7 +
Timothy Ladd's ' Qollege' Definitely Lo-
onted Near Red Mill-Why Not a Moan.
ment to His Memory ? J
The article written on Timothy
Ladd by J. M. Goodhart, the Lewis-
town Trust Company president, has
aroused much discussion among the
older people in Centre Hall and Potter
township, and in many other sections
of Penns Valley. Many of the parents
of the older inhabitants of the valley,
who were boys and girls in the Timo-
thy Ladd time, have rightly come to
the conclusion that he was their in-
structor not only in mathematics, but
also led in religious matters.
Would it not be fitting for this
second, third and fourth generation to
honor this old-time school teacher,
who did so much for their forefathers,
to erect a modest monument on the
site of the old school house hard by
the ‘* Red Bridge” in Potter town-
ship? To honor him in this way
would require no sacrifice on the part
of any one. The subscriptions to such
a fund should be made popular, and
the unveiling could be made a means
of impressing the youths of this valley
with the importance of education.
Will not some of the Reporter readers
take up this matter, forma a local
organization looking toward the erec-
tiou of a modest monument marking
the site of one of the earliest school
houses in Penns Valley, and to per-
petuate the name of the greatest
school teacher in his day, who now
tives only in unrecorded history ?
John Blair Linn, Center county's
only historian, in his history of Center
sod Clinton counties, page 159, writes
of the early school teachers in euch a
manner as to refl ict great discredit to
the profession in the early history of
the county. Timothy Ladd is not
mentioned by historian Linn and his
reference to schools in the beginning
of the nineteenth century make it all
the more necessary to bring out the
exceptionally high christian character
of Timothy Ladd. A paragraph from
this history will better impress this
need :
“« With here and there an exception,
the echoolmasters of the past genera-
tion were deficient in nearly all the
qualities that make the good teacher.
They were intemperate, tyrannical,
illiterate, and considered uafit for any
business except school-teaching. We
hear of many who used profane
language in school, and had habitual
ly a bottle of whiskey secreted some-
where about the echool-house. They
were not expected to teach anything
except the three '' R's, ”’ and if one
made application for 8 school his head
was not probed seriously by cfMcials to
fathom the profundity of his koowl-
edge. Proficiency in writing, skill io
making quill-pens, and pbysicsal vigor
to * thrash '' unruly boys were the
qualifications that commended him
most to his patrons, and bis preroga.
tive of flogging he usually exercised to
an smszinog degree. He was more
favish than discriminating in meeting
out punishments. If some luckless
urchin among a number of still more
juckless mates fell into mischief, the
teacher did not waste time endeavor-
ing to discover the culprit, but seized
one of the long rpds and flogged the
whole row simultaneously. ”’
* The location of the school house in
Potter township in which Timothy
Ladd taught aod referred to In the
first article on the subject that ap-
peared in these columns, is definitely
known. The * Red Bridge, " near by
which the school house stood ls close
to the residence of John Confer, a
short distance east of the Red Mill
There is a very distinct mark of a
building haviog been there, and
James B. Bpangler, whose mother and
the motherof J. M. Goodhart are sis
ters, is able to point it oat, the site
having been fixed in his mind by his
mother referring to and pointing it
out,
The "Red Bridge ”’ crossed Bioking
Creek near the school house, and was
on the * old road ” across Penns Val.
ley to Bellefonte before the present
Lewistown Bellefonte turnpike was
vailt, From Potters Mills the road
passed by McCoys, to east of the Red
Mill, by Calvin Vonada, the Good-
liart homestead and on to the top of
the hill at the Burkholder homestead,
led in the direction of the John K.
Runkle homestead, on to the east of
the buildings now owned by Clayton
Wagner and William H. Baird, cross
ing the Boalsburg road at the Albert
Hpayd farm, occupled by Mr. Delaney,
tue section of the road leading diago-
nally by the Bariges barn belong the
original road, from there it led to the
mountains at Walker's,
When the turnpike was bullt the
bride etousing sia ing Creek at Ben-
jasmin Btover's was named * Red
ridge" aod since carried the name
with it, and this was the cause for
Mr. Goodhart locating the school
house along the pike,
Bo much toward definitely locatin
the Timothy Ladd school house,
the suggestion to mark the site with a
monument 10 its honored teacher,
The Reporter's columns are A
A SANE CHRISTMAS? YE4,
Let Us Back te the Honored Custom of
the Past-Remember the Foor.
Oane of the wisest of modern reforms
in that inaugurated at Indianapolis for
what Is termed a ‘sane Christmas.”
The “sane Fourth of July’ hss been
such a signal success that popular pub-
lic sentiment will surely approve a
similar drastic treatment of the day of
good cheer, which of late years has
passed out and beyond the circle of
good sense and true spirit. Christmas
is no longer the Christmas of old ; it
has been transformed into a day of
burden for the average family in
moderate circamstances, and this dis-
position to subvert the true home
sentiment to the indiscriminate giving
of gifts to friends and acquaintances is
working a direct harm to many thous-
ands of persons who can ill afford such
a drain on their resources. The glad
day means to many sctual bankruptcy
—in numerous instances pauperization
—all for the uncalled for deeire ‘‘to
keep up appearances’ and to do
equally as good as some other thought
less individual who distributes pres-
ents to those who bave no reason to
expect them.
To the family of the man with a
small income the coming of Christmas
is something to be dreaded—not the
day of rejoicing that it ought to be.
Many a weary, brain-rackiog hour is
spent over the list of those who, as a
result of custom, have to be remnember-
ed, and the dollars and pennies are
counted and recounted time and again
in the eftort to make the littlesum *‘go
around.” Those for whom this torture
is endured are at the same time sufler-
ing a similar experience. Neither can
afford it, but ‘appearances must be
kept up,” no matter if the family is
forced to curtail for weeks to come.
Associated with the custom of gift-
giviog is the opportunity for bribery
aod graft. Public officials are made
the recipients of costly *' remem-
brances’’ by those who are in a posi-
tion to be favored-—a direct bid for
official wrongdoing under the cover of
a sacred anniversary, when It is proper
for friend to give a friend and receive
in return. Few realiza the abuses thus
perpetrated behind the guise of Christ.
mass giving.
How much better to go back to the
honored custom of the past, when the
spirit of giving was confined to the
members of one’s own family, and the
poor of the community, when all was
happiness and joy, and when Christ.
mss was real rather than a burden
brought about by this system, which
is little leas than a mockery. A sane
Christmas is just as necessary as a sane
Fourth of July, and the movement so
suspiciously started ast Indianapolis
ought to meet with a response in
every city in this broad land.
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Extra Pay for School Teachers.
Bchool teachers will receive $3 a day
for their attendance at the sessions of
the annual county institute which
will te held in the court house at
Bellefonte next week. i
school code provides for the in-
crease which amounts to fifty per cent,
over the compensation allowed under
the old lsw. This allowance is made
by the state in addition to the regular
salaries of the teachers,
fA
MURRAY & BITNERS UNUSUAL OFFER,
Sell Dr. Howard's Specific at Half-Price
and Uuarantes a Qure.
* It isn’t often that we have faith
enough in the medicine put up by
other people to be willing to offer to
refund the money if it does not cure,
said Murray & Bitoer to a Reporter
man who dropped into their store,
“ but we are glad to sell Dr, Howard's
specific for the cure of constipation
snd dyspepsia on that basis,
“The Dr. Howard Company, in
order to get a quick latroductory sale,
authorizes us to sell their regular fifty
cent bottles at half price, 25 cents, and,
although we have sold a lot of it, and
have guaranteed every package, not
one has been brought back as unasatis-
factory.
We are still selling the specific at
half price, although we cannot tell
how long we shall be able to do so,
and any one who is subject to consti
pation, sick headache, dizziness, liver
trouble, indigestion or a general
played-out condition, ought to take
advantage of this chance. You oan
tell your readers that If they are not
satisfled with the specific they oan
come right back to our store and we
will cheerfully refund their money,
There Is little danger from a cold or
from an sitack of the grip except
when followed by pneumonias, and
this never happens when Chamber
Iain’s Cough Remedy Is used. This
remedy has won its great reputation
and extensive sale by its remarkable
cures of colds and grip and can be re
Hed upon with implicit confidence.
For sale by all dealers,
AINA ——
auy who wish further to
good cause,
Ceutre Reporter, $1 por year,
DUG-DRILLED WELLS' LANGER,
May Hreed Malaria! or Typhold Fever
When Thought Safe.
Almost any community In which
wells have to be drilled can boast of a
number of combination dug and drill-
ed wells, The owners congratulate
themselves on their wisdom in utiliz-
ing an old dug well fifteen, twenty, or
thirty feet in depth, and drilling
through the bottom of this to a good
flow of deep water. The cost of drill-
ing that twenty or thirty feet has
been saved, cerlainly an economy
worth considering. As a matter of
fact this combined dug and drilled
well is a particularly dangerous type.
It way readily breed malarial fever or
even typhoid fever, which Is more
prevalent in the country than ever in
the overcrowded cities, In spite of the
supposed pure water supply of nearly
all farming sections. Buch a well is
all the more dangerous because it je
fancied to be safe. Although the
water encountered by the deep well
may be perfectly pure at the start
contamination may take place almost
immediately by the entrance, especial-
ly after rains, of seepsg> water into the
open well and thence into the casing
of the drilled well. The remedies are
obvious. Either the casing should be
carried to the surface of the outside
ground, or at least above the highest
level ever reached by water, or the
well should be converted into a water-
tight system by applying a thick
coating of cement over both sides and
bottom,
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7 LOCALS
/ A heating plant is belong installed in
the Lutheran parsonsge, in Centre
Hall.
A. W, Zsttle, of near Bpiing Mills,
advertises public sale of farm stock
avd implements for March 6.
The constitutiopality of the new
school code will be argued before the
supreme court, in Philadelphia, on
the second day of 1912.
Moat of the rabbit hunters have had
fairly good success in bagging game
But few squirrels, and no pheasants
or wild turkeys have been brought in
by the local nimrods.
Maynard Meeker, of Potters Mills,
was one of the Reporter's callers last
week, Hels farming on the Bankey
homestead, and is as nearly ready for
winter as the farmer can get.
Asronsburg is baving a leclure
course of three numbers, the first to
appear being John F. Chambers, on
December 6th, Oo January 3rd there
will be a lecture by Dr. J. Everist
Cathell, and on January 25th the Jess
Pugh Concert Company will close the
course,
A singiog class with about thirty
members was organized at the Pine
Stump school house, last week, by
Prof. E. W. Crawford, who is the in-
structor, The officers are J. T. Potter,
president ; Lanson Bucris, secretary,
snd William M. Houser, treasurer.
Meetings will be held once each week.
The low price and demand for ap-
ples induced many farmers to shake
their winter apples and dispose of
them at the Centre Hall evaporating
plant. Many hundreds of bushels of
apples were evaporated that, had the
market demands been better, would
have been shipped in barrels to other
sections.
Most people are aware that the
Weather Bureau is not lofallible,
Most people, nevertheless, probably
think that it ought to be infallible,
Many a man is inclined to harbor the
memory of the occasional fallure of a
forecast, and forget the scores of days
in succession when the forecast proves
entirely accurate,
The Gazette and Bulletin, published
at Williamsport, and the leading or-
gan of the Republican organization in
Lycoming county, has anoounced,
that it will hereafter be independent
in politica. The (Gazette and Bulletin
is disgusted with the foul means em-
ployed by the organization, and in an
editorial so stated,
Cornelius Bland disproved ag er-
ronioua report circulated about him
with positive proof just by walking
through the streets of Centre Hall on
Friday. Mr, Bland, who during the
sixties wore the blue, and is now more
than eighty years of age, Is entirely
too nimble on his feet to be buried
without a protest. The reader can
now correctly guess the character
the false rumor,
J. Henry Meyer, of Bowling Green,
Virginia, was an arrival in Centre
county Iast week, and was a visitor of
his brothers, Prof. P. H. Meyer, in
Centre Hall, and Jacob Meyer, in
Boalsburg. Mr. Meyer has been a
resident of Virglola for some years,
and had not returned until last
spring, but his visit then seems to
have made him think of the old home
surroundings all the more, and
brought about a speedy return, Before
returning home Mr, er will visit »
daughter in Baltimore.
LETTERS FROM SUBSURIBEIRS,
HReporter Suboribsrs Corrospondeut Co
umn--New Department.
From Porto Rico comes a message
to the Reporter readers written by
Mrs. W. V. Godshall, formerly from
Centre Hall, whose Lusband is =»
graduate of Pennsylvania Btlate Col
lege, and is now a professor fn the
University of Porto Rico, at Rio
Piedras, Mrs, Todsehall, under dale
of October 27, says :
Dear Mr. Smith :
We thank you for sending the Re-
porter every week, We all enjoy
reading the news from Pennsylvania,
We were pleased with our trip to Porto
Rico aud will be more so when we
have learned to speak Bpanish, We
left Centre Hsll September 15 and
arrived here Beptember 21. It was
just sunrise when we entered the har-
bor at Ban Juan and it certainly was a
pretty scene. The weather was very
favorable all the way down and we all
erjoyed the trip.
The country Is very beautiful; it Is as
mountaivous as Centre county. The
island reminds one of stepping into a
green house in the States. The coun-
try 1s full of euch tropical plants se
ferne, bapanpas, oranges, bread-fruit,
Mango, cocosnut, ete. There are
banana and cocoanut trees in our yard.
Large orange and pineapple flelds
are near us. Orangessell for five cents
a dozen,
We occupy part of a house with a
Baptist Missionary and so weare with
American people We have sbout s
five minute walk to the Rio Pledrase,
which has a population of 5000
more. Here there is ote protestant
church-—the Baptist, sa large public
school, besides the practice school be-
longing to the Uaiversity., Tue
tists are about to build a theological
seminary for boysand girls.
great need for missions bere. Our
girls attend the Normal practice
school and like it very much. Be
sides the branches studied at home in
Centre Hall they have taken up
music, sewing, painting, manusl
trainiog, and Spanish. Mr, Godehall
likes his work very much. Bome of
the Porto Ricans ere very bright
scholars,
There are electric cars here ¢qual to
those found in Pennsylvauia, but the
engiues and coaches on the steam
roads are not as large as we are used
to seeing climb the Pennsylvania
hills and mountains,
Living expenses are somewhat
bigher than in Centre Hall. Eggs
are from fifty to sixty cents s dozen ;
butter from New York is forty-five
cents, and milk from American caltle
ia seventeen cents per quart. There
are several American companies here
from which one can get all American
goods which by the crate are as cheap
as they are in the states. Chicago
hams are went) -one cents a pound ;
steak, thirty-five cents ; meat for boil
ing, twenty-five cents.
The weather is very different here,
The temperature is about eighty-five
degrees all the time but it will not be
or
Bap-
There is
1911.
Banchmau's Body Found,
Three wesks after he was Iast seen
the body of J. F. Bauchman, of
Yeugertown, was discovered on the
breast of the dam in Kishscoquilias
creck, at the Mann E ige Tool Works,
at Lewistown, on Friday afternoon,
Bauchman had gone to a * bean
soup ”’ at MeClare, October 14th, and
since then it was only known that he
got on the train at McClure to return
home. He was intoxicated at that
te, When found $60 were in hie
pockets, also a gold watch ani a flask
of whiskey. It is believed he fell from
the Walout street bridge, and
drowued.
tl fp
Hallowe'en Party,
A maigquerade party was given at
the home of Mr. and Mrs, John Meyer,
al Pine Grove Mills, Hallowe'en even-
fog. The oddest looking couple re
ceived prizes, Mrs. N. B. Krebs,
received the lady's priz: and Bert
Ward received the geutiemsn’s prize.
After several hours spent in games
and music the guests were served
with refreshments suitable for the oe.
casion, Those present were Dr. and
Mre. M., L. Krebs, Mr. and Mrs, Bim-
oun Ward, Mr. and Mre. Harry Walker,
Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Krets, Misses
Maude Rudy, Mandella Smith, May
Meyer, Bessie Martz, Elns Ward,
Retta Ward, Prof. White, Fred Raon-
dolph, John Keller, Frank Homan,
Bert Ward, Grove Coral. er
Estate.
to Julia
tract of
Transters of Real
Clara M., Conrad et baron
Duganne, October 26, 1911,
Iannd in Taylor twp. $800.
Philipsburg Coal & Land to
Joseph Kuspper, August 25 1611, tract
of land in Rush twp. $372
William L. Foster et al to John T.
Spangler, Beptember 23, 19811, tract of
iand in State Oollege. $300
Elizabeth White to Clara M. Conrad,
August 15, 1904, tract of land in Tay-
lor twp. $500
John Noll et al exrs. to Marills
Dawson, August 5, 1910, tract of land
in Bellefonte. $1300.
Marilis Dawson to Sarah E. Batter
field, August 5, 1910, lot in Bellefonte,
$1300,
Mary R. Harris et bar to Agnes
Shipley, October 25, 1911, lot in Union-
ville boro. $1400
Thomas Foster et al to Luther D.
Tige, October 13, 1811, lot in State Col.
lege. $2100,
Mary K. Gray et al to R. J. P. Gray,
April 11, 1911, tract of land in Half
Moon twp. $l
Edward J. Gehret et ux to Marietta
Miller, Beptember 9, 1911, lot in Belle-
fonte. $1600,
8. T. Williams et ux to Aaron Steele,
August 12, 1911, lot in South Philipe-
burg. $25,
A. C. Lestbhers etal to M. C. Gep-
hart, October 2, 1811, lot in Btate Col-
lege. $1.
Abraham Baird to Amanda Horner,
September 1911, lot in Bpriog
p. $100
Co.
id
ty
so warm later, We are having the
rainy season now ; it rains almost
every day and sometimes more than
one shower a day.
I am sending you a copy of the
Times, this gives us some news too,
Fiom California Mee. John W, Lose
tells what is doing on the Pacific const.
She and her husband and daughter are
again located in Los Angeles, and hav.
ing such a warm side for the dear old
home in Penns Valley, Mrs. Lose fa-
vors the Reporter readers with this
message :
Ioclosed please find one dollar for
payment on subscription to the Re-
porter, Please address it to Los An-
geles. You were misinformed as to
our moving to Yermo, as we were
there for a few months only, Mr. Lose
hauling been called there to put up a
few bulldiLge, my daughter and I
went with him, and we certainly did
enjoy the * desert '’ life for a while.
There were several days that the tem-
perature was one hundred and twenty,
but the air is so pure one does not
mind it nearly so much ss when it is
eighty-nine in the middle west, I
can’t say Pennsylvania for that ls our
dear home state, and, oh, how dear it
is to our hearts with all the good peo-
ple in It
We had our first rain last week since
arch, We have most of our rains at
night. During the last week or two
people have boen digging their gar.
dens and are now planting all kinds of
garden seeds and by Christmas we will
have new peas, lettuce, onions, pota-
toes, strawberries, cucumbers, aod ev-
ery thing else that is grown In a gare
den. There are many thousands of
Pennsylvanians here and also many
from sll the other eastern states-—the
population of Los Angeles is made up
of people from all the states and also
from many foreign countries,
Tomorrow will be an exciting time
in Los Angeles, asa women will cast
tre Hall, $1200,
Trustees I. O. O. F. Lodge Centre
Hall to William Mitterliog, April 13,
1908, tract of land in Centre Hall,
450
>John Yosue et ux to
Bearash, October 26, 1911,
land in Rush twp. $975.
Andrew
tract of
In placicg the New Idea Manure
spreader cut in the Weber advertise-
ment last week, it was turned upeide
down, The writer talked to several
farmers who were using the spreader
about the accident, and they all stated
that the Reporter could conscientious-
ly tell its readers that the New Idea
manure spreader would rua about as
smooth when upside down as most
makes of manure spreaders would
when right side up. That may be
putting it a bit strong, but a compari-
son of draft aiways largely favors the
New Idea, to say nothing of how very
much better the spreading of the ma-
nure is done.
————
“I am pleased to recommend Cham-
berlain’s Cough Remedy sas the best
thing I know of and safest remedy for
coughs, colds and bronchial trouble,
writes Mrs. L.. B. Arnold, of Denver,
Colorado. ** We have used it repeated-
ly and it has never failed to give re
lief.” For sale by all dealers,
[ Continued from Previous Column, |
their votes for the first time,
There are times that we loog for a
good snow storm, but it seems we can’t
have it, yet we oan see snow the year
around on the mountain tops,
+ a—
Lot R. Evans writes the Reporter
from Petre!, Bouth Dakota, November
20d: We are having cold weather
now. Yesterday, the first day of No-
vember, the thermometer registered
zero, and this morning ten above sero ;
otherwise we have had a very nice
fall. Farmers in this section for the
first time sowed fall rye which will
(Continued on 100t of next column. )
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS,
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS.
A Bell telephone wae installed in
the residence of Perry Breon in Centre
Hall, ;
Bon number two came to the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Riter, in
Centre Hall, on Friday night,
Mr. and Mrs. John Knarr, and lit
tle son, last week drove to Pine Glen
to vieit relatives and friende of Mrs.
Knarr,
Mre. D. A. Boozer and son George
went to Philadelphia, on Saturday,
where the latter is receiving treat.
ment for one of his feet,
The last quarterly meeting for 1911
of the Patrons Rural Telephone Come
pany will be held at the Garmap
house, today ( Thursday ).
Mies Naomi Bmith, dauzhter
Thumas Bmith, of Woodward, last
week was the guest of her cousin,
Miss Nellie 8B nith, in Centre Hall,
Io another column of this issue will
be found an appeal fir a sane Christmas,
This article is timely, as at this season
the outlay in cash for the Christmas
senson is being discussed.
of
The remsins of John Ross, who
died in 1874 on the Ross farm, at
Farmers Mille, were disinterred in the
Centre Hill cemetery and removed to
the family plot in the Centre Hall
cemetery.
The Centre County Pomona Grange
will meet in Grange Arcadia, Thurs.
day, November 16:h, this being the
last quarterly meeting in this year,
There will be two sessions, opening at
10 a. m. and at 1:30 p. m.
Irvin Burris, who some few weeks
ago moved to Yeagertown, is on this
wide the Seven Mountains a few days
each week. He is baaling apples,
potatoes, elc., to the Lewistown die-
trict, where he finds ready sale for
them. Later on he expecis to handle
pork.
Monday of vext week D. K. Geiss,
formerly of Centre Hall, will start
from Bellefoute on a western trip.
He will go to Chicago, and then to
Joliet, snd from there to Kansas to
visit bis brothers—Jacob K., at Beloit,
sud Daclel K., at Girard, He has
pot set a time for returning.
Mrs. William A. Odenkirk, of Glen
Iron, sccompanied by her little
daughter Dorothy Meyer, and Robert
Meyer, a student in the Agricultural
Department at Peonsylvania State
College, were at the home of their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. P, H, Meyer, in
Centre Hall, over Bunday.
W. Gross Mingle, manager of the
Howard Cream: ry Corporation, is this
week shipping two car loads of ap-
ples and a car load of potatoes. But
few spples and only about one car of
potatoes were shipped from here sg far
this season. Beveral car loads of ap-
ples were shipped from Coburn.
Miss Margaret Jacobs, one of the
exchange, at Centre Hall, the latter
part of last week went to Willlame-
burg, where she was entertained by
Misses Jodie and Susan Rearick until
the beginniog of this week. During
ber absence, Mrs. Lizzie Jacobs spent
the time with her sister, Mrs, John
W. Stuart, at State College.
Mre. Martha Teed, who for several
weeks bas been the guest of her
daughter, Mrs. Samuel W. Moore, in
Ceotre Hall, Is recovering from in.
juries sustained in a fall down a flight
of stairs. No bones were broken, but
the lady was pretly badly bruised, and
one of her arms is practically disabled.
Mrs, Teed is a resident of Philadel
phia, and came to Centre Hall in
company with her daughter, Miss
Lina Teed.
John F. Treaster has finished his
lumber operations on the J. Q. A.
Kennedy tract and the tract pure
chased from De. H. F. Bitner, west of
Centre Hall, and has moved his mill
farther to the west oa the Horner
tract of thirty-eight acres, owaed by
H. W, Orwig & Bon. Mr, Treaster is
doing the catting for the Orwigs.
The timber is oak, chestnut, eto,
which will be sawed into car stufl,
ties, #t3, There will also ba prop tim
ber and lagging to handle.
The hunting season is on, and this
has caused the posting of large num.
bers of trespass notices, It is the ex-
ceptional man who has no regard for
the rights of properly owners that
causes 80 many ** keep off’ notices to
ers pass over fields and woods with no
they do any, but occasionally the man
whois a hog under all circumstances
knows what a hog can do when
obliged to guard against this hunting
Jectionable hunter in the face,
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