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There, Obstruotiohtdie10 t'a4itning air ;0areSSed a blossom woven of sky Aud A,dv, )vhose tisty petals blue With'bliss of beibk"thiilledia.throGigh, ,Dilated like a timorous eye. 'Seek sehf reae, my souil Thegood The blOssoem craved wo ur, tho' hid. Fiet not that thou ;nust doubt, but rid Th. sky-path of obati'Action strewed By winds of folly. Then do thda The Godward impulse room allow To reach its pOr?eot air and food. k'10} s'the'.tsit c noit; it iin fie~ home meadow," said I, pausing to lis -ten, as the harsh, grating but most suimmer-like of sounds came clearly through the warm, still air this June evening, mingling with the voices of the children playing in the garden. MrsIarttBy listened too. and a look Cathto h4Yeyes' as "thou ;t she saw Sme other scene than the sunny garden and fair, green fields beyond, and the leigthening shadows cast by the elns, their leaves glancing golden in the set ting sun. I was sitting in the old-fashioned par lor, with its heavy, oak beams across the ceiling, its dark, polished furniture and old china bowls full of dried rose leaves and wide-open latticed windows, through which floated the scent of nignonette and pinks, while Mrs. Ilart leyil?rgI t otit the sweet home-niat\e cake bli ing neyw niilk int quitt mug of o1 china. Aye," said Mrs. IIartley ; " the corncrake. So it is, Miss Nelly ; so it is." Something in phe voice struck me. "Does it make ' on sad ?" I asked. "I like to,hear the bird, though it does make such a strange noise ; it always reminds me of summer evenings when the grass is long." "Yes; that's when it comes. You never hear it after the grass is cut. It reniinds me of my young days, Miss Nelly." "I mind well hearing the corucrake that sufhmer when my mother died, and I thought the sun would never shine fair on me again, so full o' trou ble and death was it-many a long year ago now. Mother had been ill a long while, and was nigh dying, for hei life seemed to go as the grass grew, and we knew she would never bide here till tie fall of the leaf. Father was, a game keeper and we livdd in that' cottage by Northover woods. Me and Tom Mars. den--he was the blacksmith at North over-had been courting a long while, with father's consent, for Tom was well-to-do, and the forge was his own. I thought a deal of him, for he was good to look at, and strong ; never a lad '> in the village,could come nigh him for looks or strength. And when I first knew him he was main -steady and well K thought of by all. But there was a bad lot o' follows in Northover-poachers * and such like-Lmnd, somehowv, Tom got * in with 'em. Father lie spoke to To'm aout it. for lie said : "'It'a no good thinkin' tha can pla' wvi' mud, and keel) thy own clothes clean ; some on it wll stick for sure I" To5i laughed and told father he could ak caeo isl,an(1 as ,f9r,catch o' fun 'Nl' g d4rk night,I aid io'halrnVin it either.' catch thee at it.. - So they pyted hI. anger. and father came,. hiome a yhYg I must thiink no more o'TonA foy thiat11e couldna Mt his lass 3ved a-poitcher. Tihat evening when the dusk was fall ng I sat by mother's bedside. thinking .f It all. Father was out in the gvoods and mother asleep, -so the house was ery still4 and all the windows open, for it was this time o' year; And I heard the C rpritke in the field nigh the cot tage as plain as now, sometimas quite nead shddaetth#sfarthei"'away,as it ran &bMt in- tig logg grass. V resently It stopped oroaktng, as .tlgough none thing ha 1tAgtledtit, it! then?there Wd. alittle rattle by thel & Me like bits o' iturb mothei and lookedoi ut; and there stood Toni gManst the fetnce with agun tyls,shaQ.0 "Ithbught fa have shelu thee at sun. .ack, ;uid, father Is.gole nto the woods. Ito's mainangeredewitlh thee, To h." * Obi aye,"- he says, "it's, about the birds; but it's naugit' I slxQkimy tiead.v 1 "Father says he'll not have me wed thee if thou dost hot nilsid thy Wi 3 and leave gQinn with thom poaching fellbws \Vllat dost thou want with them ? Thou never used to heed such like." 1 'i.i 1 nt gta! tof fr aiut, lass ; they're none so bad as thy fitlher thuinki yI f gt l oii o}n l ppvjev'Q) , V art thou polg1witlh a;gun ?" I asked him. "Nay, lass, thou art getting too curi ous. May be I'm going shooting flitter mice," lie says, laughing. " Thou'ltibreak my, heart, Tom," I says. "What with mother, nigh to deathi,ud ath'e h 1 aerd' ith tilee, and thou going on this gait." "I'mso~y*h~ bt ~a ibetter, Euitice," hes ys 1 dthsfo e rest, there's naught to fret about. I'll come and see thee to-morrow." And he went off smiling and waving his hiuc d s a tyrn d W,'" b "ti cpe Alpt o orlll e4 i croak)I .crSak.al oLL oI e~Iw, and I sat and watched mother with a heavy heart till the stars came out, and a young moon lying on her back, which was an ill sign, for you know the say ing : When the moon's like a boat, bero is tr.o b}Q aflgat.;1r >> ' I lloped it might nof be for lne. The corndrako had gone and there was naught to be heard save the rustling o' tl(ojg ais ,nd! tr . filek ,iti .llad turned a little chill, so I closed the lat tice and lay me down by mother a while. I had leel} asleep ppme time, for the moon was low in the sky and the dawn breaking when I awoke with hearing a trampling o' feet co in doWn the land. I listi&i, aiid 'th ritniifng? camr, nearer and sounded heavy-like, as if they were carrying something. It stopied at the gate, and then I heard the click o' the 'latch. 1 Mbtlier's room was at the back, -o it was no use look ing out,o1, tIle lattice. I; was creep}ng softly dovn stairs *hien imothier ' ,Wbke and asked if father had come im. " I think he's coming now mother," I said. " I'll fetch thee a ot,p o' tea,' and I went dowh aid opened the door, and there stood one o' the keepers, Williai' Balshaw, as married my cousin Anne. "Where's father ?" I said,'tryin to look past -him. " See now, Eunice," he says, ' thou mul;.l ep e, brave heart, lass. How 'is thy mother,?", " She's ito better, and asking for fath er." "Well, thou munl put her eff. I've ill news for thee, poor lass ; thy mother must know naught of it. There's been a bit o' fight witiithleninoithern chaps, an'-an' we've browt thy father home." My heart seemed to.turll Vo a stone. Is father killea R"4 f asked, ' Thou may as well tell me, William," "Aye, that . is so; I'm ,nain sorry, for thee, Eunice. - -I'll'tell 'eni to bring him in and lay him on the settle here; and I'll send Anne round to thee." With ethat they'carried father in and laid him on the. settle., J was. very. peaceful-like to look at. William said lie had been shot in thme chmest, and sdjqd quite quiet and easy. But all the wVhil9 I seemed to know there was moiN to hear-aye, and worse, for when I was stoodPing oVer fat)mcr, one of''the men said something tot Wilhan thni't'I did'it rightly catch, and Wfillimsays back to him,,speakig lowv, " Nay, thmere's 2 no' call t~o say more just now, poor lass ; wvent away, and I took mother her tea, feellp~ aIlda'azed hike. .5 * e "W here's ih4 faidhr, Eunice ?' suie says. And I answered her : "lie's., com ingup - presently, moth-e or ;" and then she fell asleep again, be ing weak. So the day wore.op, and ColmMn Anne came, and $quhe~ I,awhon 'and some ether gentlemen ; but Ididn't see themi, for William were rohnd again, ardd he tolq them all'aljonft'fathe W,fengthef were g6ute ,I lett'Anne sitting with mother and wont down to William and asked him how it eamne about that fath erwas shot. - " There was a hit o' a fight wIth th' poachers, lass, an' one Q'tthemr had a " Was there only one gumn, William ?" bays. "Only .one, lass; I dunnot think thy father was shot o' purpose. 'It wefe all mn the thuik d' tile "beher. Me ;Were fightina' 4'Ith ash sticks, an' thAy father, were in the mtdest,"whoi~ the ohj witli' th' un 106Iy'V 4 atP6 the ehet hit -thy there Thlat's 1ow'itMei'odofheg. " And whore visihe thathdfdy',- Ii ys, Iookfil' ut o' the window. "die's*y hq. IXp Jidl9g pome where. There's no call for thee to fret about that. Most like he'll get away to furrin parts. I see thou guesses who It is,,guoice. It' +nE inl hai;d gof ti)Oe,$ he says, taking my hand, meaning kind ly, for he was a good man, was Wil liam. But I pulle& my hand away and ran out into the fields. It was getting on for sundown then, and as I leant against the fence, feeling sick and gid dy-like tle egrilcrak? began pppk ng in thelong il'Ass t "hnd done over night. Anld I 'thought oA y.estneve, when Tom stood there with his gun, and IL t'ried'to A'ttu hin' 1aWay "from thosp who lecilitn astray.. It had all oitd iiyi ;ffitl eri- c'a d-d 111oh er q dyiyg, ,ayd ;''Qm bun I;wpuld not. think of Tom. Then Anne came out.td Aie saying mother was asking for me. So I went in, and .mother lookec at me and said: " Tl1y at u .gpd.lassl . L think thy father is dead-I dreamt it just now and thou art"liidinglit. iTie io inhtter; I shall know soon.. The Lord bless you, Eunice e r A nd after that she wentr into a sortto' faint, and died. So father and mother were' both' butled tlhe' sa'ne day; Aimd it was settled that I should go and live with my Aunt Deborah, some six miles away ; William wts to drive me over that same evening. Well, at sundown, all the things being packed, 'and noth ing left to do, I went through the fields to the side o' the lirodk, where. I had used tQ meet Tom, and there I sat on a fallen tree, thinking of all the trouble, and how all my life seemed dead and buried vith father and mother. Close by me was a thick clump o' palm, wil gl r h aili 'i l?- i 1 al I'd sat thinkipg a while, . hearl a rust ling, an' a voice saying, " Eunice, lass 1" I knew, the ,Voice right- weli though it gave me a start at the mo ment - "Is it thou,, Tom ?," asked. Ayo,;' he says, parting the leaves and looking through.i "I Pve been lying here all day to get a glimpse o' thee. I thought maybe thou wouldst come down here afgre thou went off uJg there's iuch thdt I've got L& siy to thee." "It may be much or little," 1 an swered -hini, "but I desire to have naught from. thee, .l om. Dost thou know father is dead'?" " Aye,' Eunice ; but that was ill-luck. I never meant to hurt thy father. It were 'all dohe in' th' hurry. 'I didn't notice as lie were among the keepers. That's why I mun rui the country. I might stand to be took up if there were naught against me but thi' birds, but this o' thy father is a hanging matter, 'so 'I mun run the country. I'm going on board ship to-morioiv, "and 'I've brougl;t tl 9e 0onow to pty ithy, p4sage out to me, lass, and we'll be wed when thou lands." . ,' " Tom," I says, It's not for we two to wed now thou hast killed Mther'" I wonder how thou canst think o' such a thing. Maybe trouble has made thee dazed-like." " I did'nt go for to kill thy father_i', he says, angrily. " That don't make nodifference," I says ; " it wvas- thy vrong doing that caused thee to be going with poachers, and With a guhi in thy hand. Thou wat warned, an' thou paid no heed. I can never wed thee, Tonm. I tol thee ,thou,'break mny heart, and niow thto'st done.it l'' ii : And I burst out crying, for it 'was ill moreo than I could bear. Tom camne outi of the thicket, and began saying . omeu isthing ; ilt I didn'i; leed what it was,. beingspen)gsprghe, awhien suddenly Wil liam camne upl beside me, aiid puit lisa hand on ~Tom's shoulder. " I'll not let on*as 'Tve seen thee, lad," lie said ; " but thou mun make 'thysen scarce. Eurgice is 'iht ; there can be no weddi'nd b491vI you. Thou mun go; and right sharp, too 1" Tom stood ~ilent-for a , m9it, andi thotYih l ~ at thou says.' ." Aye," I said, " I do mean it, Tom. It's good gi a ,g . ys(t~ " Good-bye," lie says again, and turn ed on by the copse: and that was the las ev r h epr or wo Womn pars. I was full o' sorrowv for many a long day after tha, arnd tmght nothing wpuld seem fieki tdd p aant to me again. .But At last I began to see I 8hould never have been a happy woman with Tom. Everything Is for the best, Mfiss Nelly, though we can't see it at the ti tea So when, ittM1e end 'of .tWo yeaks, Jdlin Hartley sikdd me to miar'y hi, ~Mi es, sad I Ae,e, 9 cragelt1 brings back to me thosa okdt days. Mrs. Hartley ceased, and we e1ie lent a1 tl a e. h ~? t4e W t-e s& moreo; the ev iihiopr4nroses were:peni n their yellow eids, the coruO1 b4a4 gott, and th' children's voices souidet nearer and clearer. Mrs. Hart ey miled piliily. ;'often thi ; 'she said; "of the old eryhig ' Many a cloudy dawn brin9 iii a bright day.' T e Last orf tho Buffalo. Ma of the exchanges have ecently piblil thed artioles concerniig blthe do m~estoti'4 ;thy b iffiro, oi o4ossig W6W4t ou-,.ttle - and, using them .for beef. y" Indeedi..*e are 'not certaiin but article f, the, 3id obave found their way if 'the cdltih is,o eilppings'ih the Stock: " toeAVournal, but. we suppose no}pY i . 1evQitt hoiiglt skkisly albi'' liime:dh thoeffir'b lade; there is no source from which to draw our st)pply of buffalo from which to breed, and in the next place it is not know, that the breeds will mix. The day of the buffalo is gong.' His bone bleaol.on the plains from the 11o Gran to the Saskatchawan, and after allow g. ,an4[.. indulging in the Indis crimi t SlAughter until the species Is so no 'etinct, it is too late to try to make it of him. Where once count less nii ons of the noblest wikt animals that "ber trod the earth roamed at will, furnishing food for Indians and 'aven ous' beats,, now not one single lalrge herd ban be fotind. Like the Indian, the battalo will not flourish when do mestic\ted. The boundless plains wore liigje, but the pale face with insati, ate d and improved firearms invad ed e alms of the buffalo and wan to, ept from existence the magnill cept nal. We can not now recall Lnd the frontier are no more. fi t 4pper, the fiat-boatman and sc lias' been swept from earth by g civilization, and the horse of t F , ac" browses 'where. once he w 4 . to roam and the flesh of the 10 t 1u'a cow is issued from the the noble red men in lieti of l hunip which the red main a f (ago. might go out -and get f.dlThe well-greas&d tent lot lder's old pants and dis 1d? shield the dirty hiido of the In an froni blasts which former ly had the buffalo robe to contend with. There are a few scattering'herds of buffalo now dn the plains, but there is not known to be a single large herd in existence, and when even a dozen ani mals are heard of, more thai twice that number of soldiers, hunters, adventur ers and Indians are at once on their trail, and they are slaughtered as wan tonly as a few years ago. The buffalo is gone, and whoso ex pects -to see buffalo meat quoted in the market is not wise ; .and he who wears a buffalo, coat henceforth will p y lnany shekels for the same. In Marrying a Poor a-k. An advantage over a poor girl that the rich ones has In marrying a poor man is that 'a woman of the world, who has seen much of society, rarely suffers rdi timat 'morbid self-consciousness which is the most frequent form of snobbishnegstIj be, found among small gentiefblics, and 'wic'h makes them eve): brdneto tike offence an'd to thik thiat ev&ery1 little actioni of their neigh bors is the result of deliberate inten tion. Half the "slights" and "insults"t of which such people complain are qumte unintentional, and are caused by that forgetfulness which is the natural outcome of the hurried existence of those busy bees of fashion or of hard syork, wvho are the m'ost usual offen ders. The adaptability of wvomen Is truly wonderful, and the poor man's wife will, if she has even moderate Intelli gence,; in a short time emerge from the anxious, over-careful period of her early married life;e and, shaving discovered the scale at whIch her new Income wi41 permit her t'o live, she will find thiit her ~previous knowledge of .how things oughit to be done will enable her to bo-' come that most excellent type of a honsewife, one who can cornbine ele gance with economy. We do not mean to assert 'that every 4rlch girl Is fitted 'to be a poor ,nyan's w~ife, or that every poor girl is .u4sulta ble. In every hposition there amrekomeji untlikely to be good, wives to anlybody, and others who could hardly fall to-do their dtity In anty stste of lifet WhNich they may ,be , called. But, talking gIr)k of average goodness and intelligence, It wi11 be found, that the rich ones .#ro ~more eten llappy and .contented in small houses than tilo e who.have ngyom Hlave frienda o6rle. N iott is so Lrna ,entl tes; nothitm* ehtle~ rat LOmi, * te that 18 born but once deti $moee He theyboyn tor190ahal heye i Freobooters of the Spanish Main. The kingdom of Ferdinand and Isa bella approached Its zenith in the six teonth century. Wealth flowed in i golden streani from the New World t< fill the coffers of their successors upon the throne of Arragon and Castile, the powerful Charles and haughty Philip The ancient thrdne of the Montezumaa was overturned in blood and the king dom of the Incas plundered of its hoarded treasure. The South Sea was 'crossed, tho ihilipphie Islands \vet 'ulidued, tti1d Spain gained a foothok ii the'.Indies, whose long sought treas ,res of porcelain, silk and.- spices were conveyed to Europa, to aildq1hQi4iji ' the oWie ndiogitifiicdhee of 'ih Castilihin tfoiie. No lag but that bf Spain waved over Pacifjc wa ter., Spanish galleois lo,tded with rich car goes from the Indies, reached the' \vest ern coast of Cental America, where the precious freight was landed and trans. ported across to ships' waiting on the other side to convey it to the mothei country. In vain England, eagdr to haie this rich harvest with her rival, sought for some entrance into the South Sea other than the dangerous one by the Straits of Magellan. To use this In volved a voyage too long and too full of dangers to render it practicable for the purposes of commerce in those days. Engil( and Spain were frequently at war, and the discovery of a means by which English ships of war could easily enter the Pacific and prey upon the commerce of Spain Was as much desired by the one nation as it was feared by the other. ' Even were this passage not discov ered, exemption from interference with her Pacific commerce Spain could not hope, to enjoy forever. The monarch of tnat powerful nation was the person ilication of arrogance. Over all lands even technically discovered by its sub jects he claimed dominion and the ex. clusivo right of trade, even if no settle ment of any kind had been attempted, Foreigners of all nations were prohibi ted, under pain of death, from having any intercourse whatever with' such territories, or navigiting the adjancet waters. The result of such presniiiption was most disastrous to Spain, English) Dutch and French. "free-trcaders'''iuade sad havoc, with the Spanish shippJing on the Atlantic Coast of America ; and though those ravages were continued in times of peace, they were winked at by the rival sovereigns, who often directly, and always indirectly, received tho share of the booty, and one of these robbers, Captain Francis Drake, was knighted by his queen for being' the most daring and successful of them all. And why not? Many a peer of England has been created for less services to llhi euntry than were rendered by, Sir Fran. cis Dralgc in leading the assault upola the great avenue of wealth through which came the means of putting afloal that, wonderful Spanish Armada, froi1 whose power England was saved only by the valor -of her seamen and th< winds of Heaven. These roving marauders made greal exertions to discover a northern route into t-he Pacinic, urged on by -reports ol the wonderful richness of the East In. dian commerce of Spain. Unsuccessful in tis, they finally Invaded the South Sea by the passage of Magellan's tem pestuous straits. Tile p)ioneer of thes< wvas Drake. In 1578 hie thus passet into tile South Sea, and spread terror and devastaton~ along the coast. Hie cap tured the East Indian Galleon, levied contributions on the Spanish ports, and flially with his only remaining vesse freighlted with plunder, siled inorti with the purpose of reaching tile Atlan tic through the Straits of Aian. .Ii thuis lie was thwarted, and to avoid tile Spanish fleet awaiting him at the Straits of Magellan, he returned to England by way of tile Cape of Good Hope). Othem English free-booters, encouraged by the da~zling success of Drake, followed hil example, and for years Spain's corn merce in the Pacinic suffered many ray ages at their hlands. Especially did th< Dutch thus plunder their Spanishl ene. mies at tile time whuen the Netherrlandh were struggling.to throw off the oppres sivoyoke of the Duke of Alva. They dis covered the open sea around Cape Horn, and swvarmed into tile Pacinec. TPhei; rendezvous Avas the Bay of Pichilingue, in the Gulf of California, from whicli the'#paniards were, unable to dliodo' them. From this fact they were called "Piohilbagied" 'a name wieli spreac terror along thba Spanish Main for & The 17etalhteriud'gNt, 9e'dinmg te the recent experiments of Dr. Poe Erankland, is spongy iron. l~wee don rak et and eh'atdoai, tog excelent atfirst, soon becomes wok than useless. Th~ie Mount Vernon assoolation 1t going to restore the old tomb of Washr b M4 Masonic temple for the lodges oi ~tl'r city is to be built in Newport, :R 12 iat ensLtof$5,000. DEATH BY DROWNIN(. What Happens When Persons Sin1k In tho Wator. In all flights of imagination the water, :whether of classical niyth or popular folk lore, is regularly recurrent. In one form or another, as the obstruct iug barrier or the gracious medium, the magic fluid that makes or- mars en chantment, the flood from which sur passing treasures are retrieved, or in which life is.fipally lost, ve find this ele ment conspicuous ; and it would, in. deed' be curiotsly o iff tiiig cOm - '. ation that shOuldlb i1i tOi'e i tjl ' io t i ia;ic'ohimielais Mtr l"ty trl ouutains, rivers, mores, tariis and lakes that have been. eventful in legend and fable. It would be found' that in pparly all, of, them, where. the closing tragedy of life has its scene laid in the subaqueous abode. of- the water folk, there is tihe teontlency on the part of the narrator to make dt ath by drowning an easy and painless escape from existence. -Enamored water fairies come and claim the strong swinnier or carry off the bathing girl as"a-playmate. The dark blue water from the glacieri runh icy cold and very deep. The'doomed youth, however, plunges in, and all of a sui den the water-drops around his head glitter by as if lit with blue: flames and tinkle by like the chiming of bells, and the Ice Maiden rises from the ground and kisses the swimmer's fd6t, where upon ia cold, deathly chill strikes through him as lie sinks ; and theo all is still. "IHappy was he thus to pass frow life to life,", says Hans Anderson. 1 do those who have been rescued from death by drowning, even when life had seem .ed extinct, speak of their last moments of earthly consciousness with horror. They remember the struggle, followed by a brief bewilderment of sounds and a still more brief flash of thoughts ; but after this a gracious forgetfulness over came them and they seemed to sink into sleep. Men and women have this d scendled into the abyss of death, and looked into its secrets, "as far perhaps as ever human eyes can have looked and been pormitted to return." At a cer tain stage of the descent the vision is struck as by some phosphoric radiance, and the water breaks up into glittering points, and' 'simultaneously, so sono have'left on solemn record, "a nmighty theater engenders within the brain." In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, every act, every design' of the past, lives again, and a light falls upon the whole path of life backward into the shades of infancy. The very instanta neity of the process, however, presenting everything, not in succession, but as co existent, deprives the sudden retrospect of its terrors and unconsciousness, they pretend, comes with a. a 1sense of relhef and even physical pleasure. Tile un fortunates, the weak ones, or the most sorely tried, whose names stand on the deathroll of our London rivers, have not probably any definite prdforence be= fore them when they seek from the cold, dark water the solace-which earth- will not offer. They see in the rolling: tide merely a form of suicide which is free frorm many .f the shlockinig incidents of other modes of self destruction, anId one that needs 110 money to coinpass~ it .1nor prep)aration beforehand to isure3 14L ciutainty, anmd thlen all is over so soon, too. No wond(er, thlen, thlat whlen. th~e fascination of suicide takes 110ld of tile wretched they should turni to tile (lark river as to a friend;. and little wond6r in tis terrible city of ours that tihe tale of tile dead should be aninually so great. 81IhonettoN. Until Dagierre made bis discovery, tihe wealthy had thieir miniaties pain ted 011 ivofy, . but tihe cheaper pdrtrai. ture invented by Silhouette w~as verny commroll. Profile Outters, as thely Were called, were found in all cities and large towns, while others WenIt about the country from house to thouse, 's that it .was very rare to find a sittings' room in a decent house- that did *ot boast of a framed silhottette, oie look. inng to the right and tile other to the left, There were different ways of are riving at the same~ restilt, brit the work was oblefly dene,ky outing thle profile. opat of ,white paper, which wasa 1oked; by a piece gf bhze9k pilk or blacjcpaper, neat.y nmounted. T0ojnsure success,$A was necessary to have a steady ba and a correct eye;: with ,t}iese qullties1 onie could ct(a 1,keggsslz a fe4vQeo onds..Ther were aiso sev?rneo'haq inia bt ile leotfi t rIt dizi is WPie tkfieMfri It up by~ andpiliutiggaintiteus'&