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H" aTcOOPER, PHYSICIAN A SURGEON
• Newton Centre, Luzerne County ra.
GEO S. TUTTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW
Tunkhonnock, Pa. Office- n Stark * Brie
eek, Ttoga street.
WM. M. PIATT. ATTORNEY AT LAW, O
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HARItISBURG, PKNNA.
The undersigned having lately pur. hase l the
•• BUEHLEU lIOUSE " property, has already com
menced such alterations and improvements us will
render this old and popular H .use equal. -.1 not supe
rior U any Hotel in the City of RarrisUurg.
A*continuance of the public patronage is refpect
fall/ aolicited. } BOI.TON
"WALLS HOTEL,
• LATE AMERICAN HOU3K,
TL'Nlili ANMR h, M l OMING C 0. PA.
THIS establishment has recenMy been refitted an
famished in the latest style Every attention
mil he given to the comfort and convemei.ee of those
whe patronice the House.
T. B. WALL, Owner sol Proprietor .
f—hhannack. September 11, 1361.
NORTH BRANCH HOTEL,
MESHOPPEN, WYOMING COl Ml, PA
H. CORTRIGHT, I'rop'r
HAVING resumed the proprietorship ef the above
Hotel, the undersigned will spare no effort to
paader the house an agreeable place ot sojourn for
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fane, 3rd, 1663
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PHYSICIAN BURREU*.
Would respectfully announce to the citizcnwf Wy
miag that he has located at Tonkharnock where
he will promptly attenl to all calls in the line of
kia profession. ,
py will bo feand at home on Saturdays of
eaek week
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p. B- BARTLET,
(ialeeft. p BRAI.MARI lorse, ELIIIRA, M Y.
PROPRIETOR.
Tha MEANS HOTEL, i- one of the LARGEST
aad IRST ARRANGED Houses in the country-It
itte4 p in the moßt Modern and improved stjle,
ad ao paias are spared to makt it a pleasant and
agreeable stopping-place for all,
v 3, ntl, ly.
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AT GILMAN, has permanently located in Tun
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AIR. PINK'S NERVES.
BY ANNIE SURREY.
Theopliilus Pink was afflicted with
nerves,and had been from the time he came
into the world. Joined with this nervous
ness, perhaps the result of it, lie was con
stitutionally suspicious,and would turn pale
with fright at the merest trifles.
One day, just as he was about to com
mence carving lie was seized with a horri
ble suspicion, and laying down the earr
ing-knife, looked into his wife's face with
very nervous anxiety.
"What is the matter, Theopliilus ?" in
quired his wife, surprised.
"Did you observe Bridget's face ?" in
quired her husband, wiping the perspira
tion from his brow.
"No. What is the matter with it ? I
perceived nothing out of the way, except
her large nose, and that may be said to be
very much in the way."
"Mrs. Pink, this is too serious a subject
to jest about," said Theophilus, with as
much sternness as he could command.
"Lor, Theopliilus, what's the matter ?
What's out of the way with Bridget ?"
"1 will tell you, Mrs. Pink. But first,
are you aware that Bridget is a Catho
lic ?"
"Certainly."
"Well, I read to day a paragraph in
which it was stated that priests, for pur
poses of their own, are prevailing upon the
Irish domestics to poison their employers
in order to gain possession of the money,
and get the upper hand throughout the
country."
"Ail nonsense." *
"Mrs. Pink, you may think as you
please. I think otherwise."
"So you think Bridget means to poison
us all ?"
"You have said it. Such it certainly
my opinion."
"And von judge from this paragraph
alone !" said Mrs. Pink, with a little good
natured contempt perceptible in her tone."
"Not wholly. I watched Bridget's face,
and 1 am certain, from the expression, that
••he meant something evil. Her face was
fairlv red with confusion. 5 *
"More likely with being over the kitch
en stove."
"You mar sneer if you please, Mrs. Pink.
It will not move me any."
"What do you propose lo do about it
Mr. Pink ?"
"I will tell you."
Mr. Pink proceeded to cut off a slice of
the meat,and requested his wondering wife
to put on the plate, in addition, vegetables
fro.n the various dinlies. He then rose,and
with as much dignity as a tow-headed little
man of four feet eight inches in height
could muster, rang the bell.
Bridget answered the bell.
"What's wanting, muiu ?" asked ihe
maid Erin, looking toward her mistress.
"Mr Pink rang for you. He will tell
yon."
"I want you to sit down at the side table,
and eat what there is on that plate."
"Right here now ?" asked Bridget, her
evts rolling in her head with amazement.
"Yes," said Mr. Pink, in a stern triumph
fancying that the indications of surpriae
were marks of guilt.
"Oh, it isn't 1 that'll back out," said
Bridget ; and receiving the p!*te from the
hands of Mr. Pink, she fell to, with an ap
petite which seemed to have been accumu
loting for this special occasion.
Of course even Air. Pink could not
doubt of this He with a slight feeling of
shame helped his wife and children from
the different dishes, and with a feeling o
security partook thereof himself"
"A little ir.ore. av ye plaze," said Brid
get, extending her plate, her utterance by
the way being a little thick in consequence
of her mouth being full.
"You CN finish your dinner in the kitch
en, Bridget," said Mr. Pink. "We shan't
need you any longer."
Bridget left the room, thinking it a
"mighty quare" family.
This, however, was a common, every.
dav occurrence.
I now proceed to narrate a thrilling inci
dent which befell Mr. Tlieophilus Pink on
a journey to the West.
Tlieophilus had been talking of the jonr
ney for several years, but had found it dif
ficult to muster sufficient courage to under
take it. lie was afraid that the cars would
run off the track, or the steamboat would
blow up, or something equally fatal would
happen, lie staid in Buffalo two days, be
ing unable to decide whether it would be
safest to go to Detroit by cars or boat. He
decided to go by boat, when he chanced to
read of an accident which happened to a
Mississippi river steamboat. Tins decided
him to take the cars, when unfortunately
tidings came of a train running off the track
somewhere in Georgia. Accordingly he,
with many doleful apprehensions, took pas
sage in the boat, and, considerably to his
surprise, was landed in safety at Detroit.
However, lam not going to detail, step
by step, all that happened on the journey,
Suffice it to say, that one evening Mr. P.
found himself riding in a lonely part of Illi
nois. Night was approaching, and Mr.
Pink would not for all .the world have rid
den through the night, exposed to thieves,
wild beasts, and all the terrors that night
naturallvlbrings to a nervous man.
Fortunately this was not needful.—
There loomed up before him a respecta
ble looking house which HO doubt, were
the occupants so disposed, would offer him
eouifortable shelter for the night
Jumping frem his horse, he knocked
at tho door.
"TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT." Th#m Jeffersou.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1866.
A buxom woman presented herself at
the summons.
"I am a benighted traveller," explained
Mr. Pink, "and should be very glad it you
would provide me with a night's lodging."
"You are welcome, stranger," said the
woman, heartily. You, Jim, come here
and take the stranger's horse. Step right
in, sir. We can accommodate you as well
as not."
Moat men would have considered this
a very warm and respectable fwelcoine ;
but Theophilus Pink felt troubled.
"She's a good deal too glad to see me,"
he thought. "I am afraid she has some de
sign upon me. Perhaps she thinks I've
got money, and means to steal it during the
night, I've heard of snch things before."
To the jaundiced eje of Mr. Pink, the
good natured face of his hostess assumed
the expression of Lady Macbeth, just as
she is about to use tire dagger.
However, he had got himself into a scrape
and could not very well get out of it.—
Better remain than arouse the woman's
suspicions of his knowledge of her purpose
by proposing to go. She would undoubt
edly dispatch emisarics after him who
would waylay and murder him.
Ugh ! it made him shudder to think of
such a thing.
Y •
In a very desponding state of mind, Mr.
Pink partook of his supper. He declined
taking any tea.
"Likely as not she lias put a sleeping po
tion into it. I've read about such things.
Oh dear me! Why did I ever come out
Wast? It's as much as anybody's life is
worth. If I only get home to Mrs. Pink
in safety. I will never again tempt Prov
dence as I am doing now.
Mr. Pink sat with his back to the wall.
He thought that by so doing he should
gtgird against an attack from behind,though
for that matter, there was nobody to make
it except his hostes* already mentioned,
and ber son "Jim," a "boy of ten, who in
deed was stout of lii age. and might pos
sibly have proved a match lor Mr. Pink,
who in a contest would have been afraid to
use what little strength he had.
At length, in came a burly farmer, a
stout man, full six feet in height, clothed
in a blue frock.
"How immensely strong he must be !"
thought Theophilus Pink, with his teeth
chattering in affright." Suppose he sho'd
knock me down with that sledirc-hammer
fist of his, take my money, ana burv me in
the cellar." This thought made him shiv
er, so that Mr. Armstrong, the new comer
inquired —"Got the ague, Mister?"
"N no. What makes you ask ?"
"I saw you shaking. Didn't know hut
what you'd got it. We have got it a good
deal out this way."
The farmer had a frank, open manner,
this Mr. Pink admitted to himself, but felt
little" doubt that it was only meant to mask
deceit. He was half apprehensive that
no attack would be made before lie retired,
and therefore expressed a desire to be
shown to his chamber at once, though it
was but eight o'clock.
"No doubt von are tired with your long
tramp," said Mr. Armstrong, the farmer.
"Well, we keep early hours here. Shall
I carry your carpet bag for you ? '
"N no, I guess I'll take it. There isn't
much in it."
"But that little valuable, said his host
jokingly."
"Not at all," said Mr. Pink, hastily, un
willing to convey such a dangerous im
pression. "f ?nly a few shirts.'
"Those are valuable to you, I reckon,
for if they were lost I don't think mine
would fit you."
Mr. Pink laughed nervously at this joke
but said nothing.
"Hope you'll have a quiet night," said
Mr. Armstrong.
Mr. Pink looked around him nervously.
There seomed to be nothing very peculiar
about the room. It was a large square
room. Mr. Pink discovered, to his dismay,
that there was no lock on the door.
"That is so he can get in better," thought
he to himself.
Byway of guarding against the contem
plated attack, he piled up whatever mova
bles there were in the room, consisting of
an old chest and a couple of chairs, against
the door, though he felt, that this would af
ford but small impediment in case an at
tack was made.
He discovered that by leaning down
with his car to the floor, he could hear
what was said down stairs.
In this uncomfortable position he re
mained for some time without any result.
At length lie heard words that made his
blood run cold.
"When do you propose to kill him V
It was the wife who spoke.
• Early to morrow morning was the hus
band's reply.
"Then you had better sharpen your
knife over night.
"That is a good idea, wife. I'm glad
you spoke of it. I might have forgotten
it."
Directly afterwards, to Mr. Pink's par
alyzing terror, he heard the noise of a
knife being sharpened.
"Oh, what shall Ido ?" groaned The
ophilus Pink, wringing his hands in abject
fear. Shall I stay here to be murdered by
these blood thirsty villains ? No, 1 will
jump out of the window first."
He opened the window, and jumped, in
his blind tciyor, regardless of the conse
quences which might ensue. The height
was not great, but he tell directly upon his
arm, and broke it. Of course he was una
ble to stir.
Hearing the noise the farmer and his
wife hastened to the spot
"Don't kill me!" groaned Mr. Pink, who |
now looked pink with terror.
"Who thought of killing you, and what
brought you here?" sxclaimed the farmer,
with unfeigned amazement.
"I heard you and your wife talking of
killing me, and when I heard you sharp
ening your knife, I couldn't stand it any
longer, and I jumped."
Mr. Armstrong burst into a hearty laugh
"It was our pig I was going to kill.—.
That was what we were talking about."
"Was that all ?" groaned Mr. Pink, with
mingled pain and shame.
He was at length persuaded that such
was the ease. But he had to pay bitterly
for his ridiculous suspicions, being detained
in the neighborhood several weeks by his
broken arm
The Blood Hounds in the West Indies.
Esquemeling, who wrote a history of
tbe buccaneering expedition in which he
had his lawless comrades engaged, says
that lie bad found in these hiding', places,
hesps of human remains; and that in this
time the island of Ilispaniola was invested
with large numbers of blood hounds, which
ran wild in the woods. These dogs de
stroyed enormous quantities of cattle, and
so nearly exterminated the race of wild
boars that the hunters of that island had
much ado to find any. Monsieur Ogeron
the Governor of Tortuga, in 1788, sent to
France for a store of poicn to destroy them.
Horses were killed and empoisened, and
laid open at certain places where wild dogs
use to resort; this being continued for six
months there was killed an incredible num
ber; and yet all this could not destroy the
race, or scarce diminish them, their number
appearing almost the same as before. In
stinct taught the blood hounds to hunt in
packs. Esquemeling and a French bucca
neer of his acquaintance once heard them
coming through the woods, and took refuge
in a tree, whence they looked on while the
pack ran into a wild boar and killed him.
As soon as the boar was dead the whole
pack lay down and waited till the hound
who had first grappled the enemy had sat
isfied his hunger, before they presumed to
begin their own repast.
AN ILLINOIS LAWYER "DOING
WELL,"
There were few' abler lawyers in the
State of Illinois during the past quarter of
a century than the late Judge Purple, of
Peoria, lie was the autholr of several law
books. By his entire devotion to his pro
fession, he had attained merited celebrity
as an advocate and jurist.
Some years since Judge P., when in the
city of Washington, met a gentleman from
Boston, who, upon learning that the Judge
was from Illinois, made particular enquiry
as to the success ofa young sprig of the law
by the name of 11 , who had emigra
ted West some five vears before.
"He is doing well," very promptly re
plied the Judge.
"He is ? well, I am glad to hear it—glad
to hear it, indeed."
"You think he has a good practice, do
you, Judge ?"
" Don't know anything about his prac
tice," replied Purple ; "but he is doing well
succeeding finely."
"Making money, then, is lie ?" persisted
Boston.
"I tell you 1 don't know anything about
his business," said Purple.
"Well," said the Boston man, " you seem
to thing that he is doing well, and yet you
know nothing about his practice or busi
ness. What do you mean ?"'
"I mean this," said Purple, " that any
man who practices law in Illinois five years
and who keeps out of the penitentiary, is
doing well, whether lie has practice or not.
NOBLE SENTIMENTS. —Condemn no man.
says John Wesley, for not thinking as you
think. Let every man enjoy the full and
free liberty of thinking for himself. Let
every man use his own judgment, since ev
ery man must give an account of himself
to God. Abhor every approach, in every
kind of degree,"to the spirit of persecution,
you cannot reason or persuade a man into
the truth, never attempt to force him into
it. If love will not compel hiin to come,
leave him to God, the Judgo of all.
" Ah, dear Doctor how is my wife
to-day?'' The doctor shook his head and
said—"You must prepare for the worst!"
" What," said the husband, "do you think
she is likely to get over it V'
why are you so wicked as
to tell me a lie about that knife ? Why
did you not remember what I tolji you
about Washington ?"
"Oh!" said Johnny, "Washington said
he couldn't toll a lie, lie couldn't anil I
could !''
A man named Jameson, in Cincin
nati, wishing to curtail household expen
ses, adopted a novel mode to effect his ob
ject. He kissed the servant girl one morn
ing, when he knew Mrs. J. would see him.
Results—discharged servant girl and twelve
dollars per month saved.
"Ah, doctaw, does the choleraw aw
fect the highaw awda?"' asked an exquis
ite of a celebrated physician in New York.
" No, but its death on fools, and you'd bet
ter leave the city immediately."
The Love of Knowledge,
I solemnly declare, that, but for the lore
of knowledge, I should consider the life of
the meanest hedger and ditcher as prefera
ble to that of the greatest and richest man
in the world, for the fire of our minds is
like the fire which the Persians burn in the
mountains—it flames night and day, and is
immortal, and not to pe quenched. Upon
something it must act and feed, upon the
pure spirit of knowledge, or upon the foul
dregs of polluting passions. Therefore,
when I say, in conducting your understand
ing, lo7e knowledge with a great love,
with a vehement love, with a love coeval
with life; what do I say hut love inno
•cence. love virtue, love purity of conduct—
love that which, if you are rich and great,
will sanctify the blind fortune which has
madfc yon so, and made men call it justice
—love tliat which, if you are poor, will
render your poverty respectable, and make
the proudest feel it unjust to laugh at the
meanest of your fortunes—love that which
will comfort you, adorn you, and never
quit you—which will open to you the king
dom of thought, and all the boundless re
gions of conception, as an assylum against
the cruelty, the injustice and the pain that
may be your lot in the outer world—that
which will make your motives habitually
great and honorable, and light up in an in
stant a thousand r.oble disdains at the very
thought of meanness and of fraud. There
fore, if any young man has embarked his
life in pursuit of knowledge, let him go on
without doubting or fearing the event —let
him not be intimidated by the cheerless
beginnings of knowledge, by the darkness
from which she springs, by the difficulties
which hover around her, by the wretched
habitations in which she dwells, by the
want and sorrow which sometimes journey
in her train; but let him ever follow her
as the angel that guards him, and as the
genius of his life. She will bring him out
at last into the light of day, and exhibit
him tortile world comprehensive in acquir
ments, fertile in resources, rich in imagin
ation, strong in reason, prudent and power
ful above his fellows, in all the relations
and in all the offices of life.—llsv. SYDNEY
SMITH
er A pious old farmer reading Gover
nor Fenton's proclamation for the seventh
of December as a day of prayer, and thanks
giving,to be observed throughout the State
of New York, read, by reason of misprint
of the word t oiler, as follows: "Never be
fore had a people so much cause for thanks
giving. Every tailor in the realm of hon
orable industry is inspired with new en
couragement and mnfideace." "But why
tailors inspired with new encouragement"
interrupted his better half, f'more than oth
er people ?" "Oh I suppose," replied the
pious parent, "because the President was
once a tailor, and every tailor may yet be
come a President." "Oh!" replied the
pious old lady, "how I wish you was a
tailor."
FAVORITES.—" I have ever found," says
a sensible writer, " that men who are real
ly most fond of the society of ladies; who
cherish for them a high respect, nay, rev
erence them, are seldom most popular with
the sex. Men of more assurance, whose
tongues are lightly hung, who make words
supply the place of ideas, and place com
pliment in room of the sentiment, arc the
favorites. A true respect for women leads
to respectful action towards them; and re
spect is usually a distant action, and this
great distance is taken by them for neg
lect and want of interest."
— ■ *
WITTY. —The father of Mra. Siddons
had always forbidden ber to marry an act
or ; and of course, she chose a member of
the old gentleman's company, whom she
secretely wedded. When Roger Kerable
heard of it, he was furious. "Have I not,"
he exclaimed, "dared you to marry a play
er !" The lady replied, with downcast
eyes, "that she had not disobeyed." "What
Birulatn ! have you not allied yourself to
about the worst performer in my company?
"Exactly so," murmured the timid bride ;
nobody can call him an actor."
&W An old man by the name of Hop
kins, living in Adrian, Michigan, has just
been made the happy father of "triplets,"
all girls. A young lady, commenting on
the wonderful prosperity of this family,
says that siie knows many young married
men who are not one third as smart as old
Mr. Hopkins,
R A lady, a regular shopper, who had
made an unfortunate clerk tumble over all
the stockings in) the store, objected that
none were long enough. . ~
"I want,'' she said, "the longest liosc that
are madiy"
"Then, madam, was the reply, you'd
better apply to the next engine house."
A dashiag young bachelor lately appear
ed in Central Park with two handsome po
sies, whose tails were done op to look lik
a lady's waterfall, and cooped up in small
fish nets. The resemblance was capital,
and the team created a great aensation/)
gliT A shrewd confectioner in Water
burg has taught bis parrots to say "pretty
creature" to every lady who enters the
store. His custom is rapidly increasing.
—
When is a prison-door like an es
caped thief ?
i Wheu its bolted.
TERMS, tfi.OO PER AlffNt3li
ESJOYINO A PRAYKE MEETING.— Somo
thirty years ago, in a town in New Yoxk,
long since noted for "stated preaching,"
old Deacon Bemont was conducting a
prayer-meeting in the church. His seat
was in front of the pulpit, where a door
opened into a small closet. The worthy
old deacon, leaning his chair back against
the door that opened inward, happened to
slip his chair beyond its balance, trusting,
to the treachorous door, when down he
went, heals up, into the dark closet, to the
no small consternation ot the audience. —
The poor old deacoo had to be drawn out
by his legs, chair and all, amid the ill-con
taincd tittering that greeted his advent, —
Some time after this episode, a noted re
vivalist was holding a series of meetings
in the same church, and iq conversing with
the young people on the subject of person
al piety, amongst other questions he asked
a young lady whom he was anxious to in
terest or. the subject. ".Did you ever eu
jov prayer and conference meetings ?"
She replied she thought she did once enjoy
such a season. The minister then anx
iously inquired, "When and where did you
experience this senaation ?" She replied,
with perfect sincerity, "It was when old
Deacon Bemont fell into the aloset, and
was dragged out uninjured by the heels."
The minister appeared so well satisfied
with this conversation, that he asked no
more questions in that quarter.
CHARACTER. —Not two leaves in the for
est are exactly the same in form and text
ure. No two grains of sand from the sea
shore or the great African desert are iden
tical in bulk and culture. Even the two
drops of water most alike in £,the universe
will exhibit some marks of distinction when
submitted to a powerful microscope. The
law that excludes duplicates from the visi
ble kingdoms of nature is also a law of the
moral world. From Adam to the last man
no two faces will be found exactly the same;
and variety in trait ?nd lineament of hu
man character is as inexhaustible as in
man's ouiward appearance. The power
which iu one man's moral composition is
ardent, demonstrative, predominant, in an
other lies dormant or dead. The craving
which in one breast concentrates upon itslf
the whole mind and will, before its voice
can be silenced or its yearnings appeased,
is never felt, scarcely understood, by a be
ing of a different organization. The weak
ness of the weak man is laughed at, in scorn
by the strength of the stroDg; moral pulp
and ateel travel side by side, and souls of
fine porcelain and delicate cuystal tremble
in the near presence of iron and granite.
STASD ALONE. —Society is much infest
ed with adult babies who canr.ot, or will
not, stand alone. These weaklings are de
cidedly more troublesome than the little
toddlers who stagger from chair to chair
in their first attempts at unaasisted loco
motion. The grown-up infant makes no
effort to support himself, He insists upon
having hold of somebody's hand ; and if he
has nothing to cling to or to lean against,
he lies down and gives up. There are few
energetic, prosperous men who are not em
barrassed with one or more of these dead
weights. The best service that any man
to whom they attach themselves can ren
der them, is to shake them off, providing
them, if possible, with an opportunity to
exercise whatever ability, whether of the
head or hand, they may possess. There
are indolent, irresolute men who can be
taught to stand alone. But he who is in
capable ot making any effort by which suc
cess can be achieved is a hopeless case.
Lie is a mere "cumberer of the ground,"
and without value in society.
CANDOR. —There is nothing sheds so fine
a light upon the human mind as candor.—
It was called "whiteness" 1 by the ancients,
for its purity ; and it always won the es
teem due to the most admirable of the vir
tues. However little sought for, or prac
ticed, all do it the homage of their praise,
and all feel the power and charm of its in
fluence. The man whose opinion makes
the deepest mark upon his fellow-men,
whose friendship is instinctively sought
where all others have proved faithless, is
not the man of brilliant parts or flattering
tongue, or splendid genius, or commanding
power ; but he whose lucid candor and in
eeaius truth Jransmit the heart'a real feel
ings pure and without refraction. There
are other qualities which are more showy,
and other traits that have a higher place in
the world's code of honcr, but none wear
better or gather less tarnish by use,or claim
a deeper homage in that silent reverence
which the mind must pay to virtue,
<■ *.
On the 13th inst., Chief Justice
Chase, introduced the negro Fred Doug
las, in flattering and complimentary terms,
to a large and densa auditory, iu Dr. Sun
derland's church. The negro delivered
himself of a two hour's speech on " the as
sassination and its lesson." Judge Kelly,
M. C. from Philadelphia, made a speech
atter the nigger was done, declaring him
self unconditionally for amalgamation.
Jt-fT Why is a horse like the letter O ?
Because G makes it go. And what is the
difference between this conundrum and my
aunt who squints ? One is a query with
an answer; the other is an auut, Sir, with
a queer eye.
2W He who lives for himself ahm
fires for a mean fellow.
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