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Frvrn tfui Southern Literary Gazette.
LINES TO A BELOVED VOICE.
Br OAKOUNE HOWARD.
Speak it onco moro, once more, in accents Boft,
Let the delicious music reach mine ear;
Toll me in truthful murmurs oft and oft
That I uni dear.
Teach me the opcll tliat clings around a word,
Teach to my lips tho melody of tliine,
And lot tho spoken name most often heard,
Be mine, bo mine.
Why in the Btill and fading twilight hour,
When lone a?id tender musings till the breast,
"Why doea thy voice, with ita peculiar power,
Still my unrest f
Why does the memory of tby faintest tone
In the deep midnight come upon my soul,
And cheer the passing hours to sad and lone,
As on they roll ?
Oh! if my passions overflow their bound,
And pride, or hate, or anger, call for blame,
Do thou with earnest, mild, rebukiiu? sound
But brcatho my name.
But show the better way by thee approved,
Bid mo control my erring, wayward will,
And r.t the eluding of that voice beloved,
All shall be still.
EVENING SOLACE.
BY CUHRKR BELL.
The human heart has hidden trearurea,
In Becrct kept, in Bilence sealed ;
Tlie thoughts, the hopss, the dreams, the pleaaures,
Whose cliarin were broken if revealed.
And days may pass in gay confusion,
And nights in rosy riot fly,
"While lost in Time or Wealth's illusion,
The memorv of the Past mnv <lif>
But, there hours of lovely musing,
Such is in evening silence coinc,
When, oft as birds their pinions closing.
The hearts best feelingH gather home,
Then in our souls there seems to languish
A tender grief that is not woe;
And tlio'ta tluit once wrung groans of anguish,
Now cause but some mild tears to flow.
And feelings once as strong as passions,
Float softly back?a faded dream;
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vur own snarp gnoia ana wild sensations,
The talc of othera' sufferings pcem.
Oh! when the heart is freshly bleeding,
How longs it for that time to bo,
"When, through the miata of yearn receding,
Ita woes but live in revery !
And it can dwell on moonlight glimmer,
On evening shade and loneliness;
And while the sky grows dim and dimmer,
Feel no untold and strange distress?
Only a deeper impulse given
By lonely hour and darkened room,
To solemn thoughts that soar to heaven,
Seeking a life and world to come.
ORGANIC SUBSTANCE OF PLANTS.
1. The organic substanco of plants
chiefly consist" of woody fibre, starch,
and gluten.
*1. Woody fibre is the substance which
forms the gaeater part of all kinds of
wood, straw, hay, and chaff, of the gliells
of nuts and of cotton, flax, hemp, Arc.
a. oiarcn is a white uowder, which
forms nearly the whole substance of the
potato, arid about half the weight ef oatmeal,
wheaten flour, and of the flour of
other kinds of grain cultivated for food.
4. Gluten is a substance like birdlime,
which exists, along with starch, in
almost all plants. It may be obtained
from wheaten flour, by making it into
dough, and washing it with water.
5. The woody fibre is the most abundant
in the stems of plants, and the starch
in meir secus.
6. Starch also exists abundantly in the
roots of the potato, and other similar
roots.
7. Woody fibre, starch, gum, and sugar,
all consist of carbon and water only.
8. As the leaves drink in carbonic acid
and water, all theso substances may be
derived from their food.
9. Leaves return the carbonic acid
to the air, because they do not require it
to form woody fibre and starch.
10. The carbonic acid gas in the atmosphere
would be exhausted by vegetation,
if it were not continually renewed
from sources11.
These sources are three in number.
First?From the breathing of animal*,
since all animals throw off a small quantity
of carbonic acid from their lungs
every time they breathe. This may bo
shown by breathing the nir from the
lungs for some time through clear lime
water, by means of a small glass tube, or
a straw, when the lime water will gradually
become milky, as it does when pure
carbonic acid is passed through it.
Second?From the burning of wood,
coal; candles, <fcc? since the carbon which
wood contains, when it burns in the air,
forms carbonic acid gas just as pure carbon
when burned in oxygen docs.
Third*?*'FVr?m fVio /)onn? *.t ?
?VM* vuv uwvnjr Ui
and roots in the soil, since thin decay is
only a slow kind of burning, by which
the carbon of plants becomes at last converted
into carbonic acid.
12. Animals and plants appear to live
for each other's support. Thus the ianijawl
produce* carbonic acid, upon yhich
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j)lu,nts live, and frorn tins carbonic acid
and water together, plants produce starch,
&c., upon which1animals live.
13. Water consists of oxygen and hydrogen.
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it. r.jvur) v ii/s. ui wttiur coiiuuiis o
lbs. of oxygon, and 1 11>. of hydrogen.
15. It is very wonderful that water,
composed as it is of two i hydrogen,
which burns readily, and oxygen,
in which bodies bum with the greatest
brilliancy,) should put out all fire; but
there are many substances, the composition
of which is almost equally extraordinary.
10. For instance, it is extraordinary
| inmtv/itic starcn snouia consist ot oiac/c
chat coal and water only, and that sugar
and gum should consist of the same elements
as "tarch and woody libre.
17. "We may say, then, that all these
substances consist of carbon, hydrogen,
and oxygen.
18. Gluten consists of all the four elements?carbon,
hydrogen, oxygen, and
nitrogen?united to a little sulpher and
phosphorus.
10. Plants obtain carbon, hydrogen,
and oxygen from the. air; but nitrogen,
sulpl u -, phosphorous thev usually obtain
almost solely from the soil.
Note.?Hence the importance of adding
to the soil manures which contain
these three latter substances.
Tiik Farmkh.?He is a public benefactor,
who, by the prudent and skillful outlay
of his time and money shall make a
single field yield permanently i> double
crop; and he that does this adds a squni'C
mile to the national territory; nav, he
does more ; he doubles to his extent the
territorial resources of the country, without
giving the state any larger territory
to defend. All hail, then, to the impro- J
'vers of the soil! Health and long life to
their fortune ! May their hearts he light
and their purses heavy; mav their dreams
be. few and pleasant, and their sleep the
sweet robes of the weary 1 May t hey see
the fruits of their own labor, and may
their sons rear still heavier harvests!
TIl? SNAKE GRASS.
A British sportsman tells the follow
ing ludicrous laic of his fir ' experience
in punning in this country. He had hired
a black, Apollo, to show him where to
find woodcock.
On entering the covert I soon found
the use of Apollo's thick jacket. Never,
in all my experience, had I seen anything
to equal the denseness of this
thicket, or the size and sharpness of the
thorns. My gauze like coat was soon in
ribbons, my eyes nearly blinded, and my
face in streams of blood. This, added
to the almost overpowering heat made
my position anything but agreeable, particularly
as we had not as yet seen a single
cock in near half an hour's beat.
Apollo glided about, peering into the
trees in a most extraordinary manner, as
I thought; and I wa> upon the point of
asking him if we could not find some
more open spot, when I found something
stirke me on the face. Almost blinded
by the blow, T put up my hand; a cry of
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uwiiui ^suitptu iiiu, i luiuiu i Iiciu grasped
the cold coils of an enormous black
snake, whick was hanging from a tree
over my head.
Apollo looked round, gave a low
chuckle, and was proceeding onward,
when I called on him for mercy's sake
to stop.
"Ya! ya! ya!" laughed the old wretch; |
"im only poor black snake."
"Only black snake!" said I, my flesh
creeping with horror; "I did not know
there were .any snakes in this jwirt of the
country."
"No snakes, masa? Why um chock
full of snakes dis swamp; im full of copper
heads. We nebber come into swamp
I wid ut do tick boots cause if copper bite
um, im dead man, sar. Dare, massa!
look under dat shumac bush, just by you
boot: dare one tundering big chap."
"Let us leave this dreadful place,
Apollo, said I.
"What before we find de woodcock,
Ear?"
"Confound the woodcock!" said I, now
losing all patience, and determined, if
possible, to put an end to my disagreeasituation.
As Boon as we crot out of the woods.
I dismissed my guide; and with mydog*,
undertook to beat some open fields, in
which I soon fonnd plenty of quail.
The fields being fresh mown there was
no lay for the birds, but to my snfwfHu.
faction I saw that the quail mostly flew
lo a piece of long gross in thf? meadows
which was left unmown. Having accomplished
my undertaking, I entered
the grass, which was thick and up to my
waist. Quail after quail arose, and as
I nff/'n (V>11 til mw mm nr>A T ??
w.w.. .v#. .v mm,j ^wn, uiiu jl i;r.i.wmn* pu
elated with my success that all thought
of pain, fatigue, black snake, or copper
head, waa gone; and though I did now
and then hear a rustling '"n the grass
which made me start wprtj I picked up a
shot bird, I was much too delighted to
heed such trifles. My pockets were getting
heavy, and I wan in the centre of
the grass when I heard a shout from a
hill at some distance, and looking up saw
a person who ^ his gesture appeared
to )>e in the "highest state of excitement.
Now I had hitherto always found it
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to bo the best practice, when challenged
afar oft' by enraged famef-sor their servants*'as
a trespasser, to be both blind
and deaf until the persecutors approach,
during which time one may either mako
off or feign ignorance of any improper
intentions. Tlic sport at this time was
too good, and cost too much labor, to be
easily given up; and although I heard
tho fanner hollowing at the top of his
voice, and saw him running as fast as his
legs csuld carry him, I still continued
shooting. At last lie was near enough
to make himself heard.
"Ilalloa! there, you tarnation fool!
come out of that long grass."
"O yes," thought I, "aeed ground
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>uiy uuuiy, uui< iu? nil guou HOgS, WC
may get a brncc of birds before his short
legs can reach us.1'
'Come out of that long grass !' again
rang in my ears.
'Not till I can't help it, my lad,' thinks
I. 'Hie on there: we have a dozen bevies
if we have one in this piece of stuff
yet.'
'Oh! you contancarous varment! Come
out of that long grass !
The enemy is close upon its. One shot
more, and then to closo
'By the etarnal! he you mad, or he
yo\i deaf ?' cried the man, now at the
edge of the grass, and in an agony of excitement
; dwc you wish to be a dead man?
Come out of that long grass, I say.'
llis last words, spoken with great ^ <ihemence,
made me pause; steel-tn ps
and spring-guns came into my thoughts.
'Come out, comc out, of that long grass,
J or by the etarnal you're a gone sucker,
i A hnifhty smash, don't you know that is
I my snake grass? Come out, you tarnaI
firm fnol '
'Snake grass,' said I in a low tone,
raising myself on tiptoe, and standing on
' the very smallest space of ground. 'Snake
grass, sir; what's snake grass ?'
'Come out I say, and if you get -way
without death in your carcass?which by
the immortal pumkin, 1 rather think you
never will?I'll tell you what snake grass
is.'
Trembling, I crept out of the grass,
and approached the farmer who stood
wiping the perspiration from his head.
Well,' said he, '1 have heard tell on
(inrnea ioois mat go on Dira-nunts, out
may 1 lie absquatilated etamally if I ever
thought a feller was fool enough to go
into a piece of Jarsay snake grass after a
poor miserable quail.'
'Pray sir what do you mean by snake
grass?*
'Not know what snake grass is ? Well
I might have seen by your out'ards that
you wan't of this location. But don't
you know these here clearings are chockfull
of varmint snakes ? When we mows
we lciLVr- n nuvp nf lnnrr nrmsii fnv flin Inr.
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nation reptils to go into, and when the
gra&ti gets dry, you see, \vc sets fire to it,
and burns all the venomous varmints, and
so makes kind of a clearance of the snakes
every year. Lord a marcy ! when I seed
you in my long grass?which ought to
be chockiull of coppers?I thought you
must be a gone sucker; and how on ?rth
you escaped is beyond all, and that's a
fact.'
I felt sick and faint and leaned upon
my gun for support. My escape had
been miraculous. Thanking the farmer
for his kindness in warning me of my danrrnv
iti/I /l/./'lnnnii1 ir \ tlntiAn 4^*
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take of refreshment at his abode, I made
the best of my way to Colonel Obadiah's.
A CONTRAST.
About half a century ago, a distinguished
member of Congress, in the course
of a speech before that body observed :
"In a country so extensive as America,
and where the people are so widely scattered,
it is a work of immense difficulty
to have a regular and accurate account
of the measures of government conununi
eated through every part of the Union.
It can scarcely be conceived by those
who have no call to visit the interior and
more retired parts of the country, how
much the peace of society is disturbed by
the propagation of malicious falsehood.
The most wicked lies are kept in circulation
for months together, and before they
can be effectually contradicted the people
have become almost frantic."
That was in the days when members
of Congress were wont to inform their
constituents of the progress of public affairs
through the medium of printed circular
letters. But, what a cc&trust between
that time and the present! Now
the inhabitants of a eitv two thonsuuul
miles from the seat of government read
nt the breakfast tnble the doings of their
representatives of the previous day?reported
with minuteness and accuracy. Jn
no pail, of the country c#n the people he
deceived beyond twenty^four hours, as to
any event connected with the administration
of public affair*?so regular are their
means of information through the medium
of the public press, circulated over three
fimr-i {lir. A? nwfAwr vAwi.?aA?fA/l
.vnv v* wv? 11W4 J iO|>ivry;;aivu
in Congfcss half ft century ago. \
If any man in the interior of any State
or Territory is not fully informed and
posted up in the news of the day, it is his
own fault?it is beca'.:r?. he will not subscribe
to a newspaper. It is creditable
that there are but few such, and that
those few arc fast becoming ash&toed of
their benighted condition.
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The PnKBs of South Carolina.?
The growth and vigor of the newspaper
press in this country for some years post
is truly astonishing. Every mail brings
us additional evidences^the success and
enterprise of the newspaper establishments
of the South. We are rejoiced to
see this state of thing's in our own State
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| '<ik uuuiui iy , umu tut? iiiuiijr ? un tunuviutod
papers now established in the upper
Districts must bo of immense advantage
to the people. There is no branch of industry?agricultural,
commercial or mechanical?but
must be invariably benefitted
under the influences of these presses.
Light and knowledge?education, morals
and virt ue, must ever be the concomitants
of a well sustained press amongst a pco
pie. Had we space to enumerate, we
might mention the papers we allude to ;
but we comprehend all when we say of
the newspaper press of South Carolina,
that, in point of ability, correctness of
tone and sentiment, and the successful
pursuit of this honorable vocation, in all
respects, the newspaper press of this
State is unsurpassed.
South Carolina, by her devotion to
Democratic principles?by her unwaver
ing aetence ot btnte nights?ana by the
exalted patriotism of her statesmen, unpolluted
by the debasing influences of
party strife?has frequently been sneered
at and held up to ridicule by the party
hacks and political brawlers of her sister
states. But the flings of party ribaldry,
or the paltry exhibitions of envenomed
spite, so often hurled at their noble little
State, find no sympathizing heart or pen
among her editorial corps. They are i
met with scorn, and repelled with a consciousness
of integrity, of principle, which,
in too many instances, is manifestly wanting
5n tlw.lv ncouilnnlc 4l,?
.?i^ ??* nu n iu.v>mmiho. t i v? viiiuiv'il^u tuu
strictest scrutiny and most rigid critical
examination, when Ave assert that the
press of South Carolina stands unsurpassed
in every quality Which tends to elevate
tho morals, augment the happiness,
or preserve the independence of the people
whom they rcpi-rscnt.
Well, then, for oui conclusion. The
people of this State should sustain first
their own newsnaners. To use n com
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mon saying, they may go farther and fare
worse. Their city, town and district presses
should he liberally patronized, hccause
the newspapers of South Carolina arc a
unit?one and indivisible?in defence of
(he lights, interests and institutions of the
South. There is no diversity of sentiment
with regard to these ; whilst, in their dignified
and manly defence of the fair fame
of our gallant State and her people, they
have been in a great measure instrumental
in placing her in the elevated position i
she now occupies?notwithstanding her
defanvrs?among her sister Suites. Let,
then; our own presses, from the seaboard
to the mountains, be liberally sustained,
even if occasionally it should be at the
sacrifice of some cherished journal published
elsewhere. For the people of South
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v^iiiwuuu may uu wuii assuruu maim mem
they lmvc their best and tmest friends.?
South Carolinian.
Akkk8T ofThkek Counterfeiters.?
The usual quiet of our pleasant village
was somewhat disturbed, late in the afternoon
of the 3d instant, by the arrival of
four strangers who, "dusty with travel,
flwv llfif wllli urvon/1 " tv?n/Jn oJminKf #>??.
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the Court House, and loudly called for
the Sheriff, instead of following the moae
general custom of riding to a hotel and
halloing for the landlord. Upon inqui.y,
we ascertained they were four gentlemen
from Virginia, in pursuit of three fellows
who had been passing counterfeit money
in the "Old ominion," and thinking that
too easy a business, had added to it the
robbery of an old gentleman they met in
the road just before they crossed tho
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XUMtlJ Will OUIlil UU15.
The senmps of whom the party wore
in pursuit, hml paused through the village
the evening before, Avith two tobacco
waggons?rather a slow way to travel
when the minions of tho law arc in pursuit
of a man?and could not tlien have
been more than fifteen miles from this
place. After procuring a warrant /'or
the apprehension of tho fugitives, and
bring joined by Mr. Smith Jones, the efficient
Deputy Sheriff of the District, and
Mr. Richard Hix, of this place, the party
again resumed their chase. The wagons
w>??1ir.<l rV.lr.rvaV.
I(?v? I\.uv?ivu vvmvcuui y | 111 AUUUVIIll'i UUfore
they came up with them, and succeeded
in capturing the incr they were
in pursuit of- On being taken, the prisoners
confessed having passed counterfeit
money, but denied the robbery. And as
they expressed a desire to be carried back
at once, without being confined fti jail
here until ft requisition coulu be obtained
from the Governor of Virginia, they were
taken immediately on, to staud their trial
at home.?LaunnaviUt Herald,
"Now Patrick," said a Judge, "what
do you say to the churge ; are you ;uilty
or not ?"
"Faith, hut that's difficult for your honor
to tell, let alone, mcaelf. "Wait till I
hear tho evidence."
A YOUNG TOBACCO CIIEWKR.
A little boy, not oyer ten years of age,
wis mw.u me owicr ?ay cramming' his i
mouth full of "fine cut," when ft gentle- ]
rami standing by, who bccamc somewhat I
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Ifkused at tho littlo fellow, asked him
what he chewed tobacco for.
"What I chaw tobacco for?" replied
tho boy. '/Why, sir, I chaw it to get the
strength out of it, to be Sure, what d'yo
t liinlr f nlinw it. fnr 9"
"If it comes waiim after this, we shall
have every tiling starting out of the ground
directly."
"Heaven forbid?I have two wives under
it."
A Yankee Tiuck.?A young lady of
Connecticut, became extravagantly fond
of a young lawyer in the neighborhood,
who treated her partiality with great levity.
Fiudmjr her suit rather hopeless,
and bem-:' lully deter mined to enter the
state Oi matrimony a. some rate or other.
she adopted tho loiiotrinir nlan: All
at once s.:c was takon il\, and her malady
scemo<l to ?hromc* death. At this
crisis alio sent lor iho young lawyer to
draw her will, and <o his astonishment,
she disposed of an enormous estate, in
legacies and endowing public institutions.
She shortly after however, recovered to
enjoy her own wealth, and the young
lawyer hrgan to feel something like love
for her, his address became constant, and
his attentions marked; in fact, in a short
time they were married; but, alas! he
had to take the will for the dead.
An OutrA.gr of a most disgraceful
character was perpetrated by five individuals,
in Cleaveland County, 14 miles
south-west of Lincolnton, on Sunday
night last, about dusk. A residence,
the property of Alexander Norton, Esq.,
was forcibly entered, the old gontleman
and his lady severely beat with sticks,
freshly cut in the neighborhood, and
their cscrutoire robbed of from $140 to
iofin ?.?i ,*i,i 1o,K. <i.
^ fcvv/, cmvi tuv; vivi nwiy tmiirvo u|;u<iiu.i.
They then left the premises, and, it is
hoped, will not escape detection. An
outrage so villianous, has never before
dls#rnced the community, and thus it is
doubly lamented nnd. condemned, while
there is a spirit abroad that will bo both
ready and willing to
"Put a lash in every honest hand,
To whip the Distalh naked thro' tho world."
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ivir. itunon is one 01 trie most respectable
citizens of Cleaveland county, tbat
part formerly belonging to old Lincoln,
lie litis been blessed with competence,
and prudence and industry have but increased
liis store. Hard, it is, that thus,
in his old age, jogging on slowly to tho
grave with his only tio on earth, bis last
hours should be invaded, and a thirst for
money jeopardize his few remaining years.
"The way of the transgressor is hard,'*
God's finger in on them.?Lincoln Courier
A DRAFT ON THF BANK.
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xne oincinnau commercial relates tho
following anecdote?which is characteristic
enough to be true, ntnll events:?
Four persons had seated iheruaelveS in
tho mines to piny a game of poltcr?the
ante, as a substitute for money, being a
handful of gold dust. They continued
playing some time without either sido
winning much. At length one of tho
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puny, wno nan a gooa nana, went n Handful
"hotter."
"I see that, ami go a pint better," cried
another, who also had a "strong" hand.
"I sec that," responded the first, "and
go a quart better." "Well, I see that,
and go you a gallon better," responded
the other. This rather disconcerted his
adversary for a moment, as it "ov^r-sized
his pile"?but, confident in the superior
strength of his hand, he collected togethnr
nil fVin rrrAf] sluaf litt Kn/1 lnff nn/1
vi no vnv ^viv? v? ??>>v iiv imvt iVlij C*)HU puv
ling it aside, coolly remarked to one of
his companions, "hero, Jim, watch my
pffe till I go out and dig enough to call
him."
EMIGRATION AND COLONIZATION.
"Ma," a young lady to her mother
the other day, "what is emigrating?"
Mother.?"Emigrating, dear, is a young
lady going to California."
Daughter.?"What is colonizing, ma ?"
Mother.?"Colonizing, dear, is marrying
there and having a family."
7)auf/hter.?"Ma, I should like to go
to California."
Talbotype Drawin/j.?A friend of ours
has sent U3 a specimen of Tnlbotypo
di:..ving, nn improvement on daguerreotyping,
which consist*! in fixing the objcct
on paper instead of on a metal plate.. It
is h new invention, and tho picturo before
ns--a cottage, the residence or.Dr. Blaney,
in Chicago?i3 remarkably ojijar and disv?
tinct. We are not aware that any pictures
after the Talbotype method kav?>
yet been taken in New Orleanp. The ono
under notice wfut executed b$\Dr; Bliiney,
Professor of Chemistry in the Medical
Coiicge of Chicago, who, wo are informV.7
?-*sn ? : -iv x
<?uf ihio ilium: Dim iiuuicr iiiijjiuYumuniH
in this beautiful art..?N. 0, Pic.
"When you salute a lady or a gentleman
to whom you wish to show partfctilnr
respect, in tho street, you should tako ,<f;
your lmt entirely off, and cause it to describe
a crrcta of at least ninety degrees
from its original re9thig place. The inferior
classes of mfcn, as you may see if you
think fit to tako notice of them, only press
ih/? MM >ar I* r.T\ 4l\Air 4 a.
i III" I Jill tM HKMl *l?v HIM M Hiv-y IAJ
women of their acquaintance."
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