The Skein We Wind. It you ami |, to-day f hotiM atop and lay Onr lifework down, and lot our hand* fall whom they will— Fall down to lio quit© still And if aomo other hand should como and atoop to tiiul The tlimuds wo carried, ©o that it ooald wind BegUming wboro wo stopped; if it should ootno to keep Our lifowork going, sook To carry out the good design, Distinctively niado yours or tnino, What would it tlndT Some work wo must bo doing, true or lalsc; Some tin ends wo wind; some purpose so exalts Itself that wo look up to it, or down, As to a crown To bow before, and wo wonvo threads Of ilifl • rent length and thickness—some uiero shreds— And wind them round Till ull the skein of lilo is t>oun<l, Sometimes forgetting all the time To ask The raluo ot the threads, or chooio Strong stuff to use. No hand hut winds some thread; It cannot stand quite still till it is dead Bo' what it spins ami winds a little skein. God made each hand for work—r.ot toil-stain Is required, but every hand Spins, though hut n>|>cs of sand. It lovo should come, Stooping ulxivo when wo are done To find bright threads That we have he] 1, that it may spin them longer—find but shreds That break when touched —how cold, Sad, "hireling, portionless, the hand will hold The broken shreds, and know Fresh cause for more. {TRAM'S VISIT. "Going to git married, bo von, Hiram?" • Hiram Honeydew colored at the alr rupt question, but he answered, trutlu fully: '•I don't see what else I kin do, Aunt l'eggy. Sister Susan is bent on a-marryin' the school-teacher an' a-goin' off totlio Black Hills or sont'eres away out of all creation. An' here's all the fall work a-comin' on—that medder hay to stack, an' cm to cut, pumkins to gcther an' all them wind fall" an' Siberian crabs to make up in ciiler fur the apple-butter, an' no help to be got fur lovo or money. An' it stands to reason I can't tend the farm and ciH'k the vittles, too. S 1 thought soon as 11) rash in' was over you've promise.l to stay till then. Aunt l'eggy —an' then 1 thought I'd go round •om'eres nigh about (.'lover ('reek wh ere some of our kinfolks live, an' stay a week or so, an' git a a—some body that ■ an housekeep an' the like— do the milkin' an' churnln', 'tend to puttin' up fruit, makin' apple-1 utter, take keer of the chickens an' ducks, an" do the cookin' an' clcanin'. Sister Susan was a powerful gixx! housekeep er, an' she couldn't 1*; leat a-cookln', either. If I could llnd a g<xxlsort of a Woman that 'ud c<x.k ekal to Susan, I wouldn't mind a-marryin' lier." "Humph! >o you expert to git a wife an' a good ..ne, t<>o, in a week or two, liev? You're a gump, Hiram Honeydew, an' notliin' else; Besides, you'd ought to git a wife you could keer fur. as well as a good housekeep. er. Housekeepin' an' cookin' ain't even tiling, I tell you. There's sech a thing as afleckshin between man and wife." But Hiram scouted at this idea "One woman is the same as another to me," he returned, loftily. "I want a housekeeper, an' that's why I'm a-goin' to marry at all." "W.il then. Hiram, if you're bound an' determined to go an' hunt up a wife that a-way,rnebbe I kin help you a little. I knowed the folks altout Clover Creek like a lwmk when yer Uncle Eli was alive, an' we lived on the old Honeydew farm. An' thar was Mahnla Xutter, she married Job Perky, an' they bought a farm on Clover llill. t'other aide the creek- There wan't nolxxly could beat Mahnla a housekeepin* them da>s. an' most likely her darter, Marthy Jane, hes tuck after her. They are sort o' kin folks o' yourn, too. Mahaly was yer Uncle Eli's own cousin. An' ef you like, I'll write 'em a few lines, an' telj 'em you're a-comin, an' sort o' perpare 'em. fur nobody likes to hev comp'ny •nexpected." And so it was settled, much to Hiram's relief, and lie whetted his scythe and went out to mow a feed of green clover for his horses with a lighter heart than ho had hod for a week. For he had made up his mind that if Martha Jane was as good a housekeeper as Aunt l'eggy said, he would bring her home with liin, as Mrs. Iloneydow in a week's time, if •he was willing. And no doubt she would be, for Hiram was quite a good-looking man i with pleasant brown eyes, curly brown hair, and a thick, brown moustache. Moreover lie was "well-to-do," and almost any of the girls in his own neighborhood would have jumped at the chance of presiding over Ids broad acres and picturesque cottage farm* house, half burled in sugar-maples and tall bollard poplar-trees. But to Hiram, as to most others, distance lent enchantment to the view, and he was "bound and determined, as Aunt Peggy bad said, to seek bis fate in some of the wide old farm-houses dotting the fertile borders of (.'lover Creek. ♦ ♦ J * * 4 "He'll lie a mighty good ketch fur you an' no mistake, Marthy Jane," commented Mrs. Perky, when Aunt Peggy's letter had been duly received and read. "A mighty good keteh, am you must do your best to ketch him, 'Tain't often a gal has socli a chance throwed at tier head, an' if you've got a mite ' pluck about you, you won't let them stuck-up Briggses git ahead of you. Delilah l!riggs would give her ears to git ahead of you, I'll bet a button!" To which bit of logic Martha Jane assented, with a toss of her head, and the assurance that Delilah Briggs, nor no one else, wasn't a-goin' to git ahead of her. Consequently, when farmer Perky i drove his gray team to the gate, with Hiram Honeydew on the seat beside him. the necessary preparations had al. ready been made -tloors scoured, baking done, and a substantial country dinner, with a dessert of apple-dump, lings and sweet-cream sauce, ready to be served. While Martha Jane, in a pink plaid frock, with tinted ruffles, stisxl waiting to welcome the exported guest. "She's ©aortal hutnly," thought Hiram, as lie sat smoking, after din j nor, on the porch, and mentally review. } ing Martha Jane's narrow forehead : hard black eyes and high-colored cheeks. "But, then. I ain't u-lookin' | out fur beauty, an' if she suits me other ways, I re kin 'tain't no great matter how she looks. A girl with them kind of eyes an' a mahogany 1 colons! skin kin do the chores an i make butter, an' se< h, as gxl as if site I had blue eves an" goldy-lookin' hair, like that girl they rail Hitty. that ' brought in the dumplin's an' passed J round the dip fur "em at dinner to-day. Nhe's tho hir.d girl, I rock in. 'T any rate I ain't got time to hunt round much, an" 1 reckin Marthy Jane won' mind ehangin' her name to Honeydew afore long, an' I've got to hurry up I ain't got no time to waste a- urtin'. I I reckin if notliin' happens we kin be married in a week, an' git back home, ' I don't like to stay hero a-settin' round doin' nothin', with all the fall work a-gittin' behind at ttie farm." * • © © • "Oh, dear!" Down through the long grass and crims .a clover-bobs, under scrubby | haw sand tall persimmon trees, went Hitty Mavis, a deep-caped sunUmnet shading tier violet eyes and tnngbsi yellow curls. Nhe was after tiie cows, standing knee-dts'p in the tall aftermath, where they had I sen turned for pasturage after tho meadow hay was cut I "Oh, dear!" sighed Hitty again, "I'm , no tired, arid here's the cows to drive home, milking to do, sponge t<> set for tho baking to-morrow, and goodness i knows what else, and—Oh!" She started hack, with a little scream for seated on tiie fence, under the shadow of a crimson-leafixl saasafraa treo, sat Hiram Honeydew, coolly j watching her. Hitty'n cheeks turned from pink to scarlet as she met tho admiring glances of his frank, brown eyes, and be r heart beat fns er than common. But Hitty was a sensible girl, so she said, "(iiwxl evening. Mr. Honey, dew !' quite coolly, arid hogan driving home tho cows. But Hiram sprang down from his I perch on the rail fence arid followed i her. "Let me help you, Miss Hitty!" he I-egged. "I ain't used to loailn' around, doin' nothin', like I've been fur some days now; and it'll be n treat to drive home the cows, even." S they walked together through the velvety aftermath, dotted with scarlet butterfly-weed, and critnaon-jietaled "nigger-heads," the lowing cows filing slowly home, lazily chewing their cuds, and switching their tails at the flies. Hiram let down the bars, and turn* ed the cows into the yard, while Hitty brought out the milk-pails from under a bunch of burdock-leaves, where she I bad left thein. And somehow, in spite of the milk ing and setting the swinge, and doing up the chores, Hitty'a heart lieat more lightly than It had for many a day. And Instead of one week Hiram Honeydew stayed two. but still Martha Jane had not been invited to change her name. "Nhe's a mighty good housekeeper," thought Hiram, meditatively. "if little Hitty could only cook an' house- I keep as good jih her. I—don't— " know—" I lie ended hy building a costlo in the air, wherein Ilitty Mavis, with iter vio . lot oyes,nnd"goldy "colored hair,wan the , chief figure. * * * * * * J "Ilitty Mavis!" * Martha .lane's hard, black eyes look : ed liarder than ever, and her sharp features seemed sharper still as slio I ton need wrath fully Into the kitchen where Ilitty sat slicing n bowl of yellow Crawford peaches for supper. "You kin pack up your duds and go! You a-settin' up to ketch a beau, as if Hiram Iloneydow would look at you." "I— Martha Jano, what on earth do you mean?" I titty's eyes expanded, and the pink in her cheeks deepened to a glowing scarlet. "You know well enough what I mean!" sneered Martha. "You needn't to look so innercent, like butter wouldn't melt in your mouth, an'you a-strainin' every nerve to ketch Hiram Iloneydow u-cujoliu' him to help you milk, an' drive up the cows, an' the like. It's jest like your owdaeloun doin's, an' you Kin pack up an' leave right away, tool" "Hut 1 don't know whereto go!" llitty's heart beat like a frightened robin's at the thought of being driven friendless into the world, but Martha Jane was implacable. I "It's nothin' to me where you go, ho you leave here," she sniffed, as she flounced angrily away. "tio with me, Ilitty!" said a tender j voice; and Hiram Honeydew stepped suddenly into the little kitchen, "tio with me, Ilitty. and be my wife." llitty's cbc.ks grew redder than I before, hut she did not draw away from his offered em I race. "N >t gone yet ?" < ried a shrill voice, as the door was jerked viciously open. "Uidn't I tell yu to pack up < >h. 1 Mr. Iloneydow, you here? Come and i have tea— we're a-waitin' fur you." "Kxcuse me!" was the cold reply. "I shall Just have time to take my wife that is to be over to the par. nonage. Will you come to the we.l, j 'ling Hut. with a scornful sniff and b>ss I of her head. Martha Jane llounced off again • * * * "An' so you didn't marry Mahala's darter, after all!" cried Aunt I'eggy, : who was waiting to rreeive them. "N-no!" stainim-red Hiram. Hitty kin learn to keep house, 1 reck In—" "Learn?" cried ilitty. "Why, I did all the housekeeping at Aunt Mahala's. ' Bha is my aunt, th<nigh they wouldn't let me call her so. Marthy Jane never ■ did a In k of Work in her life." ! And so Hiram Ilon*ydew got a wife and a housekeeper all in one, after aIL ' Harvesting Throughout the World. That the harvest of the world, or the reaping of the cereal crops ou the f earth, t.iki-s pl.e e in different p< ri.sln. ' j on account of the different latitudes and consequent different S'..<>n*. Is a well known fact; that th periods 1 embrace altogether more than three fourths of the year might not l*j i known. In Australia, New Zealand, the greater part of Chili, and some dis tri'ts of Argentine Itepublic. the liar vest takes pla< e In January; in the month of February it r->miiicncos in Last India, and progri-smg toward the north, terminates in March Mexico Kgypt, Hernia and Syria harvest in April; the north Asia Minor, China, Japan, Tunis. Algeria, Morocco, and Texas in May. The following coun tries reap their harvests in June: Cali fornia. -pain. Portugal, Italy, Greece i and the south of France. In the other ' parts of France, in Austro-Hunga* rv, the soutli ..f Russia, and the great er |iart of thct'nitcd Mates the crop is gathered in July. In the month of August the following countries har vest: Helgium, Germany, Kngland. the Netherlands, and Denmark; in £ejr temlier, Motlanil, Sweden, Norway Canada, the north of Russia, the latter continuing until in Octotier. A lien llalehes Snakes. f)n the farm of George Logan, neat Lebanon, in tlie county of Warren, I Ohio, a hen lias long evinced an ardent deaire to become a mother, by persis- j tent efforts to hatch door-knot* and I anything elm- that Itore the remotest resemblance to an egg, that her owner finally had pity on her, and placed in her favorite barrel fourteen curious eggs that he had discovered In turning a furrow. Then he went off to camp- meeting ami thought no more aliout the matter until his return, when he i wan amazed to find that the hen hnd i hatched into this wicked world four s teen little snakes for which she was caring with the utmost affection and solicitude and from which she received f constant demonstrations of filial affec. - tion. Next THE TAI'IJ AMONG MAORIS. WrriUiiH anil I,a until am 111 hurrti rial' of Noma Slaaaacraa lirum versus Can nibalism. The Maoris are a people wiio not only weep in church at the patiietic passages, luit laugh uproariously at anything in lessons or sermon that tickles their fancy. Mr. Hay has seen a church full of them waving their arms, stamping their feet, grinding their teeth with rage, when tin: treach ery of Judas was being related. To such people Christianity came as anew form of tapu (taboo). They are ready for any number of rites and ceremonies, and it was only when they began to l read for themselves, and to contrast the teachings of the lt<Nik with the conduct t of the land-grabbing pakebas round i them; when, moreover, their implicit | faith in the missionary had been weak i ened by the coming in of rival faiths, each claiming to be the only true way, thai they got to be eclectic, giving up the New Testament, in its practical mid sticking by the Old, lac . cause it allowed polygamy and revenge | and strictly forbade the alienation of land. This tapu had many uses. A river ] was tapu at certain season-, mi as to ! give a close time for fish; a wood was tapu when birds were nesting, fruit ripening, or rats (dele ciex in the old Maori cuisine) multiplying. To tapu a garden answered till Captain Co .k brought in pigs far better than the strongest fence. A girl, tupued, would be as safe amid the wild license of unmarried Maori life as if she had been in a nunnery. Tapu wa• proba bly never intentionally broken, so weird was the horror which surrounded it Hut in this i,i . sinning in ignorance was no excuse; and the most furious wars were those whieh arose from breaking it. The sign of tapu wis easily si t up a bun h of ihax or hair, a bom-, n rag on a earvisl lick, thai was enough. 'I" 1. ft it w.w much liarder, needing the intervention of the tohung.i (prie- ! , who. by muttering incarnations, arid, ab v< all, by making the talsKMs! man eat a sweet potato (kumera i charmed It aw av. Many a massacre of whites was due b> an unwitting infringement of the tapu. The historic massacre of Dii l restne and his crew was brought about bv a delilierate i-reacb of tapu; and such outrages on native feeling were so dangerous that Govi rnof Ma quarie of "-ydney. in 1 -!fl, tried to make every skipper in the Ni w Zealand trade sign a bon-l for t'l'"ftnot to ill-treat Maoris, not to break tapu.' not to trespass on burial grinds, not to kidnap men or women. His efforts were fruitless. Maoris were fine, sturdy fellow s, and though there was. a vet, no Kanaka lab- r market in ipx-en-Und. no Queen** Inn ! at all in fact, a ship that was short-handed was very glad to get some of them on 1-i.ir! hv any kind of device The worst thing connected with the carry ing off of native wonxn was that the poor creatures weie generally !>ut Ashore in some vlier part of the islands —i. v.. among enemies. There slavery or w r-e, was sure to l>e their fate. Another cause for bloody reprisal- was the treatment < f the men who were taken on l-ard. "I'm a chief." said one, who was U-ing driven by a p-pie's, end, w hen incapable through seasick ness. I.- •-■•(< menial work. "You a chief!" scofiinglv replied the master of the Hoyd. for tiiat was the name of the lil-fatisi ship. "When you come to my country you'll find I'm a chief.' Was the reply. The Hovd bajqiennl to sail into the harlmr of Whargaron, the very place to which the flogged chief belonged. He showed bis triliesmen his score! back, and they vowed ven- ! geanre, for cm n a Mow to a chief is! an insult that can only l>e wiped out with blood. The captain and part of the crew, leaving some fifty souls in the ship, went ashore to sebvt tim ber. The Maoris waylaid ami mur dered them, dressing themselves In their victim's clothes, went at dusk to the ship, climbed on lmanl, ami killed every one except a woman, her child ren, and a lsiy who hail l>een kind to the chief during his distress. The I vessel was plundered, and the chiefs I father, delighted at securing some llre- I arms, nnapprd a musket over an open ; barrel of powder and was blown to i pieces with a dozen of his men. Tapu was successfully broken by the early missionaries in the Hay of Island*. One of their settlements was up the Kerikeri river, the tapu of which for fish during the close months was very vexatious to them, for it blocked up their only road to Te I'una the h°ad station. Stores must lie had; and at last, in defiance of tapu, they manned a I mat and rowed down, amid the rage and terror of the Maoris, who exjHrted to see them exterminated by the offended atua (spirits). When the mission lsat came laek it was seized, and the crew hound ready to be slain and eaten. Happily, to eat the stores seemed the proper way of begin, f nlng, ami those stores were partly tin* nod-meat, jams, etc., and partly drugs,' Having greedily devoured the former, the plunderers duly fell upon the latter, finishing off the jalap, castor-oil, salts and so forth, as part of the ceremony. Ihe result may b- guessed. The "inana" of the missionaries began to work mightily, and with grovelling supplications the anguished Maoris ro- Icasod their prisoners and sought re* lief. The whole tribe was converted. How could they help it? Had not the gods of the stranger proved ti.elr | superior might t.y utterly disabling those who had stood forth as the avengers of their own insulted deities? Wonderful I'recoc If- Oliver Madox Hrown, a son of the well-known artist, was lmm in lh. r >s. lie seems to have been a precocious child, tiiougli his precocity never took tin- form of book-learning in any shape, and it was riot till lie was -ix that lie I began to read. Hut if backward with ! his books he was a born artist, with pern-il and paint-brush first, as after. ■ ward with his pen. When he w.ia | 1 eight lie had completed his first picture I in water-colors, and when he was four teen in- exhibited "f'hiron Deceiving the Infant Jason from the Have" at the Dudley gallery. He painted three other notable pictures: "Olwtinacy," '•lTospcro and Miranda" and "Silas Marner." Hut Oliver Madox Hrown was beginning to show himself as an artist In the world of letters Hcfore ho was fourteen he had written some sonm-ts of singular beauty, and at sev enteen he had written a tale called , "The Hlack Swan." which was first given to the world as "Gabriel 1 lea ver." The history of this book is rattier curious. Oliver had shown it to Mr. Williams, who was connected with the firm of Smlin, Khb-r \ and Mr. Williams had t*-en much im pressed with It and was anxious to as sist in its publication. Nothing could have Is-en kinder, but nothing le-s ju i li< ioi;v, than Mr. Williams'• conducts He lirst insisted ~n the singularly pic turesque name of "The Hlack Swan" U-ing altcrel into the \cry unmeaning one d "Gabriel Denver." ID-then in sisted on tie- ln-ginning of the story U.-ing altered: on a deserted changed, on grounds of propriety, Into a descrt'-d cousin, and on the terrible tragidy at the end becoming a coin - forts I-le marriage in short, wr:th tlie iiest intentions. tie did everything pos sible to sjhiil the I ->ok. lie wati red it and toned it down, but tlx strange, , fierce power of the plot and the vigor of the writing still remained. It was greatly injure! as a Work of art, but as a work of imagination it was a re markable pn-dui tx.n. It was not, how ever it could never Is-—an agreeable liook. It was too crude and violent. None of tlie scene* wore simply horri ble, and some of the incidental re_ marks veinisl t-osbow a strange kn--w 1. edge which repelled sympathy. Hut wlxn it was known that this was the w -rk of a mere l>y the feeling of dis like p.i- •! off into a stronger filing of w m-ler and ivlmiration. What waa painful and repuLsive was the fault of an unfortunate st rv. The essential matter was the literary power, which might prove it-elf equal to very groat effort* and might produce works of lasting value. Stock Speculation in Japan. The Japanese government forbids stock speculating, and the authorities recently determined to arrest at the *nme moment all offenders on the stock exchanges at Osaka, Yokohama and ! KoW, as well a.* on the rice exchanges at Toklo and s me other important centers. The police received their or. dcrs only on the morning of the day ; fixed, and in strong force, all wearing some sort of disguise, proceeded to the vicinity of the exchanges and mingled with the crowd so as to escape obser. vation. At a little after 11 o'clock all was in readiness, a sign was given, and IM-tore the amazixl s|ectators could make out what was going on the ex changes were in possession of the pa j lire, tlie doors lockiil and the prisoners secured. All the books, papers, etc., were then taken |>os*es.ion of, and the |M>llce*s w hole "haul" removed to the central police station. Over 700 de linquents were sent to prison, thcii offense >eing "speculating in margins.'' The Strongest Electric Light. The strongest single light that burns in tho I'nlted States is suspended In front of the ITiiladelphia Record build ing. ninety-five feet al*ve the ('beat nut street sidewalk. Its power Is equal to 10,000 candles. At nigbt the ehtlreblock l<etween Ninth and Tenth streets, is mode so light that under the powerful rays of the lamp a person standing anywhere within these limits can rend editorial print with ease. Loveliness. Oi< I knew a little girl, Very plain; . You might Uy her h&lr to carl, All in vein; On her cheek no lint of roue' I'ahvl en'l hhmlxyl, or nought repoeej Hhe m | 'lulu* Hut tiie thought* that through her brsla | Came ari went, A* a ruoornpenee lor {win. Angel* Kent; Ho full many a Ixwuteoiu thing, In her young aoul hloaaonuing, Oave content Kvery thought waa lull of grace, I'lirn and true; And in time the homely face , m ITe)ier grew With a heavenly radiance bright, Kroin the aoul'a reflected light Hhining through. So 1 toll you, little child, Ilxin or poor, II your thought* are undefiled, You are euro Of the lovellneaa ot worth; And thin heauty not of earth Will endure. lIIMOKOI'H. flreen corn—a young bunion. High-toned—The screech of as eagle. When does a tr•*<- feel contented? i When its sappy. The only difference tretwaen one yard and two is a fence. Just so long an w.man retains her maiden name, her ma.den aim is to change it. "Krnile," asked tlx teacher, "which Animal atta> hesbimself most to man?" Kiiiile, after some reflection—"The leech, sir." Tiie tailor's apprentice, a lien com mencing id* trade, finds there is truth in the text that "What a man sews he shall also rip." Simpson savs that when h" aked the girl xsh<> . ic>w his wife to marry hirn sbo said, "1 d- n't mind," and she never has minded. A Lowell man liad liis head frac tured hv a hath t ;b falling upon him. This will teach hirn hereafter not to fod around a contrivance that he Is not familiar with. "Yes," said the father. "I like to have rm daughter hav< a beau on the •oonofe oootny. If she didn't, some ne <>f the family w dd occupy the parlor and burn the gas." A voting man who went into the kitchen, where he saw his girl baking i and inadvertently sat d wn on a hot pie just from the oven, now leasts tliat he "descended from the up[>er crust." "What are you g"ing to do when you grow up if you d< n't know how to cipher?" asked a teacher of a slow Uiv. "I'm going to be a school teach ' r anil make the loys do the cipher ing." was the reply. The Popuhr SH> net Monthly ask: ••What are crowds ?" It is not quite certain how-science will handle this question, but the average common sense educated man kn-ws that under some circumstances three is corn-id ere] a crowd. Sending Their Head Hack to China. Wong Foci, the editor of the Chinese American, ptiblislied in New York, ex. plains why Chinamen wish to l<e buried in their own country. He say*: "If anyone going 1 a< k to the old country lias dead friends here ho takes them along. I do not believe that more than live jier cent, of the China, men who die in the United Mates art permanently buried here. Friendless Celestials are left here, and no one cares whether they go- to heaven or not." "Cannot one of your race gel into I'aradise unless his bones rest in Chinese soil?" "No, sir; Chinamen lelieve that the only road to heaven lies through their country." "Hut if a good, virtuous Chinaman who has kept his pigtail and his conscience in tact dies in a strange land, will he bt excluded from heaven because he Is poor and friendless?" "That's tha doctrine," said Mr. Wong. "Aeooixl ing to Christians, no man can be saved except through a certain lielief, no matter how good he is; according to Chinamen, there is no salvation outside of China. One lielief is about as rational as the other." "When you dig up the remains of your countrymen do you have any services at the grave?" j "We burn a little incehse-paper, maybe, < and take a drink, just as Americans do on all occasions." "Whst doea the drink signify r "It's whst you would call a toast. IV e drink ]>eace to the sul of the departed, and a prosperous journey to the body. We use any liquor that comes handy. Sometime* tea. or whisky, or in extreme casta, water " "llow are the bodies pr* pared for shipment?" "They are em balmed if they are fresh enough. If not, the meat Is scra|>cd off and the bona* only are carried away."
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