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~' ?~ X9 rr) A" ' ! , it' t 1 t' + t"+ r k ,'2T l2 1' ;7e 1 .' I 7 r f l r 'v l "\ p P ,' ,'r. r ' t AA ,. , ". I.; t' g .i Jf '';Z.i.l o' 'i'. P - ?} . 1 t, rN; , , ce l -. ,,r ,.r , . 4Y 1 I.yr( r . r . i . ltI r ! 1 1n (1 I. 4 q The Notional Nightiugalo. King Ilubert., he went to the forostin state, In glitter au-l gold, on a sun-shiny day; And cmmntnanded his tra#n te $hadow }to A air, hile :l'r1a p g i tip egin t e followhig "His imperial Majesty, Iubert he' since tl:e nightingale's voice is quite musi alreekontf 5 Is grai+,y p1ead, s te da se:S to long, To conictAk(l that t i o d.lo4 nu4i!i a $ong The contt,Ojllstiod' tviting fbir nat might befall; But, rvtunhow, no cightingale answered the4 call. THE QUILTING BEE. "i am so tired!" sig - I'at1 q Mel o ti e + o1,wal dot> B3 illttA e ( e iii Harry Lynde looked disappointed. "It's only a step, Patience," said he. "Oily a stepl Yes but every step tells when one has fairly reached the limit on or.s enduranceI" Thben, I suppose," said Harry, with si ai fes atio t av to l' nightingales must sing to an audience of nobodyl" "You and the nightingales must do as yo) please about that," said Patience lausthing. The t.'ld Osmund house looked weir der t.han Its" natit>ral wont-which:was, not at. sll neees%ary - in the pallid moonshinw: the Lombardy poplars Stir' red in the evening wind, and the stars were coming out in the sky so fast to.at one couj sc:-rcely count thenm. SN Pati ryy wt& jttint'}) l( back t 'rpn t w ctorwas 5catelh ever opened except on high festival days and Sur.days-old Mrs. Osmund was nodding over her knitting-work by the light of a shaded lamp in the mouldy back parlor. - , l f , "What have' you I uMind to occitpy your tin,e so severely?" said Lynde, - Patit;uce"smiled. "Don't you know?" said she. "We are to have a quilting bire here to- mor row. At leatst, Mrs. Osmund is. And I have boiled a dozAn spring chickens for salad, balked six loaves of cakes, made rar,pberry tarts after Francioli's recipe. and prepared a tongue, a ham, and four quarts of jelly. And the best silver luns been cleaned, and the deco rated china washed; the parlor curtains ironed, and avery floor in the house swept. Lynde whistled an insufmicient ex pression of his thoughts. 1.1-don't wonder that you're tired, " said he. "What is the old lady think 'ing-that you,are niade of, cast-irbn?" "Mrs. Osmund is determined to have the first quilingbee :of the season " said Pationc9, ''and I think she will succeed." "With your asaistance?" "With niy iistance. But when one looks at the lovely branching coral un -der the ocean, one never thinks of the patient ltti iu:sects,thuat have toiled to form its beauties -- .8, don?t you see, Mrs Osmund will get all the credit, as she ought,L to do; I am only her humble * I shotuld like to come to this quilt ing bee," gravely ob.served Mr. .ynde. 'You eaninot!" (returndd Patifence, ith a nod of her pretty jet-haired head "4o geutlemen allowed..?' "Wol;, at al.l events I shall be think ing l'~ you the whole time." Pat ie dde M4eade 4aidSemY Iailiy Lbat mund's on tae r.commeondation of a uever been done before I the knowl.. edeof man or woman either, su.ted he as.ad ous, if teh\14 d' wonian. Kobody, cou9g Wr ?1 with ;Petience Meadie-lie wats so quiet, so gentle, so pleasant; and at the mionth's end, when Mfrs. Q-ajond l3ad given h,er hard-earned, 'ages-aix dollars itn siver-and she .had ventured to hope that she had *given siatisfactlin,l the old. lady rubbed .he~ nose with the end of her spectacle "I 66 pose:you'Ve done as well asyou ~ould. /LdWId why yoi 'idb Sstit nie,"* j 'Which from her, was oxtrava ant * e,lppft disimtuhki N hb lknown its ThYe grand'o% hohtN ' LAg ilidnhf bee aived at laig, ,at d $9t 4ury Os. zhund's iutinite sautaction, it did not tin. 'rThfi sla4 ,ArtsI OthAedgId great sballow platters or the orthodox "s5how 4bew .tlie 1"in.1s at.live min'uteo notice.' The neighbors afrived in best caps and gowns. each with a work-bag of' a dif Se ntpaittern, id. tlg Oinund par lo 's ,vei f(il of (itling voices, ats the quilt was tacked on the frame, and em,h old lady begal dn'her own partic titqr gr,.on, vI11le Patience flow light y to and fro unding the scissors for one threading a refractory needle for an i o 1a e1unU d oT idig. Slfce tn der the sofaa,an d'lgIng; [hp while i 104erAliovjrpglit.9p t)p aNpper table hi the back room. "Like your gal, Mrs. Osnund?" asked old Miss Farrar, during one of I'Alence's temporary absences. "8he ain't so bad," was the old lady's li'n do'ditit- answer. - a leasaut face," said "Looks ain't everything," observed IMiss l'elle1a,. Ivhim' th yillape a ds had mischievously christened "M edusa." "We aillknow as beauty is only skin deep." said l3ethiah Willis, whose eyes did not match, and whose teeth protrudei li e the fangstof nlrod'enti Osmu l ; nI' 1 ei l ly thiink ;i Of adopting Patience for. my own. I've fpo relations nearer than second cousins And there's something, about the gal that is to be depended on!" Tue neighbors looked at each other in amazement. Mrs. Osmund sewed on ih the odd,:-jerky witys that she had; and, as she sewed, the little garnets and emeralds set around the rim of her oldh4shjoego) g hoibier, more than a cittuty >id, t g6sips dafd-fashed like tiny eyes of red and green Ore. -Well, I neverl" said Mrs. .Tohnes. "Guesd l'er"inlhd ' must be goiln'," whispered thi druggist's wife. r "Old fools is so queer," commented sl15arr4r,, who ,wig staring her eight teeth birth day in the face, The supper served presently was a complete success. The old ladies were compelled reluctantly to admit that Mrs. Osmund'squilting bee had been to the other q,uilting pevs f the ,neg.h borhoogr_\vhau fhe $$A icvaa-d i d stars. This was as they went home at night. The next afternon a sensation tlirill ed tlirobgh'the placer 'Patience Meade had been sent away from her situation at an hour's notice, and following close upon this dircumstance, old .Irs. OS mund had a "stroke," "Queer!" said Miss Farrar; "and she only two-and-seventy." "I knew there must be something wrong with that pretty, simpe'inug-faced girl," said Bethiah Willis, vho seemed. to ba well posted in all the particulars. "It's the gold thimble, sdt With preci ous stones that's been in the Os mund fainily for a century. She's stole t,! I could a-told how it would be." It was true.t'it(tlle gb14hnibl'le had been missing when old Mrs. Osmund looked through her treasures next morning. It was also true that she had accused Patience of the theft, and that in defanut of her confession and resto ration of the strinket, the girl :bad been uinceremoniously turned out of doors. Four hours afterward the old woman fell in a fit! Patience M~eade did not know where else to go, so she went to Lucy Lynde, Harry's sister. H arry himself came to the door. "Oh, H arry !" she gasped, "have you heard? .Diui they tell you'" "I have heard,". said Ijlarry, wylth stern. grave eyes. "Anid f never was so much pstonlsheId;ib mg li,fe. g 10 youi are really guilty, Patience, you should' douifesq ~t ati once ,There cyn,, be ,no use in equivodatink." "If!" She lifted her large, blue-gray eyes to his. "If I then I have assured ly com.q (o the wrong place.j Go*dby" and she was gone. From house to house she went, but 71ojone took,.her,in e,xcept Fanng Dar ton, who worked i the factory, and whose brother, Milo, had charge of the telegraph office. "You may as well try to 'make me be liey'e that I took old Mother Osmund's gold thimble. Patience, indeed! What air folkl hiildng of?"' "The most ridictilous nonsense I ever heard!" said Famnig And it was to these true hearted.par tliaaps tha~t ,Patience carried her broken heEft; and not1 ig fliad 'evdr sQthded halt so sVnet in, her eatrs a& Iio?s.ooq dial welcome, Fanny's. words of cheer ing comfort. Mrs. Osnfdd died aud' was buriede The heirs flocked to her funeral, 'like crows to the'd!tlppige ,ofome ain eagle. ere Was an auction sale at th4 old nd ho iseA and' Milo asged hus ste. anny to attend. ain't altoggty1y pedalnr,sajd be, sheepii+hiy. "btut if I could coax IM tience M'ado to say yes, there'd be the parlor to turtnislh aiid at few things to gt t'or ti(e up sthir. ti 'ut roohi.", ''Oh. MiloI" cried Fanny,rapturously "do you think it's possibly that-that she could like you?" "It does seem sort o' presumptuous, don't it?" paid Milo. "But I ain't go. ing to let her go for lack of trying my luck, that I kn,ow.P All the sacredness of home detail was turned in9ideJ'out. The old 'ab'inet piano was sold for a song; the tall, cherry-woo' clockI' brought about four times iti worth; poople laughed :at the old-fashioned furniture, and handled over Mrs. Osibund's cast-off wigs and curls with many a jeer and taunt. Fannly Dai'ton piurchased a neat an. tique set of horse-hair chairs and a claw legged table for, the parlor at home, and some pretty chintz curtains, hung over brass poles, and a lot of odds and ends, whi'ch comprised the very' half finished quilt over which the old ladies of Darlington had worked that last afternoon of Mrs.-Osmund's life. "It ain't worth much," said Fanny, "but it came with the towels and the screen, and I guess we can ilnish it at home some leisure time." .The sight of the quilt brought up a thousand reminiscences. People whils pered the naime of Patience Meade to one another. "I s'pose the heirs could hev her tried for stealin'1" said Miss Farrar. "That there gold thimble was worth a deal of money 1" remarked Mrs. yohnes. "I dessay if her trunks were opened," croa td1Misp l;feljet , "fglkq. )vogld find, lots o things she l tin't no business witlh I" "I really think," said Mrs. Cubebs, the druggist's w fe, "the town trus tees ought to look to itl' Fanny Darton heard none of these good-natured comments. She was busy, with the help of Melin da Eames, in taking the quilt from Its Irames, so as to make a compacter bun lie for the purpose of transportation. "Vretful pretty paterni What is it?" asked Mrs. Peck, the Methodist minis ter's widow. '"Court'iouse steps, or Job's troubles?" Good-natured Melinda unrolled the gorgeous mass of colors to let her look. In the same instant something shone with a kaleidoscopic glitter and di'op ptd clinking on the floor. "Lor'?" said Miss Farrar, ftimbling for her spectacles. "What onearth is that?" screamed Mrs. Cubebs. Fanny Darton rescued the glistening fugitive from under the leg of a rheu matic bureau. "It's old Mrs. Osmund's gold thim ble," said she-"that's what. it isr-roll ed up in the quilt! And now," with a defiant glance at the assembled brigade of gossips who were gathered around, "what do you all think about Pitlence Meade?" And she gathered up the quilt and departed, with unutteiable triumph. There came very near being a litiga Lion about the gold,thimble. The Osmundi hehrs, of course claimed it. Equally, of course, Fanny Dartoil declared that whlen she bid in the quilt she bid in the thimble also. And thm New York lawyer who was consulted by his cousin's husband, who had married an Osmund, said that they had better let the thimble remain where its was; and-so the Osmunds gave up the contest. And Patience, wears tegl hnl t6rthis day! h od hml IIarr~yLynde came <tonapologise to h,er for his hasty judgment; but he never (o,t further than the top of the lill, from whieh lie could'see 1atience help mng Milo Darton to weed the young beets. "It's true, thien,? 'h siY imself, t sharp pang piercing his heart. "They are engagedi" usoi b abt~t tlh le istily again. A Very IRare Piece of Lace. 'One ,the ihnest pieces ?f ,lce ever seen in . dijn'lis'befn'g shown at the Edinburgh exhibition. It consists of a iu'ge counterpane, more than %WQ yards square, in point de n'e,1ind of ex treme beauty and richness of design. It wats made about 100 years ago for the reigning pope, and it occupied two r thuree lifetimes ini its wotking. A few years ago it fotud its iyy back tq the r6yeil 1llc&' factory at Venice, whence it was added to L.he collectiop f Mrf Shimuel, of ramdon. --Tinsirance featureot theelBrothi irhood of Lacomotive Engineers has paid to families of members since 1S67 the sum of $180.0. ..... POINTE lS. Also Setters...The Use and Abuse of 4. fird Dogs. The ordinary bird dog consists chiefly I of r1bs and legs. There are two kinds, I the pointer and setter. They are so nauied from certain personal peculiari- 1 ties -when searching for game. They I are used chiefly to locate pfairle chick ens and brlig fleas into the house. 1 %in the pointer sets out to find a J praic leken it puts its nose to th < grou ani starts aoross th prairle at 1 a rai rate.. Before going far it inva - riablyex ieriencesiadhange of mind and couiis back. The programme is repeat ed. with a few miscellaneous curves dropped in to throw the prairie chicken off her guard and get up an appetite for dinner. While making these evolutions valuable pointers have frequently been injured by havng their noses drop into a gopher hole and break off. After that a pointer may make an excellent, parlor ornament, but seldom amounts to much for hunting purposes. When a pointer stumbles onto a chicken which it can't well avoid, it has a habit of raising the foreleg to call at- . tention to the fact. One which would point out a bird with a hnd leg would be a curiosity and command a high price. A good pointer, after having struck this attitude will keep it up for a long time it no sportsman comes to its relief and scares up the bird and shoots a calf over mn an adjoining field. The setter is another breed of dog. It ha,hore hair and fewer ribs. The chief use of the setter, like that of the pointer, is for the hunter to swear at when he inisses his.bird. The setter is so called fr'om its; manner of making known the fact that it has eighted game.., This is accomplished by care lessly taking a seat as if nothing luvl I happened and acting as if it had siit down to remain, very tuuch like a car penter working by the day. We have heard of setters which, after being seated, would take out a' cigar and begin to smoke or colinenco to look ever the mornpg nrewspaper, but uov61%h.aoooaswd the storyv.- We did, however, once see a setter which habitlally carried a camp stool in its mouth and upon sighting a ccvey of chickens would calmly sit down on the stool and cross its legs. We actually saw this several years ago, so there can be no mistake about it. A fine Irish setter belonging to an Estelline gentleman once went into a blacksmith shop during chicken season, and happening to sight a recently killea chicken in tLe belt of a man in the shop, immediately began to set it with moie haste than caution, and in so doing by mistake sat on a red lot herseshoe which the blacksmith hadl just dropped. Its owner afterward paid,the blacksmith $1.50 for the win dow sash and telegraphed to the next town for his dog. t American Newspapers. The wondelful growth of American newspapers is shown by a comparison between the directories published in 1776 and In the present year. The one contains in its sixteen small pages a list of 37 newspapers which were published In this country one hundred and ten I years ago. The other is almost as large I as an unabridged dictionary, and in its 4 two thousand pages contains the names t of 14,160 newspapers and periodicals of all classes. Of this large list only seven were found in the directoryof 1776. The net gain of the year hasi been 666. The daily newspapers num her 1216. a gain of 83. There are t about 1200 periodicals of all inds, which presumably enjoy a circulation I of more than 5000 copies. The in crease ini the rural' weekly press, comn- t prising about two-thirds of the whole I list, has been most marked in States like Karisasand Nebraskca. Karnsas Is also acc;editedl 'witLi the greatest gain 2 in daily newspapers. In Massachu setts thie; weel%ly press is growving, but I i~gazi'nes arid moonthly lithlicationsa lire losing ground. The tendency of this latter clas8 seems to be t9ward I New York city, as at least 28 mionthly 1 periodicals have been established herea during the year. Among the many newspapers publbshed In this country,e abhlost every social movement and in- t dlustrial interest finds expression. A glance at the long lisn. reveals many curious facts., There are about 700 re ilgious and denominational newspa pers, nearly one-third -of which are I published in New York, Palladelphia,4 Boston aid Chicago. INew York Is far ahead in this respect, while it will bya surp)rise to many to knowe thatr loston isu kehitin ilcag.,Threo,neys, l,apessadr4devPoted to ttueesilkwbras; six to$he hIoney bu4; thirtLy.tWO.to jpoul- I try; eighteen to dentistry; Jimd nine to to phonography,-There are three jiup11 1 cations issued in the exeluelve inlterestt of nostage stamnealle9toir0,af andomplo lancers. The Prohibitionists have 129 papers, and the liquor, dealers eight. rhe organs of women's suffrage num )er 7, of candy makers 3, of gastrono ny 3 and gas 2. Of the foreign newspa )ers, there are about 000 In German md 42 in French. New York, New rleans and Worcester, Mass., each nis four French publications. Two lathes are in Bohemian. Besides these, here are papers in the Swedish, Finnish, L'olish and Welsh languages. There is me publication. in, Gaelic. cne. in Ie. )rew, %ne 'in Chinese and one in the Jherokee language. A Tcrriblo Mail Service. Of the winter mail service between he mainland of North America and ?rince Edward Island, Mr Benjamin ays: "From January until May, at east, Northumberland Strait is frozen over. The mails are carried across at he narrowest part, near Cape Tormen ine, or Jourmain, a distance of nine niles. The carriers drag a boat over lie hummocks of ice, which is provided vith runners like a double keel. When hey come to open water they cross in ,he boat. It is a dangerous and ardu )us journey, and few undertake it be ides the hardy mail carriers. For two r three winters the passage has been nade sometimes by the steamer Torthern Light, constructed especially or this service. She -has a frame of ,normous strength, somewhat of a vedge form, with a solid shoe of iron t the bow; everything about her was lanned to enable her to crush her way brough the ice, which is often froz. wo to four feet thick. Her course is rom Pictou to Georgetown a distance f some eighty miles, although she of en has to go over two or three times at distance to reach her port. In all be annals of steam navigation there is o such packet service recorded as this f the Northern Light. Sometimes the e is so dense that she can make no ead way, but is jammed fast for days nd weeks, or carried to and fro by he combined fury of ice and storms. rN, pCsSUI-- tvhn ettvts , i1: hor- fnr ?rinco Edward Island n March 1'as be ore him the horrors of polar solitude mnd hazard. In the spring of 1882 he Northern l.ight was three weeks naking this brief passage, fast-locked n the ice-packs. Sometimes she was arried close to the shore, but no one ould bring aid to the starving passen ,ers, owing to the threatening condi ion of the ice. It was only after burn. ng all the woodwork in the cabin for uel, and beir reduced to the last bis uit, that the worn-out and hopeless )assengers reached the destined port. C'hink of a civilized and enlightened )eople, in this age, shut off from the est of the world by such a frightful lege of ice and tempest and snowl or is this an occasional thing. As egularly as the winter comes around, he islanders look forward to this long ibernation and isolation. Were it not or thi3 drawback, the island might be paradise." The "Baby Stave." The other day a reporter got into a dladisoni street car, and three younig adies who sat, opposite where he took ds seat suddenly ceased their hatter and began to look in ho most ludicrously Introspective vay. Their big eyes stared straight Lihead; they looked hard at the reporter, ret not a gleam of imtelligence. Pup >ies of eight weeke, children of threco nonths and semi-daft folks often have hat kind of stare. The reporter got servous, and, when lie decently could, mulled a cigar from hits pocket and vent to the rear seats. "What Is hat?" lie asked of an acquaintance, in >etulance, as lie fQashed a match. 'That," said the fly young man, "is vhat they call the 'baby stare.' :Iaven't you seen it yet? It's the latest fad' out. It takes nerve to do It, but he average-schoolgirl is schooling her elf. IIer idea is to open her eyes wide, hirect them straight at you, and then ook just as undeceptive of outward im 'ressions as babie5 do. It's a gfeat nap, but I don't think it will last. dighty few girls can continue long 'nough the look of idiocy known as he 'Laby sltare,' Dr. )(osmann, of Breslau, has ini roduced a new safety cartridge for use n coal-miines. The idei Is a' hovel one. ilnely divided metallic 'inc is placed n a.glass tube divided Iuto two parts, me to contain the zinc, the other asl-l shui'lo Moid. Ti. cartridge la plap,ed n.the hole borMd to receive It, and 'be, ng "clayed," the miner drives an iron odt into the tube, which breaks the ontracted part of It The sulphiuric adh is thus brought in contact wilth he Zinc, and a rapid evolution of hy.. trogeh - gas hkes place. Engineering nforms ys tbait a "pressure is exerted my the1 gas on the sides of the hole equal o387~O, atmospheres," which rends he rook. Effect of llizzards on Cattle. We have seen blizzards on the plains that swep)t through a man who was clad in heavy woolens and fur over garments as though he was dressed in tarlatan. We have known parties of buffalo hunters, men used to hardship and whose stomach was tilled with buf falo marrow, and who were wrapped in blankets and robes, to freeze to death in their wagons while endeavoting to escape from the unenduralole, icy.bla8te of ati Ai'otid blizisrd. cttle, weak and ill-fed on frost-bitten grass, disappear before tnese storms. They drift wit h the wind. As they pass by the air is tilled with the sound of their mournful moaning. They wander staggeringly along over the trackless plains, vainly endeavoring to t ud water with which to quench the intense thirst produced by exceedingly cold weather. The water holes are frozen. The weaker cattle drop out of the herd. They lie down to die. 'lhe snow drifts -around them. They are freezing to death, and are still consumed by raging fevor. The woles attack them as they lie on the frozen ground unable to rise, unable to protect themselves. The cry of de spair uttered by the wretched animals when they realize that the horrible death of being eaten alive by carnivor ous animals is their doom, is an un earthly one. As the peculiar bellow of an animal when it finds the scent of the blood of one of its fellows on the ground excites the herd with the information: "Here one of us has been slain," and renders them unmanageable,so does the death cry of a feeble cow frighten the drifting herd. They disappear down bhe wind. The wolves close in on the loomed animal. She struggles des perately to arise, In vain. The hungry wolves attack her. They tear her open. They drag her entrails out and devour Lhem before her eyes. She dies, and the wolves pick her bones and then gallop %fter the herd. Old Coven'. Garden. - den was burned to the ground, twenty three firemen perished in the ruind. The loss of property was estimated at 150,000t of which only ?50,000 was covered by insurance, Both Kemtble and his sister lost every stage property they possessed. There is a story told of the former sitting before his dressing glass on the morning after the fire, gloomily attempting to shave, then suddenly bursting into soliloquy, be wailing the ruin that had failen, euu mnerating like an auctioneer, the vari DUs treasures of scenery, library, wardl robe, and ending with: "Of all this nothing now remains but the arms of England over the entrance of the thet tre, and the Roman eagle standing sol ttsary In the market place! " Generous friends, however, came forward. Thu Duke of Northumberland sent him the munificent sum of ?10,000, and return ed him the bond on the day the first stone of the new house was laid, re questing that the enclosed obligation might be throwa in to heighten the lames. The Prince of WVales sent himn ?1000, and laid thle foundation atone on December 31, 1808. In eight, months the newv buildmng was completed at a cost or ?150,000, ?100,000 of which was raised in shares of ?500 each, Smirke was the architect, his model bemng the TIempie of Minerva in the Acropolis at Athens; the Doric portico in Bowv street, which moat of us re memrber, with its statues of Tragedy man Comedy, was by Flaxmxan. The newv theatre opened most unhappily. Dn account of the great expense lie had been put to, Kemble considered him ielf justified in raising the price of ad [nission. The b)oXes wvere accordingly advanced from Os, to 7e., the pit from Bs. Cd. to 4s., and a third tier of boxes was erected and let for ?12,000 a year This led to the famous or infamous, Dld Price riots. The opening night was September 18; the pieces "Macbeth" and "The Quaker." As Kemble, after 'God Save the King," stepped forward ;o speak the opening address, lhe was ialuted with groans, hisses, catcalls, mud shouts of "Old Prices!" Not one word of the play was heard. The Riot Act was read from the stage,econstables md even soldiers 'were called in, but, lie rioters hel their ground. This went on night after night with ever-4n sreasing violence. Men wpre, t1te, let. ers 0. P. on their hats and waistcoats; adles wore 0, P~. medals. Dustpiep's ells, cQachmen's horns, watobnpen's ~attles, and a kirid of Cairmagnole call 4l the 0. P. dane drdwned every word hme actors 'spoke. After a sti'uggle of ixty-one ni*hts, Kemible was obif ed ;o give in, lateH he pit 't he ld j ce~ mud do away With the pavate bbkes, The resurrectiopmIs~ the silWer hinidg~ :- the dark eloudl of dentbl and W n,ow the sui' iss obtig beyond.