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Middletown transcript., 1917-01-20

er schools into larger, stronger graded
schools, with high school courses,
directed by a competent principal and
corps of teachers.
On the other hand, in counties
which have improved their roads, the
schools are easily reached, the aver
age attendance greater, the efficiency
largely increased and economic con-
sOiidation made possible. Regular at
tendance at school means consistent
and regular growth Of both school
and pupil, and consolidation of schools
means q maximum of efficiency at a
minimum OF cost. 1t is also note
worthy that there is marked tend
ency for the consolidated school to be-
come the social and intellectual CEN
ter of the community. Most mode n
rural SchOOlhOuSeS are so constructed
as to serve the community as gather
ing places for various kinds of public
meetings, and where vans are used to
convey the children to school during
the day they are frequently pressed
into service to haul the farmers and
their wives to institute work, lectures,
or entertainments at the schoolhouse.
The consolidated school becomes a
sort Of community center to which all
educational and social activities con-
verge, and in order that it may pro-
perly perform that function all Of the
highways leading to it should be so
improved as to render it readily ac.
cessible throughout the year.
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DRESSED FOWLS FOR MARKET
Starving Twenty-Fcur Hours Before
Killing Makes Bird More Attrac-
tive-Pick at Once.

(By C. 8. ANDERSON, Colorado Agricul-
tural College. Fort Collins, Colo)
Success In marketing dressed poui-
try depends very largely on the metl'-
ods followed in killing and dressing.
Starving "A hours previous to killing
empties the crop and intestines, inn
proves the keeping qualities and makes
the fowl more attractive.
Bleeding-Since well-bled bird
looks better and keeps better, the kind
of stick necessary to make the bleed
ing successful is very important. Hang
the bird about five feet from the
ground. Grasp the head in the left
hand, comb downward, with the fore
finger part the bill. With the right
hand insert the sticking knife on the
right side Of the roof Of the mouth
where the bones of the skull and neck
join. This sewers a leading artery and
the bird will bleed freely. The knife
should be pointed and very sharp,
preferably two inches long and one
fourth of an inch wide.
Brain Stlck-If the fowls are dry
picked, the brain Is necessary. AS
soon as the artery has been severed,
insert the knife through the groove
in the roof Of the mouth into the brain.
This paralyzes the bird and causes the
feathers to loosen.
The bird should not be allowed to
cool or the feathers to tighten, but
the picking should start at once. The
breast feathers are first picked, and
then the long tail and wing feathers.
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SYRUP Of FIGS FOR
A CH|LO'S BOWELS
It is cruel to force nauseating,
harsh physic into a
sick child.

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the "doss" mother insistef.
on-castor oil, calomel. cathartics.
How you hated them, how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the old form Of
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children's revolt Is well-found.
ed Their tender little "insides" are
injured by them.
If your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing. give only deli.
cious California Syrup of Figs" Its
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
Of mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative" handy; they know children
love to take it; that it never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet.
en- the stomach, and that q teaspoonful
given today saves a sick child tomor.
row.
Ask at the store for 50-cent bottle
Of California Syrup Of Figs" which
has full directions for babies, children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
on each bottle. Adv.
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GREEN BONE BEST FOR BIRDS
Cutting Machine Is Valuable During
Season of High-Priced EGGS
Use 1t Every Day.

No place with large number of
hens on ii Is complete in its equipment
without q bone mill, and the owner
of bone-cutter that does not make
use Of it daily during the season for
high-priced eggs is making mistake.
Yet one finds many Of these machines
standing idle.
Green cut bone, with a reasonable
amount Of fresh, lean meat on it, is
undoubtedly the very best kind of ami
NAL food that can be had for the win
ter layers. 1t is live animal food
and the nearest Of any of the meat
foods to the natural, wild products
that the hen picks up in the shape of
bugs and worms while wandering
about the field in summertime.
A hen has to find the material to
form an egg from the food she gets.
and chemical analysis of green bone
shows that 1t contains every element
contained in the white, the yolk and
the shell of the egg. This accounts
for the avidity with which green bone
is devoured by the hen. Instinct in
all animals, taste and a desire for
foods that are suitable for them,
causes the hen to leave any other food
at any time for mess of green bone.
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.FlRST-CLASS STOCK FAVORED
Advantageous to Visit Breeder and
Make Selection Rather Than Or.
der Fowls by Mail.

When buying purebred fowls do not
seek culls, but endeavor to secure
those that are good. A Gull may have
some fault-may be lacking in hardi-
ness or may have been tried with un-
satisfactory results.
It will always be an advantage to
visit the breeder and make selection
rather than order by mail, unless the
breeder is known as one who is reli-
able and whose stock Is first-ciaSs.
Sometimes. however. a Gull is simply
not show bird; In which case it may
be equal to any In the flock in other
respects.-Poultry Herald.
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Government Of a City.

When Henry NJ. Waite, the city
manager of Dayton, O., says that citf
will be governed only as well as its
people deserve and desire; that city
government car be only as nearly ideal
as a community can appreciate and
understand, and that no community
can be properly governed until large
majority of it's electorate is prepared
to eliminate politics from its munich
pal affairs and keep them eliminated,
he is simply repeating what has been
said thousands of times and what all
thoughtful city dwellers know to be
true. 1t is not city governments, there
fore, that are primarily blamable for
lax city administration, but, rather,
the people who set up and maintain
city governments on standards lower
than those they observe in their pri-
vate business and in their homes
Christian Science Monitor.
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LAY OUT MORE NUT TREES
Grateful Shade and Pleasing Appear.
ance Well Repay All Efforts to
Beautify the City's Streets.

The planting Of nut trees Is some
thing that should more generally be un-
dertaken on country and suburban
places. Many Of these trees have a
beautiful habit Of growth, will give
good shade and will add to the beauty
of any grounds. At the same time
they will produce profitable crops of
nuts which may be welcome addition
10 the family food supply or may even
become q source of revenue.
The walnut is well worth consider
ing by anyone who has any available
land for tree planting. What is termed
the English walnut is beginning to be
more widely appreciated in the United
States. This tree is not native Of
England at a1l, but of Persia and
further east. 1t was carried first to
southern Europe, thence to England
and later to America. The nuts seldom
ripen well in England, the season be-
ng too short and not warm enough. The
housewife pickles the unripe nuts.
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li(1jINuEE ERn127N
2 ~
0~~~S
I:O'!EY IN PLANNING WISELY
Best Thoughts Of Business Men Should
Be Employed for important Bust.
ness Of Laying Out Town.

1t is curious thing that business
men who would not do so much as to
1rive nail into the wall of their Of
ice without first making sure that
there was no gas pipe or electric wire
hidden in the plaster at that point, will
drive ahead with schemes involving
heavy expenditure of public money
without asking themselves what rela-
tiOnship this has with other conditions
which exist or which will materialize
N the future. Looked at in this way,
town planning is merely common
sense, prudence, such as every man
who wishes to continue solvent must
employ in his own daily work.
For instance, extensions are being
made to the car route. Is it not better
to have a thoroughgoing town-plan-
ming scheme prepared so far as it re-
l:tes to the provision of car route ia
cilities before making this one small
addition, SO that we may be sure that,
as things develop, this addition may be
made in the right place to fall in with
larger schemes to be developed here
after? Or again, if we are building
fire engine station, is it not better to
have the city parceled out into prop
erly balanced fire control districts, with
every existing and future fire engine
station shown in it's proper relation to
the central headquarters, and in rela-
tionship to new roads which must
some day materialize, but which are
at present unmade, so that We be sure
that we are placing it just at the point
where the engine will most easily
reach every part Of the district it is
to serve e?-EXchange
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RIGID CULLING OF CHICKENS
Exceptionally High Prices of Poultry
Products Warrants Procedure,
Says Nebraska Station.

The exceptionally high prices Of
poultry products this year warrant a
rigid culling of the flock. says the
poultry department Of the college of
agriculture, at Lincoln. Neb. The
sooner this Is done. the better.
Males Of large. vigorous type, show
ing well-developed breast. strong bone.
large comb and wattles, and bright
eyes. should be held for breeding pur-
poses. Crow heads. long beaks. and
weak legs indicate a lack Of constitu-
tional vigor. and are usually found in
poor producers. Hold the late-molting
hen and sell the eariy-mDlting hen
the persistent or all-summer sitter.
and the Over-fat hen. Sell the imma-
ture pullets or runts. and save only
the best. Never breed from diseased
stock.
Free range for breeders is essential
and it Is not wise plan to confine
them permanently In winter quarters
until snow comes.
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ROADS
GOOD ROADS HELP CHILDREN
Improved Highways of Great Benefit
to Them in Going and Coming
From Country Schools.

The rural population is more willing
to support better schools today than
at any previous time. 1t is being re-
allied that all educational activities or
agencies must be more or less cor
related, and, more than all else, that
they must be more accessible to the
children. In many counties where
bad roads prevail, most of the schools
are of the antiqUated One-room va
riety. They are usually located along
bad roads which, during the winter,
when the schools are usually in ses-
sion, become so nearly impossible as
to make it difficult for the children to
reach them. This condition causes
irregular attendance and restricts the
educational opportunities of the child.
Not only this, but it often impedes the
economic consolidation of these small
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OBTAINING EGGS IN WINTER
Grains Should Be Scattered Among
Straw or chaff to induce Exercise
Give Fresh Water.
(By MRS. C. FISH.)

Provide warm, dry houses for the
fowls to roost in. Corn should only
be given for the evening meal during
cold weather to impart warmth to the
body. All grains should be scattered
among straw or chaff to induce exer
else. Green food and fresh water
should be given daily.
Glover. if cut very fine, scalded, and
fed with a sprinkling Of ground grain
in the morning, allowing the hens to
cat as much as they will, will keep the
hens In health and will not cost as
much as grain.
Also, give meat and ground bones to
the fowls every day. This way of
feeding is sure to give you eggs ir
winter.
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OPPORTUNITIES
THAT. /. ARE MISSED
Mhy Wait? Why Not Go to West
ern Canada Now?

The writer has frequently heard the
remark that after the war we will 60
to Western Canada" 1t does not oc
eur to those making the remark that if
they wish to secure lands in Western
Canada, whether by homestead or pur
chase. the best time to go is now. After
the war the welcome will be just as
hearty as ever, but the chances arc
that land values will increase and to-
day homcsteads are plentiful and lana
Is reasonable in price. There is M
question about what the land in Mani
.toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta will
do, what it will give under proper cul
aiyation.
Far1ners tn Western Gahtda are pity
ing for their land holdings with tn,
-BrOceeds of last years crop. That this
Is no idle statement may be Cleaned
from the three following items. which
are picked out at random:
"In the spring of 1916 half-sectiol.
Of land was offered for sale at S17.N
per acre. There were 105 acres OF
summer-fallow, which because tn,
owner could not at the time find u
buyer, were seeded to wheat. A yield
of 40 bushels per acre, 4.2CO bushels
all told, grading No. 1, was obtained
The price the day the grain was sold
(which was very early in the season
before grain prices advanced to round
about $2.OO) was $1.6O which brough'
the handsome total of $6,720O0. Three
hundred and twenty acres at $17.W
equals $4,000. so that q buyer. by
placing less than half Of the whole
Uader crop. would have made profit
of S1.2S0.OO." - Robson Messenger.
Robson, Sask.
''That the Indiana Boys farm this
year raised sufficient crop to pay for
the land, all the machinery and all
handsome profit, is the information
given by N. b. Davis, the manager
The wheat yield was over $4,000 bush
els. OF twelve cars already sold. nine
graded No. 1. and Mr.. Davis has sold
over 1000 bushels locally for seed at
$500. Naturally, when he gets to In
diana he will be big booster for AL
berta. ."-Bassano Mail BassanO. Alta
oscar Castalor, who bought land at
Blusson after the crop had been put
Ia last spring. for $3,SO0OO, has
threshed $500 bushels of wheat. which
is worth at present prices about
$4,000. He refused an offer of
$5.O00.O0 for the land after the crop
had been taken off."-Lethbridge Her
aid. Lethbridge, Alta.
Reports from the wheat fields are
highly encouraging and show that the
wheat crop of many farmers in West
ern Canada was highly satisfactory.
CobIenz, Sask.-W. .As Rose has
threshed an average Of 33 bushels per
acre and 83 bushels of oats.
Gleichen, Alberta.-Up to date 237,-
S12 bushels of grain have been received
by local elevators, of which nearly
10000 bushels were wheat. Seventy
one cars of grain have already been
shipped.
Stoop Creek, Sask.-Jamcs McRae
has threshed 5,40O bushels of grain
1000 bushels of which were wheat
grading No. 1 Northern. One field
averaged A bushels per acre. and
barge field Of oats averaged SO bushels
IL information as to the best loca-
tion is required, it will be gladly fur
nished by any Canadian Government
Agent, whose advertisement appears
ere.-Advertisement.
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FEED QUESTION IN NUTSHELL
Problem Solved Where Farmer Has
Corn, Wheat, Oats and eeef-Meal
Milk Promotes Health.

A poutryman writing on chickens
from the farm standpoint says that If
he has corn, wheat. oats and beef-meal.
he has the whole question of feed in a
nutshell. Some by-products are need
ed. Of course, but they are found on
every farm.
All the milk that chicken will con-
sumo is none too much; it not only
promotes nourishment, but health as
well.
A successful farmer said that the
more milk his hogs drank. the more
corn they would consume and assim,-
late as we'll. And with any kind of
stock it is not how little feed they can
consume, but how much they can turn
into high-nriced eggs and milk and
meat
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Every farmer should keep few
guinea fowls. in the opinion Of w. A.
Lippincott. professor of poultry hus-
bandry in the Kansas state agricul-
tural college. Not only do they make
themselves valuable as watch birds
against hawks but. because of their
wild game flavor. they are coming into
favor US food.
"Formerly hotels and restaurants
served grouse. quail, and other wild
game birds. but now. on account of
the enactment of game laws, they are
forced to find substitute. The guinea
fowl makes an acceptable substitute
and is being used increasingly because
Of it's similar taste"
Due to the small size Of The guinea
egg, the raising Of guineas for egg
production is not advised by Profess
sor Lippincott. The guinea egg is
classed as q second. If the demand
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BILIOUS, HEADACRY,
SICK ''CASCARETS'
Gently cleanse yuur liver and
sluggish bowels while
you sleep.
Get a 10-cent box.

Get lucent DOX.
Sick headache, biliousness, dizzi-
ness coated tongue, foul taste ard foul
breath-always trace them to torpid
liver: delayed, fermenting food in the
bowels or sour, gassy stomach.
Poisonous matter clogged in the In
testines, instead of being cast out
OF the system is re-absorbed into the
blood. When this poison reaches the
delicate brain tissue it causes con
gestion and that dull, throbbing, sick
ening headache.
Cascarets Immediately cleanse the
stomach, remove the sour, undigested
food and foul gases, take the excess
bile from the liver and carry out all
the constipated waste matter and
poisons in the bowels.
A Cascare. tonight will surely
straighten you out by morning. They
work while you sleep-a 10-cent box
from your druggist means your head
clear. stomach sweet and your liver
and bowels regular for months. Adv.
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Be FRIENDLY WITH POULTRY
Fowls Frightened by People Who Visit
Them Never Make Good Rec
ords as Egg Layers.

1t pays to be friendly wifi, tire fowls
so that you can move around among
them without frightening them.
Fowls that are continually worried
or frightened by the people who care
for them or visit them never make
good records as layers.
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Z NAISittaiiiS otclS
one side of his
+ G S i d c n t | a |
grounds, q West
erner designed a
number of rustic
flower baskets
W hich he fas-
tened about their
trunks. Each Of
these is made Of
q series Of short,
h e a w pal N
branches, wired
in place and
forming q recep-
tacle for a small
quantity Of soil.
They are placed
at q height which
allows the flow
ers planted In
them to be wa
t er e d without
S eri US incOn-
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PERlL0US RAZOR-BACK ROADS
Miniature Mountain Ranges Should
Not Be Maintained in Center
They Are Dangerous.

If you have ever ridden along a
country road which has been worked
to a peak in the center so that your
load tilted one way while you tried to
keep your balance by fitting the other,
you know what the wrong kind Of road
dragging is.-
Roads so dragged should be reported
to the road supervisor, or the county
engineer. Such roads are positively
dangerous.
Help the good roads cause by seeing
that the roads of your vicinity are not
made miniature mountain ranges.
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ROAD VERY SIMILAR TO LIFE
Rough Road Is Interesting, but We
Must Travel Over 1t Slowly and
Quite Carefully.

How much road is like life. The
good road is like life at its best
smooth sailing, and enjoyable. A rough
road is like life at its worst. A rough
road is interesting. but we have to
traverse it slowly and carefully.
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GAINING FAVOR ON ACCOUNT OF FLAVOR.

for the wild game taste is TO be salts
field, however. the production of guin-
eas for market should become profit
able.
Especially is the guinea 4 source of
profit when raised on the farm in
small numbers, since the food that it
eats in ranging over the farm Is just
waste food that probably would not
be utilized otherwise. The guinea
fowl does not stand confinement well.
but on the farm where it can have
free range the conditions are nearly
ideal for this bird.
Guneas can be raised by use Of in
cubators, but the method which proves
most satisfactory is to use hens, or.
better yet, bantams, for brood moth
ers. Then the wild nature of the
guinea will be moderated and the birds
can be given the necessary care far
more easily.
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Oyercominu a Handicap.

"Doppel poses as self-made man."
Nonsense! Doppel was born with
q gold spoon in his mouth
"True. But he says he deserves all
the more credit on that account for
sticking to business when he might
have been practicing the latest dance
efaf4e
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Conserve Soil Fertility.

Soil fertility can be conserved by
the use of good crop rotations which
include the legumes, by feeding all
crops on the place where they are
grown by the careful return of all ma
nures to the soil.
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Care for Farm Machinery.

The farm machinery is only used for
a short period but must work contin-
uously when being used. Hence it
must be in good running order and
properly adjusted.
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Culls Are Exnensixe

1t is expensive to keep a lot of culls
OF extra males that are saleable only
for meat because they increase the
feed bill without increasing the In
come.
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Reduce Hauling Cost.

Good roads reduce the cost of haul
ing produce to and from tic furm as
much as 25 cents per ton-mile.
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A plank road in portable parts is be-
Ing laid in the California deserts for
economy and convenience.
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Pimples, boils, carbuncles, dry up and
disappear with Doctor Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. In tablets or liquid.
ADV.
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Shiftind Effect.

81 hear you've been in three houses
In the last six months, Jibbs.'
"Yes; you see, my wife is crazy
about the movies"
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No Hone,

"You are not foolish enough, are
you, to think you can drown your sor-
rows in drink?'
"Of course not. My wife can swim.
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Determining Wheat Yield.

The amount Of available plant food
in your soil will be one of the chief
factors in determining your wheat
yield next year.
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The Conebo, Shippo. Cocoamo and
Yahua tribes of Amazon Indians are
still wearing clothes Of grass.
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Tongs that grip door frame have
been invented for hanging babies
chairs or swings in dOorWays.
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Dr. Peery's dead Shot" Is powerful and
prompt but cafe. One dose only is enough
to expei Worms or Tapeworm No CASTOR
oil necessary, Adv
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Only Ono "BROMO QUININE"
To get the genuine, call for full name LAXATIVE
BROMO QuININR Look for SIGNATURE Of II. W.
GROVE Cures q Cold In One Day. 25c.
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1t may take nine taiIors to make a
man, but one Christnias is enough to
break him.
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effect is unusual and harmonizes with
other landscape features.-Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
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FLOWER BASKETS ON TREES
Original and Odd Design Does
Credit to the Imagination Of West
ern Man Who Thought Of Effect.

In order to add an odd and pleasing
touch to the effect of row of trees
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Keep cockereIs From Fighting.
Placing an old cock bird in q run
Of cockerels will prevent the latter
from fighting.
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Asset Instead of Liability.
Common sense applied to road build
ing makes road an asset instead Of
q liability.
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A man seldom marries q girl on &C
count of her family, but he sometimes
remains bachelor on account thereon
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Children may not consider Santa
Oaus wise, but they know he Is mar
q rare gifts.
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CUTICURA COMPLEXiONS
Are Usually Remarkably Soft ant
Clear-Triai Free.

Make Cuticura Soap your everyday
toilet Soap, and assist it now and then
as needed by touches of Cuticura Oint-
ment to soften, soothe and heal. Moth
ing better to make the complexion
clear, scalp free from dandruff and
hands soft and white.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
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Obviously.

obviously.
"Smithers dressed up that story he
told"
II suppose that is why he took 1t
to q Swall0w-tale party"