“NASCENTE LUNA." ,
-
[ 800 a stroteh of shining sky
Like some fair ocean sunset-lit,
Peaceful and wide its spaces lie,
And purple shores encompass it,
A little
Upon its bosom is afloat.
slender silver boat
Chis craft, unstaid by winds or tides,
Slips out across the twilight bar;
Through rosy ripples, soft she glides,
Lod by a single pilot star:
With shadowy sails and fairyferew,
She drifts along the summer blue,
the's filled fr with flowers,
And Love al
Nill ought of what she brings be ours?
1 to stort
id Happiness,
Ah mo! if we could only winoss |
She rides elusive and romote,
This little slender silver boat.
-{ Francis Wayne, in the Spectator.
+
f the
heard was told me by an aged gentleman
Une o
recurred.
told it to me, only altering the name of
suppressing that of the town. I may
fictionist.
be found in any eatalogue of
trials. But the man belonged to a
spectable family ; a relative of his
re-
alar divine—found it advisable to medity
aection, and it is
able—that some of the line still survive
who might be pained by any public re-
turning of this dark their rec-
ord.
Therefore, we
11
possible
page of
will give family
name as Mildon, aud their abode as the
p TP 2loms and gay town of X—,
The leading part in the little drama is
played by one Charles Mildon, a fashion-
able young gentleman, mixingin respect-
able society, of popular manuers and
many ac
tunately, of extravagant }
seams p lear, of
vice which frequently underlie these.
He lived nlone in quiet, genteel lodg.-
mgs, where it appears that the character
“e¢ maintained was fairly good. If at
debt, he prese ntly got
the
wabits, and, it
Lose darker shades of
times he got
out of it, owing to the good
old bachelor uncle who had repeatedly
ome to his rescue; but whose patience,
voung Mildon felt,was fast wearing out.
This unc Mr. Mildon, Sr.. inhabited
» small house in a lively, well-frequented
i
int
LH
oinees of an
ie,
part of the town. He was an elderly man,
slightly erig y in.
valided tha left the upper floor
of his abode, where he served and
attende ) aithful old housekeeper,
who had been with him for many years
She aud her aged master were the
inhabitants of the dwelling.
There « was
one 1g —when people
the f Mr. Mild n
aware of signals of
first floor win Haring succeeded in
arresting somebody's attention, the old
gentleman, in a very excited manner
proceeded to explain that he felt sure
there was something grievously nmisa in
pled and otherwise so
t he never
was
d by a
3
sOie
rather late
passing by
NT,
ame a time—it
eveniy
abode « became
distress from the
iow,
his lower premises, and to request that
assis should be § his res-
tue, to enter | discover the
true state o A curious
eager crowd ured th
of the proper functionaries. They pro
led to break open the hall door, think-
ing, probably, to come upon nothing
worse than an inebriate cook or the de-
vastations of a bungling burglar.
But a single glance roand the
changed the aspect of things
grew pale and solemn, and def
Iissives were grasy
tance tched to
118 house and
and
presence
f matters
FOOD Sed
on
interior
Fae os
ensive
was pressed bac
moned.
From mouth to mouth went
whisper: “Murder!”
In less than half an hour it was noised
abread all over X— that a terrible and
k, and further
the grim
the house of old Mr. Mildon. His bouse-
behind the hall door, and farther up the
passage, at the head the kitchen
stairs, lav the corpse of another person,
readily identified as a respectable old
body who had occasionally visited Mr.
Mildon’s housekeeper :
It was only to be expected that the
of
the scene. The succor of his aged and
infirm relative, so awfully left alone,
naturally demanded that.
Bat young Mr. Mildon had also some
information to volunteer.
’
shut within the house, left, in short, on
a chair in his uncle's room. He had, he
said, hesitated for a moment what he
should do. He presumed the house.
keeper had gone out marketing, possibly
taking advantage of his visit to do so
without leaving her master alone; thera.
fore any ringing on his part would be us
futilo us the runaway ring had been. so
he had decided to go quietly and hatless
to his own lodgings, which were, fortu-
nutely, not far off, intending to return
in the course of the ev: ning, when the
housckeoper would have resumed her
ost. He had actually been on his way
Pes when the excitement in the street
apprised him of the horror which had
been enacted in his uncle's house.
Young Mr. Mildon's
was certainly important.
two or three matters:
Had the housekeeper really been ab.
sent from the house at the time of the
runaway ring?
If not, what had been the hindrance
to her answering it?
Young Mr. Mildon was asked why he
communication
It opened up
door himself? Was it because he
had thought it likely she was out?
answered at once that he had not thought
about it. The bell had rung and it
had been neglected. He had gone
the door simply as the most direct and
natural thing.
Another question was, **Who rang the
bell?"
Was this mysterious runaway the same
who subsequently returned and commit.
ted the dreadfal crime? Had his
failed him on the first occasion?
he gained an inkling that the house just
guest as well as its
He
himself had not approached any of the
luring his visit. His uncle had
sat in his accustomed chair by the win.
dow; a watcher outside might have ob-
served the old gentleman turn to speak
to somebody inthe room. But there had
certainly been nothing to show that this
usual feeble and aged occupants?
vant
Mr. Mildon,
nephow
confirmed his
in every respect. There was
voung Milaon’s hat on the chair, where
he had left it. The old gentleman had
little to add. After his nephew had
left him to attend to the ringing
bell he had heard the street door
sharply, and, looking from the window,
had seen his nephew go off, bareheaded,
guessed accurately enough at
He had
newspaper reading and
had not troubled himself further for some
time. Then it occurred to him that hi
housekeeper was late in bringing up his
had rang
little effect
I! At
it again and again, with
produced
out of his
as the runaway ring had i
and as far as his stairhead,
i to hobble
he had caught
a glimpse of the skirts of the woman be.
hind the hall door. His only idea had
been that his old servant had been seized
with a fit, and he had at once given the
alarm. From the stairhead it was im.
for him to see the othe r
the top of the kitchen
the uncle,
1 e siam
i
w
the apparent state of matters,
returned to
tea and he had rang his bell
ns
Ea
last he had manage
room whence
i woking over the banister
possible
trate fi
stairs
Young
liest interest in the
f the He
ince on that p
pros-
nt
gure ah
gur
Mr. Mildon expressed the
mysterious ring
0 bell. seemed to |
sint
ficulty was presently f
this It was
r conclusive
the
deadly
§
f each woman
import
Another di
attaching to
possible 10 gait
to at had
had prod ioed
In the
wound had been a blow on
direct, so aimed, and
that it had needed no repetition. jut
doctors differed as to what instrument
was likely to effect its purpose the
it that
identity of the criminal
o come from this direction
Another moot point was the possible
motive for the crime. Its two victims
were respectable old women, little likely
to nro oke enmity of the violent kind.
The motive could scarcely be plunder,
for nothing in the house had been re
moved or even tampered with. Spoons
and other silver table articles lay on the
kitchen dresser, just in the order in
which the housekeeper herself had evi.
dently arranged them. Also, thero was
a large sum of money on the premises,
for the elder Mr. Mildon had consider
able house property in X—-, and as it was
ouna
tragedy Li.
idea as
wr} WER IVT
wi weapon
Case o
the sguil
well
BO inCiRive
in
peculiar way manifest, seemed
no clue to the
had been large and he hal delayed to
bank them, a fact which might well
have been suspected by many people.
This money was kept in an old-fashioned
bureau, at the back of Mr. Mildon's
room. It was found intact, and the old
gentleman himself could testify that
there had been no attempt on the part
If anybody had entered the house with
this object why had he not effected it?
had himself visited his uncle, He re-
for while awaiting admittance he had
casually glanced at the clock in a neigh.
boring steeple. The housekeaper had
opened the door as usual. He had
noticed nothing special about her, but
up stairs to his uncle.
had sat chatting for nearly an hour, dur.
ing which time he hal observed no un.
usual sound in the house. Some sounds,
however, he observed, might easily pass
unnoticed, owing to the rvar of trafic in
the street below,
But he had farther to narrate that
his visit bad been brought to a prema-
ture conclusion, and he thought that this
might shed some light on the mystery.
While he and his uncle had been eon-
versing, the doorbell had rung violently.
His uncle had wondered who the ringer
might be, and they had both listened for
the opening of the door, or, rather. for
its closing, as it shut heavily, reverber.
Sting through the house. They had list.
ened in vain, and young Mr. Mildon
thought he would go down stairs and seo
if the summons had been attended to.
He had gone straight to the street
door, had opened it, only to find no.
body! Thinking that the ringer might
have retired a few paces, young Mildon
said be had Steppes out into the street
and looked to the right hand and to the
eft, but in vain. While he was doing
this the hall door had suddenly closed be-
nind him, banged as he had then believed
oy a draught of wind. His hat bad been
been even more easily disposed of than
One detective
suggested that the old gentleman had
left his chair by the window,
whence any deed of violence might have
been seen by passeraby. But ano her
that such a murderer as this
would scareely have been /ofeated in
this way, since a few ingenious ssunda
easily decoyed the old man to the door
of the apartment.
“Gentiemen,” said the younger Mr,
Mildon, ‘the great question is: Who
rang the bell?’
Among the detectives and legal fune-
tionaries who met in conclave with the
i
sence of all motive whatever. Hae, of al!
paopie, was most likely to know of the
money his uncle had in the house, and
where he kept it; yet he had certainly
been hn the old gentleman's room, every-
thing there had been at his mercy, and
#till tho invalid was safe and his store in
tact. To these pleas the young man,
whom we will eall T'alford, could find no
answer; vot he did notsay he surrendered
his suspicions. He was sil '‘nced but not
convinced.
Mouths passed on and the great erimeo
committed in the little house in X
seemed likely to be relegated to the list |
of unsolved mysteries. Talford himself
had ceased to take nny active interest in
the matter; and the impression which
had once been so strong upon his mind
was wearing faint, so that probably, in
time, he himself would have in-
credulous of it
This Mr. Talford had a
grown
watch which
lust he took friend, a
he thought,
The man
it to
who,
oa
it it carefully
a rather peculiar defect
for a tool he needed to remedy it.
lid not readily find it, and summoned
his wife to his aid While they were
marked by the way that he did not
best hammer ei her.
wus aroused by the
who tilled such a subordinate place that he
had scarcely any right to speak in the
councils of hs seniors and superiors; and
certainly ho received very little encour.
agoment when he ventured to suggest
that he had his own doubts as to the in.
nocence of young Mr, Mildon himself.
The others scorned him. Had not
oung Mr. Mildon come on the soene of
Tis own free will and volunteered a stato:
ment which set him in the line of sus.
picion? ‘‘He could scarcely help that,”
murmured be of the doubt; ‘for, even if
his uncle had forgotten or overlooked his
visit, his hat would have been found in
the house and he would have been called
upon to account for it.”
It was further urged that the singular
absence of apparent motive 0, in
the case of young Mr. Mildon, an ab.
“*Have you ever had it since you lent it
to young Mr. Mildon?”
Her husband thought
came to think of it. Talford
“What
now he
k into
not,
atru
the conversation the
mer like?
0), not
Was
a watch.
and the
h Tal
adapted to
iar ‘wounds
nary hammer
like
3 i
sroduced a Tool
an ora
hammer this,”
shopkeeper | which
ford saw at once
produce those fatal w.4 pecu
which had aroused so nn
“Do vou use these
asked carelessly,
““Not very much, or I
missed my sooner I should
think it is nearly a year since | lent it to
Mr. Mildon
That signifies that it
for
WARR Well
ich speculation.
wis much?” he
should have
best one
HIRO SRION gomo
: 3
murders
Talford too
shopkes per
Old IMpression Wis Dow as vi
k
and
and he had something
back it. He was
stroke He would
body. but wou
MMIY, 14]
ir lose all
win
He pat a pa
socket and made a
0 P ore «
rended their +
the younger Mr
lodgings which he had
long whil
wait
the house alone,
Was Mr. Mildon
of the woman who op
he was at home is
isitor would
r way t
Mi
y the at
4 .
La
Falford loft
on the pavement, and
asked
ened thed Yon,
room. Then
m there; he
op Mr. Mildon
at home?" he
r
his own
to
JE ANDOU ne d: w
“
the go
ned not t in
1 he would
Young Mildon
$azl
(desk
unas
rose
on the entrance
guest, His
SOIOUS
For one me
each other in silence
“Mr. Mildon,
violence, but you will
I quietly pro luce
hammer with which you
uncle's housekeeper and her friend
Whether it was the sudden reve
f the dscovery of the
weapon, or an idea that Talford
er have acted as he did without some
strong evidence to justify him, canvot be
explained. dut young Mildon, without
a word of protest, turned on his heel
went toa chest of drawers. unlocked one,
and displaved to Taiford the terrible im.
plement. It lay among his handkerchiefs
and neckties. He had never
Dry blood was on it, and
wi the watchmakers
murdersd vour
3
dsc much-debuted
6
ne
etTen
cleaned it
there ware one or two adhering hairs.
Yet what seemed such an utter careless.
ness had come nearer to achieving
security than any amount of restless pre.
caution mizht have done
The whole of Charles Mildon's original
account was proved to be perfectly
true !
He had only omitted its most impor.
tant parts !
It was true that the old housekesper
had admitted him and that she had ap-
peared just as usual,
He had omitted to say that he had in-
stantly felled her to the ground with a!
blow which needed no repetition. That
he had next been startled by the appear.
auce of another old woman cyming up |
the kitchen stairs, but that his surprise
had not unnerved him for the prompt
commission of a second murder, which |
Then he bad passed by the two dead |
women and gone to his uncle's apartment.
He had found the old man seated at the
window as usual, but on this he had!
reckoned, and had laid his plot wecord.
ingly. Afer a little conversation he
His
uncle had so often bien complaisant
that he had little fear of a rebuff. Had |
:
uncle had declared, ** You know where
the bottles and glasses are kept. It in
part of your abominable idleness that au
active young fellow like you should sit
there asking a poor old cripple to hand
him a drink.”
To keep up appearances young Mildon
bad gone to the cupboard and helped
himself to some beer. Then he had re-
sumed his seat. To wait for his uncle 10
move, could be, of course, but a ques-
tion of time, und the stakes he had
already risked were too terrible to allow
of any impatience. Leaving personal in
terest aside, he had striven to divert and
and political debate and was flattering
himself that he was allaying his uncle's
irritation in the most satisfactory man-
ner, when he had been suddenly con.
founded by a brisk, peremptory ring.
ing of the street door bell. His uncle
had at once vaguely wondered who it
was likely to be, coming at that particu.
lar hour, when he was se'dom disturbed,
The nephew had wondered far less
vaguely what course he had better pur.
suo, since he knew too well that there
thw: bell. Of course, Lie expected a repe-
tition of the ringing. There had been a
sound in the first us if the person pro-
ducing it would not brook long delay
nor readily give up.
In his desperation,
caught at his unc
and reiterated
cint of listening.
Young Mildon
wonder who it
it, Then he
and remarked
»
made a
duty, he would go and attend to the door
Accordingly he rushed away,
opened the door warily,
that the caller
f the hor-
trusted to
some dark inspiration of the moment to
get quit of the mulag To
his astonishment nobody stow on the
this }
shook oven his iron nerve, for
retiring with sufficient ex-
planation a runaway rng,
stepped out upon the street to
poitre, not, however, forgetful
the
should not eatch a g
Hinpise
He had
0
ITO rient
pos §
doorstep Probably somewhat
instead of
the
ngain,
he had
recon.
draw
Then
re.
to
oor behind him fairly close.
inaccountably slammed, and
Latiess and utterly de
sts, had been
It had, at len
fer h
Consiq ii
feated in |}
i
that. So
gdistniss our teje.
shat nie 11
that nor the ris
in the jeasi remarkabic
“oR i hey were the
" rrences
s part they
muitipiicats
to suggest the ex
ily manifest A whole §
lie the answer to the
{Ar-
3 fonnll®
iL Dees
The British postal savings banks are
open for the re ceipt payment
money daily to depositors, and one shil.
ling (twenty-five cents) or any number
of shillings are received If a person
desires to deposit than one shilling
he may | penny stamps and
paste them on a ¢ rd, and when the nym-
ber reaches the amount of one shilfng
they make the deposit. The number of
and of
leas
urchinse
Great Britain in the your 1591, amounted
to 8.776.566, the amount deposited
being more than S100.000.000 The
number of depositors and the amount of
money deposited increased from year to
year. In England and Wales, one in.
dividual in every seven makes deposits,
the average balance due to enh depos.
itor being about 875. The regulations
permit persons depositing at one Post.
office, to drew against tueir deposit at
_0
of the transactions are made in this man.
ner. The employers of labor encourage
the use of the Postoflice Savings Bank.
In Italy the postal savings bank
system was established in 1876. In
1889 the number of deposits was over
2,000,000 and the amount deposited 181,.
28.710 lire.
In Austria the number of
1590) was 63,770 and the
the
io
depositors
number of
year was
21,048,026
in
deposits made daring
1,277,805, amounting
florins,
In Hungary, Rossin and Finland post.
office savings banks ure also in success.
ful operation. In nearly all of these
small deposits may be made by purchas.
sovereigns from his bureau his Haphuw i
The officials of nearly all countries
jut to his surprise and discomfiture the |
old gentleman proved utterly obdurate. |
proaches. The nephew showed a sub.
missive front, wondering all the while
what other dcdge he ound invent to en:
tice his uncle from his window seat. One
occurred to him at last. An anxious and
despondent man is often thirsty. He
know his uncle kept divers liquors in a
cupboard at the back of the room.
“Well, uncle,” he said, sadly, “you
can't think how your words upset me
and your severity is such a disappoint+
ment to me | real'y fool quite faint. You
won't give me any more help you say? 1
will not ask it. I will only ask for a
drink of something-—even a glass of
water. You will not refuse me that?”
“You may take it for yourse!f,” the
any way with other banks, but on the
contrary, are generally found helpful to
In nearly all cases a low rate of
interdst, of from two to three per cent,
is paid. The Director-General of Posts
of France says; ‘Far from interfering
with private savings banks, this law
containg a number of provisions b
which these banks have benefited,
Postal savings banks have not been
established to compete with the private
banks, but with a view to giving savings
banks to localities where they do not
exist and where they orobably never
would have boen established by private
effort.” (St. Louis Star-Sayings.
A foal Jul: "ee Ute ose are Tre.
uently wu n 0 regulation
TS on
THE JOKER'S BUDGET.
| JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN
| OF THE PRESS.
{ The Dime Museum on its Travels—-
| For Services Rendered—In the
Morning—Gave Herself Away,
ete. , ete,
THE DD}
The Sword Swallower
This won't do!
sitting down to dinner!
Two Living Skeletons
ing! There
miscounted
ME MUSEUM ON IT "RAYEIA,
Rentt
(reat
You've
giri.
are only twel
the
~ [Chicago Tribune,
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two-headed
VOR BEUVICER REX]
REXDERYD.
American Tourist— How
bill?
Parisian Host
“How much?”
“One hun lred and twenty francs
“But you suid one handred ust fisst
“Certainly
answerinz 1
much is my
}
One hundred france,
monsieur's question,
hundred and forty francs, please.’
4 ] i
dianapolis Journal
im
IN THRE MORNING.
“I wish I was an oyst«
ny. “for then | could sts
mornin : .
‘ Mebby, "said Fred doubtfully:
likely's not they'd git
tongs
is}
1p with a paar
Y ‘aa par o
GAYS
HERSELY AWAY
I read
male §
Bloobumper to.day ni p :
: J to-day an aocou
i
O°
f how a fe orger stn ed
ti
ve herself
mans at-
and for a long t
rut at lust she ga away.
Spatts She stop pe d to look into
milliner's window, | suppose?
No
sit
indeed z=-gs=
Bloobumper in a moment of
rent-mindedness asked a
her hat was
Bazar,
woman
on siraight. Hurper »
i
necoss
(stairs
ir
Mamma
prany
hilessly
he a
i nt
‘4 % %
1! first she was as
Himpered ha
ct
go
Fai wor:
ribune.
“This business of tracing
lost manuscripts mikes me
dog 1 once owned,”
one of mv
think of
said Scribbler.
“In what respect?
“He had a habit of
ail,” replied
ald.
oa
queried Mawson
t Scribbler
i &er
A EPRCIAL OCCASION,
Johnny Do You say your prayers
every night? .
Jimmy I do
s'oep in the folding bed.
{Indianapolis
Journal.
HOW TO EAT ASPARAGU
“l wish I knew,”
8,
said the boarder,
with some d
be enten.”
“It ought to be eaten sparingly,”
grambled the landiady, under
breath “It cost me fifteen cents a
bunch.”
A WISE WOMAN,
Husband Where is the hatchet?
Wife-—In the attic.
you bring it down?”
“I didu’t see it.”
“Then who did?”
**No one that 1 know of.”
“Then how in creation do you know
it's ‘n the attic?”
“1 heard vou
up there yesterdaay
driving a nail.”-
(New York Weekly.
K¥ITTING.
Museum Visitor (to armless man)—8o
you ean knit with your toes, eh? But
suppose you broke a leg?
Armless Man—Well, Ireckon it would
begin to knit right away,
THE OXLY WAY ovUTY,
Mr. Newsome (showing visitor through
his reputed ancestral hails)—Aund this is
the suit my grest.grandfather wore
when he gave up his heart's blood during
the Revolution.
Miss Gotham (looking in vain for bul.
lot holes or sabre rents) Ah! was your
at-grand father killed while in bat ing,
Mr. Newsome?—{ Puck.
HE WEATHERED THE ETORM,
Chappie—Onoe I was in a terrible
storm at sea. The waves wolled moun.
tain high.
Miss Pinkerly—Dear me! Weren't
you afraid?
Chapple—No, indeed. 1 was weal
ware My sister was with me.—{New
AT THE BASEBALL GAME.
Now doth the downtown merchant gay
Off from his office sneak,
On plea of illuess dire at homes,
+ Ome afternoon cach week:
Ard ns be chieors the baseball game
With loud ecstatic joy,
He sees upon the bleaching boards
His clerks and office boy!
(New York Herald,
-
we
VIREPRO
Witherby i
burned down last night
’
Ww.
hat wour houses
Was anything
henr 1
saved
Winks
No, sir! Emphatically
re for permis.
your wsidressces 10 wy
act of ugpardonable pre-
For a young physician on
practice the
hund of an heiress of millions is, | repeat,
Banker Scadds
Your juest
pion to pay
daughter an
sumption, sir,
no starvation 1
0 asjiire 10
presumpt
Young Physician
AVR
Yix, sir. Any of
No? hea
good morning. {Chicago
AMPLE J}
Wasn't
other end of
Me
Oklahoma
shooting at
| the table a minute
i Waiter ‘DINCIng
{ Yes Dude
Guest
| there som
BO’
k's smoking re-
from Fast,
Wanted a napkin. Say. if your're done
with that knife and fork why in thunder
§ #4
em to the next mans
ih
vyoiver Lait
don’t you pass
Chicago Tribune
i
House nl
to
but
in
i
I won.
Next, —-
gimme some
id not say smashed;
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ment will last nowadays
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the most of your
MARRIED LIFE WAS XOT Harry.
“Why do you always employ women
as type-writers?” atked Mrs. Curtain
Lecture.
| “So that 1 ean have some one to die.
tate to.” replied the unhappy man.
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Little Boy—Mamma, may I go fish
ing?
| Mamma—No, my son, I'm afraid you'll
| get drowned; but you may go around to
the grocery and buy me a mackerel
(Good News.
AX IMPROVEMENT.
Husbind —How do you like your new
girl?
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Well, she works me a little
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TIMR'S CHANGES,
Maddox--Jay Gould was once a
mesenger boy. a
Gazzeta—Is that so?! Well, there's
nothing slow about him now.—{ Detroit
Free Press.
TR MODERX POET.
Winks—I can tell a poet the moment
I see him.
Minks —~ How?
Winks He never looks like one,
OXE TOO MANY,
First Boy — Which does th’ whippin'in
Second Boy --Both.
First Boy—Hah! don’t think that's
fair,
ALIKE.
“I know a belle who is a regulm
circus.”
‘Because she hus three rings, I sap:
pose-—all engagements rings.”
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to a singular incident which occurred in
Berlin, An electrioal workman in teat.
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flowing was in the habit of putting the
two ends of the wires in his mouth. 6
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