Break the hinges of the Sampo.”

Then said Pohjola’s old Mistress,

“I have fed the man profusely,

And I gave him drink in plenty,

Till he was most fully sated.

In a boat’s prow then I placed him,

That he thus should shoot the rapids,

But I really cannot tell you

What befel the wretched creature;

In the wildly foaming torrent,

In the tumult of the whirlpool.”

Then said Lemminkainen’s mother,

“This indeed is shameless lying.

Tell me now the truth exactly,

Make an end of all your lying,

Whither sent you Lemminkainen,

Where has Kaleva’s son perished ?

Or most certain death awaits you,

And you die upon the instant.”

Then said Pohjola’s old Mistress,

“Now at length I’ll tell you truly.

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Forth to chase the elks I sent him,

And to struggle with the monsters,

And the mighty beasts to bridle,

And to put the foals in harness.

Then I sent him forth swan-hunting,

Seeking for the bird so sacred,

But I really cannot tell you

If misfortune came upon him,

Or what hindrance he encountered.

Nought I heard of his returning,

For the bride that he demanded,

When he came to woo my daughter.”

Then the mother sought the strayed one,

Dreading what mischance had happened,

Like a wolf she tracked the marshes,

Like a bear the wastes she traversed,

Like an otter swam the waters,

Badger-like the plains she traversed,

Passed the headlands like a hedgehog,

Like a hare along the lakeshores,

Pushed the rocks from out her pathway,

From the slopes bent down the tree-trunks,

Thrust the shrubs beside her pathway,

From her track she cast the branches.

Long she vainly sought the strayed one,

Long she sought, but found him never.

Of her son the trees she questioned,

For the lost one ever seeking.

Said a tree, then sighed a pine-tree,

And an oak made answer wisely:

“I myself have also sorrows,

For your son I cannot trouble,

For my lot’s indeed a hard one,

And an evil day awaits me,

For they split me into splinters,

And they chop me into faggots,

In the kiln that I may perish,

Or they fell me in the clearing.”

Long she vainly sought the strayed one,

Long she sought, but found him never,

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 have blown it here. And the wind blew it right over the wood, and blew it down here, and here it is as good as ever. In fact, better in places.”

“Much better,” said Pooh and Piglet together.

“It just shows what can be done by taking a little trouble,” said Eeyore. “Do you see, Pooh? Do you see, Piglet? Brains first and then Hard Work. Look


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Runo XV]

And whene’er she crossed a pathway,

Then she bowed herself before it.

“O thou path whom God created,

Hast thou seen my son pass over;

Hast thou seen my golden apple,

Hast thou seen my staff of silver?”

But the path made answer wisely,

And it spoke and gave her answer:

“I myself have also sorrows,

For your son I cannot trouble,

For my lot’s indeed a hard one,

And an evil day awaits me.

All the dogs go leaping o’er me,

And the horsemen gallop o’er me,

And the shoes walk heavy on me,

And the heels press hardly on me.”

Long she vainly sought the strayed one,

Long she sought, but found him never.

Met the moon upon her pathway,

And before the moon she bowed her.

“Golden moon, whom God created,

Hast thou seen my son pass by you;

Hast thou seen my golden apple,

Hast thou seen my staff of silver?”

Then the moon whom God created,

Made a full and prudent answer:

“I myself have many sorrows,

For your son I cannot trouble,

For my lot’s indeed a hard one,

And an evil day awaits me,

Wandering lonely in the night-time,

In the frost for ever shining,

In the winter keeping vigil,

But in time of summer waning.”

Long she vainly sought the strayed one,

Long she sought, but found him never,

Met the sun upon her pathway,

And before the sun she bowed her.

“O thou sun, whom God created,

Hast thou seen my son pass by you,

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Hast thou seen my golden apple,

Hast thou seen my staff of silver?”

And the sun knew all about it,

And the sun made answer plainly:

“There has gone your son unhappy,

He has fallen and has perished,

Down in Tuoni’s murky river,

Manala’s primeval river,

There in the tremendous cataract,

Where the torrent rushes downward,

There on Tuonela’s dark frontier,

There in Manala’s deep valleys.”

Then did Lemminkainen’s mother,

Break out suddenly in weeping.

To the craftsman’s forge she wended:

“O thou smith, O Ilmarinen,

Thou hast worked before, and yestreen,

On this very day O forge me,

Forge a rake with copper handle,

Let the teeth of steel be fashioned,

Teeth in length a hundred fathoms,

And of fathoms five the handle.”

Then the smith, e’en Ilmarinen,

He the great primeval craftsman,

Forged a rake with copper handle,

And the teeth of steel he fashioned,

Teeth in length a hundred fathoms,

And of fathoms five the handle.

Then did Lemminkainen’s mother

Take the mighty rake of iron,

And she rushed to Tuoni’s river,

To the sun her prayer addressing:

“O thou sun whom God created,

Brilliant work of the Creator!

Shine an hour with heat excessive,

Shine again with sultry shimmering,

And again with utmost vigour.

Lull to sleep the race of evil,

And in Manala the strong ones,

Weary out the power of Tuoni!”

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 “Tigger dear!” said Kanga.

“He’s taken my medicine, he’s taken my medicine, he’s taken my medicine!” sang Roo happily, thinking it was a tremendous joke.

Then Tigger looked up at the ceiling, and closed his eyes, and his tongue went round and round his chops, in case he had left any outside, and a peaceful smile came over his face as he said, “So that’s what Tiggers like!”

Which explains why he always lived at Kanga’s house afterwards, and had Extract of Malt for breakfast, dinner, and tea. And sometimes, when Kanga thought he wanted strengthening, he had a spoonful or two of Roo’s breakfast after meals as medicine.

“But I think,” said Piglet to Pooh, “that he’s been strengthened quite enough.”


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 “Small, of course,” said Eeyore. “‘Haven’t you any brain?”

“Oh, but didn’t I tell you?” said Rabbit. “Small was found two days ago.”

There was a moment’s silence.

“Ha-ha,” said Eeyore bitterly. “Merriment and what-not. Don’t apologize. It’s just what would happen.”


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Runo XV]

Then the sun whom God created,

Shining work of the Creator,

Stooped upon a crooked birch-tree,

Sank upon a crooked alder,

Shone an hour with heat excessive,

Shone again with sultry shimmering,

And again with utmost vigour,

Lulled to sleep the race of evil,

And in Manala the strong ones.

Slept the young on sword-hilt resting,

And the old folks staff-supported,

And the spear-men middle-aged.

Then again he hastened upward,

Sought again the heights of heaven,

Sought again his former station,

To his first abode soared upward.

Then did Lemminkainen’s mother

Take the mighty rake of iron,

And to seek her son was raking

All amid the raging cataract,

Through the fiercely rushing torrent,

And she raked, yet found she nothing.

Then she went and sought him deeper,

Ever deeper in the water,

Stocking-deep into the water,

Standing waist-deep in the water.

Thus she sought her son by raking

All the length of Tuoni’s river,

And she raked against the current,

Once and twice she raked the river,

And his shirt at length discovered,

Found the shirt of him unhappy,

And she raked again a third time,

And she found his hat and stockings,

Found his stockings, greatly sorrowing,

Found his hat, with heart-wrung anguish.

Then she waded ever deeper,

Down in Manala’s abysses,

Raked once more along the river,

Raked again across the river,

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And obliquely through the water,

And at length upon the third time,

Up she drew a lifeless carcass,

With the mighty rake of iron.

Yet it was no lifeless carcass,

But the lively Lemminkainen,

He the handsome Kaukomieli,

Sticking fast upon the rake-prongs,

Sticking by his nameless finger,

And the toes upon his left foot.

Thus she fished up Lemminkainen,

Kaleva’s great offspring lifted,

On the rake all shod with copper,

To the light above the water.

Yet were many fragments wanting,

Half his head, a hand was wanting,

Many other little fragments,

And his very life was wanting.

As his mother pondered o’er it,

Thus she spoke while sorely weeping:

“Can a man from this be fashioned,

And a hero new created?”

But by chance a raven heard her,

And he answered her in thiswise:

“No man can from this be fashioned,

Not from what you have discovered,

For his eyes the powan’s eaten,

And the pike has cleft his shoulders.

Cast the man into the water,

Back in Tuonela’s deep river,

Perhaps a cod may thence be fashioned,

Or a whale from thence developed.”

Lemminkainen’s mother would not

Cast her son into the water,

But again began her raking,

With the mighty rake of copper,

All through Tuonela’s deep river,

First along it, then across it,

And his head and hand discovered,

And the fragments of his backbone.

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Runo XV]

Then she found his ribs in pieces,

Likewise many other fragments,

And her son she pieced together,

Shaped the lively Lemminkainen.

Then the flesh to flesh she fitted,

And the bones together fitted,

And the joints together jointed,

And the veins she pressed together.

Then she bound the veins together,

All their ends she knit together,

And with care their threads she counted,

And she spoke the words which follow:

“Fairest goddess of the bloodveins,

Suonetar, O fairest woman,

Lovely weaver of the veinlets,

Working with thy loom so slender,

With the spindle all of copper,

And the wheel composed of iron,

Come thou here, where thou art needed,

Hasten hither, where I call thee,

With a lapful of thy veinlets,

And beneath thy arm a bundle,

Thus to bind the veins together,

And to knit their ends together,

Where the wounds are gaping widely,

And where gashes still are open.

“If this is not yet sufficient,

In the air there sits a maiden,

In a boat adorned with copper,

In a boat with stern of scarlet.

From the air descend, O maiden,

Virgin from the midst of heaven,

Row thy boat throughout the veinlets,

Through the joints, both forth and backwards,

Through the broken bones, O steer thou,

And throughout the joints when broken.

“Bind the veins together firmly,

Lay them in the right position,

End to end the larger bloodveins,

And the arteries fit together,

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Author:Janeen Phelps

As actor

 * The Calling, "Janeen" (2021), as herself

Songs performed in films

 * "When I Was Seventeen" (2021), in the episode "Janeen" of the film series The Calling

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 705–715] stations, and fountains to play at Mecca and Medīna. It was all for ʿOmar a labour of love; and so well did he carry out these useful and ornamental works, that the Caliph, some time after, when on pilgrimage to the Holy Cities, expressed his delight and thankfulness at all he saw.

The attractions of ‘Omar’s beneficent rule drew away from the heavy hand of Al-Ḥajjāj great numbers of the men of Al-ʿIrāḳ who in Mecca and Medina thus escaped his tyranny. This irritated Al-Ḥajjāj all the more, and ʿOmar felt bound to inform the Caliph of his increasing severity. Al-Ḥajjāj,on the other hand, complained bitterly of the shelter given to his malcontent subjects in the Holy Cities; and Al-Welīd, yielding to Al-Ḥajjāj, recalled ʿOmar In his room, separate governors were appointed to Mecca and Medīna, who ruthlessly expelled the immigrants, and threatened with death any citizen who dared to give them shelter. One of such refugees, Ibn Jubeir, who had been paymaster of Ibn al-Ashʿath's army was, after an affecting interview with his family, executed with heartless cruelty by Al-Ḥajjāj. This was a couple of years before his own death, and remorse for it affected his mind. At night he would awake with the vision of his victim clutching the bed-clothes, and crying out, O Enemy of the Lord, for what hast thou slain me? whereupon the wretched man would keep calling aloud, What have I to do with thee, thou son of Jubeir!

His treatment of Yezīd and his brothers, sons of Al-Muhallab, was equally cruel and vindictive. Against these, it will be remembered, Al-Ḥajjāj had a grudge on account of their Yemeni leanings. After the fall of Ibn al-Ashʿath they were the only stumbling-block in his path. They were now imprisoned on the convenient charge against retiring


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Duplicate the smaller bloodveins,

Join the ends of smallest veinlets.

“Take thou then thy finest needle,

Thread it next with silken fibre,

Sew thou with the finest needle,

Stitch thou with thy tin-made needle,

Sew the ends of veins together,

Bind them with thy silken fibre.

“If this is not yet sufficient,

Help me, Jumala, Eternal,

Harness thou thy foal of swiftness,

And equip thy mighty courser,

In thy little sledge then drive thou

Through the bones and joints, O drive thou,

Through the flesh that all is mangled,

Back and forth, throughout the veinlets,

In the flesh the bone then fasten,

Ends of veins knit firm together,

’Twixt the bones, O fix thou silver,

Fix the veins with gold together.

“Where the skin is rent asunder,

Let the skin be brought together;

Where the veins have snapped asunder,

Let the veins be knit together;

Where through wounds the blood has issued,

Let the blood again be flowing;

Where the bones have broke to splinters,

Let the bones be fixed together;

Where the flesh is torn asunder,

Let the flesh be knit together,

Fix it in the right position,

In its right position fix it,

Bone to bone and flesh to flesh fix,

Joint to joint unite thou firmly.”

Thus did Lemminkainen’s mother

Form the man, and shape the hero

To his former life restore him,

To the form he wore aforetime.

All the veins had now been counted,

And their ends were knit together,

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 Rh the back room of a saloon, with a box of dominoes on the table to show the plan of it. He told the schoolmaster that he himself would only take ten per cent of what they made, as a commission for showing the system, and the schoolmaster could have the rest.

So, in a mad moment, the schoolmaster handed over his roll of money, and that was the last he ever saw of it.

The next morning when he was up he was fierce with rage and remorse for what he had done. He could not go back to the school, and he had no money to go forward. So he stayed where he was in the little hotel where he had got drunk, and went on drinking. He looked so fierce and unkempt that in the hotel they were afraid of him, and the bar-tenders watched him out of the corners of their eyes wondering what he would do; because they knew that there was only one end possible, and they waited for it to come. And presently it came. One of the bar-tenders went up to the schoolmaster’s room to bring up a letter, and he found him lying on the bed with his face grey as ashes, and his eyes looking up at the ceiling. He was stone dead. Life had beaten him.

And the strange thing was that the letter that the bar-tender carried up that morning was from the management of the Louisiana

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